May 2016 listings for The Score

May 2016 listings for The Score

Saturdays at 10:00 a.m.

The score for Apollo 13 should have won an Oscar; hear why this month.

This month host Edmund Stone tips his hat to excellent but perhaps under-recognized film scores. We'll go along for the ride on a prison break or two, as well as explore films that depict the possible future.

5/3               Scores That Should Have Won an Oscar  Gladiator, The Cider House Rules, Braveheart, Apollo 13, Superman, Days of Heaven, The Pink Panther, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Spartacus

5/10             Prison Breaks: The Great Escape, The Shawshank Redemption, Papillon, Cool Hand Luke, Escape from New York, O Brother Where Art Thou, and Chicken Run

5/17             Imagining the Future: Terminator, Planet of the Apes, Tomorrowland, Back to the Future, Interstellar, Farenheit 451, The Fifth Element, Blade Runner, Soylent Green, and X-Men Days of Future Past

5/24             Teachers: Good Will Hunting, Dead Poet Society, A Beautiful Mind, Educating Rita, Stand and Deliver, The Pride of Miss Jean Brody, Mr. Holland;s Opus, and Harry Potter  

5/31             Island Time: Eat Pray Love, Castaway, Pearl Harbor, Escape from Alcatraz, Treasure Island, Shutter Island, Cutthroat Island, 50 First Dates, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and The Rock