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David Shire
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Biography
David Lee Shire (born July 3, 1937) is an American songwriter and composer. He has scored Broadway musicals such as Baby (1983) and Big (1996) and films such as The Conversation (1974), Saturday Night Fever (1977), and Zodiac (2007). He was married to Talia Shire from 1970 - 1980 and has been married to Didi Conn since 1984.
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Zodiac
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The Conversation
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
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Short Circuit
Original Music Composer
Saturday Night Fever
Original Music Composer
All the President's Men
Original Music Composer
Farewell, My Lovely
Original Music Composer
Return to Oz
Original Music Composer
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Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Art of Listening
From the whisper of a surveillance tape to the roar of a wartime beach, these eight films prove that sound is not just heard, it is felt. A chain of masterpiece...
7 films
The Mind's Eye: Crime Films of Obsession and Interiority
From a detective's haunted pursuit to a killer's fractured psyche, this chain traces cinema's most intimate crime stories, where the real action happens inside...
8 films
Criminal Alliances
A chain tracing the anti-hero ensemble film from its war-movie origins through heist, western, and genre mutations to the modern comic-book iteration, examining...
8 films
Love in the Time of Espionage
From Berlin to Buenos Aires, a journey through films where romance and espionage entwine, revealing the human cost of secrets.
7 films
The Architecture of Obsession: Cinema of the Fixated Mind
Eight films in which a character's consuming fixation drives the narrative, examined through the directorial techniques that externalise interiority: subjective...
8 films
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