Cinema Sounds & Secrets

Inspiration for today's mini-sode is one of the most iconic, legendary goddesses of film, stage, and cabaret who ever lived. The Blue Angel, The Scarlett Empress, Lola Lola, and The Blonde Venus - in other words…the woman who graces our logo! The legendary Marlena Deitrich.  

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets tribute! This tribute is for Julian Sands: He made his screen debut in an episode of BBC's anthology series 'Play for Today'. A year later, he had his cinematic debut in the indie comedy 'Privates on Parade'. In 1984, Sands landed his breakthrough role of Gerald in the television miniseries 'The Sun Also Rises'. To learn more about this episode, check out...

Robbie Coltrane once said, "I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made." One of his first memorable roles in a film was in Nuns on the Run in 1990. Eventually, he would land a supporting role in the James Bond franchise that featured Pierce Brosnan as Agent 007. He appeared in both Goldeneye (1995) and The World Is Not Enough (1999). His biggest break yet came when he was cast...

The More the Merrier (1943) & Annie Hall (1977) "You make me want to be a better man." Melvin Udall Two classic romantic comedy-dramas from two great directors thirty years apart, both get to the heart of the bumpy road to love; one taking place in  Washington D.C. in WW II where a person would find it hard to find a place to rest his head – let alone the perfect mate, the other happens in the "I...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds and Secrets tribute episode! Today's tribute is for Olivia de Haviland: From Gone with the Wind to The Dark Mirror, The Heiress , The Strawberry Blonde, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, The Snake Pit, Robin Hood 1938 , Captain Blood, Olivia de Haviland was one of the greats in the golden age of Hollywood through into the 21st Century! She appeared in 49 feature films and...

Next week, CSS is thrilled to release our first "Saturday Matinee with Friends" episode featuring the brilliant Brian Cox! His memoir "Putting the Rabbit in the Hat" proves he is equally adept at writing stunning, sharp-edged sentences that are as riveting as his memorable film performances – such as playing the first incarnation of Hannibal Lecter in Michael Mann's Manhunter to his chilling portr...

Beverly Hills Cop (1984) &  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) One of the great actor-directors in cinema, Sidney Portier, was already a huge star in 1967 – but today's film is one of 3 truly terrific films from his career that year –  the mind boggles. The movie couches racism in an upscale comedy drama using familiar conceits, but there's a truth right under the charm and tropes. Our other film...

 Brief Encounter (1945), The Days of Wine and Roses (1962), Sideways (2004) Visiting love 3 ways: a London suburb just after the end of WWII where star-crossed, married lovers experience falling in love, then see love unravel with the perfect young marrieds into a life of lost weekends in the hubbub of 1960's San Francisco and to taking a journey with one curmudgeonly oenophile as he drags his one...

Encore! We're revisiting the FIRST episode of Cinema Sounds & Secrets! Westside Story (1962) and Superman (1978) Our first film was a groundbreaking musical based on a smash Broadway show, and the other a movie from a very different planet – so what do they have in common?  Both films are the best of their genre – the film musical and comic book superhero and both films brim with star power. To le...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! Today's tribute is for Glenda Jackson: She won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice, for the romance films Women in Love (1970) and A Touch of Class (1973). She also won the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971). English actress and politician, she was one of the few performers to achieve the A...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! Today's tribute is for Raquel Welch: Raquel Welch appeared in over 30 films and 50 television series before her death. She began her career as a struggling single mother, rose to fame, became one of the prevailing images of the Sexual Revolution, and built a career from dedication and brilliance. Most important to Raquel Welch is her sens...

Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. This week, a tribute to Humphrey Bogart. Born in New York City on December 25, 1899, Bogart would have his breakout Hollywood hit in 1936 with The Petrified Forest, in which he reprised his role as gangster Duke Mantee from the broadway success from only two years prior. Bogart embodied the most iconic...

Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. This week, a tribute to Chadwick Boseman. Raised in Anderson, South Carolina, Boseman graduated from Howard University after studying directing. His breakthrough role was   Jackie Robinson in the 2013 film, 42. He also starred in Draft Day (2014) and Get on Up (2014). He appeared in the highest grossing...

Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. Today, we're going back to Episode 8: "The Most Perfect Leading Men".   North By Northwest (1959) and Dr. No (1962) Two of the greatest thrilling film enterprises;  Films by Alfred Hitchcock and the James Bond film franchise are still alive and well because we love a good thrill and we love James Bond!...

Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. This week, a tribute to Angela Lansbury. At the age of 86, she's an inadvertent role model for how to live one's later years with absolute imagination and style. To learn more about this episode and others, visit the  Official Cinema Sounds & Secrets website ! Also visit our Instagram, @cinemasoundspod.

Encore! Encore! - This month we're revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the last year. First on the roster: "The Best of the West" Redford and Newman, nowdays those names go together like Damon and Affleck, but there was a time, not so long ago when the first real Bromance team almost didn't happen… and did you know one of the iconic American Westerns was directed by an Italian auteur? Ge...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! Today's tribute is for Stephen Sondheim: This legendary composer is known for his scores on West Side Story (1957 on Broadway) (1961) & (2021), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Into The Woods (1987) on Broadway and the film adaptation in 2014, and Dick Tracy (1990). Throughout his career composing for Broadway, he co...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds and Secrets tribute episode! This tribute is for Roger Michelle: "Your job as a director is to serve the story. I don't think it's the job of a director in any medium to wave at the audience and say, hey, don't forget about me, I did an important thing here as well! You should make the play shine and make the actors shine. You should be invisible." – Roger Michell...

Today we're spending time with manly men.  Take to the skies with us through the lens of William Wyler and his trio of war scarred vets in post-war America in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946); then keep in the air with the incredibly devoted and slightly mad Fly Boys of The Right Stuff  (1983) as they learned to slip the silvery bonds of earth and head for the stars. To learn more about this epi...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! This tribute is for Kirk Douglas: During the 50s and 60s, he became a huge box-office hit. In 1951, he starred in director Billy Wilder's first venture into writing and producing, Ace in the Hole. In Lust for Life, Douglas took on the role of real life artist Vincent van Gogh, earning his third Oscar nomination and winning the Golden Glob...

Welcome to another Cinema Sounds & Secrets Tribute episode! This tribute is for Brian Dehenny: One of his most famous roles was Death of a Salesman on both the stage and screen. Dennehy was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and won a Golden Globe for his acclaimed role in Death of a Salesman. In First Blood, Dennehy's breakout role, he played sheriff Will Teasle opposite the great Sylvester Stallone...

Traipsing through the groovy streets of the sex-a-licious '60's in London with Michael Caine who truly will make you wonder what's it all about...but that ride in the desert with O'Toole in Lean's magnificent landscape will make us all wish we could have been with Lawrence in the desert. To find out more about this and past episodes' movies, including trivia and other fun facts, visit  our officia...

Welcome to another tribute minsode! This tribute is for Sean Connery: He began his journey as Bond in 1962 in the film Dr. No , going on to star in four other Bond films from the same production company, Eon Productions, including From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964), Thunderball (1965), and You Only Live Twice (1967). To find out more about this and past tributes, including trivia and...

Cinema Sounds and Secrets turns one! This first year of Cinema Sounds and Secrets has been brought to you by Superman, ET, Butch and Sundance, Steve McQueen, Blake Edwards, Michael Corleone, Hitchcock, Waldo Salt, Saturday Night Fever, Bette Davis, Walter Hill, Stagecoach, Young Frankenstein and more! We have loved sharing our favorite movies with you over the past year, and we are so excited for...

Welcome to another tribute minisode! This tribute is for Cindy Williams:  Her portrayal of Laurie in the 1973 George Lucas film "American Graffiti" earned a nomination for Best Supporting Actress from the British Academy Film Awards. The next year, she was in the Francis Ford Coppola film "The Conversation. Both American Graffiti " and " The Conversation " garnered best picture nominations at the...