His film scores included King Kong, Dark Victory, Gone with the Wind, Casablanca, The Big Sleep and A Summer Place. Guest writer Constance Metzinger offers a look at the life and career of Oscar-winning movie composer Max Steiner.
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Can you feel the excitement in the air? The Academy Awards are swiftly approaching, and this week’s DVD and Blu-ray new releases include several nominated films and frontrunners, a film classic getting the Criterion Collection treatment, a recent holiday effort,…
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At long last, the classic 1945 film noir melodrama Mildred Piece is coming to Blu-ray today, thanks to the restoration masters at The Criterion Collection. If you aren’t familiar with Criterion, they are the masters of restoring old film and…
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“The kind of woman most men want…but shouldn’t have.” Those words describe Mildred Pierce, the woman at the center of a Hollywood masterpiece. Joan Crawford won an Academy Award for her performance as the title character in this noirish favorite…
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