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Symphony For Richard III (for The Life And Death Of Richard III, 1912)

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The Incredible Hulk - Dr. Bruce Banner's Hidden Secrets: As The Hulk crashes his way back onto cinema screens across the globe, Craig Armstrong talks exclusively to Music from the Movies about his first foray into comic book scoring...

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Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, The: I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe when it appeared in 2005. I grew up loving the BBC’s late 1980s adaptation and couldn’t shake it off as I watched Andrew Adamson’s take on the story. Add to that a large score with jarring contemporary elements, songs even, and I was left feeling a little… I don’t know, prickly... That said I still bought the collector’s edition album of Harry Gregson-Williams’ music on the proviso that it had an extra ten minutes of score. When I discovered that the line-up was exactly the same as the cheaper edition I was even... ...full review

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Director Louis Leterrier - Opening the Mind's Eye: In part two of our EXCLUSIVE coverage of The Incredible Hulk the film's director talks about his love of film music and how he convinced Marvel that Craig was the right man for the job...

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A real buzz as opera premieres: Howard Shore and David Cronenberg's opera based on their 1986 movie The Fly premiered in Paris this week and will get audiences buzzing in Los Angeles from September...

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Nice To Be Around... At Last: John Williams' 1973 score for Mark Rydell's Cinderella Liberty is given its World Premiere CD release by Intrada Records and their ever impressive 'Special Collection'...
Time to cast your vote again: The 8th World Soundtrack Awards once again will feature the 'Public Choice Award, voted for by you! So its time to get thinking about who you think deserves the honour...
Yared tribute to Minghella in Ghent: Composer Gabriel Yared and Film Festival Ghent are uniting for one night in October to pay tribute to the late Anthony Minghella through Yareds music from his films...

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In our shop you will find back issues of Music from the Movies, including issue 50/51, which features Superman Returns, X- Men: The Last Stand, The Omen and Mission: Impossible 3. Plus a massive feature on Ron Goodwin, interviews with Debbie Wiseman, Don Black, Isobel Griffiths, Anne Dudley, Ken Thorne and a look back over our 50 issues. For these and other great back issues, visit our shop!


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DVD Review: June 2008: This month Mark Richard Hasan takes in Criterion's fantastic new release of the classic 1940 fantasy The Thief of Bagdad which saw one of Miklos Rozsa's most opulent scores...


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