Why I love quiet action sequences in movies
NPR critic Linda Holmes explains why action sequences that don't echo into the movie theater next door should be appreciated.
Someone asked me once whether it was my opinion as a critic that had the most zither-centric score in film history. (This really happened.) I'm certainly not qualified to speak to all films, and there may well be a zither-y score out there somewhere more important or more famous than the all-zither Anton Karas music that accompanies the 1949 film. But it is an important score in general (it led to a zither hit single!), and certainly has to hold an elevated position among zither scores, whether or not it's at the very top.
