One of the challenges of bringing plays to the screen is how to “open up” the stage-bound dialogue and events... Read More
In the time-honored tradition of directors ruining good books (see Steven Spielberg and THE COLOR PURPLE), producer/director/star Barbra Streisand insults... Read More
Today marks the announcement of this year’s Pulitzer Prizes, the highest honor in American journalism, arts and letters, and music.... Read More
Henry Mancini often doesn’t get much respect as a film composer. And on some level, you can understand why. Mancini’s soundtrack... Read More
In 1953, Oscar decided to make up for the embarrassment of 1952’s Best Picture THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH (though... Read More
John Erik Kaada (or KAADA as he is known in the music world) is known in his native Norway for... Read More
It’s one of the most famous examples of film editing in movie history. Peter O’Toole blows out a match and... 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
In 1958, while Miles Davis was furthering the art of jazz in film scoring in France, Johnny Mandel did his part... Read More