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The film was directed by Ron Howard, co-stars Scott Glenn, Donald Sutherland, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and is a magnificent edge-of-seat thriller that combines political skullduggery and familial drama with a number of sensational fiery action sequences that quicken the pulse and make your palms sweat with tension. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

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SOAPDISH | MOVIE MUSIC UK 1 day ago · Post by @mmuk64. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage,

THELMA & LOUISE

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A classic road movie about revenge and female empowerment, Thelma & Louise stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in the titular roles as a pair of meek housewives who get a new lease on life when they decide to go on a weekend vacation away from their husbands TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

WRATH OF MAN

WRATH OF MAN – Chris Benstead. Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars.

THE LIGHTHORSEMEN

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Lighthorsemen was one of a series of critically acclaimed Australian films in the 1980s which looked at the experiences of that country’s soldiers during World War I and World War II, while also commenting specifically on the emergence of an Australian national culture and

identity as it

RED SONJA – ENNIO MORRICONE THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Cashing in on the popular success of Conan the Barbarian and the various other sword-and-sorcery epics of the early 1980s was Red Sonja, the tale of a barbarian warrior princess, based on the original story by Robert Howard, the creator of Conan, and directed by Richard Fleischer. The THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Original Review by Jonathan Broxton To say that Peter Jackson took on a mammoth task in undertaking a 9-hour, three-film cinematic version of The Lord of the Rings is an understatement indeed. Adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's mammoth literary work for the screen took three years of the affable New Zealander's life, and as the first part

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The film was directed by Ron Howard, co-stars Scott Glenn, Donald Sutherland, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and is a magnificent edge-of-seat thriller that combines political skullduggery and familial drama with a number of sensational fiery action sequences that quicken the pulse and make your palms sweat with tension. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

SOAPDISH | MOVIE MUSIC UK 1 day ago · Post by @mmuk64. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage,

THELMA & LOUISE

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A classic road movie about revenge and female empowerment, Thelma & Louise stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in the titular roles as a pair of meek housewives who get a new lease on life when they decide to go on a weekend vacation away from their husbands TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

WRATH OF MAN

WRATH OF MAN – Chris Benstead. Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars.

THE LIGHTHORSEMEN

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Lighthorsemen was one of a series of critically acclaimed Australian films in the 1980s which looked at the experiences of that country’s soldiers during World War I and World War II, while also commenting specifically on the emergence of an Australian national culture and

identity as it

RED SONJA – ENNIO MORRICONE THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Cashing in on the popular success of Conan the Barbarian and the various other sword-and-sorcery epics of the early 1980s was Red Sonja, the tale of a barbarian warrior princess, based on the original story by Robert Howard, the creator of Conan, and directed by Richard Fleischer. The THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Original Review by Jonathan Broxton To say that Peter Jackson took on a mammoth task in undertaking a 9-hour, three-film cinematic version of The Lord of the Rings is an understatement indeed. Adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's mammoth literary work for the screen took three years of the affable New Zealander's life, and as the first part

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Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Disney’s recent trend of slightly subverting their own storybook tropes continues in Godmothered, their latest family

film.

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Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. The Queen’s Gambit is a Netflix mini-series directed by Scott Frank, based on the 1983 novel of the same name by

Walter Tevis.

SOAPDISH – ALAN SILVESTRI THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A hilarious send-up of American daytime soap operas, Soapdish is directed by Michael Hoffman and features an all-star ensemble cast including Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Cathy Moriarty, Whoopi Goldberg, Carrie Fisher, and Elisabeth Shue. The film is set in the world of a fictional soap

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Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. THROWBACK THIRTY. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. One of the biggest box office successes of 1991, Sleeping With the Enemy is a psychological thriller directed by Joseph Rubin, written by Ronald Bass from the novel by

Nancy Price.

SOAPDISH | MOVIE MUSIC UK 1 day ago · Post by @mmuk64. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY Director William Wellman pitched an aviation suspense drama titled “The High and the Mighty” written by Ernest Gann to Wayne who immediately purchased the film rights and Gann’s services writing the screenplay for $55,000. Wellman was tasked with directing and

provided a

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CRUELLA | MOVIE MUSIC UK The latest film to examine the origin stories of famous Disney villains, after Maleficent in 2014, is Cruella, which tells the history of Cruella De Vil, the antagonist of both the 1961 Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and the original novel by Dodie Smith. There has already been a live-action adaptation of the

story in 1996

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100 GREATEST SCORES OF ALL TIME Original Review by Craig Lysy As a young small town Sicilian boy, director Giuseppe Tornatore fell in love with the cinema where he would spend hours every day insatiably viewing films. With the advent of television and the VCR, many believed that the days of the town cinema were ESCAPE FROM TOMORROW Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Unless you attended the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, it’s likely that you don’t know much about Escape from Tomorrow. It’s a low-budget independent drama/fantasy/horror from director Randy Moore about a man (Roy Abramsohn) who starts to gradually lose his grip on sanity and reality during a family trip to a

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

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GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage,

THELMA & LOUISE

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A classic road movie about revenge and female empowerment, Thelma & Louise stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in the titular roles as a pair of meek housewives who get a new lease on life when they decide to go on a weekend vacation away from their husbands TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

WRATH OF MAN

WRATH OF MAN – Chris Benstead. Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars. THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton There have been several films and plays made about the life and work of the great jazz singer Billie Holiday, who died in 1959 aged just 44. Lady Sings the Blues from 1972 earned Diana Ross an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, while Audra McDonald received unanimous critical praise JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS In this latest installment of the new irregular series looking at the early career of some iconic composers, we switch to Hollywood to look at the work of John Williams. Williams attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, before being drafted into the U.S.

Air Force,

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

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GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage,

THELMA & LOUISE

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A classic road movie about revenge and female empowerment, Thelma & Louise stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in the titular roles as a pair of meek housewives who get a new lease on life when they decide to go on a weekend vacation away from their husbands TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

WRATH OF MAN

WRATH OF MAN – Chris Benstead. Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars. THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton There have been several films and plays made about the life and work of the great jazz singer Billie Holiday, who died in 1959 aged just 44. Lady Sings the Blues from 1972 earned Diana Ross an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, while Audra McDonald received unanimous critical praise JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS In this latest installment of the new irregular series looking at the early career of some iconic composers, we switch to Hollywood to look at the work of John Williams. Williams attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, before being drafted into the U.S.

Air Force,

UNDER-THE-RADAR ROUND UP 2021, PART 2A Every year, during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, television stations across the Middle East and North Africa broadcast lavishly-produced, high profile drama and comedy series. The cream of the Arabic-speaking world is involved in their creation - directors, writers, actors, and composers - and the resulting shows play to audiences of millions across the JUNE | 2021 | MOVIE MUSIC UK 1 post published by Jon Broxton during June 2021. Every year, during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, television stations across the Middle East and North Africa broadcast lavishly-produced, high profile drama and comedy series. THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy In 1952 John Wayne partnered with producer Robert Fellows to create Wayne-Fellows Productions. Director William Wellman pitched an aviation suspense drama titled “The High and the Mighty” written by Ernest Gann to Wayne who immediately purchased the film rights and Gann’s services writing the

HUDSON HAWK

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Hudson Hawk was an action-comedy vehicle for a post-Die Hard Bruce Willis, directed by Michael Lehmann. Willis plays Eddie Hawkins, a master thief who, on the day of his parole from prison, suddenly finds himself blackmailed into committing a series of elaborate heists. The complicated plot

involves the

BACKDRAFT – HANS ZIMMER Backdraft is a superb score, one of Zimmer’s all-time best. Buy the Backdraft soundtrack from the Movie Music UK Store. Track Listing: Set Me In Motion (written by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby, performed by Bruce Hornsby and The Range) (5:20) Fighting 17th (4:26) Brothers

(3:32)

THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton There have been several films and plays made about the life and work of the great jazz singer Billie Holiday, who died in 1959 aged just 44. Lady Sings the Blues from 1972 earned Diana Ross an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, while Audra McDonald received unanimous critical praise

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Disney’s recent trend of slightly subverting their own storybook tropes continues in Godmothered, their latest family

film.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. As the year winds down and the COVID-19 Coronavirus continues still to decimate the 2020 theatrical movie schedule, it appears that yet again a lot of the best film music released comes from smaller international features not as reliant on massive theatrical releases to make their presence felt.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. In this eleventh installment of my series looking at the early careers of iconic composers, we take a look at seven of the dozens of scores written by the legendary Ennio Morricone in 1971.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. THROWBACK THIRTY. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. One of the biggest box office successes of 1991, Sleeping With the Enemy is a psychological thriller directed by Joseph Rubin, written by Ronald Bass from the novel by

Nancy Price.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY 1 day ago · GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Original Review by Craig Lysy. In 1952 John Wayne partnered with producer Robert Fellows to create Wayne-Fellows Productions.

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Thunderbird (written by Hans Zimmer, performed by Hans Zimmer feat. Pete Haycock (4:03) Running Time: 38 minutes 18 seconds (Score Album) Running Time: 49 minutes 26 seconds (Soundtrack Album) Notefornote Music NFN-1003 (1991/2017) – 2017 Score Album. Kritzerland KR-2002-03 (1991/2011) – 2011 Score Album. GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage, TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

WRATH OF MAN

WRATH OF MAN – Chris Benstead. Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars. JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS In this latest installment of the new irregular series looking at the early career of some iconic composers, we switch to Hollywood to look at the work of John Williams. Williams attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, before being drafted into the U.S.

Air Force,

RED SONJA – ENNIO MORRICONE THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Cashing in on the popular success of Conan the Barbarian and the various other sword-and-sorcery epics of the early 1980s was Red Sonja, the tale of a barbarian warrior princess, based on the original story by Robert Howard, the creator of Conan, and directed by Richard Fleischer. The

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY 1 day ago · GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Original Review by Craig Lysy. In 1952 John Wayne partnered with producer Robert Fellows to create Wayne-Fellows Productions.

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Thunderbird (written by Hans Zimmer, performed by Hans Zimmer feat. Pete Haycock (4:03) Running Time: 38 minutes 18 seconds (Score Album) Running Time: 49 minutes 26 seconds (Soundtrack Album) Notefornote Music NFN-1003 (1991/2017) – 2017 Score Album. Kritzerland KR-2002-03 (1991/2011) – 2011 Score Album. GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage, TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

WRATH OF MAN

WRATH OF MAN – Chris Benstead. Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars. JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS In this latest installment of the new irregular series looking at the early career of some iconic composers, we switch to Hollywood to look at the work of John Williams. Williams attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, before being drafted into the U.S.

Air Force,

RED SONJA – ENNIO MORRICONE THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Cashing in on the popular success of Conan the Barbarian and the various other sword-and-sorcery epics of the early 1980s was Red Sonja, the tale of a barbarian warrior princess, based on the original story by Robert Howard, the creator of Conan, and directed by Richard Fleischer. The UNDER-THE-RADAR ROUND UP 2021, PART 2A Every year, during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, television stations across the Middle East and North Africa broadcast lavishly-produced, high profile drama and comedy series. The cream of the Arabic-speaking world is involved in their creation - directors, writers, actors, and composers - and the resulting shows play to audiences of millions across the

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Two of the most critically acclaimed films of the 2020-2021 Oscar season were The Father and Nomadland. The Father is a searing, emotionally devastating look at the effects of dementia; it’s directed by Florian Zeller and stars Anthony Hopkins as Anthony, an ageing man whose deteriorating mental faculties are brought into sharp relief through his JUNE | 2021 | MOVIE MUSIC UK 1 post published by Jon Broxton during June 2021. Every year, during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, television stations across the Middle East and North Africa broadcast lavishly-produced, high profile drama and comedy series. THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY 1 day ago · GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy In 1952 John Wayne partnered with producer Robert Fellows to create Wayne-Fellows Productions. Director William Wellman pitched an aviation suspense drama titled “The High and the Mighty” written by Ernest Gann to Wayne who immediately purchased the film rights and Gann’s services writing the

HUDSON HAWK

THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Hudson Hawk was an action-comedy vehicle for a post-Die Hard Bruce Willis, directed by Michael Lehmann. Willis plays Eddie Hawkins, a master thief who, on the day of his parole from prison, suddenly finds himself blackmailed into committing a series of elaborate heists. The complicated plot

involves the

BACKDRAFT – HANS ZIMMER Backdraft is a superb score, one of Zimmer’s all-time best. Buy the Backdraft soundtrack from the Movie Music UK Store. Track Listing: Set Me In Motion (written by Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby, performed by Bruce Hornsby and The Range) (5:20) Fighting 17th (4:26) Brothers

(3:32)

THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton There have been several films and plays made about the life and work of the great jazz singer Billie Holiday, who died in 1959 aged just 44. Lady Sings the Blues from 1972 earned Diana Ross an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, while Audra McDonald received unanimous critical praise

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Disney’s recent trend of slightly subverting their own storybook tropes continues in Godmothered, their latest family

film.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. In this eleventh installment of my series looking at the early careers of iconic composers, we take a look at seven of the dozens of scores written by the legendary Ennio Morricone in 1971.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Film Score Reviews by Jonathan Broxton since 1997. As the year winds down and the COVID-19 Coronavirus continues still to decimate the 2020 theatrical movie schedule, it appears that yet again a lot of the best film music released comes from smaller international features not as reliant on massive theatrical releases to make their presence felt.

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage, TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

Giant Peach,

ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS 2020 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2020. In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are: TERENCE BLANCHARD for Da 5 Bloods. JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for News of the World. EMILE MOSSERI for Minari. TRENT REZNOR and ATTICUS ROSS for

Mank.

CLEOPATRA – ALEX NORTH MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy 20th Century Fox had descended into financial troubles in the late 1950s due to a string of poorly performing films. They decided to regain the glory of their past by remaking one of their prior gems – the 1917 film

Cleopatra .

COMMANDO – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were cinematic rivals throughout the 1980s, going toe-to-toe through a series of increasingly spectacular action movies, as they tried to out-shoot, out-fight, and out-muscle each other to the top of the box office charts. 1985 was arguably the year their battle commenced, as JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS In this latest installment of the new irregular series looking at the early career of some iconic composers, we switch to Hollywood to look at the work of John Williams. Williams attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, before being drafted into the U.S.

Air Force,

BEN-HUR – MIKLÓS RÓZSA 100 GREATEST SCORES OF ALL TIME Original Review by Craig Lysy As a new decade dawned, MGM studio executives began searching for a grand tale to bring to the screen. They decided in 1952 to cast their lot with a remake of their epic 1925 silent film, Ben-Hur. The film’s source material would again reference THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Original Review by Jonathan Broxton To say that Peter Jackson took on a mammoth task in undertaking a 9-hour, three-film cinematic version of The Lord of the Rings is an understatement indeed. Adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's mammoth literary work for the screen took three years of the affable New Zealander's life, and as the first part

MOVIE MUSIC UK

Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. ABOUT MOVIE MUSIC UK About Movie Music UK. Jonathan Broxton. Editor, Movie Music UK, 10 October 2010. I’ve always been interested in film music, for as long as I can remember. I remember when I was a child, I couldn’t have been much more than seven or eight years old, and my aunt was the first person in my family to own a VCR, and I used lie on a big

sheepskin

GLORY – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Blow the horn, play the fife, beat the drum so slowly. Blow the horn, play the fife, make the drum beat glory Stories from the American Civil War have fascinated filmmakers for decades. Films as great and respected as Gone With the Wind, The Red Badge of Courage, TO OLIVIA – DEBBIE WISEMAN Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It’s something of a forgotten fact these days, but for thirty years between 1953 and 1983 the great British children’s author Roald Dahl was married to the Oscar-winning American actress Patricia Neal. While they were together Dahl wrote many of his most acclaimed novels (including James and the

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ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS 2020 The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) have announced the nominations for the 93rd Academy Awards, honoring the best in film in 2020. In the Best Original Score category, the nominees are: TERENCE BLANCHARD for Da 5 Bloods. JAMES NEWTON HOWARD for News of the World. EMILE MOSSERI for Minari. TRENT REZNOR and ATTICUS ROSS for

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CLEOPATRA – ALEX NORTH MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy 20th Century Fox had descended into financial troubles in the late 1950s due to a string of poorly performing films. They decided to regain the glory of their past by remaking one of their prior gems – the 1917 film

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COMMANDO – JAMES HORNER THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone were cinematic rivals throughout the 1980s, going toe-to-toe through a series of increasingly spectacular action movies, as they tried to out-shoot, out-fight, and out-muscle each other to the top of the box office charts. 1985 was arguably the year their battle commenced, as JOHN WILLIAMS REVIEWS In this latest installment of the new irregular series looking at the early career of some iconic composers, we switch to Hollywood to look at the work of John Williams. Williams attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and studied privately with the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, before being drafted into the U.S.

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BEN-HUR – MIKLÓS RÓZSA 100 GREATEST SCORES OF ALL TIME Original Review by Craig Lysy As a new decade dawned, MGM studio executives began searching for a grand tale to bring to the screen. They decided in 1952 to cast their lot with a remake of their epic 1925 silent film, Ben-Hur. The film’s source material would again reference THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING Original Review by Jonathan Broxton To say that Peter Jackson took on a mammoth task in undertaking a 9-hour, three-film cinematic version of The Lord of the Rings is an understatement indeed. Adapting J.R.R. Tolkien's mammoth literary work for the screen took three years of the affable New Zealander's life, and as the first part THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY 1 day ago · GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Original Review by Craig Lysy. In 1952 John Wayne partnered with producer Robert Fellows to create Wayne-Fellows Productions.

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THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY 1 day ago · GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy In 1952 John Wayne partnered with producer Robert Fellows to create Wayne-Fellows Productions. Director William Wellman pitched an aviation suspense drama titled “The High and the Mighty” written by Ernest Gann to Wayne who immediately purchased the film rights and Gann’s services writing the THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton There have been several films and plays made about the life and work of the great jazz singer Billie Holiday, who died in 1959 aged just 44. Lady Sings the Blues from 1972 earned Diana Ross an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress, while Audra McDonald received unanimous critical praise MANK – TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS Original Review by Jonathan Broxton. Herman Mankiewicz was one of the most important and influential Hollywood screenwriters of the 1930s and 40s. As the oldest member of the Mankiewicz filmmaking family that also included brother Joseph (The Philadelphia Story, All About Eve) and nephew Tom (Superman, several Bond films), Herman’s main contribution to the cinematic pantheon was the

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THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton There have been a lot of great movies about inspirational teachers over the years, from Goodbye Mr. Chips in 1939 (and its musical remake in 1969), to Dangerous Minds and Mr. Holland’s Opus in the 1990s, but for my money the best of them all is Dead Poets

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HUDSON HAWK – MICHAEL KAMEN AND ROBERT KRAFT June 3, 2021 Leave a comment

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY JONATHAN BROXTON Hudson Hawk was an action-comedy vehicle for a post-Die Hard Bruce Willis, directed by Michael Lehmann. Willis plays Eddie Hawkins, a master thief who, on the day of his parole from prison, suddenly finds himself blackmailed into committing a series of elaborate heists. The complicated plot involves the Italian Mafia, an evil international conglomerate, the artwork of Leonardo da Vinci, and a machine that turns lead into gold, but it’s really just an excuse for Willis and his co-star Danny Aiello to engage in various globe-trotting escapades of comic tomfoolery. The film co-stars Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, and Richard E. Grant, and unfortunately was an enormous box-office flop; audiences seemingly couldn’t reconcile Willis’s tough guy persona with the film’s slapstick comedy action, bizarre sound effects, and surreal humor. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Film Score , Hudson Hawk

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UNDER-THE-RADAR ROUND UP 2021, PART 2A June 1, 2021 Leave a comment Every year, during the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, television stations across the Middle East and North Africa broadcast lavishly-produced, high profile drama and comedy series. The cream of the Arabic-speaking world is involved in their creation – directors, writers, actors, and composers – and the resulting shows play to audiences of millions across the region. Many of the best series come from Egypt, and this article takes a look at the music from three of the most high profile Egyptian-made Ramadan dramas of 2021, featuring music by composers Khaled Hammad and Mohamed Elashey. Also included in this article as a bonus is a review of the Pharoahs’ Golden Parade, a wondrous extravaganza of music, dance, and Egyptian culture featuring music by composer Hisham Nazih, written for a special live TV event back in April. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: El Tawoos , Film Score

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FOREVER AMBER – DAVID RAKSIN May 31, 2021 Leave a comment GREATEST SCORES OF THE

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY CRAIG LYSY Kathleen Winsor’s novel Forever Amber proved to be a sensational success with the public, one fully noticed by the major movie studios. 20th Century Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck moved quickly to secure the film rights paying an astounding $200,000 to Winsor. Writing the screenplay proved to be torturous with Winsor and then Jerome Cady failing to adapt the massive novel in a way that would gain approval by the National League of Decency. Ultimately the team of Philip Dunne and Ring Lardner Jr. succeeded. William Perlberg was assigned to produce the film with a budget of $3 million and John M. Stahl was tasked with directing. The project went off the rails immediately when star Peggy Cummins collapsed on the set. After a three-month delay, she was pulled from the lead role, Stahl was assigned to another project and the studio found itself $1 million in the hole. Otto Preminger was brought in to direct and salvage the project and a new cast assembled, which included Linda Darnell as Amber St. Clair, Cornel Wilde as Bruce Carlton, Richard Greene as Lord Harry Almsbury, and George Sanders as King Charles II of England. Read more… Categories: Greatest Scores of the Twentieth Century

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THELMA & LOUISE – HANS ZIMMER May 27, 2021 Leave a comment

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY JONATHAN BROXTON A classic road movie about revenge and female empowerment, Thelma & Louise stars Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in the titular roles as a pair of meek housewives who get a new lease on life when they decide to go on a weekend vacation away from their husbands in Thelma’s 1966 Ford Thunderbird. Things go horribly wrong when the pair stop for a drink at a roadhouse bar, and Thelma is attacked and almost raped in the parking lot by a local. The incident leaves the attacker dead of a gunshot wound – killed by a furious Louise – and results in an extended chase across the American west, as the two women are pursued by a dogged sheriff (Harvey Keitel) determined to bring them to justice. The film was directed by Ridley Scott, co-starred Michael Madsen and a very young Brad Pitt, and received a great deal of critical and commercial acclaim, with its screenplay by Callie Khouri winning the Oscar that year. The on-screen relationship between Thelma and Louise has been called a breakthrough for feminist filmmaking, while the final scene at the rim of the Grand Canyon is now considered iconic. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Film Score , Hans Zimmer

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CRUELLA – NICHOLAS BRITELL May 25, 2021 1 comment

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The latest film to examine the origin stories of famous Disney villains, after Maleficent in 2014, is Cruella, which tells the history of Cruella De Vil, the antagonist of both the 1961 Disney animated film One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and the original novel by Dodie Smith. There has already been a live-action adaptation of the story in 1996, with Glenn Close playing Cruella, but this prequel sees Emma Stone donning the famous black-and-white hairstyle wig. She plays Estella De Vil, an aspiring fashion designer in 1960s London, who takes a job working for the brilliant but difficult Baroness von Hellman, the head of a prestigious fashion house, played by Emma Thompson. The intense rivalry that develops between the two slowly eats away at De Vil’s sanity, and she eventually transforms herself into ‘Cruella’ and becomes a notorious and dangerous criminal obsessed with dalmatian dog furs. The film co-stars Joel Fry and Paul Walter Hauser as Cruella’s henchmen Jasper and Horace, and is directed by Craig Gillespie, whose last film was the Oscar-winning drama I, Tonya. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Cruella , Film Score

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NOW VOYAGER – MAX STEINER May 24, 2021 Leave a comment

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SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ORIGINAL REVIEW BY CRAIG LYSY In 1942 producer Hal B. Wallis signed a four-year contract with Warner Brothers Studios tasking him to produce four films a year. He decided that adapting Olive Higgins Prouty’s 1941 novel Now Voyager to the big screen would serve as his inaugural effort. Screen rights were purchased, Casey Robinson was hired to write the screenplay, and a budget of $877,000 was provided. Irving Rapper was given the reins to direct the film, and a stellar cast was assembled, which included Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale, Paul Henreid as Jerry Duvaux Durrance, Claude Rains a Dr. Jaquith, Gladys Cooper as Mrs. Windle Vale, Ilka Chase as Lisa Vale and Janis Wilson as Tina Durrance. Read more… Categories: Greatest Scores of the Twentieth Century

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BACKDRAFT – HANS ZIMMER May 20, 2021 Leave a comment

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY JONATHAN BROXTON Backdraft is one of the best action movies of the 1990s, an action thriller murder-mystery set within the world of hotshot Chicago firefighters. Kurt Russell and William Baldwin star as brothers Stephen and Brian McCaffrey; Stephen is a fearless hero, while Brian has always lived in his shadow. After an incident on the job where a fellow firefighter was almost killed, Brian is reassigned to help veteran arson investigator Donald Rimgale (Robert De Niro) with his latest case, in which a number of prominent local businessmen and politicians have been murdered in fires involving a phenomenon known as a ‘backdraft’. As Rimgale and Brian dig into the circumstances of the fires, the investigative trail soon leads them in the directions of both a corrupt local alderman, and back to Stephen’s firehouse. The film was directed by Ron Howard, co-stars Scott Glenn, Donald Sutherland, and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and is a magnificent edge-of-seat thriller that combines political skullduggery and familial drama with a number of sensational fiery action sequences that quicken the pulse and make your palms sweat with tension. The film was a massive commercial success, grossing almost $80 million in the US alone, and received three Academy Award nominations, for Visual Effects, Sound, and Sound Effects Editing. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Backdraft , Film Score

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THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD – BRIAN TYLER May 18, 2021 Leave a comment

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Those Who Wish Me Dead is a new action/drama/thriller from director Taylor Sheridan, the man behind such acclaimed films as Sicario and Hell or High Water, as well as the popular TV series Yellowstone. The film stars Angelina Jolie as Hannah, a firefighter in rural Montana left traumatized by a tragedy during a forest fire a year previously. Hannah is forced to confront her demons and overcome her fears when she meets a teenage boy named Connor in the forest; he is being tracked by two ruthless assassins (Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult), who were hired by a shadowy organization and have already eliminated Connor’s father. As Hannah and Connor attempt to reach safety, the killers set a new blaze in the forest, which quickly spirals out of control, and threatens to burn everything to the ground. The film was adapted from the popular novel by Michael Koryta, and also stars Jon Bernthal, Jake Weber, and Medina Senghore. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Brian Tyler , Film Score

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY CRAIG LYSY Director Elia Kazan and author John Steinbeck had long been friends and shared an interest in Mexican hero Emiliano Zapata, a champion of the peons who did what few men in history have done – achieved power and walked away from it, wary of its corrupting influence. In 1949 they decided to collaborate and bring the tale of this Mexican legend to the big screen. Steinbeck was tasked with writing the screenplay and he referenced Edgcomb Pinchon’s Zapata The Unconquerable (1941) as a guide. Kazan used his clout to obtain backing from Darryl F. Zanuck who agreed to produce the film for 20th Century Fox, providing a budget of $1.8 million. A fine cast was hired which included Marlon Brando in the titular role, Jean Peters as Josefa Zapata, Anthony Quinn as Eufemio Zapata, Alan Reed as Pancho Villa, and Fay Roope as Porfirio Diaz. Read more… Categories: Greatest Scores of the Twentieth Century

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY JONATHAN BROXTON The enormous success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie in 1990, as well as the continuing popularity of the related Saturday morning cartoon, led to an insta-sequel being commissioned by New Line Cinema. The result is this film, subtitled ‘The Secret of the Ooze,’ directed by Michael Pressman. The Secret of the Ooze follows the adventures of the four eponymous turtles – Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphael – and their Master Splinter. Following the events of the first film, the evil Shredder returns to take back command of the Foot Clan, and vows revenge against the Turtles who vanquished him – and sees away to take that revenge when he learns the secret behind the Turtles’ original mutation. The film stars Paige Turco and David Warner alongside the rubber-suited stuntmen performing the physical action of the turtles, and was a popular hit with the kids, who reacted favorably to the film’s broad humor and even more broad ninja action. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Film Score , John Du Prez

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WRATH OF MAN – CHRIS BENSTEAD May 11, 2021 Leave a comment

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Wrath of Man is a complicated action revenge thriller directed by Guy Ritchie, and is an English-language remake of the 2004 French film Le Convoyeur. The film stars Jason Statham as ‘H,’ the mysterious new employee of a security company which moves money all around Los Angeles in armored cars. The monosyllabic Englishman proves to be excellent at his job, and is instrumental in foiling an armed heist of the truck he is driving with his partner, Bullet (Holt McCallany). However, it slowly emerges that there is more to ‘H’ than meets the eye, and a labyrinthine plot emerges involving organized crime, a group of disgruntled former US marines, and the death of ‘H’s son. The film co-stars Scott Eastwood, Jeffrey Donovan, and Josh Hartnett, among others, and is an enjoyable festival of violence, filled with guns blazing, cars crashing, and Jason Statham doing Jason Statham things – although there was an undercurrent of misogyny and homophobia in the testosterone-overloaded screenplay that I found a little unpalatable. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Chris Benstead , Film

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THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM – ALFRED NEWMAN May 10, 2021 Leave a comment GREATEST SCORES OF THE

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY CRAIG LYSY After the critical success of translating two novels to the screen with Gone with the Wind in 1939 and Rebecca in 1940, producer David O. Selznick decided to roll the dice again with A. J. Cronin’s latest novel, The Keys of the Kingdom. He purchased the film rights for $100,000, with Cronin assisting with writing the screenplay. However, he could not secure the cast he desired and so sold the film rights to Darryl F. Zanuck of 20th Century Fox. Zanuck tasked director Joseph Mankiewicz with the project, providing a budget of $3 million. A new screenplay was provided by Nunnally Johnson and Mankiewicz, and a fine cast was assembled including Gregory Peck as Father Francis Chisholm, Thomas Mitchell as Dr. Willie Tulloch, Vincent Price as Angus Mealey, Rose Stradner as Reverend Mother Maria-Veronica, Edmund Gwenn as Reverend Hamish MacNabb, Benson Fong as Joseph, Roddy McDowell as Francis Chisholm as a boy, and Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Monsignor Sleeth. Read more… Categories: Greatest Scores of the Twentieth Century

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THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIKA – ZBIGNIEW PREISNER May 6, 2021 Leave a comment

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY JONATHAN BROXTON The Double Life of Veronika, or La Double Vie de Véronique, is a French-Polish drama film written and directed by the late great auteur Krzysztof Kieślowski. It tells the story of two nearly identical women, one living in Poland, the other in France, who do not know each other, but whose lives are nevertheless profoundly connected. Irène Jacob plays both women; Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher, who embarks on an unusual romance with Alexandre (Philippe Volter), a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues. The Criterion Collection DVD of the film calls it “a ravishing, mysterious rumination on identity, love, and human intuition,” and there’s really nothing more I can add to that. It’s a visual tone poem, an enigmatic exploration of these two women’s lives, in which music plays an important part. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Film Score , La Double Vie de

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MORTAL KOMBAT – BENJAMIN WALLFISCH May 4, 2021 Leave a comment

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The video game Mortal Kombat, originally created and developed by the American video game developer Midway Games in 1992, is one of the most popular and successful fighting games in the history of the industry. Originally conceived as a video game spinoff of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies such as Kickboxer and Bloodsport, it eventually morphed into a fantasy setting in which human warriors, chosen by the gods, face off against assorted demons and monsters in a fighting tournament, the victors of which would go on to control the universe. The game is notorious for its incredibly gruesome and graphic in-game ‘fatalities,’ the realism of which eventually led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Rating Board and its age-based rating system, but this has not stopped it from becoming an expanding franchise that now comprises several spinoff games, comic books, an animated TV series, and several movies. Read more… Categories: Reviews Tags: Benjamin Wallfisch , Film Score , Mortal Kombat

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SYMPHONY OF SIX MILLION – MAX STEINER May 3, 2021 Leave a comment GREATEST SCORES OF THE

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ORIGINAL REVIEW BY CRAIG LYSY In late 1931 legendary David O. Selznick became RKO Studio’s Production Chief. He decided that his inaugural film would be the melodrama “Night Bell”, which would be adapted from the story of the same name by Fannie Hurst. He first changed the film title to “Symphony of Six Million” – a reference to the population of New York City – and then rejected the first screenplay, demanding that it reclaim the cultural sensibilities offered in the original story. He wanted his film to offer a mirror to the life of Jewish immigrants in America and the challenges created by the cultural assimilation of their children. Selznick and Pandro S. Berman would produce the film, Gregory La Cava was hired to direct, and a budget of $270,000 was provided. The cast would include Ricardo Cortez as Dr. Felix Klauber, and his family, Gregory Ratoff as his father Meyer Klauber, Anna Appel as his mother Hannah Klauber, Noel Madison as his brother Magnus Klauber, and Lita Chevret as his sister Birdie Klauber. Irene Dunne would play love interest Jessica, and John St. Polis his colleague Dr. Schifflen. Read more… Categories: Greatest Scores of the Twentieth Century

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