The highlight of Franz Waxman’s Oscar-nominated score for TARAS BULBA (1962) is the thrilling “The Ride to Dubno.” As Yul...
Aaron Copland arrived in Hollywood in 1938, and in little more than a decade he’d had enough. With his scores...
To step aboard A Streetcar Named Desire is to take an emotional and musical journey. Tennessee Williams’ poetic dialogue is...
What was Disney thinking?! Odds were stacked against RETURN TO OZ (1985) from the beginning. Imagine the “bizarro world” episode...
From the moment SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE won its first critic award, it was written that it would follow a charmed path...
“You could hear the city a mile off…New York goin’ crazy.” But New York wasn’t the only city going crazy when Revolution opened in limited release on Christmas Day, 1985.
“Everything today is thoroughly modern…” Well, not exactly, but that’s half the fun. A tongue-in-cheek musical spoof of the Roaring...
With its bleak vision of an alcoholic British diplomat in Mexico, Malcolm Lowry’s 1947 semi-autobiographical novel, UNDER THE VOLCANO, was...
It’s one of the most famous examples of film editing in movie history. Peter O’Toole blows out a match and...
Baby, remember my name… It was 1980. I had just graduated from high school and was all set to start...