Over multiple decades of filmmaking, innumerable movies that are unrelated to one another are often tied by similar threads.

For much of the history of broadcast television, the state of the art has often advanced gradually, and evidence of a trend has only emerged in the fine details of technology and technique. More ...

The hush falls over the audience as the conductor raises his baton. But instead of Mahler or Beethoven, the first notes of a sweeping cinematic theme fill the concert hall, transporting listeners to ...