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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
Based on the first three books of the popular children’s series, LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS follows the Baudelaire orphans–Violet (Emily Browning), Klaus (Liam Aiken) and Sunny–as they are shunted from one odd
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Married Life
My buddy Tim got married a couple of weeks ago. I wasn’t at the wedding and I’ve never even met Tim in person. Yet we’ve connected through Twitter, this blog, and our love of
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10 Composers, 1 Score
Over at the Film Score Monthly message board, Thor recently started an interesting thread called “10 Composers, 1 Score” in which a friend of his asked him to recommend 10 score albums by 10 different
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He’s a Bad Mother
Very few Blaxpoitation films match the “cool” factor of Gordon Parks’ seminal SHAFT (1971). And few scores (at least the main title) from the ’70s are as easily recognizable as this classic from Isaac Hayes. Richard Roundtree
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Why Does She Have To Die?
When FINDING NEVERLAND was released in 2004, it came with the pedigree of playwright J.M. Barrie as its inspiration, the Miramax marketing machine, and Johnny Depp in the lead. Depp stars as Barrie, whose
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Chinatown
In a flurry of remarkable creative inspiration, Jerry Goldsmith had only ten days to spot, write and record the music for CHINATOWN after Philip Lambro’s original score was rejected. The atmospheric 1974 film noir stars Jack
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To Trip the Score Fantastic
Future Pulitzer Prize-winner John Corigliano burst onto the film music scene in 1980 with Ken Russell’s trippy film, ALTERED STATES. Based on Paddy Chayefsky’s novel, William Hurt stars as a college professor researching different states of consciousness
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Viva Bombolini!
Ah, the joys of guilty pleasures. And the joys are many in Stanley Kramer’s THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA. Based on Robert Crichton’s bestselling novel, the 1969 film stars Anthony Quinn as the bumbling wine maker
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Genevieve, Sweet Genevieve
GENEVIEVE is not a who, it’s a what. A twin-cylinder, 10/12 horsepower Darracq motocar built in Paris in 1904. Found sticking out of a hedge in East London in 1945, the car was rescued from
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I Can See Clearly Now
For a heathen like me, films with religious overtones are usually best when played for their camp entertainment value, a la THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Something where the spectacle overwhelms anything overtly pious. Personal religious
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