Appreciation of film music has grown steadily over the last two decades to the point where even casual music fans are taking notice of the artists behind the score. Here we speak to composer Rob Simonsen, whose most recent work is on the sports film "The
Despite the millions of stories about World War II, new ones, some recently discovered, keep popping up. “Suite Française,” directed by Saul Dibb (“Journey’s End,” 2017) is based on the late Irène Némirovsky’s novel about the German occupation of the small, village of Bussy, which by this time, 1942, had its hands full of fleeing […]
The latest firestorm to engulf the Oscar ceremony is the decision to relegate eight categories from the live TV broadcast to taped footage presented during same. As Oscar controversies go, this strikes me as somewhat small potatoes. The ceremony needs streamlining, and while I don’t know that this is the right