Arts & Entertainment
Film: A Centennial Salute to Bernard Herrmann
A CENTENNIAL SALUTE TO BERNARD HERRMANN: To commemorate the composer’s centennial, we screen Cy Endfield’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Mysterious Island (1961-101 min.), in which castaways encounter mad scientist Captain Nemo (Herbert Lom) and a slew of giant animals (provided by special effects master Ray Harryhausen, and each outfitted with a unique musical motif by Herrmann). Bernard Herrmann was born on June 29, 1911 in New York City. He began composing for films with Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941), and later collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on nine projects, including the spine-chilling all-strings score for Psycho (1960). Herrmann also worked in the science fiction genre beginning with The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). He completed his final score, for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver, the night before his death on December 24, 1975.