
Since film critics have had a field day comparing Tim Burton’s Planet of the Apes remake to the original 1968 sci-fi classic, isn’t it fair
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to that infamous island, along comes Jurassic Park III, a darker and scarier sequel to
Max Steiner’s score to The Treasure of the Sierra Madre consists of numerous small cues that need to be carefully stitched together to provide thematic
Movie soundtracks for the last few years have taken several different paths in presenting to the public the musical experience of the film in question.
Russian composer Edison Denisov (1929-96) was just old enough when he began his career to be immediately censored by the Stalinist-run Culture Ministry–like every other
Some of Georges Auric’s best music has been saved for Volume 3 in Marco Polo’s series devoted to his film scores. Notre-Dame de Paris, known
This is the first volume in Pearl’s two-volume set of British film music. Here you will find lone excerpts (such as the theme from Lord
Ridley Scott’s highly successful film Gladiator, the first Roman epic to come out of Hollywood in more than 25 years, set new standards for realism
Nine times out of ten, when I see a 1940s or ’50s movie and can’t place the music (is it Steiner? maybe Victor Young?), the
Teiji Ito already was a visionary composer in 1952 at the age of 17, when experimental filmmaker Maya Deren asked him for a soundtrack. Ito