Lawrence C. Connolly

Tag: cinema

  • AFM: What Do Audiences Want?

    AFM: What Do Audiences Want?

    It used to be said that laughter was the universal language. So what are we to make of the fact that American comedies don’t do well world wide, and that horror appears to be the only genre that consistently performs?

  • Primordial Score

    Nearly sixty years ago, a Japanese composer dragged a leather glove across the strings of a contrabass and created one of the most distinctive sounds in 20th century cinema — Godzilla’s Roar. I was six when I first heard it, sitting on the floor of my Levittown living room, watching a staticy cathode-ray television. It…