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Angels, heroes and New Beginnings on The Score, August 2019

Heaven Can Wait (1978)

8/3        Angels Among Us  Do angels visit and if so, why? Hollywood has a few theories and we’ll explore some of these in Wings of Desire, Angels in America, Heaven Can Wait, Meet Joe Black, It‘ a Wonderful Life, The Bishop’s Wife, City of Angels, Dogma, Legion, and Michael

8/10      A Few of Edmund’s Favorites  Edmund Stone, The Score’s host and producer has seen a lot of movies in his long career. Here are a few that he recommends, including Cinema Paradiso, Alice in Wonderland, The Princess Bride, Galaxy Quest, Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, WALL-E, The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Guardians of the Galaxy, Dracula (1979), Death on the Nile, and Thor: The Dark World

8/17      To the Rescue  Examples where people become heroes and put their lives on the line, including Timeline, Argo, Free Willy, The Finest Hours, Captain Phillips, Die Hard, Saving Private Ryan, Escape from New York, London Has Fallen, SPECTRE, and The Martian

8/24      New Beginnings  Sometimes in movies characters need to begin all over again and take on new adventures. Music and moments from Bridget Jones’s Diary, Unforgiven, Pretty Woman, Eat, Pray, Love, Under the Tuscan Sun, How to Train Your Dragon, The Color Purple, The Shawshank Redemption, Fearless, and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

8/31      Women Film Composers  They are usually unsung but they, too, deserve their time in the spotlight. This week saluting some of the many women in film music, including Tron (Wendy Carlos), Willard (Shirley Walker), Emma, The Cider House Rules and Chocolat (Rachel Portman), The Crying