A SATANIC MUSICAL INTERLUDE

Whatever you do, do not forget to drop by here on Tuesday, August 6, 2013. Why? Because that’s when WM3 heavyweights Cinatas Cinap and Retro P. Pus will be debating Exhibit 500. It promises to be a truly momentous occasion, which just happens to coincide with the video release of West of Memphis. In the […]

Posted on July 28th, 2013 by Mat Viola
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Favorite Film Scores (Part 3) – 1950s

Here’s Part 3 of my celebration of film composers and their contribution to the art of filmmaking. This post covers my favorite film scores of the 1950s. No score is too short or too grand, too old or too modern, too obscure or too well-known to be eligible for consideration: my wide-ranging selections for this […]

Posted on January 3rd, 2011 by Mat Viola
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Favorite Film Scores (Part 2) – 1940s

Here’s Part 2 of my celebration of film composers and their contribution to the art of filmmaking. This post covers my favorite film scores of the 1940s. No score is too short or too grand, too old or too modern, too obscure or too well-known to be eligible for consideration: my wide-ranging selections for this […]

Posted on November 26th, 2010 by Mat Viola
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Favorite Film Scores (Part 1) – through 1939

Bride of Frankenstein. Double Indemnity. The Third Man. North by Northwest. Psycho. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Once Upon a Time in the West. Chinatown. The Godfather Part 2. Jaws. Taxi Driver. What do all these films have in common? For one thing, they’re some of my favorite films. For another, they all […]

Posted on November 7th, 2010 by Mat Viola
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Film Music: Cloverfield

Anyone who grew up watching Toho studio monster movies on television will be familiar with the music, if not the name, of Akira Ifukube, the great film composer who wrote the classic scores to Godzilla (1954) and Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster, among many others. Ifukube died in 2006 but his musical spirit gloriously lives on […]

Posted on January 1st, 2010 by Mat Viola
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