Who knows why in 1990 ABC decided to okay a series by Lynch, a director whose strange instincts had helped him mostly avoid the mainstream. The gambit worked, though, and the first season of Twin Peaks set America talking about the adventures of FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper as ... Read More »
If you couldn’t tell from my previous Sounds of Cinema posts (particularly the first), I have a background in classical music. Aside from random odds and ends (Peter, Paul, and Mary was a favorite) classical music filled our house almost exclusively growing up. Starting at age ... Read More »
So far in Sounds of Cinema we have focused on musical scores; that is to say, music written specifically for a film, generally in the “classical” genre, which usually occurs non-diagetically, heard only by the audience. Scores are wonderful, and we will continue to examine them ... Read More »
In the first installment of “Sounds of Cinema” I explored the magic which happens when a score perfectly suits a film’s characters, using David Shire’s score for The Conversation as a prime example of that. For this second piece I want to pull a 180 and see what happens when a s... Read More »
Welcome to Sounds of Cinema, a feature in which I will discuss various film scores and soundtracks and the impact they have on the films for which they provide music. This is not intended merely as a catalogue of great film music, though hopefully along the way it will provide p... Read More »
