Herrmann composed some of the best-known film music ever written — especially the scores he wrote for Alfred Hitchcock. Now a new CD shows another side of Herrmann that's equally memorable. This is ...
Composer Bernard Herrmann emerged from the Golden Age of cinema and contributed a signature sound to some of history's most significant films. While his name may not be known to most of today's ...
OK, film fans: What does Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock’s hypnotic 1958 psychodrama and the current holder of the “Best Film Ever” title in the prestigious British Film Institute’s critics’ ranking, have ...
It used to be impossible to find the film music of Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold or Bernard Herrmann on records. The soundtrack business didn’t exist until the late 1950s, so most of their ...
Cinema was changed by these 10 movie scores, like 'Psycho' by Bernard Herrmann, 'King Kong' by Max Steiner, and 'Star Wars' ...
Variety talked with Smith about how these two brilliant men brought out the best in each other — and the very best in mid-century cinema — before their volatile personalities inevitably led to a sadly ...
From Bernard Herrmann's "Psycho" stabs to John Carpenter's "The Fog" atmospherics and Thom Yorke's "Suspiria" reinterpretations. So much of our collective love of horror is grounded in the visual: A ...
Although the music for Marnie was written in happier times for the Herrmann/Hitchcock relationship, it’s overshadowed by the non-dialogue aspects of The Birds and Psycho as they’ve become divorced ...
UPDATE, 12:38 PM: The Artist‘s distributor The Weinstein Company got blindsided this morning by the full-page ad that Kim Novak bought in a trade complaining about the Oscar-buzzed pic’s use of ...