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Democrats in Siskiyou County are discovering they are not as scarce as they thought.

Exteriors and interiors in The Hanging Tree are staged with compositions that layer different elements across their own planes of foreground and background, while interiors parcel dark and light according to the nature of the characters.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, George Lucas crafted a cinematic space opera with Star Wars and borrowed silent film techniques to do it.

German director Timm Kröger’s second feature, 'The Theory of Everything,' follows a young physicist attending a conference in the Alps.

By Steve Vertlieb: Traditionally, the start of a new year is a time when film critics begin assembling their lists of the best films, actors, writers, composers, and directors of the past year. What follows, then, while honoring that long-held tradition, is a comprehensive compilation and deeply personal look at the finest film scores of

[It’s hard to believe King Kong could sneak up on anyone. But in a way that happened to Steve Vertlieb.] By Steve Vertlieb: Merian C. Cooper’s celebrated gorilla was born in the mind of his creator, perhaps, as early as 1927 when his friend W. Douglas Burden, a Director of The Museum of Natural History

The Oscar-winning Giacchino tells IndieWire how John Williams' legendary score taught him all the musical tricks of the craft.

Before John Williams scored Jaws, Steven Spielberg temped the movie with the score Williams composed for Robert Altman's Images.

By Steve Vertlieb: I corresponded for a number of years with conductor Charles Gerhardt, the acknowledged "father" of recorded film music. His classic recordings, begun in 1972 for RCA Red Seal Records, were the beginning of the modern era of classic film score appreciation and, thanks to the pioneering efforts of both Gerhardt, and his

Here are 10 things to know About Herb Alpert, whose 1966 Billboard chart record was just tied by Taylor Swift.