Intrada has announced their latest two releases, both featuring the original score tracks of two 1960s films by one of the most popular film composers of all time.

The 1963 romantic comedy thriller CHARADE is that rarity -- a Hitchcock imitation that is worthy of the Master himself. One of director Stanley Donen's best films, he directed a stellar cast including Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Coburn, George Kennedy and Walter Matthau, doing justice to the witty script co-written by the great Peter Stone (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three). The tense, romantic score was composed by the most famous film composer of the era, Henry Mancini, but as was the composer's preference, the soundtrack LP was actually a re-recording dominated by source cues. The Intrada Charade, the first in their "Universal 100th Anniversary" series, presents the original score tracks for the first time, over an hour of classic Mancini music.

Their other new release is another Mancini classic from the early '60s -- Howard Hawks' 1962 Africa-set adventure HATARI!, starring John Wayne, which featured one of the composer's most famous themes, "Baby Elephant Walk." As with Charade, the original soundtrack LP was a re-recording, while the Intrada CD features the first release of the original score tracks. (Both Hatari! and Charade were short-listed in the Original Score category but not nominated, with Charade's title song receiving a nomination; considering that Mancini won two Oscars for 1961 and one for 1962, he may have appreciated the break).

Kritzerland has announced their latest two releases, both focusing on thrillers.

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS was the hit suspense thriller from 1979 which featured one of the most quoted lines in all of horror cinema -- "The call is coming from inside the house!" Carol Kane (an Oscar nominee four years earlier for Hester Street) played the beleaguered babysitter, and Charles Durning was the detective who tries to defend her from a child killer. Dana Kaproff (Empire of the Ants, The Golden Seal) wrote the tense orchestral score, released here for the first time.

I MARRIED A MONSTER FROM OUTER SPACE may have one of the most memorable titles in all of science-fiction cinema, but it's also a well-regarded cult classic about a woman who discovers her husband (Tom Tyron, later the author of The Other and Fedora) has been taken over by an alien. The film was produced during a Hollywood musicans' strike so the score was recorded in Europe, comprised entirely of re-recorded tracks from several of the top composers of the era, including Daniele Amfitheatrof, Aaron Copland, Hugo Friedhofer,Leith Stevens, Franz Waxman and Victor Young. This score is paired with Leith Stevens' score for the 1952 suspense thriller THE ATOMIC CITY.

Varese Sarabande will release a new edition of Bruno Coulais' score for the sentimental French drama THE CHORUS, which received Oscar nominations in 2004 for Foreign Language Feature and Original Song, adding four additional cues to the contents of the previous release.

Howlin Wolf has released the soundtrack to the 2010 horror film BEREAVEMENT, featuring Michael Biehn and John Savage. The film's score was composed by its director, Stevan Mena.

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. Vol. 3 - Benny Carter, Lyn Murray, Leonard Rosenman, Lalo Schifrin - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Alien: A Biomechanical Symphony - various - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Amazing Grace and Chuck - Elmer Bernstein - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Bereavement - Stevan Mena - Howlin Wolf
Charade - Henry Mancini - Intrada
Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith - Varese Sarbande CD Club
The Clan of the Cave Bear - Alan Silvestri - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Eye of the Needle - Miklos Rozsa - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Hatari! - Henry Mancini - Intrada Special Collection
The Karate Kid Part III - Bill Conti - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Snow White and the Huntsman - James Newton Howard - Universal

IN THEATERS TODAY

Battlefield America - Michael J. Leslie
Cellmates - Jim Lang
Crooked Arrows - Brian Ralston
For Greater Glory - James Horner
High School - The Newton Brothers
Oslo, August 31st - Ola Flottum
Piranha 3DD - Elia Cmiral - Score CD due June 19 on Lakeshore
Snow White and the Hunstman - James Newton Howard - Score CD on Universal

COMING SOON

June 5
Femme Fatales - Joe Kraemer - MovieScore Media
L'Africain - Georges Delerue - Universal France
Le Baron De Munchausen/La Flue a Six Schtroumphs - Michel Legrand - Universal France
Lola Versus - Fall on Your Sword - Lakeshore
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Hans Zimmer (17 min.), songs - Interscope
Star Trek -- The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith - La-La Land
Topaz - Maurice Jarre - Universal France
Warning Shot - Jerry Goldsmith - La-La Land
June 12
Bernie - Graham Reynolds, various - Lakeshore
Deux Heures Moins Le Quart Avant Jeus Christ - Raymond Alessandrini - Music Box
Hemingway & Gellhorn - Javier Navarrete - Varese Sarabande
Le Juge/Le Transfuge - Luis Bacalov - Music Box
Prometheus - Marc Streitenfeld - Sony
Touchback - William Ross - Varese Sarabande
June 19
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter - Henry Jackman - Sony
Brave - Patrick Doyle - Disney
The Dark Knight Rises - Hans Zimmer - Watertower
Game of Thrones: Season Two - Ramin Djawadi - Varese Sarabande
People Like Us - A.R. Rahman - Lakeshore
Piranha 3DD - Elia Cmiral - Lakeshore
July 3
The Amazing Spider-Man - James Horner - Sony
July 10
Cosmopolis - Howard Shore - Howe (U.S. release)
Ice Age: Continental Drift - Varese Sarabande
Soul of the Ultimate Nation - Howard Shore - Howe
The Wicker Tree - John Scott - Silva
Date Unknown
Charmed - J. Peter Robinson - Perseverance
Film Music Spectacular: The Best of Tadlow Music - various – Tadlow
I Married a Monster from Outer Space/The Atomic City - various/Leith Stevens - Kritzerland
Lilies of the Field - Jerry Goldsmith - Perseverance
Music from the Edge - John Corigliano - Perseverance
Notre Dame de Paris: The Music of Maurice Jarre - Maurice Jarre - Tadlow
Seeking Justice - J. Peter Robinson – Perseverance
When a Stranger Calls - Dana Kaproff - Kritzerland

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

June 1 - Werner Janssen born (1900)
June 1 - Nelson Riddle born (1921)
June 1 - Barry Adamson born (1958)
June 1 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Emissary" (1989)
June 2 - Marvin Hamlisch born (1944)
June 2 - David Dundas born (1945)
June 2 - Alex North begins recording his score to Les Miserables (1952)
June 3 - Curtis Mayfield born (1942)
June 3 - Johnny Mandel begins recording his score for The Americanization of Emily (1964)
June 4 - Irwin Bazelon born (1922)
June 4 - Oliver Nelson born (1932)
June 4 - Poltergeist released in theaters (1982)
June 5 - William Loose born (1910)
June 5 - Laurie Anderson born (1947)
June 5 - Amanda Kravat born (1966)
June 5 - Arthur B. Rubinstein begins recording his score to Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981)
June 6 - Aram Khachaturian born (1903)
June 6 - Edgar Froese born (1944)
June 6 - Herbert Stothart begins recording his score to The Yearling (1946)
June 6 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for The Red Danube (1949)
June 6 - Leigh Harline begins recording his score for The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1961)
June 6 - Michel Legrand begins recording his rejected score for The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973)
June 7 - Charles Strouse born (1928)
June 7 - Don Peake born (1940)
June 7 - David Raksin begins recording his score for A Lady without Passport (1950)
June 7 - Dave Grusin begins recording his score for The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
June 7 - Daniele Amfitheatrof died (1983)
June 7 - Billy Goldenberg records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Amazing Falsworth"(1985)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

ELENA - Philip Glass

"The unraveling mood is ably abetted by Philip Glass' Symphony No. 3 as well as samplings of insipid TV chatter."

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times

"Andrei Zvyagintsev’s brooding direction -- there is nary a wasted frame -- is complemented by Hitchcockian music by Philip Glass."

V.A. Musetto, New York Post

"The dialogue (by Zvyagintsev with Oleg Negin) is spare and functional; the fragmentary score is by Philip Glass, unless you count the portentous caw of crows outside a window to bookend the action. In the background we hear the faint, ceaseless babble of talk shows about dating and the proper way to make sausage."

Ella Taylor, NPR

"Though it unfolds patiently and methodically, Elena pulses with tremendous tension as the stakes increase -- a terrific Philip Glass score helps in that department -- and a couple of sharp, surprising turns in the final minutes catapult the film in an unexpected direction. It’s an austere Russian drama with shades of Hitchcock."

Scott Tobias, The Onion

HEMINGWAY & GELLHORN [TV] - Javier Navarrete

"At first glance, Clive Owen seems like an inspired choice to play Hemingway, but he's reduced to snarl and swagger.  Then again, virtually every choice by director Philip Kaufman proves questionable, from the deadening use of grainy footage meant to approximate old newsreels to the over-the-top score composed by Javier Navarrete."

Brian Lowry, Variety

MEN IN BLACK 3 - Danny Elfman

"For the first 20 minutes or so, nothing special is going on, and it seems that 'Men in Black 3' will be content to spin its wheels and collect its money en route through the usual overscaled action set pieces toward a superloud, planet-saving final showdown. The music sounds less like a score by Danny Elfman than like a score by Danny Elfman's smartphone app, and it carries dreadful intimations of forced fun. But even as the movie carefully fulfills its blockbuster imperatives -- with chases and explosions and elaborately contrived plot twists -- it swerves into some marvelously silly, unexpectedly witty and genuinely fresh territory. Go figure."

A.O. Scott, New York Times

MOONRISE KINGDOM - Alexandre Desplat

"The musical choices, with Randall Poster as music supervisor, and original music by Alexandre Desplat, are so inventive they become their own musical force."

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

"And while there are plenty of markers to support its 1965 setting -- the Hank Williams songs and French New Wave-inspired Alexandre Desplat score, the meticulous period costumes, other bits of décor and accessories -- it likewise feels like being transported to a faraway land."

Scott Tobias, The Onion

"'Moonrise Kingdom' has other lines that good, enough to make me wish that Anderson hadn't reverted so aggressively to form (i.e., formalism) after moving the other way in 'The Darjeeling Limited.' The movie is a showcase for cinematographer Robert Yeoman, production designer Adam Stockhausen, costume designer Kasia Walicka Maimone, and the tag-team composers Britten and Alexandre Desplat, but not so much for the actors."

David Edelstein, New York

"Despite the absurdly all-American backdrop, the film reveals a particularly French influence in its use of composer Alexandre Desplat's sprightly instrumentations and its admirably non-patronizing approach toward adolescents, which recalls the precocious protags of Louis Malle's 'Murmur of the Heart' and 'Zazie Dans le Metro."

Peter DeBruge, Variety

THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.

Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.

June 1
DESK SET (Cyril J. Mockridge), THE LONG, LONG TRAILER (Adolph Deutsch) [LACMA]
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Peer Raben), BEWARE OF A HOLY WHORE (Peer Raben) [Cinematheque: Eypgtian]
INLAND EMPIRE (David Lynch) [New Beverly]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Silent Movie Theater]
RUSHMORE (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Nuart]

June 2
CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK (Charles Previn) [UCLA]
THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (Mark Suozzo) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Peer Raben), THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KENT [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
MON ONCLE (Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans) [LACMA]
OUT OF SIGHT (David Holmes) [UCLA]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosemnan) [LACMA]
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (Carter Burwlel, Karen O.) [Cinematheque: Aero]

June 3
BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (Wojciech Kilar) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
EFFI BRIEST [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE HOURS AND TIMES [UCLA]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Silent Movie Theater]
THESE ARE THE DAMNED (James Bernard), ATTACK THE BLOCK (Steven Price) [New Beverly]

June 4
SOMEWHERE IN TIME (John Barry) [UCLA]
THESE ARE THE DAMNED (James Bernard), ATTACK THE BLOCK (Steven Price) [New Beverly]

June 5
FUNNY HA HA [Silent Movie Theater]
THE SMILING LIEUTENANT [LACMA]
WHITE DOG (Ennio Morricone) [LACMA]

June 6
SATAN’S BREW (Peer Raben), FEAR OF FEAR (Peer Raben) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE SHOWDOWN [Silent Movie Theater]

June 7
THE AMERICAN SOLDIER (Peer Raben), LOVE IS COLDER THAN DEATH (Holger Munzer, Peer Raben) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Gustavo Santaolalla) [LACMA]

June 8
CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jean-Marie Senia) [Silent Movie Theater]
DR. NO (Monty Norman), FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE (John Barry)  [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL (Bruce Kimmel -- in person!) [Nuart]
FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY [UCLA]
THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS, GODS OF THE PLAGUE (Peer Raben) [Cinematheque: Aero]
PIGS AND BATTLESHIPS (Toshiro Mayuzumi), THE PORNOGRAPHERS (Toshiro Mayuzumi) [LACMA]
PREDATOR (Alan Silvestri) [Silent Movie Theater]

June 9
CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING (Jean-Marie Senia) [Silent Movie Theater]
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES (Joji Yuasa) [LACMA]
GOLDFINGER (John Barry), THUNDERBALL (John Barry) [Cinematheque: Aero]
HAMBURGER: THE MOTION PICTURE (Peter Bernstein) [Silent Movie Theater]
HIGH AND LOW (Masaru Sato) [LACMA]
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN (Hans J. Salter) [UCLA]
LOLA (Peer Raben), VERONIKA VOSS (Peer Raben) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Elmer Bernstein) [UCLA]

June 10
IMITATION OF LIFE, LITTLE MAN, WHAT NOW? [UCLA]
YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE (John Barry), ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE (John Barry) [Cinematheque: Aero]