Intrada plans to release two CDs next week.
As expected, this month's release from Varese Sarabande's LP to CD limited edition series is Gabriel Yared's score for the French erotic drama/thriller from 1982, INVITATION AU VOYAGE.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced this year's Emmy nominations, including the following music categories:
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR A SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW- Mac Quayle
AWAY AND BACK - William Ross
BESSIE - Rachel Portman
THE MISSING: Eden - Dominik Scherrer
SOFIA THE FIRST: The Curse of Princess Ivy - Kevin Kliesch
24: LIVE ANOTHER DAY: 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. - Sean Callery
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
CHEF’S TABLE: Francis Mallmann - Duncan Thum
HOUSE OF CARDS: Chapter 32 - Jeff Beal
TYRANT: Pilot - Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
MARCO POLO - Daniele Luppi
TEXAS RISING - John Debney, Bruce Broughton
TRANSPARENT - Dustin O’Halloran
TYRANT - Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
THE COMEDIANS: Celebrity Guest - “Kiss An Old Man” - Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Music by Robert Lopez
GLEE: Dreams Come True - “This Time” - Music & Lyrics by Darren Criss
HOW MURRAY SAVED CHRISTMAS - “You Gotta Believe” - Music by Walter Murphy, Lyrics by Mike Reiss
INSIDE AMY SCHUMER: Cool With It - “Girl You Don’t Need Make Up” - Music & Lyrics by Kyle Dunnigan, Music by Jim Roach,
THE OSCARS - “Moving Pictures” - Music & Lyrics by Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Robert Lopez
SONS OF ANARCHY: Papa’s Goods - “Come Join The Murder” - Music & Lyrics by Bob Thiele, Kurt Sutter, Jake Smith.
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
ELF: BUDDY’S MUSICAL CHRISTMAS - Matthew Sklar, Christopher Guardino
THE KENNEDY CENTER HONORS - Rob Berman, Rob Mathes
THE OSCARS - Stephen Oremus
PETER PAN LIVE! - David Chase
STEVIE WONDER: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE – AN ALL-STAR GRAMMY SALUTE - Greg Phillinganes
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET (LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER) - Alan Gilbert
As if director Antoine Fuqua's new boxing drama SOUTHPAW, due in theaters next week, didn't already have enough Kleenex-worthy moments, the film's end credits begin with a dedication to "our friend James Horner."
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Aftermath - John Morgan - Dragon's Domain
Attila Flagello Di Dio - Franz Di Cioccio, Franco Mussida - Beat
Babe (re-recording) - Nigel Westlake - ABC Classics (import)
Dottor Jekyll E Gentile Signora/Basta Che Non Si Sappia In Giro - Armando Trovajoli - Beat
Edipeon - Stelvio Cipriani - Digitmovies
F.B.I. Operazione Pakistan - Francesco De Masi - Beat
Game of Thrones, Season 5 - Ramin Djawadi - Watertower
Helix - Reinhold Heil - La-La Land
The House on Sorority Row - Richard Band - La-La Land
Il Medico Della Mutua/Il Prof Dott Guido Tersilli Primario Della Clinica Villa Celeste Convenzionata Con Le Mutue - Piero Piccioni - Beat
Invitation Au Voyage - Gabriel Yared - Varese Sarabande
Krull (re-release) - James Horner - La-La Land
The Long Goodbye (re-release) - John Williams - Quartet
Peccati in Famiglia - Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis - Digitmovies
IN THEATERS TODAY
Allelulia - Vincent Cahay
Ant-Man - Christophe Beck - Score CD due Aug. 7 on Hollywood
Ardor - Sebastian Escofet, Julian Gandara
Boulevard - David Wittman, Jimmy Haun
Do I Sound Gay? - John Turner
Irrational Man - no original score
Lila and Eve - Alexis & Sam
Mr. Holmes - Carter Burwell - Score CD due Aug. 28 on Lakeshore
An Open Secret - Gary Lightbody, Johnny McDaid
Safelight - Joel P. West
The Stanford Prison Experiment - Andrew Hewitt
Trainwreck - Jon Brion
COMING SOON
July 24
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell - Benoit Groulx, Benoit Charest - Varese Sarabande
Justice League: Gods and Monsters - Frederik Wiedmann - La-La Land
Le Paria - Georges Garvarentz - Music Box
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation - Joe Kraemer - La-La Land
The Music of Patrick Doyle: Solo Piano - Patrick Doyle - Varese Sarabande
Petit Dejeuner Compris/Pourquoi Pas Nous/Ballet Doux - Vladmir Cosma - Music Box
Pixels - Henry Jackman - Varese Sarabande
Self/Less - Antonio Pinto, Dudu Aram - Varese Sarabande
Southpaw - James Horner - Sony
Thibaud the Crusader/Fortune - Georges Delerue - Music Box
July 31
The Dovekeepers - Jeff Beal - Varese Sarabande
Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse - Mark McKenzie - Varese Sarabande
Fimucite 6: Universal Pictures 100th Anniversary Gala - various - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Hemlock Grove: Season Two - Nathan Barr - Varese Sarabande
I Am Big Bird: The Carol Spinney Story - Varese Sarabande
Third Person - Dario Marianelli - Varese Sarabande
12 Monkeys [TV] - Trevor Rabin, Paul Linford - Varese Sarabande
August 7
Ant-Man - Christophe Beck - Hollywood
Carny - Robbie Robertson, Alex North - Real Gone
Dark Places - BT, Gregory Tripi - Milan
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. - Daniel Pemberton - Watertower
Shaun the Sheep Movie - Ilan Eshkeri - Silva
August 14
Animals - Ian Hultquist - Phineas Atwood
Burying the Ex - Joseph LoDuca - Phineas Atwood
Dawn Patrol - Joe Kraemer - Phineas Atwood
Fantastic Four - Marco Beltrami, Philip Glass - Sony
Loitering without Intent - Carl Davis - Carl Davis Collection
Luv - Nuno Malo - Phineas Atwood
Mistress America - Dean Wareham, Britta Phillips - Milan
The Vatican Tapes - Joseph Bishara - Lakeshore
Wayward Pines - Charlie Clouser - Lakeshore
August 21
Learning to Drive - Dhani Harrison, Paul Hicks - Milan
Z for Zachariah - Heather McIntosh - Varese Sarabande
August 28
The End of the Tour - Danny Elfman - Lakeshore
Mr. Holmes - Carter Burwell - Lakeshore
September 18
Barely Lethal - Mateo Messina - Phineas Atwood
Cartel Land - H. Scott Salinas, Jackson Greenberg - Phineas Atwood
Date Unknown
Il Diavoli Della Guerra - Stelvio Cipriani - Kronos
Sette Contro Tutti - Francesco De Masi - Kronos
Trishna - Shigeru Umebayashi - Caldera
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
July 17 - Piero Umiliani born (1926)
July 17 - Wojciech Kilar born (1932)
July 17 - Peter Schickele born (1935)
July 17 - Stanley Wilson died (1970)
July 17 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Babe (1975)
July 17 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score to Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
July 18 - Barry Gray born (1908)
July 18 - James William Guercio born (1945)
July 18 - Nathan Van Cleave begins recording his score for The Lonely Man (1956)
July 18 - Abel Korzeniowski born (1972)
July 18 - David Shire records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Hell Toupee" (1985)
July 19 - Paul Dunlap born (1919)
July 19 - Tim McIntire born (1944)
July 19 - Dominic Muldowney born (1952)
July 19 - Gerald Fried's score for the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" is recorded (1967)
July 19 - Gerald Fried's score for the Star Trek episode "The Paradise Syndrome" is recorded (1968)
July 20 - Franz Waxman begins recording his score for Elephant Walk (1953)
July 20 - Gail Kubik died (1984)
July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith died (2004)
July 22 - George Dreyfus born (1928)
July 22 - Alan Menken born (1949)
July 22 - Nigel Hess born (1953)
July 22 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Warning Shot (1966)
July 22 - John Barry begins recording the orchestral score to King Kong (1976)
July 22 - Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Go to the Head of the Class" (1986)
July 23 - George Greeley born (1917)
July 23 - Bill Lee born (1928)
July 23 - L. Subramaniam born (1947)
July 23 - Recording sessions begin for Hugo Friedhofer’s score to The Blue Angel (1959)
July 23 - Leith Stevens died (1970)
July 23 - Georges Auric died (1983)
July 23 - John Addison records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Greible" (1986)
July 23 - Hans J. Salter died (1994)
July 23 - Piero Piccioni died (2004)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER - The Octopus Project
"'Fargo' may or may not be a 'normal movie' -- a coded insult if I’ve ever heard one -- but 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' definitely isn’t. Nothing I’ve written so far can quite prepare you for the hypnotic visual and auditory spell cast by this movie, with its stark cinematography by Sean Porter and the mind-altering score by the Austin band called the Octopus Project. The Zellners blend seemingly opposing currents of eccentric, character-based comedy and psychological horror film into a disorienting mixture whose precise flavor remains elusive but is never predictable."
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
"The Zellners’ story was inspired by an urban legend concerning the baffling facts about a real Japanese woman who froze to death in the North Dakota snow, but what the Zellners cling to most are the story’s inexplicable aspects. The film encourages you to view the movie through her experience, but like any good treasure hunt, we’re only provided clues and forced to make any deductions on our own. Kikuchi is magnificent and conveys a wealth of emotions through her facial expressions. The snowy compositions of cinematographer Sean Porter burrow under your skin, and the ethereal soundtrack by the Octopus Project is so effective that it was singled out for a Special Jury Prize at Sundance. In their best work yet, the Zellner brothers have pieced together a truly mystifying human puzzle."
Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle
"Some elements of 'Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter 'sync up meaningfully with 'Fargo,' like the fact that Kumiko’s credit-card scam is as plainly ill-fated as car salesman Jerry Lundegaard making an Oldsmobile Cutlass go missing from the lot. The score, by The Octopus Project, playfully reconfigures Carter Burwell’s unforgettable music, and when the Zellners try for some fish-out-of-water comedy, they similarly goof on Minnesota’s lack of worldliness, like when the sheriff tries to employ the owner of a Chinese restaurant to act as Kumiko’s translator. The Zellners are as obsessed with 'Fargo' in their own way as their heroine, but they’re smart enough to get some separation where it matters. 'Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter' is 'Fargo’'s slow, contemplative, quizzical counterpart, stripped of all but the most basic narrative elements, and focused entirely on one character’s peculiar destiny. It’s proof that reference can be a springboard to originality."
Scott Tobias, The Dissolve
"Despite a plot that naturally owes a debt to the Coen brothers, the influence of other directors stand out with greater prominence: 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' is closer in tone to Werner Herzog's dreamlike approach to rendering the Midwest in poetic terms. The combination of an eternally crestfallen lead and the black comedy of her mission have already led some to compare the movie to the oeuvre of Alexander Payne, who's listed as an executive producer along with writing partner Jim Taylor. But the ultimate sequence of events primarily reflect the filmmakers behind the camera, as they probe their character's irregular subjectivity with an eloquent focus on her irrational commitment. Aided by Sean Porter's lyrical cinematography, 'Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter' effectively takes on a fairy tale quality in its climactic scenes, while Octopus Project's trancelike score creates a haunting sense of dislocation."
Eric Kohn, IndieWIRE
"The first half of the Zellner brothers’ film is evocative and intriguing, but when Kumiko reaches the US there's a tonal shift that it struggles to recover from. Kumiko’s strained interactions with Minnesotan residents introduces an element of eccentric culture-clash comedy that jars with the elegiac atmosphere. Too shallow and incurious to succeed as a character study, the film drifts aimlessly in a manner that frustrates and finally alienates, although many viewers may find themselves entranced by Sean Porter’s admittedly lovely images, the striking score by The Octopus Project, and a scene-stealing rabbit named Bunzo."
Philip Concannon, The Skinny
"A strange and sad character portrait of a lonely dreamer on a quest, it is also like two films in one: the funny, but oppressive Japanese first half and the second, set in a wintry American wonderland that’s more whimsical for all its seeming atmospheric solemnity. The evocative ghostly score by the Octopus Project is another asset, their shimmering, textural sonic qualities brilliantly blurring the line between music and sound design. And it's visually striking too -- don’t be surprised if DP Sean Porter ('Humpday,' 'Eden') becomes a Sundance award-winning cinematographer -- the film is hauntingly beautiful, especially in the Minnesota-centered section, but it's a feat that was double the challenge in that he’s basically shooting two different films with two different crews and aesthetics."
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
"Her journey doesn’t bring Kumiko out of her shell, though: Once in America, Kumiko only gets sadder and darker, our protagonist’s general well-being in as much doubt as her mental stability. In beautiful widescreen compositions, with a nervous electronic score from the Octopus Project, the Zellner brothers immerse deeper and deeper into the oddity of their vision. There’s a hypnotic otherness to what we see on the screen, as both Tokyo and Minneapolis are rendered realistically, but at a slightly off-key tonal pitch. It’s very possible we’re seeing the world from Kumiko’s skewed perspective, and the commitment, not to mention skill, with which the Zellners execute that strategy is impressive."
Tim Grierson, Paste Magazine
"Working with their biggest budget to date and two separate crews an ocean apart, the Zellners have pulled off an exceptionally tricky logistical feat, with Tokyo scenes that feel authentically Japanese and Minnesota location shooting highlighted by d.p. Sean Porter’s rapturously wintry widescreen lensing. Original score by 'indietronica' act the Octopus Project (which also scored 'Kid-Thing') adds just the right ambient vibe."
Scott Foundas, Variety
MAN FROM RENO - Micah Dahl Anderson
"Still, some of the incessant ominousness that comes along with this process feels forced onto the material rather than a natural outgrowth of it. Foreboding music works overtime, and many a character is creepily monosyllabic to the point of disbelief."
Michael Nordine, IndieWIRE
"Boyle displays fine directorial control throughout, staging some handsome horizontal tracking shots with a stately hand, while his script (co-written with Joel Clark and Michael Lerman) makes clever use of the Japanese-English language divide. Cinematographer Richard Wong is the standout in a very strong below-the-line crew, and composer Micah Dahl Anderson uses spare piano and cello to craft a memorably ominous score."
Andrew Barker, Variety
"The wavering tension gets a significant boost from Micah Dahl Anderson's score, with its well-deployed experimental strings and other unconventional instrumentation. And even with the lapses in tone, the movie builds to a strong final section as the red herrings are eliminated and the action narrows to a classic crime-saga face-off."
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
"As a filmmaker, Collet-Serra is a wiz with pulpy, taut action scenes. There are at least three boss sequences in 'Run All Night' -- a car chase, a run around an apartment complex, and a shootout in the woods -- and the director films them all with a B-movie-on-a-studio-budget enthusiasm. Junkie XL's score, Martin Ruhe's cinematography, and Dirk Westervelt's editing all conspire to lend the film an air of nocturnal dread and paranoia. There's a downpour during part of the movie, but the streets always feel rainswept, the gloom and ghosts of Jimmy's past deeds hovering around him."
Tim Grierson, Deadspin
"While 'Run All Night' might be ten minutes too long (and the score by Junkie XL utterly forgettable), it's still an undeniably hardboiled work of crime fiction. Collet-Serra is an accomplished filmmaker, full of visual bravado to match Neeson's toughness (there are some great moments where the camera zooms through an impossible amount of space, squeezing in through chain link fences or behind doors), and his work with Neeson remains one of the more exciting collaborations in mainstream cinema. 'Run All Night' is their best film by a considerable margin, one in which big action set pieces are nicely tempered by smaller emotional beats, and where Neeson's action star role is disassembled before soaring to new heights."
Drew Taylor, The Playlist
"'Run All Night' has its flaws, to be sure -- composer Junkie XL leans a little heavily on the 'BWAH' that has quickly become a cliché in the years since 'Inception,' and the third act is overly drawn out, a situation made all the more apparent by that opening shot that forecasts the climax."
Alonso Duralde, The Wrap
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, Crest, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
July 17
THE BIRDS (Remi Gassmann, Oskar Sala, Bernard Herrmann), JAWS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
CHINATOWN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Nuart]
DJANGO UNCHAINED [New Beverly]
EASY RIDER, ZABRISKIE POINT (Pink Floyd) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MR. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (Alain Romans), THE BIG DAY (Jean Yatove) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
STREET ANGEL, LILIOM [UCLA]
July 18
THE BIRDS (Remi Gassmann, Oskar Sala, Bernard Herrmann), JAWS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
THE HAUNTING (Humphrey Searle) [New Beverly]
LET US LIVE (Karol Rathaus), THE LOCKET (Roy Webb) [Cinematheque: Aero]
LOSING GROUND (Michael Minard) [UCLA]
MON ONCLE (Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans), TRAFFIC (Edward van den Enden, Marcel Weiss) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
OLD YELLER (Oliver Wallace) [New Beverly]
THE REFLECTING SKIN [Silent Movie Theater]
July 19
DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (Malcolm Lockyer), SOME GIRLS DO (Charles Blackwell) [New Beverly]
HANGOVER SQUARE (Bernard Herrmann), THE LODGER (Hugo Friedhofer) [Cinematheque: Aero]
OLD YELLER (Oliver Wallace) [New Beverly]
PLAYTIME (Francis Lemarque), THE ILLUSIONIST (Sylvain Chomet) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WINCHESTER '73 (Joseph Gershenson) [Crest]
July 20
DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (Malcolm Lockyer), SOME GIRLS DO (Charles Blackwell) [New Beverly]
HELLBOY (Marco Beltrami) [Arclight Culver City]
LUCKY STAR, THE RIVER [UCLA]
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Javier Navarrete) [Arclight Hollywood]
July 21
MEREDITH WILLSON'S THE MUSIC MAN (Meredith Willson, Ray Heindorf) [LACMA]
ZOMBIE (Giorgio Tucci, Fabio Frizzi), BEYOND THE DOOR (Franco Micalizzi) [New Beverly]
July 22
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Howard Shore) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE (Fred Steiner), I WALK THE LINE (Johnny Cash) [New Beverly]
July 23
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (Wendy Carlos), THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE [Cinematheque: Aero]
DEAFULA (Jerry Gregorius) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE (Fred Steiner), I WALK THE LINE (Johnny Cash) [New Beverly]
SEVEN (Howard Shore), PANIC ROOM (Howard Shore) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
July 24
AMERICAN GRAFFITI, THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Cinematheque: Aero]
BRING IT ON (Christophe Beck) [Nuart]
GANJA & HESS (Sam Waymon) [UCLA]
THE HORROR OF DRACULA (James Bernard), DRACULA A.D. 1972 (Mike Vickers) [Silent Movie Theater]
SUBURBIA, THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION PART III [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE TAMI SHOW, GO-GO MANIA [New Beverly]
July 25
CAR WASH (Norman Whitfield) [Silent Movie Theater]
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Jerry Goldsmith) [Silent Movie Theater]
HANDS ON A HARDBODY (Neil Kassandoff) [New Beverly]
A HARD DAY'S NIGHT (The Beatles, George Martin), HOW I WON THE WAR (Ken Thorne) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SOUTH SEAS ADVENTURE (Alex North) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (Elmer Bernstein) [Silent Movie Theater]
SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (Miles Davis) [UCLA]
THE TAMI SHOW, GO-GO MANIA [New Beverly]
WHAT WAITS BELOW (Michel Rubini, Denny Yaeger) [New Beverly]
July 26
AU BONHEUR DES DAMES [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
BAD GIRL, SECRETS (Alfred Newman) [UCLA]
CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND (Alex Wurman) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
GIMME SHELTER [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]
WHAT WAITS BELOW (Michel Rubini, Denny Yaeger) [New Beverly]
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