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A Land Flowing With Milk and Honey
This week heralds the long-awaited arrival of Tadlow’s complete recording of Ernest Gold‘s score for EXODUS (1960). The Oscar-winning score has been a favorite of mine since my early days of Oscar-related film score
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A Passage To India
David Lean provided a triple threat for his final film, A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1984), serving as director, screenwriter and editor. But by serving in too many roles, he lost sight of the “big
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Milagro Means “Miracle”
And it was a miracle when Dave Grusin won the 1988 Oscar for THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR. The film was Robert Redford’s second project behind the camera after winning the Best Director Oscar for ORDINARY
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Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Literary purists may balk at the sanitized version of Truman Capote’s BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S (1961). But film buffs were rewarded with Audrey Hepburn in her signature role as Holly Golightly, a young, free-spirited woman
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Tell Mama, Tell Mama All
FRANZ WAXMAN made history when he won for the Academy Award for his score to A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951). Following his win the year prior for SUNSET BOULEVARD, Waxman became the first
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CD Review: The Right Stuff
Forty years ago today, man walked on the moon, an event that, along with the death of Judy Garland earlier that year, remains one of my earliest memories of life outside my own little
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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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Sing a Song of Oscar?
The big Oscar news this week was the expansion of the Best Picture category from five to ten nominees. But for film music fans, even bigger news came yesterday from an Academy press release
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I Wish I Knew How To Quit You
It’s Gay Pride this weekend here in New York City so it’s only appropriate that this week’s trailer selection goes to BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (2005). Based on Annie Proulx’s 1997 short story (which first appeared in
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It’s the Pictures That Got Small
I love Twitter. In 140 characters or less, you can connect with people you might never meet otherwise. While fishing in the Twitter stream this past week, searching for any tweets with the phrase “film
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