Music For The Movies: Bernard Herrmann explores the work of a composer who created music for over 50 films, collaborating with such diverse directors as Orson Welles, Nicholas Ray, and Martin Scorsese. Best remembered for his twelve-year collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock in such classics as Vertigo, North By Northwest, and the unforgettable Psycho, Herrmann pioneered many fundamental techniques of film scoring in the course of his 35-year career.
This fascinating program takes audiences behind the scenes in Hollywood to the mixing rooms and dubbing stages where music is put to picture. We follow Herrmann's relationship with Hitchcock, examining the bitter breakup of one of the riches collaborations in Hollywood history over the score for the 1966 film Torn Curtain. He see Torn Curtain as it has never been seen before ¨C accompanied by Herrmann's brilliant score.
Review
~ "Wisely, filmmaker Joshua Waletzky doesn't flinch from the harsher details of Herrmann's life and personality (composer David Raksin describes Herrmann as "not a sociable man" and "a virtuoso of non-specific anger"), serving up an even portrait of an ambitious but also temperamental genius. Highly recommended." - Video Librarian
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