Picture This Playlist 133: Chaplin directs and scores (Modern Times), Welles directs and Herrmann scores (Citizen Kane)

By Wayne Cresser
Tonight we listen to two distinguished scores from two of the greatest films ever made. The last time the American Film Institute updated their of the 100 greatest American films of all time,  Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane still ranked number 1, and Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times number 78. [Continue Reading]

Picture This Playlist 132: The First Picture This It’s a Movie! Song of the Week Compilation

Tonight we listen to a compilation of the the first 19 entries in the It’s A Movie! Song of the Week segment, plus a bonus track. I probably hit on the idea for this opening segment of Picture This sometime last fall, and it took just about six months to compile enough tunes to create an entire show, mostly because some of themes for programs between then and now precluded doing the segment at all [ . . . ]