Lalo Schifrin

Learn film-scoring techniques from one of the great film/television composers of our time. Lalo Schifrin shares his insights into the intimate relationship between music and drama. The book is illustrated with extended excerpts from his most iconic scores such as Mission: Impossible , Cool Hand Luke , Bullitt and many others and peppered with anecdotes from inside the Hollywood studios. Schifrin reveals the technical details of his own working approach,...

"His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang...Cool Hand Luke [is] the loner who won't -- or can't -- bend to the arbitrary rules of his captivity." -- Container.

A master martial artist is sent by British intelligence to the island fortress of a criminal warlord, whose martial arts academy also serves as a front for opium-smuggling and prostitution rings.

Rush hour : A wise-cracking cop from L.A. and a high-flying cop from Hong Kong join forces to track down a kidnapper. Rush hour 2: It's vacation time for Det. Carter and he finds himself alongside Det. Lee in Hong Kong wishing for more a little more excitement. Lee is out to track down a Triad gang lord who may be responsible for killing two men at the American Embassy in Hong Kong. Things get complicated as the pair stumble onto a counterfeiting...