BearManor Media News — review

  "There was a time when aficionados of Hammer Films’ memorable film scores had to make do with the odd scrap recorded here and there. That, however, is a situation that has thankfully been remedied over the years, with most of the striking orchestral scores now available in some form or other — particularly those composed by the man who was the doyen of the field, and who might be called its most significant practitioner (in much the same way that Terence Fisher is recognised as Hammer’s key director): the late James Bernard. But Bernard was not alone in his...

“Nailing down a coffin lid is far easier than nailing down a universally agreed upon definition of the term film noir.”                                                                                          Robert Strom   Every so often a book comes along which somehow manages to evoke both our childhood and our love of films at the same time. Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir is such a book.     I grew up in a place I used to call Shadowland, a quiet suburb of Toronto known officially as Don Mills (the first formally designed suburb in North America) where there wasn’t much to do but listen to music and...