Tag: Jerry Goldsmith

  • The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels

    I wasn’t sure about writing this review until reading a back issue of Film Comment wherein Joan Rivers listed it as one of her guilty pleasures. Please don’t ask for an explanation of that, as I’m not a fan of Joan Rivers, and there is nothing about which to feel guilty in liking The Trouble…

  • Seven Days in May

    Seven Days in May

    “The writer’s role is to menace the public’s conscience,” Rod Serling, the adaptor of Seven Days in May, addressed the Congress in 1968. “He must have a position, a point of view. He must see the arts as a vehicle of social criticism…”* Serling’s vehicle was a bulldozer, through which he endeavored to level the…