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Jun 25, 2024 · Although his scores for Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) and, subsequently, for William Dieterle’s All That Money Can Buy (1941, Academy Award) were highly acclaimed, Herrmann’s work with suspense-film director Alfred Hitchcock in the 1950s and ’60s won him the widest recognition.
Jun 20, 2024 · Bernard Herrmann – Torn Curtain (1966) – Film Score (Suite) – Elmer Bernstein With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1977) Elmer Bernstein conducts Bernard H...
He would also dive into fantasy/adventure movies such as Journey to the Center of the Earth and Jason and the Argonauts. Apparently his favorite score is the one that he created for The Ghost and Mrs Muir. His last score was for Taxi Driver and he sadly died from a heart attack a few hours after completing the recording of the score.
Jun 30, 2024 · The taxi driver played by Robert DeNiro is introduced to the accompaniment of music by the Hitchcock master, Bernard Herrmann, as a veteran of the Vietnam War who suffers from insomnia. In the loneliness of his rickety and solitary apartment, he writes: “Thank God for the rain which has helped wash away the garbage and trash off ...
2 days ago · The film received a total of nine Oscar nominations in 1942 including Best Picture, Best Director (Welles), Best Actor in a Leading Role (Welles), Best Cinematography (Gregg Toland), Best Sound, Recording (John Aalberg), Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic Picture (Bernard Herrmann), Best Film Editing (Robert Wise), and Best Art ...
Jun 22, 2024 · Bernard Herrmann is so much more than just Psycho and North by Northwest. He won an Oscar for The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), directed by William Dieterle, and was nominated on four other occasions, none of them for Hitchcock films, but it was with Hitchcock that his uncanny ability to extract tension and suggest the ...
Jun 15, 2024 · Trailblazing in so many respects, from Gregg Toland’s complex camera and lighting to Bernard Herrmann’s score to one of the finest ensemble casts (including Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane and Agnes Moorehead) ever assembled.
