Breakfast at Tiffany’s Film Review
A brand spanking new year and the end of the month (and Superbowl) is here. Almost. The (nearly) last day in January means it’s time once more to…
Same Song, Different Movie: Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach
To start the new year of 2015 right, I thought to highlight a well-known (and well used) piece of Baroque music by one of the all-time great classical composers. Johann Sebastian Bach. His instantly recognizable Toccata and Fugue in D Minor a thundering piece, and one of the most famous works in the organ repertoire of the era (1600-1750). Once heard, likely one of most ominous too. Used many times over in cinema by a plethora of filmmakers for decades, two of which come instantly and contrastingly to mind.
Experiment in Terror Film Review
We’re at that time again, and it didn’t seem like it took that long to get here. Fall has fallen, and we keep tumbling toward the…
Movie Title Sequence: Experiment in Terror
This is the relatively simple movie titles sequence to Blake Edwards’ stellar film, Experiment in Terror (1962). Yet, the opening remains one of the eminently moodiest in…
