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Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958) is a very mysterious movie about a retired detective with acrophobia who is given a final job to track down an old friend’s wife, Madeline, whom he believes to be possessed by her dead ancestor Carlotta Valdez. Most of the movie involves Scottie, the detective, following around Madeline before he endsContinue reading “Vertigo film score – spiraling obsession and multiple identities”

Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2018) is a movie about undercover detectives investigating the Ku Klux Klan “organization” in Colorado Springs. The investigation is led by the first African-American police officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department, Ron Stallworth, in which he impersonates a racist white man to infiltrate the Klan’s trust and has a body double,Continue reading “Juxtaposition of identities in BlacKkKlansman (2018)”

One of my personal favorite movies. Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) is a gorgeous stop-motion picture based on Roald Daul’s children’s novel about a Fox who can’t help but do what he does best: be sly, cunning, and wild. The story pulls at the heartstrings of the viewer with characters that can be sympathizedContinue reading “Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) – a little… “different””

Gwyneth Paltrow’s breakout role, Emma (1996) is a period piece by Douglas McGrath set in Victorian-era England. The movie is about Emma Woodhouse who is stubbornly against getting married and so motivated to find a suitor for her best friend Harriet, but she ends up finding her own love instead. The music in Emma isContinue reading “Emma (1996)”

Tim Burton’s first feature film Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985) is about… well, Pee-Wee Herman. A bubbly, silly, child-like man of whom the viewer knows nothing about in terms of residence, occupation, family- all we know is his whimsical personality and that he really really likes his bike. And then his bike gets stolen, and thenContinue reading “The soundtrack to authenticity in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (1985)”

Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters with the Third Kind (1977) is a film about unidentified spacecrafts making an appearance on Earth, but instead of a suspense-filled invasion like most alien movies, it’s more mysterious and alluring. Although the movie does have its thrills, the reaction of the audience is more often wonder, shock, or awe ratherContinue reading “Close Encounters with the Third Kind (1977)”

Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night (1967) is a mystery drama that unravels a gripping murder case while candidly dealing with topical racial and social issues in America. The story takes place in the small town of Sparta, Mississippi which had plans for a prosperous factory to be built until the owner wasContinue reading “Sound and Music in In The Heat of the Night (1967)”

The legendary Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) tells a story of heroics, excitement, and wit. Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley, featuring Hollywood stars Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, and with the brilliant music of the celebrated film composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold, this film was truly a cinematic phenomena in 1938 and aContinue reading “Music in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)”

From this deleted scene in This Is: Spinal Tap (1984) we are given an audio-visual gag in which musical sound is providing added value to the text for humor. Nigel starts the joke by explaining that he is writing music in the style of an “Indonesian folk tune” and presents a rather poor grasp ofContinue reading “Semantic Web in This Is: Spinal Tap (1984)”

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