Movies

The new season of 'Twin Peaks' is pushing all sorts of boundaries - including musical ones.

Elmer Bernstein, the versatile, Oscar-winning composer who scored such movie classics as The Ten Commandments, The Magnificent Seven, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Escape and True Grit, is the focus of this week's Flicks in Five.

As the Fourth of July approaches, Flicks in Five features one of James Cagney's most enduring roles, and one of his favorites: 'Yankee Doddle Dandy'.

On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel shares music from the great film composer Max Steiner.

This week on Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel shares some of Elmer Bernstein's score from 1962's 'To Kill a Mockingbird'.

On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel will share some of Alan Menken's score from 'Beauty and the Beast'.

On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel shares music from John Williams' dark, often overlooked score, for the 1991 conspiracy-thriller, 'JFK'.

When it comes to Memorial Day, many things come to mind -- small town parades, flags, picnics, and observances at war memorials. With so many war movie music scores to choose from for Memorial Day, Lynne Warfel looks at 'Saving Private Ryan' in honor of her father.

This week on Flicks in Five, we'll hear some of Aaron Copland's Oscar-nominated score from the 1940 film version of 'Our Town'.

As 'Alien: Covenant' opens in movie theaters, Garrett Tiedemann looks back on four decades of scores for films in this terrifying science fiction franchise.

It's nearly time for Mother's Day! This week on Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel looks at great cinematic mothers in history, and shares a song made famous by an elephant named Mrs. Jumbo.

On this week's Flicks in Five, we'll hear some of James Newton Howard's score from Hidalgo.

On this week's Flicks in Five, we'll celebrate the career of Danny Kaye, and hear a song from one of his most beloved roles as Hans Christian Andersen: 'Inchworm'.

On paper, 'Paint Your Wagon' should have been a rousing success, but big budgets and changing public tastes created different results. Nevertheless, the film features great songs, including 'I Talk to the Trees'. On this week's Flicks in Five, we'll hear Bryn Terfel's interpretation of the song.

This week on Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel celebrates the artistry of two performers who were great song-and-dance stars who could also pull off dramatic roles with great credibility -- Fred Astaire and Judy Garland.

Garrett Tiedemann talks with Fil Eisler, the composer behind the hit TV series 'Empire' and the movie 'CHiPs.'

On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel looks at the career of Robert Preston, and shares some of Henry Mancini's music from 'Victor/Victoria'.

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.

'Connection Lost: The Tinder Opera' is an 11-minute video dramatizing a young man's quest for love via the popular dating app. It marks an effort to adapt a 400-year-old art form to modern media.

Alfred Hitchcock arrived in Hollywood in the 1930s, and by the late 1950s, his nine-stroke pencil caricature had become internationally famous. In 1960, Hitch released of one of his best known films, 'Psycho'. On this week's Flicks in Five, Lynne Warfel will share some of Bernard Herrmann's unforgettable music from that soundtrack.