“I believe in America.” It’s the first line in The Godfather, the 1972 classic that exploded the gangster flick genre. The award-winning film (it took two Oscars and five Golden Globes), was the first ...
“There is only one real function of film music,” Igor Stravinsky wrote in 1946 in the Musical Digest, “namely to feed the composer.” That wasn’t very nice. But his sentiment remains as sticky as a ...