FMR @ The Movies - 23 Feb 24
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Your indispensable repository of some banging movie tracks, plus a brief retrospective of last week's BAFTAs
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Fine Movie Classics - 30 MAY 25
There’s the theme from a stage thriller which became a successful movie thanks to the pairing of Michael Caine and Laurence Olivier. Thomas Newman offers music from “1917”, and there’s music from a 1953 film starring Jean Simmonds as “Young Bess” about Elizabeth the First. And our video game theme…
Fine Movie Classics - 16 MAY 25
Robin Williams sings for us, Patrick Doyle offers Sweets To The Sweet in “Much Ado About Nothing”, there’s a great medley from “Lord Of The Rings” from the recently-released album “Hoard Shore – Anthology: The Paris Concerts” and Thomas Newman has a delightful tune from “Wall-E”.
Fine Movie Classics - 09 MAY 25
There are end credits to 2 very different films by 2 fine Italian film composers, We have music to the video game “Elden Ring” and the story of how a song by Dmitri Tiomkin hit the charts before the film was released and led to it finally being released by…
Fine Movie Classics - 02 MAY 25
Hear music from an excellent new album of Howard Shore’s film music performed by a first-rate French orchestra. There’s a double play from James Horner and we head to Ireland for the films “Cal” and “Waking Ned Devine”.
Fine Movie Classics - 25 April 25
There’s hauntingly beautiful music in a medley from 3 films by Zbigniew Preisner. Also a loving tribute to a film which itself is a loving tribute to cinema and film, “Cinema Paradiso”. Plus the true story of a poor Chinese boy who became an international ball star, and one woman’s…