Legendary French composer Georges Delerue finally won an Oscar in 1979. But that award is tainted—or sweetened, depending on how... Read More
No matter what you think of Michael Gore’s Academy Award-winning score to FAME (1980), there’s no denying the impact of... Read More
David Lean provided a triple threat for his final film, A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984), serving as director, screenwriter, and... Read More
Aaron Copland arrived in Hollywood in 1938, and in little more than a decade he’d had enough. With his scores... Read More
Based on Hervey Allen’s bestselling epic novel of historical romance in the Napoleonic era, ANTHONY ADVERSE emerged as one of... Read More
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… No, not Christmas. Meh. The announcement of the 2013 Oscar nominations for... Read More
When I was young, my mother would drum words into my head night after night in preparation for the yearly spelling bee.... 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
Katharine Hepburn sure knows how to make a grand entrance. In her Oscar-winning performance as Eleanor of Aquitaine in THE LION IN WINTER (1968), she enters as as a medieval queen should--on a barge floating down the River Vienne. And John Barry's Oscar-winning music rows her onscreen in imperial splendor. Read More
Literary purists may balk at the sanitized version of Truman Capote’s BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961). But film buffs were rewarded... Read More