During the 1995 holiday season, the last thing audiences wanted to see was a controversial biopic about the most disgraced... Read More
Over at the Film Score Monthly message board, Thor recently started an interesting thread called “10 Composers, 1 Score” in... Read More
In my “9 on the 9th” post last week listing my favorite John Williams scores, I was asked in the... Read More
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the first Academy Awards in Music. While the Best Song category has remained... Read More
A DOUBLE LIFE (1947) shows that jealousy makes monsters of us all. Especially when you’re Ronald Colman and your latest... Read More
The producing/directing team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory brought to the screen some of the loveliest films of the... Read More
This week heralds the long-awaited arrival of Tadlow’s complete recording of Ernest Gold‘s score for EXODUS (1960). The Oscar-winning score... Read More
Legendary French composer Georges Delerue finally won an Oscar in 1979. But that award is tainted—or sweetened, depending on how... Read More
Long before Thornton Wilder’s Dolly Levi, there was Jane Austen’s EMMA. Austen was all the rage in the mid-1990s, a trend... Read More
From the page to the stage to film and back again, AUNTIE MAME (1958) began life as a bestselling novel by... Read More