Cinema Sounds & Secrets

Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. This week, a tribute to Chadwick Boseman.

Raised in Anderson, South Carolina, Boseman graduated from Howard University after studying directing. His breakthrough role was Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film, 42. He also starred in Draft Day (2014) and Get on Up (2014). He appeared in the highest grossing franchise of all time: the Marvel Cinematic Universe - as superhero T’Challa, or Black Panther. Black Panther was the first big-budget movie with an almost all-Black cast. It became the first comic book and superhero film to be nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards, and the first film in the MCU to win an Academy Award. 

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Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. This week, a tribute to Angela Lansbury.

At the age of 86, she’s an inadvertent role model for how to live one’s later years with absolute imagination and style.

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Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. First on the roster: "The Best of the West"

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! Today's tribute is for Stephen Sondheim:

This legendary composer is known for his scores on West Side Story (1957 on Broadway) (1961) & (2021), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into The Woods (1987) on Broadway and the film adaptation in 2014, and Dick Tracy (1990). Throughout his career composing for Broadway, he collected eight Tony Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Tony in 2008. In 1991, he won the Oscar for Best Original Song for Dick Tracy. He was a 12-time Grammy nominee and 8-time Grammy winner, including the Trustees Award in 2007.

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Welcome to another Cinema Sounds and Secrets tribute episode! This tribute is for Roger Michelle:

“Your job as a director is to serve the story. I don't think it's the job of a director in any medium to wave at the audience and say, hey, don't forget about me, I did an important thing here as well! You should make the play shine and make the actors shine. You should be invisible.” – Roger Michell

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Today we’re spending time with manly men.  Take to the skies with us through the lens of William Wyler and his trio of war scarred vets in post-war America in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); then keep in the air with the incredibly devoted and slightly mad Fly Boys of The Right Stuff (1983) as they learned to slip the silvery bonds of earth and head for the stars.

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Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! This tribute is for Kirk Douglas:

During the 50s and 60s, he became a huge box-office hit. In 1951, he starred in director Billy Wilder’s first venture into writing and producing, Ace in the Hole. In Lust for Life, Douglas took on the role of real life artist Vincent van Gogh, earning his third Oscar nomination and winning the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama. In 1949, Douglas established his own production company, Bryna Productions. Two of the company’s first films were Paths of Glory (1957) and Spartacus (1960), both of which he had somewhat unknown Stanley Kubrick direct. He is No. 17 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male screen legends in American film history.

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Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! This tribute is for Brian Dehenny:

One of his most famous roles was Death of a Salesman on both the stage and screen. Dennehy was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and won a Golden Globe for his acclaimed role in Death of a Salesman. In First Blood, Dennehy’s breakout role, he played sheriff Will Teasle opposite the great Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo. He also notably played John Wayne Gacy in To Catch a Killer in 1992. 

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Traipsing through the groovy streets of the sex-a-licious ‘60’s in London with Michael Caine who truly will make you wonder what’s it all about...but that ride in the desert with O’Toole in Lean’s magnificent landscape will make us all wish we could have been with Lawrence in the desert.

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Welcome to another tribute minsode! This tribute is for Sean Connery:

He began his journey as Bond in 1962 in the film Dr. No, going on to star in four other Bond films from the same production company, Eon Productions, including From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967).

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Cinema Sounds and Secrets turns one!

This first year of Cinema Sounds and Secrets has been brought to you by Superman, ET, Butch and Sundance, Steve McQueen, Blake Edwards, Michael Corleone, Hitchcock, Waldo Salt, Saturday Night Fever, Bette Davis, Walter Hill, Stagecoach, Young Frankenstein and more!

We have loved sharing our favorite movies with you over the past year, and we are so excited for the year ahead. Thank you to everyone who has listened to and supported CSS; to learn more about all that we've done this year, visit the official Cinema Sounds and Secrets website.

Love, 

Janet, John, and Pendleton

Welcome to another tribute minisode! This tribute is for Cindy Williams: 

Her portrayal of Laurie in the 1973 George Lucas film “American Graffiti” earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actress from the British Academy Film Awards. The next year, she was in the Francis Ford Coppola film “The Conversation. Both American Graffiti” and “The Conversation” garnered best picture nominations at the Academy Awards.

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We love Lucas – George Lucas – the master of Coming of age, teen angst stories:  Sci-Fi Style and Rock ‘n Roll style….Both films would give us iconic characters who are as contemporary today as when we first laid eyes on them. 

Two young actors were plucked by Lucas for both films; his breakthrough film making a young TV star a movie star – the great film director himself and the other a total unknown would be launched into space in the film that transformed movies forever by taking into a galaxy... far far away...

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Welcome to another tribute minisode! This tribute is for Doug McGrath:

This playwright, screenwriter, director and actor was nominated for an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony Award. His one-man Off Broadway show Everything's Fine was directed by John Lithgow and premiered Off-Broadway at the DR2 Theatre just weeks ago.^[9]

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We need a laugh, so we’re basking in the hilarity of 3 great 1970’s comedies with some of the funniest film moments in film brought to us by; Mel Brooks, Arthur Hiller and Ivan Reitman.  

Where else can you have a Mary Shelley classic and mash it up with Irving Berlin to make monsters loveable, or twist up a take on a Hitchcock thriller by pairing two comic geniuses and taking a real look at what the social life off a gentlemanly college fraternity  was like in 1962?  

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Welcome to another minisode! Inspiration for today's minisode comes from... Edith Head! By the end of her Golden-Age spanning career, she made her mark on the fabrics of over 400 Hollywood films and dressed some of the biggest American stars of the past century. We are, of course, referring to Edith Head, likely the most prolific costume designer in all of Hollywood history.

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Welcome to another tribute minisode! This tribute is for James Caan:

The notable American character actor was known for his roles in The Godfather, Elf, Misery, The Gambler, and much more. Famous for his hardened, disillusioned or dispassionate roles, Caan’s characters were often the masculine “straight man” or the hot-headed tough guy, distinct from the rest of the cast.

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Two takes on love.

We’ll drop back in time 500 years to the time of Lords and Ladies and sword fights, then leap ahead in time to hot rods, Little Richard and poodle skirts! 

Uptown Girls, Downtown Boys…you get the drift – but as is the way with love – both young lovers meet on the dance floor!  Franco Zeffirelli directed his iconic young love masterpiece with actors who were actually the correct ages that The Bard had written…while our sixties version goes dancing, rock’n’roll style where boy swings girl…on the dance floor. 

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Welcome to another tribute minisode! This tribute is for Jean-Luc Godard:

One of the most influential filmmakers of all time, Godard passed away on September 13, 2022 in Rolle, Switzerland. A premiere contributor to the French New Wave (Le Nouvelle Vague), and by proxy, one of the progenitors of modern art cinema in its global entirety.

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