Saturday Cinema

This year's Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival features a bounty of riches - both onscreen and off - for those who enjoy classical music and film scores.

Fred Astaire and Judy Garland were a pair of triple threats: performers who could sing, dance and act with equal talent. The two worked together in the MGM release, 'Easter Parade', and one of their numbers from that film, 'We're a Couple of Swells', is considered a classic to this day. Hear it on this week's Flicks in Five.

This 1969 romantic comedy features Jack Lemmon, Catherine Deneuve, Sally Kellerman and a wonderful supporting cast. The film's title tune proved a big hit for composer Burt Bacharach, finding its way onto radio as well as into restaurants and department stores. Hearing it on this week's Flicks in Five may jog your memory.

For our Member Appreciation Week, I asked our host Lynne Warfel to share the story of how she got her start in radio.

Despite being snubbed by Oscar, Ennio Morricone's score for this 1986 film is considered by many to be one of the best film scores of all time.

The semi-staged production now being presented by the Minnesota Orchestra under the confident baton of Sarah Hicks does the orchestra the service of lifting them out of the pit. The audience gets the treat of hearing and seeing the players at center stage, where the details of Rogers's brilliant score come to life.

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the release of the film, 'The Sound of Music'. To celebrate, we'll listen to a medley of pieces from this beloved film.

According to at least one experienced critic, classical musicians may have even more at stake in the legal battle over a 2013 hit song than pop musicians do.

At St. Patrick's Day approaches, Flicks in Five looks at the music from John Ford's 1952 classic film about an American prizefighter who visits Ireland. For the score, composer Victor Young made a detailed study of original Irish folk tunes.

One of Lynne Warfel's favorite comedies of all time came about thanks to the collaboration of director Blake Edwards, actor Peter Sellers and composer Henry Mancini.