Music for Murder

In this course, we view Music for Murder: Hitchcock, Herrmann, and the Scores That Changed Hollywood, a ground-breaking new documentary exploring the legendary collaboration between Alfred Hitchcock and composer Bernard Herrmann, which created some of the greatest motion picture scores of all time. After the screening, author and screenwriter Paul Boorstin interviews Diana Friedberg, who produced, directed, and edited this compelling film that explores the iconic music that Bernard Herrmann composed for classic Hitchcock movies including Vertigo, Psycho, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and North by Northwest. Their discussion also highlights the extraordinary creative partnership, and turbulent personal relationship, of these two giants of cinema history—and reveals how and why their legacy still speaks so powerfully to us today.