Announcing our Basil Poledouris Video
by Lukas Kendall
We interrupt our normal FSD programming to bring you this announcement
of a new video undertaking produced by Vineyard Haven Video (the new video
productions arm of Film Score Monthly). This was advertised in the
most recent Film Score Monthly, and it's finally back from manufacturing.
In other words, order your copy now!
Basil Poledouris: His Life and Music is a 50-minute video interview/profile
of the composer, shot at his house, studio, and on his boat. It is the
pilot for what will hopefully be a series of such productions, each on
another musician. It has been produced by Michael Rosendale and frequent
soundtrack album producer Nick Redman.
To many fans, a film composer is this disembodied name on a CD, or maybe
words in an interview. We want to bring the experience of meeting and hanging
out with an A-list composer like Basil Poledouris to fans everywhere. It's
a very personal video, a portrait of an artist and his lifestyle, with
thoughts on his work. Major sections cover Starship Troopers, Lonesome
Dove, Conan the Barbarian, the Olympic piece Basil wrote, his background
and family, and his feelings towards sailing and the sea. Basil's wife
Bobbie is featured heavily, as is his singer/songwriter Zoe, who appears
in Starship Troopers.
As fans may know, video production of any kind is a financially exorbitant
undertaking. We're sticking our necks out on this video as the "pilot"
in hopefully a series of profiles on various composers. We've designed
it not for broadcast or the general public but for the fans who would actually
care about this man and his work. To keep the price from escalating, there
are no film clips, but we have included a wide variety of archival photographs--everything
from Basil and Bobbie when they were at USC in the 1960s, to photos of
Basil with his many directors.
Basil has been very generous with his time and also provided us with
piano renditions of his best known themes, with which we've scored the
program. We're really proud of the video and think fans will enjoy it--it's
an intimate and engrossing look at a well known film music persona. I mean,
we've got our subject steering a 44-foot boat talking about a dream he
had involving Paul Verhoeven showing up at his studio with chocolate cake.
We think is a rare thing for professionally shot and edited film music
documentation.
Ordering Info
Basil Poledouris: His Life and Music is available on NTSC (U.S. format)
VHS for two hundred bucks. Just kidding! It's $24.95, and a PAL (European
format) VHS version is also available, for $29.95.
Sorry, no laserdisc--at least not yet!
Shipping is $3.00 U.S./Canada (first class) and $5.00 (rest of world).
Please find at the end of this column an ordering form which includes
shipping costs if you want to print it out and mail or fax it back:
VISA/MasterCard orders accepted! Otherwise, send U.S. funds check or
money order.
If you're really impatient, and I hope you are, send your credit card
order (name, address, card info, ex. date, what format you want) via E-mail:
Order@filmscoremonthly.com.
Keep in mind we do not have an encryption program at the moment, but we
will be getting one in the first weeks of 1998. Until then, we are processing
our charges through Screen Archives Entertainment, our overseas distributor
for this project. (Overseas Dealers: contact SAE
for wholesale copies; in the U.S, write FSM
for wholesale copies.)
Thanks for Listening!
If you order now we can guarantee a tape in the mail by the new year.
We hope to have some video clips up in a couple of weeks, and copies of
the show will be available from the usual soundtrack specialty dealers,
if you prefer to consolidate your orders. We just want to get this thing
out there to the people who will care, and then we want to make more videos.
Speaking of which, tell us who you want to see! We'd love to take you
on a tour of Danny Elfman's horror memorabilia, on a flight in Alan Silvestri's
small plane, and to Hans Zimmer's high-tech studio. It all depends on how
well we can do with this Basil project, and to that end, thank you for
your support.
Okay, enough blabbering. Webmasters from other sites, contact me if
you're interested in promotional materials. Thanks so much for your attention
and we'll resume our normal Film Score Daily entertainment tomorrow. Please
do send whatever questions and comments you have:
Lukas Kendall (Lukas@filmscoremonthly.com)
Executive Producer, Vineyard Haven Video
Yes! Send me Basil Poledouris:
His Life and Music:
______ I'm in the U.S. or Canada and want a copy of the video in
NTSC (i.e. regular U.S.) format = $27.95
______ I'm overseas and want a copy of the video in NTSC format
= $29.95
______ I'm overseas and want a copy of the video in PAL format =
$34.95
Mail to: Film Score Monthly, 5455 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1500, Los
Angeles CA 90036-4201.
Fax to: 213-937-9277
VISA/MasterCard #:_________________________________
Ex date:_____/_____
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