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Lost In the Shuffle
I’d say that 95 percent of the music on my 80gb iPod (and it’s damn near full) consists of film music. Approximately 80 percent of the music of the 400gb I have stored so
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Row, Row, Row Your Boat
In 1959, M-G-M’s future was riding on the success or failure of the studio’s $15 million remake of the 1925 silent classic, BEN-HUR. They needn’t have worried. Epics with biblical themes reaped big rewards
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The Need For Speed
Five years later after turning the international film community “breathless,” Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg reteamed for Jean Becker’s delightful crime caper, ECHAPPEMENT LIBRE (1964). This time Belmondo plays a rogue smuggler accompanied by the
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Fasten Your Seatbelts
It’s an Alfred Newman kinda week here at Film Score Click Track. And today we visit my favorite film, which also just happens to feature a score by Newman, my favorite film composer. (Just
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The Work of a Critic Is Easy?
When Pixar announced that their entry into the already over-crowded litter of critter movies in 2007 was to be about a rat, to paraphrase Hermione Gingold in THE MUSIC MAN: ”I was reticent. Oh, yes, I was
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We Band of Brothers
I fall asleep in nearly every Shakespeare production I’ve ever seen–onstage or on the screen. You can set your clock by it: 20 minutes in for 10 minutes. After that I’m good to go,
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Take My Breath Away
One of the benefits of covering the “Jazz Score” exhibit last summer at the Museum of Modern Art was a crash course in jazz. Even with nine years of higher education majoring in music, I
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Frankie Says Relax
The career of Elmer Bernstein encompassed numerous genres—westerns, epics, comedies—but it was his use of jazz that first brought him attention. Bernstein had cut his jazz chops arranging for Glenn Miller’s Army Air Force
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Enter the Queen
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
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Out of the Wilderness
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
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