Saturday Cinema

Our celebration of Pixar films continues this week as we look at Monsters, Inc., another Randy Newman-composed score.

So many Hollywood romances, so little time. But for sheer passion and a tale of (nearly) unrequited love, at least by movie's end, you can't beat Rick and Ilse in "Casablanca." Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sizzled as the two star-crossed lovers trying to survive in war-torn North Africa. Sam plays again on Flicks in Five.

While Casablanca made Humphrey Bogart a star before he met Lauren Bacall, it was their famous off-screen love affair that fired their on-screen chemistry.

As we think about movies with a back-to-school theme, there's a beautiful and rather somber one that comes to mind. It was even filmed at a real private school in Vermont.

This week's spotlight Pixar film is the 2003 release, Finding Nemo, which was scored by Thomas Newman in collaboration with Andrew Stanton.

American composer Jerome Moross celebrates his 100th birthday on August 1st. In this week's Flicks in Five we learn about Moross' early years and how Aaron Copland was indirectly responsible for Moross' time at Warner Brothers.

A film composer by trade, Alan Silvestri has been composing music for movies since the 1970s, but it's his frequent collaboration with director Robert Zemeckis that landed him an Oscar nomination for the 'Forrest Gump' score.

It is a sad fact that the musical world, especially the film music world, didn't have Jerome Moross for a longer time. But what he left us was indeed impressive. His best known film score is from "The Big Country", a rather oddball Western about an out of place retired sea captain played by Gregory Peck, who arrives in the "wild West" and inadvertently takes on the established system he finds.

Summer Stock: Judy Garland's last film for MGM and her last pairing with friend Gene Kelly, Summer Stock's upbeat nature is far from what was going on during filming.

This French composer didn't hit the Hollywood radar screens until he received wide acclaim for the scores for the final Harry Potter movies