Fine Movie Classics - 21 Mar 25

Hear music from “Minari”, “Around The World In 80 Days”, “The Elephant Man” and David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch”. There’s the Main Title from “The Towering Inferno”, one of John Williams’ earlier scores, a medley from “The Fantasticks” by Harvey Schmidt and Billy Crystal teams up with John Goodman for a…

There’s music from the video game series “Elder Scroll”, along with a Woody Allen comedy set and filmed entirely in Paris, the remake of “The Fly”, a great medley paying tribute to Fred Astaire and music by Volker Bertelmann  from the film which Pope Leo XIV is alleged to have…

Steven Spielberg puts in 2 appearances – with excerpts from John Williams’ score to his film “Close Encounters Of the Third Kind” and with a story about a famous Bach melody which his father used to whistle. This appears in his semi-autobiographical film “The Fabelmans”. There’s also music from “Monsters…

There are TV themes from “Only Murders In The Building” and “Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey”, along with music from “A Minecraft Movie”, a medley of hit tunes from “Mary Poppins”, and there’s music from “The Big Blue”, “The Danish Girl”, “Paddington” and “The Producers”.

This week gold glistens in a Spaghetti Western, and in the form of a medal in the London Marathon, for which TV coverage is introduced by the theme from an unlikely film. There are also songs from two stage musicals which successfully transitioned to the Big Screen. Plus, there’s music…