Forget CITIZEN KANE. My vote for the greatest American film is CASABLANCA. There’s no denying KANE’s importance in film history and...
It’s pre-dawn on 5th Avenue. The normally bustling shopping thoroughfare is improbably empty. As the morning sun peaks over the...
David Lynch’s THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) follows the life of hideously deformed John Merrick (John Hurt), and his trip from circus...
When do movies about apartheid seem cold and passionless? When you have Richard Attenborough at the helm. Attenborough is an...
As the world faced a new millennium, it took a British theater director, Sam Mendes, to expose the dirt and...
Based on E.L. Doctorow’s bestseller, RAGTIME (1981) details the interweaving plots of several famous (Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, Harry Houdini) and...
From George Washington to George W. Bush, the American presidency has always inspired film composers. Though this post is a bit late to celebrate the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth in February, it's never too late to visit John Ford’s YOUNG MR. LINCOLN (1939) and Alfred Newman's typically excellent score.
Though you may not know Roy Webb’s name, his influence is felt even today as a signer (along with his...
So said the poster for 1976’s THE OMEN. But no amount of Hollywood marketing jargon could have prepared me for the...
Sergei Eisenstein called it his “suicide note.” Part I won the coveted Stalin Prize, yet Part II was banned from distribution, and Part III was...