Varese Sarabande has announced that on March 17 they will be releasing the U.S. edition of the two-disc soundtrack CD of Michael Giacchino's score to the Wachowskis' sci-fi epic JUPITER ASCENDING (Sony has just released the soundtrack in Europe).
Alexandre Desplat has won BAFTA's Film/Original Music award for his score for THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL. Desplat's Grand Budapest also won the Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media. John Williams won Best Instrumental Composition for the cue THE BOOK THIEF from the film of the same name. FROZEN won Grammys for Best Song Written for Visual Media and Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Col Ferro E Col Fuoco - Francesco De Masi - Kronos
Flash Gordon Vol. 3 - Michael Picton - Perseverance
The Interview/This Is the End - Henry Jackman - La-La Land
Jupiter Ascending - Michael Giacchino - Sony (import)
Kingsman: The Secret Service - Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson - La-La Land
Ladyhawke - Andrew Powell - La-La Land
Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano - various - Harmonia Mundi
Old Fashioned - Kazimir Boyle - Milan
Outlander - Bear McCreary - Madison Gate
Pinocchio - Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington - Disney
Sangraal La Spada Di Fuoco - Franco Campanino - Kronos
Switch - Brian Satterwhite - Phineas Atwood
IN THEATERS TODAY
An American in Hollywood - Jon Brooks
Ballet 422 - Bohuslav Martinu
Cut - Mark McDiffet
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus - Bruce Hornsby
Fifty Shades of Grey - Danny Elfman - Score CD due Feb. 17 on Republic
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem - Dikla, Shaul Beser
Hits - Zoe Keating
Kingsman: The Secret Service - Henry Jackman, Matthew Margeson - Score CD on La-La Land
The Last Five Years - Jason Robert Brown - Song CD on Ghostlight
Matt Shepard Is a Friend of Mine - Nicholas Jacobson-Larson
Old Fashioned - Kazimir Boyle - Score CD on Milan
The Rewrite - Clyde Lawrence
What We Do in the Shadows - Plan 9
White Rabbit - John Vincent McCauley
The Worst Year of My Life - Julia Meinwald
Wyrmwood - Michael Lira
COMING SOON
February 17
The Boy Next Door - Randy Edelman, Nathan Barr - Varese Sarabande
Chanel Solitaire - Jean Musy - Disques CineMusique
Fifty Shades of Grey - Danny Elfman - Republic
Film Fest Gent - Cliff Martinez - Milan
Helle - Philippe Sarde - Disques CineMusique
McFarland, USA - Antonio Pinto - Disney
February 24
Dying of the Light - Frederik Wiedmann - La-La Land
A Most Violent Year - Alex Ebert - Community Music
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn - Cliff Martinez - Milan
1941 (re-release) - John Williams - La-La Land
March 3
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Thomas Newman - Sony
March 10
Bankstas - Steve London - Phineas Atwood
Chicago Fire: Season One - Atli Orvarsson - Phineas Atwood
Chicago Fire: Season Two - Atli Orvarsson - Phineas Atwood
Reach Me - Tree Adams - Phineas Atwood
Red Army - Christophe Beck, Leo Birenberg - Milan
Regarding Susan Sontag - Laura Karpman, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum - Phineas Atwood
Shrunken Heads - Richard Band - Wizard
Wolf Hall - Debbie Wiseman - Silva (import)
March 17
Galavant - Alan Menken - Disney
Jupiter Ascending (U.S. release) - Michael Giacchino - Varese Sarabande
Virunga - Patrick Jonsson - Varese Sarabande
March 24
It Follows - Disasterpeace - Milan
April 7
Good Kill - Christophe Beck - Lakeshore
Date Unknown
Alles Ist Liebe - Annette Focks - Alhambra
Don Giovanni in Sicilia - Bruno Nicolai - Kronos
Ethan/George Grosz's Interregnum - Paul Glass - Kritzerland
The Island of Secrets - Panu Aaltio - MovieScore Media
Obsession - Bernard Herrmann - Music Box
Pollyanna - Christopher Gunning - Caldera
Transsiberian/Princesas - Alfonso Villalonga - Caldera
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
February 13 - Gerald Fried born (1928)
February 13 - Peter Gabriel born (1950)
February 13 - William Axt died (1959)
February 13 - Fred Myrow begins recording score to Soylent Green (1973)
February 14 - Werner Heymann born (1886)
February 14 - Elliot Lawrence born (1925)
February 14 - Ken Thorne begins recording his score for Superman III (1983)
February 15 - Georges Auric born (1899)
February 15 - Miklos Rozsa records his replacement score for Crest of the Wave (1954)
February 16 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for King of Kings (1961)
February 17 - Ron Goodwin born (1925)
February 17 - Alfred Newman died (1970)
February 17 - Jerry Fielding died (1980)
February 18 - Lalo Schifrin begins recording his score for Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
February 18 - Nathaniel Shilkret died (1982)
February 19 - Charles Bernstein begins recording his score for Gator (1976)
February 19 - Marvin Hamlisch begins recording his score for I Ought to Be in Pictures (1982)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
THE COLOR OF TIME - Daniel Wohl and Garth Neustadter
"It’s enough of a surprise to find that the 12 young cooks have produced a unified work, one whose stylistic variations are largely smoothed over by common D.P.s, production designer Maki Takenouchi and the lyrical scores of Daniel Wohl and Garth Neustadter."
Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter
DUMB AND DUMBER TO - Empire of the Sun
"The other potential highlight of the film was the score by glittery Australian pop band Empire of the Sun; unfortunately most of their music has been removed. Instead, get ready to hear the same grating Franz Ferdinand song three times."
Drew Taylor, The Playlist
ROSEWATER - Howard Shore
"Despite the aforementioned stylistic overkill, 'Rosewater' avoids any particularly advanced filmmaking trickery during its critical moments, which enhances the pared-down nature of Bahari's captivity. Howard Shore's ruminative score doesn't do the melodrama any favors, but the soundtrack also includes lively samples of Middle Eastern hip hop that enhance Stewart's emphasis on a new era of self-expression in a society steeped in oppression."
Eric Kohn, IndieWIRE
"As a director, Stewart makes some choices that manage to be both au courant and cornball, like representing the uprising via a series of tweets and hashtags that rise up through Tehran in an overlay of colorful text. It doesn’t help that Howard Shore’s score swells with vaguely Middle Eastern-sounding uplift in these moments of what we know are false hope; that buoyant music will return again at the close when Stewart leaves us on a note meant to leave us believing that this tyranny, too, shall pass."
Chris Willman, The Playlist
“Perhaps for the wiser, 'Rosewater' shrugs off the bigger questions about Iranian politics its first half appears to raise, falling back instead on a gestalt of the eternal, Kafkaesque regime, wherever the viewer may find it. Given Bernal's rendering of a seasoned journalist as a total naïf and the fact that the Iran-set film is in mimetic English, it all becomes uncomfortably slick -- a specific geopolitical story stretched uncomfortably to parable-size. This retreat to the middle is echoed in Howard Shore's generic, weeping score, which may as well have been licensed from a million Hollywood Middle-East-set thrillers.”
Steve Macfarlane, Slant Magazine
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, Arclight, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
February 13
ALL THAT JAZZ (Ralph Burns), LENNY (Ralph Burns) [New Beverly]
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN (Gustavo Santaolalla) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (Johnny Mandel) [Silent Movie Theater]
FOUR FRIGHTENED PEOPLE, THIS DAY AND AGE [UCLA]
THE GOONIES (Dave Grusin), PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Danny Elfman) [LACMA/AMPAS]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN [Nuart]
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (Franz Waxman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
February 14
ALL THAT JAZZ (Ralph Burns), LENNY (Ralph Burns) [New Beverly]
BLACK JACK (Bob Pegg) [Silent Movie Theater]
BLADE RUNNER (Vangelis), FIGHT CLUB (Dust Brothers) [LACMA/AMPAS]
THE BODYGUARD (Alan Silvestri) [Silent Movie Theater]
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S (Henry Mancini) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
CASABLANCA (Max Steiner) [Cinematheque: Aero]
CASABLANCA (Max Steiner)[Silent Movie Theater]
THE IRON GIANT (Michael Kamen) [New Beverly]
MAN TRAP [Silent Movie Theater]
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Paul Williams, George Aliceson Tipton) [New Beverly]
THE PLAINSMAN (George Antheil) [UCLA]
February 15
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (Keith Forsey), VISIONQUEST (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
THE 47 RONIN (Shiro Fukai) [UCLA]
GONE WITH THE WIND (Max Steiner) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
HAROLD AND MAUDE (Cat Stevens) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE IRON GIANT (Michael Kamen) [New Beverly]
February 16
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (Keith Forsey), VISIONQUEST (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
PINA [Cinematheque: Aero]
February 17
THE MAGIC BLADE, BASTARD SWORDSMAN (Chin Yung Shing, Chen-Hou Su) [New Beverly]
RIVER OF NO RETURN (Lionel Newman, Cyril J. Mockdrige) [LACMA/AMPAS]
February 18
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (Gil Melle), COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Michel Colombier) [New Beverly]
EROTICON [Silent Movie Theater]
February 19
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (Gil Melle), COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Michel Colombier) [New Beverly]
February 20
BACK TO THE FUTURE (Alan Silvestri), RETURN TO OZ (David Shire)[LACMA/AMPAS]
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Tigran Mansuryan) [Silent Movie Theater]
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH (Stephen Trask) [Nuart]
HOPE AND GLORY (Peter Martin), WHERE THE HEART IS (Peter Martin) [Cinematheque: Aero]
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Minoru Miki), THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE (Antonio Perez Olea) [New Beverly]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE (Donald Rubinstein, Jim Manzie, Pat Regan, Chaz Jankel, John Harrison) [Silent Movie Theater]
UNION PACIFIC (Sigmund Krumgold, John Leipold) [UCLA]
February 21
DELIVERANCE, THE GENERAL (Richie Buckley) [Cinematheque: Aero]
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Minoru Miki), THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE (Antonio Perez Olea) [New Beverly]
JACK THE GIANT KILLER (Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter) [New Beverly]
KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (John Neschling, Nando Carneiro, Wally Badarou) [UCLA]
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Paul Williams, George Aliceson Tipton) [New Beverly]
WITTGENSTEIN (Jan Latham-Koenig), THE DEPARTED (Howard Shore) [LACMA/AMPAS]
February 22
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (Tigran Mansuryan) [Silent Movie Theater]
JACK THE GIANT KILLER (Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter) [New Beverly]
OUR WINNING SEASON (Charles Fox), BREAKING AWAY (Patrick Williams) [New Beverly]
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