The Classic Film Scores of Bernard Herrmann

One hundred years ago to this very day - the twenty nine of June - Bernard Herrmann was born in New York's Lying In Hospital , New York ...

Martin Scorsese had a hard time convincing Herrmann to write the score for Taxi Driver . He first pitched the idea to him over the phone fr...

Obsession was another Brian De Palma exercise in Hitchockian ventriloquism. With Vertigo withdrawn from circulation and not to resurface un...

It's Alive was the story of a killer baby that goes on a murderous rampage in the delivery room, terrorises Los Angeles, and ends up - ...

The Seventies saw the rise of a new breed of film makers - once dubbed the Movie Brats, or, as Billy Wilder called them, "the kids with...

Endless Night was a British movie based on an Agatha Christie whodunit set in an isolated house on a stretch of remote English coastline. ...

The Battle of Neretva was one of those big war movies - like The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far - that ended up being as big a logistica...