Tag: James Bond
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Vale John Barry (1933 – 2011)
A spy walks into view, framed by the barrel of a gun. He is underscored by a distinctively familiar tune, a few bars of strings at first, foreshadowing something big. The spy swings and fires, and the screen is filled with red as the brass band kicks in. This is, of course, the opening to the James…
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Farewell (L’Affaire Farewell)
When the USSR was officially dissolved at the end of 1991, a Cold War that had existed between the true and just United States and the Evil Communists since the end of the Second World War. For cinema fans, this gave us all sorts of brilliant films from North By Northwest, through Dr. Strangelove and all of…
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