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Coming attractions for films old and new, featuring the original score and NOT “Carmina Burana”.
The Full Monty
Ask any film score fan for one of Oscar’s greatest injustices and they’ll point to Anne Dudley‘s 1997 win for THE FULL MONTY. This sleeper hit surprised many by also picking up a Best
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Separate Tables
A major player back in its day, but largely forgotten today, SEPARATE TABLES tells the stories of the long-term residents at an English seaside hotel during the off-season. The cast of characters includes a
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A Match Well Made
Long before Thornton Wilder’s Dolly Levi, there was Jane Austen’s EMMA. Austen was all the rage in the mid-1990s, a trend that began with Ang Lee’s SENSE AND SENSIBILITY and the BBC’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
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The High and the Mighty
The granddaddy of all disaster movies–THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY–holds a special place in the history of film music and the Academy Awards. Based on Ernest K. Gann’s novel, the film follows passengers aboard an
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Casablanca
Forget CITIZEN KANE. My vote for the greatest American film is CASABLANCA. There’s no denying KANE’s importance in film history and there are other films I love more than CASABLANCA. But CASABLANCA is the perfect
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A Little Romance
Legendary French composer Georges Delerue finally won an Oscar in 1979. But that award is tainted–or sweetened, depending on how you look at it–by the delicate strains of Vivaldi. A LITTLE ROMANCE is charming
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Humoresque
The star of HUMORESQUE was composer Franx Waxman, not John Garfield’s driven concert violinist or Joan Crawford as his patroness-slash-lover. Waxman’s Oscar-nominated score took center stage, featuring everything from Tchaikovsky to Chopin, Rimsky-Korsakov to the Dvorak
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A Grimm Release
If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you’ve probably already read about this as I posted something brief yesterday. But for those of you who don’t, here’s a post about a CD I’m
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Anthony Adverse
Based on Hervey Allen’s bestselling epic novel of historical romance in the Napoleonic era, ANTHONY ADVERSE emerged as one of the biggest hits of 1936 and was nominated for six Oscars, winning four, including
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Love Story
LOVE STORY was the Number One film of 1970 and probably the most famous three-hanky tearjearker of all time. Harvard law student (and millionaire) Ryan O’Neal meets Radcliffe music student (and self-described “social zero”)
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