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Parts that may be greater than, or equal to, the sum.
The Hours
If you’ll pardon the nose metaphor, sometimes you can just smell a winner. And THE HOURS (2002) is definitely a winner. Based on Michael Cunningham’s poetic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the film tells the stories of three
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Life With Father
In our current world when it’s almost unheard of for a Broadway play to run more than a season, it must have come as quite a shock when Howard Russell and Lindsay Crouse’s Life
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The Good German
I’ve made no bones about my love of Thomas Newman‘s work. And THE GOOD GERMAN is one of my favorites. The film is director Steven Soderbergh’s interesting, yet ultimately misguided, attempt to film a 1940′s
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Born Free
Sometimes the historical success of a film rests solely on its music, at least with us film score fans. Such is the case with BORN FREE. Based on naturalist Joy Adamson’s bestselling book, the
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The Artist Who Did Not Want to Paint
In 1965, studio execs at 20th Century Fox probably thought that audiences were, shall we say, art-impaired. And if today’s audiences are anything like those 45 years ago, they were right. So after filming
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Searching for Bobby Fischer
Can anyone make watching chess exciting? If you’re writer/director Steven Zaillian you can. In SEARCHING FOR BOBBY FISCHER, chess is the backdrop for this moving story of a young chess wiz (Max Pomeranc) who
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The American President
Remember when Marc Shaiman scored films? Sure, he’s got a new film opening in August, teaming once again with frequent collaborator director Rob Reiner on FLIPPED. But I miss Shaiman’s pre-HAIRSPRAY glory days in
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A-ha Moments In Film Music
I was talking with my buddy Doug Adams this past weekend and somehow the discussion got around to Howard Shore. Shocking, eh? Doug and Howard… It’s like chocolate and peanut butter or margaritas and
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Suffer the Little Children
There are few more disturbing sounds than children’s voices lifted in song. Now wait. I can hear the furious cry of all you parents out there even as I type this. Before you brandish
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Your Average Horny Little Devil
Based on John Updike’s bestseller, THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK (1987) stars Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon as three man-hungry women with special powers in the quiet, little New England hamlet of Eastwick. When a mysterious
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