Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann Movie Review 1992

Bernard Herrmann composed 50 film scores in a 35-year career, including a 12-year collaboration with director Alfred Hitchcock. His first was for Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" in 1941 and his last for Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" in 1976 (released the year after Herrmann's death in '75). Interviews with colleagues and family give an indication of his process of composition and how music functions in a film but little about the man himself is revealed. His scores for Hitchcock included "Vertigo," "North by Northwest," "Psycho," and "Torn Curtain."

Distribution

Sony Music Entertainment Inc., 550 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10022, Phone: (212)833-8000, URL: http://www.sonymusic.com

Available on VHS
Running time 60 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Documentary Films, Film History, Biography

Director

Josh Waletzky

Producer

Margaret Smilov, Roma Baran, Alternate Current Inc., Les Films d'Ici