The Day the Earth Stood Still

Soundtracking unknown worlds with sci-fi instrumentation

"...In 1951, Bernard Herrmann, film's greatest composer, scored The Day the Earth..."

July 25, 2008 Music Feature by Graham Reynolds

Paris, Je T'Aime

Eighteen short films by an international who’s-who of filmmakers make up this omnibus celebrating the joys and sorrows of love and Paris, organized by neighborhood.

"...Podalydès’ sidewalk love story in Montmartre to the creepy Bernard Herrmann stylings underneath Vincenzo Natali’s sexy pop-art vampire romp..."

June 22, 2007 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Notes on a Scandal

This movie with Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett is a hothouse psychodrama, full of outrageous and florid sentiments that are made semipalatable by the quality of the craftsmanship involved.

"...Philip Glass) sounds more and more like a refined Bernard Herrmann score. On a certain level, Notes on a..."

Jan. 12, 2007 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Vertigo

One of the thrill master's most psychologically dense and twisted films in which obsession, commitment, and dual identities merge to create a voluptuous tale of thwarted love.

"...tale of thwarted love. In a recent restoration, the Bernard Herrmann soundtrack was digitized and re-recorded, creating a crisp..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Jason and the Argonauts

One-eyed monsters! Great White sharks! Man-eating alligators! We look at four adventure films that take their threats (sort of) seriously: Jason and theArgonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad, Lake Placid, and Deep Blue Sea.

"...Armstrong, Nancy Kovack (special visual effects: Ray Harryhausen; music: Bernard Herrmann)...."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Review by Bud Simons

78/52

An effusive doc on the shower scene from Psycho

"...Tomasini’s unnerving editing, defying every convention; and, most memorably, Bernard Herrmann’s stringed score of screeching violins mimicking Marion’s screams..."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Artist

It's a silent, black-and-white film for the 21st century, full of coy delights.

"...Jack Russell; and even an extended orchestral cue of Bernard Herrmann's, cribbed outright from Vertigo. It sounds odd, but..."

Dec. 23, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Single Man

Tom Ford ditched fashion designing for filmmaking with this smart adaptation of the Christopher Isherwood story about a grieving gay man in 1962 California.

"...is referenced all over the place, from Abel Korzeniowski's Bernard Herrmann-esque score to an instant-classic shot that imposes Firth..."

Jan. 15, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Day the Earth Stood Still

This dull, unnecessary remake of the 1951 science-fiction classic features Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly in a wooden cautionary tale.

"...acted exceedingly human throughout. (It also had one of Bernard Herrmann's eeriest and most memorable musical scores.) Reeves displays..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Home School

Austin's latest class of cinematic talent – represented by six anticipated films at SXSW – is going places, but they aren't leaving anytime soon.

"...SC: Right. Bernard Herrmann. Who's like the most famous and talented movie..."

March 10, 2006 Screens Feature by Spencer Parsons

Bad Education

Almodóvar delivers the finest movie of his career: a film noir melodrama that maybe should be called film sanguine.

"...credits with their Saul Bass-style look and the amazing Bernard Herrmann-like score by Alberto Iglesias, there is no doubt..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle

"...And why not a Cape Fear steal complete with Bernard Herrmann overtones? Geez, why the hell not? The only..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sergei's Big Score

Austin Symphony conductor Peter Bay has tremendous regard for both Sergei Prokofiev's score and Sergei Eisenstein's images for the 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, and as he prepares for a live performance of the score as the film is being shown, he talks about this remarkable fusion of image and music and what's involved in performing it live.

"...for Tara" or Psycho sans the slashing strings of Bernard Herrmann...."

May 23, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

"...many glories). The film also features a soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann...."

June 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fahrenheit 451

"...a rather low-key, dispassionate manner; the score is by Bernard Herrmann...."

July 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Halloween H2O: 20 Years Later

"...geek, you'll recognize her car and that snatch of Bernard Herrmann straight off), but H20, like the original, isn't..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

That Old Revival Spirit

Testifying About Movies

"...to one of the coolest soundtracks ever written by Bernard Herrmann and his handy theremin. However, the key to..."

June 13, 1997 Screens Feature

Cape Fear

"...nice touch. Equally successful is Elmer Bernstein's adaptation of Bernard Herrmann's dynamic 1962 musical score. The acting performances in..."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad

"...Grant, Torin Thatcher (special visual effects: Ray Harryhausen; music, Bernard Herrmann)...."

Feb. 4, 2000 Screens Review by Bud Simons

Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup

See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat

"...including gorgeous cinematography and a typically masterful score from Bernard Herrmann. A Streetcar Named Desire..."

May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Scanlines

"...Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan, Vladimir Antolek-Oresek, Patrick Bernard, Arthur De Montalembert, Charles Balsan, Christian Schlumberger...."

July 21, 1995 Arts Feature

Housecore Horror Live Shot No.2 – Day One

Repulsion, Headcrusher, Goblin, and Down – killing it

"...one minute, then crossed Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells with Bernard Herrmann soundtracking Alfred Hitchcock the next...."

Oct. 26, 2013 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

'Leticia Bajuyo: Event Horizon'

Wormholes and wonders await you in the air-conditioned womb of Women & Their Work

"...that chimerical intersection of science and music redolent of Bernard Herrmann's score for The Day the Earth Stood Still..."

July 27, 2012 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Robert Wilson Video Portraits'

Give in to their leisurely pacing, and Wilson's images yield richness of detail

"...the black-and-white cinematography, her silhouetted figure, and the moody Bernard Herrmann score (lifted from the soundtrack to Vertigo) suggesting..."

Jan. 28, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal

"...for three-headed electric sheep, including "Spiral Staircase," which chased Bernard Herrmann down a Hitchcockian vortex. That left Sunday evening..."

July 4, 2008 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Belles on Her Toes

Trying to shake Gene Tierney

"...love through her own palpable ache and personal burden, Bernard Herrmann's epic score voicing character development virtually unmatched in..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney

"...on closed sets, as he had Tierney during Dragonwyck. Bernard Herrmann's diaphanous score swoons and storms like the elements..."

Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Devil & Daniel Webster

Numbers 215 and 218 of the Criterion Collection DVD series were more celebrated recently, Roman Polanski's Knife in the Water and Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge, yet the unheralded No. 214 was the true devil in the woodpile.

"...upon its initial 1941 release, this Faustian fantasy, though Bernard Herrmann's wily score won the Academy Award (his only),..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Screens Review by Raoul Hernandez

Misery

In bringing Stephen King's Misery to the stage, the Zachary Scott Theatre Center production paint the story's characters in the most awkward fashion possible and mixes horror and comedy to a degree that's confusing.

"...designer Allen Robertson's score includes a selection of squeaky-fast Bernard Herrmann-like strings, but mixes in a bunch of Seventies..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Arts Review by Barry Pineo

Dracula, Bass Concert Hall, November 5

"...smooth transitions that served the film well. As with Bernard Herrmann's score on Psycho, Glass chose a monochromatic score..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Music Review by Julie Carpenter

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