FILM SCORE FRIDAY 7/18/03
By Scott Bettencourt
This year's Emmy nominations have just been announced. Here are the
music categories:
MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A MINISERIES, MOVIE, OR A SPECIAL (DRAMATIC
UNDERSCORE)
Eloise At The Plaza - Bruce Broughton
Hitler: The Rise Of Evil - Normand Corbeil
The Lost World - Part 2 - Rob Lane
Martin And Lewis - Ernest Troost
Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone - John Altman
MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (DRAMATIC UNDERSCORE)
The Agency - The Great Game - Jon Ehrlich, Jason Derlatka
Enterprise - The Expanse - Dennis McCarthy
JAG - Need To Know - Steve Bramson
Odyssey 5 - Pilot - Laura Karpman
24 - 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM - Sean Callery
MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
Boomtown - Philip Giffin
Everwood - Blake Neely
Miracles - Joseph S. Williams, W.G. Snuffy Walden
Monk - Jeff Beal
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! - Gary Stockdale
MUSIC AND LYRICS
The Concert For World Children's Day - "Aren't They All Our Children"
- Music by David Foster, Lyrics by Linda Thompson
The Fairly OddParents - Love Struck - "What Girls Love" - Music by Guy
Moon, Lyrics by Butch Hartman, Steve Marmel, Scott Fellows
The Fairly OddParents - Love Struck - "It's Great To Be A Guy" - Music
by Guy Moon, Lyrics by Butch Hartman, Steve Marmel
It's A Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie - "Everyone Matters" - Written
by Desmond Child, Davitt Sigerson
The Simpsons - Dude, Where's My Ranch - "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders"
- Music by Alf Clausen, Lyrics by Ian Maxtone-Graham, Ken Keeler
MUSIC DIRECTION
75th Annual Academy Awards - Bill Conti
Cher - The Farewell Tour - Paul Mirkovich
Christmas In Washington - Ian Fraser
Meredith Willson's The Music Man - Michael Kosarin
At this weekend's San Diego
Comic Con, look for the gang from Film Score Monthly (at least, Lukas,
Jeff, and Joe Sikoryak) at the CFQ Media booth (booth #3820, to be exact),
selling our CDs -- regular prices, but three discs for $50.
This August, Perseverance
Records will follow up their CD to John Gale's score for Dr. Phibes
Rises Again with Basil Kirchin's score for its predecessor,
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES. The disc will also feature Kirchin's
music for 1966's THE SHUTTERED ROOM, an H.P. Lovecraft adaptation
starring Gig Young, Carol Lynley and Oliver Reed.
For those who have been concerned about the lack of upcoming
releases on the Varese
Sarabande website, the label has eased all our fears by announcing
four new score CDs due this August.
On August 19th, they will release Graeme Revell's score to the
inevitable FREDDY VS. JASON, whose amusing adline is "Winner Kills
All" but might as well be "Finally!" The film's director, Ronny Yu, previously
collaborated with Revell on the oddly delightful Bride of Chucky,
which featured one of the best sex scenes between evil possessed dolls
ever captured on film.
The same day sees the score for another high profile teaming, Ben Affleck
and Jennifer Lopez in Martin Brest's GIGLI, with a score by John
Powell (replacing the originally announced Carter Burwell). The film
was briefly retitled Tough Love and had a long post-production period,
and the poster pretty much tells nothing about the film except that it
stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez.
Also on the 19th is Harry Gregson-Williams' score for PASSIONADA,
a romantic comedy starring Jason Isaacs and Sofia Milos, about a family
of Portuguese women living in New England. Gregson-Williams collaborated
with Passionada director Dan Ireland previously on the wonderful
The Whole Wide World, a little seen romantic drama which starred
Renee Zellweger as a young women who fell in love with Robert E. Howard
(Vincent D'Onofrio), the author of the Conan stories.
One week later, Varese will release Bennett Salvay's score to
JEEPERS CREEPERS 2. This sequel stars Ray Wise (unforgettable as
Leland Palmer on Twin Peaks) and a bunch of actors playing high
school students.
The Image label has released the cast album to Michel
Legrand's Tony-nominated but short lived Broadway musical AMOUR,
starring Malcolm Gets and Melissa Errico.
Two recent CDs may interest fans of British film composers.
White Line has released BRITISH FILM COMPOSERS IN CONCERT, with
Gavin Sutherland conducting the Royal Ballet Sinfonia performing concert
(that is, non-film) pieces by Clifton Parker, Leighton Lucas, Anthony Collins,
Bruce Montgomery and Eric Rogers.
The French label Tricatel has released THE DAVID WHITAKER SONGBOOK,
a compilation of recordings composed and produced by the British composer.
It includes four cues from Run Wild, Run Free and one each from
Hammerhead, Dominique, and the acclaimed recent French thriller
With a Friend Like Harry (aka Harry -- He's Here to Help),
as well as cues from the album "Music to Spy By" and songs by artists such
as Nico and Marianne Faithfull. The only drawback is that some of the cues,
especially parts of Run Wild, Run Free, have been taken from far-from-pristine
vinyl sources.
The English language version of the Portuguese film music
website ScoreTrack.Net will be online this Saturday, July 19th, and features
exclusive content such as an interview with Marco Beltrami and a review
of his soundtrack to Terminator 3. The site can be accessed at www.scoretrack.net
by just clicking on "Music for Movies" or "English Language Site".
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Johnny English - Edward Shearmur - Universal
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Anarchist Cookbook - Josh Kramon
Bad Boys II - Trevor Rabin - Song CD on Bad Boy
Dirty Pretty Things - Nathan Larson
Garage Days - David McCormack, Andrew Lancaster, Antony Partos
- Song CD on Mushroom (import)
How to Deal - David Kitay - Song CD on Capitol
Johnny English - Edward Shearmur - Score CD on Universal
COMING SOON
July 22
Pirates of the Caribbean - Klaus Badelt - Disney
Seabiscuit - Randy Newman - Decca/UMG
Spy Kids 3D: Game Over - Robert Rodriguez - Milan
July 29
Le Divorce - Richard Robbins - Grandstand
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - Trevor Jones - Varese
Sarabande (mail order only)
Varese Sarabande 25th Anniversary Celebration vol. 2 - various
- Varese Sarabande (mail order only)
August 19
Freddy vs. Jason - Graeme Revell - Varese Sarabande
Gigli - John Powell - Varese Sarabande
Passionada - Harry Gregson-Williams - Varese Sarabande
August 26
Jeepers Creepers 2 - Bennett Salvay - Varese Sarabande
Date Unknown
The Abominable Dr. Phibes/The Shuttered Room -Basil Kirchin
- Perseverance
All This and Heaven Too/A Stolen Life - Max Steiner - Marco
Polo
Amerika - Basil Poledouris - Prometheus
Battle Cry - Max Steiner - Screen Archives/BYU
Creepshow (& bonus cues) - John Harrison - La-La Land
The Hellstrom Chronicle - Lalo Schifrin - Aleph
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Denny Zeitlin - Perseverance
Mighty Joe Young, etc. - Roy Webb, et al - Monstrous Movie Music
Night and the City - Franz Waxman/Benjamin Frankel - Screen
Archives
Red River - Dimitri Tiomkin - Marco Polo
A Summer Place - Max Steiner - Screen Archives/BYU
This Island Earth, etc. - Herman Stein, et al - Monstrous Movie
Music
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
July 20 - Gail Kubik died (1984)
July 23 - Leith Stevens died (1970)
July 23 - Hans J. Salter died (1994)
July 24 - High Noon released (1952)
July 24 - Leo Shuken died (1976)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN - Trevor Jones
"Trevor Jones' score rumbles with ominous vigor behind much of the action."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
NORTHFORK - Stuart Matthewman
"The wide, austere countryside, beautifully shot in washed-out CinemaScope
(by M. David Mullen, who also worked with the Polishes on their previous
features), is as still and silent as an old photograph, and the score (by
Stuart Matthewman, another Polish brothers regular) is like an eerie electronic
echo of Aaron Copland."
A.O. Scott, New York Times
"Complementing the film's shifting moods is Stuart Matthewman's score;
alternately and sometimes simultaneously witty and nostalgic, it incorporates
several vintage country and western songs."
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: THE CURSE OF THE BLACK PEARL - Klaus Badelt
"There comes a moment quite early in "Pirates of the Caribbean: The
Curse of the Black Pearl" when the score swells more than an agitated sea.
A handsome, humble blacksmith by the name of Will Turner has just presented
a sword to the governor of Port Royal, a beautiful perch above a Caribbean
coast. Gov. Swann (Jonathan Pryce) plans to give the blade to the suitor
of his daughter, the soon-to-be commodore Norrington. While the governor
admires the craftsmanship, his lovely daughter, Elizabeth (Keira Knightley),
comes down the staircase. Turner (Orlando Bloom), watches her descend.
Cue the sentimental music. Just as the thought begins to dawn that the
orchestration is nudging a bit too hard, the score (helmed by Hans Zimmer
[sic]) switches to something even more bombastic. And the scene cuts to
a too-proud pirate coming into port on a steadily listing boat. The master
of this miserable, downright sinking vessel is Captain Jack Sparrow, played
by Johnny Depp."
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
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