12 Angry Men (Criterion Collection)12 ANGRY MEN, by Sidney Lumet, may be the most radical big screen courtroom drama in cinema history. A behind closed doors look at the American legal system as riveting as it is spare, the iconic adaptation of Reginald Roses teleplay stars Henry Fonda as the initially dissenting member of a jury of white men ready to pass judgment on a Puerto Rican teenager charged with murdering his father. What results is a saga of epic proportions that plays out in

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Released in 2001 on Metal Blade Records

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Gary McFarland has long been relegated by jazz history to footnote status

continuing his prolific arc of stellar songwriting while yielding a unique sonic soundscape for the anxious times in which we live

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Dave Olney

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The piano works by Isaac Albéniz range from indisputable masterpieces to ravishing salon music