THE SOUND OF THE MOVIES: THE FILM MUSIC COMPOSERS - 3 DVDS

From Hitchcock to Tarantino, John Williams to A R Rahman, BBC celebrates the Sound Of Cinema! Silent film composer Neil Brand presents a three-part series Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, featuring COMPOSERS like MAX STEINER, ERICH W. KORNGOLD, FRANZ WAXMAN, VANGELIS and their work with directors ranging from ALFRED HITCHCOCK, MICHAEL CURTIZ, continuing through TARANTINO and M. SCORSESE. BBC Four’s celebration of film music begins with Sound Of Cinema: The Music That Made The Movies, a three-part documentary presented by writer, composer and film music aficionado Neil Brand. Neil tells his alternative history of cinema, putting the soundtrack centre stage. The series features some of the biggest directors of past and present, including Quentin Tarantino, Alfred Hitchcock and Martin Scorsese, alongside film scores of cult and blockbuster movies like Star Wars, Inception, Hitchcock’s Psycho, and Gladiator.