The final release in Varese Sarabande's year-long LP to CD monthly subscription series is for a score first released on Decca in the 1950s before its LP re-release in the early years of the Varese Sarabande label -- Douglas Sirk's 1954 remake of the romantic tearjerker MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, teaming Rock Hudson and an Oscar-nominated Jane Wyman, with music (adapted from themes by Beethoven, Chopin and Strauss) by five-time Oscar nominee Frank Skinner.
COMING SOON
May 27
Alice Through the Looking Glass - Danny Elfman - Disney
Confirmation - Harry Gregson-Williams - Lakeshore
Deadpool Reloaded - Tom Holkenborg - Milan
Pee-Wee's Big Holiday - Mark Mothersbaugh - Varese Sarabande
Revelation - Neal Acree - Varese Sarabande
June 3
The Angry Birds Movie - Heitor Pereira - Atlantic
The Family Fang - Carter Burwell - Lakeshore
Joe vs. the Volcano: The Big Woo Edition - Georges Delerue - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Last Days in the Desert - Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans - Lakeshore
Nighthawks - Keith Emerson - Varese Sarabande
The Shawshank Redemption - Thomas Newman - La-La Land
Spartacus: The Complete Album Masters - Alex North - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Starship Troopers: The Deluxe Edition - Basil Poledouris - Varese Sarabande CD Club
The Venture Bros. Vol. 2 - J.G. Thirlwell
Volcano: The Deluxe Edition - Alan Silvestri - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Zelly and Me - Pino Donaggio - Varese Sarabande CD Club
June 10
Darling - Giona Ostinelli - Phineas Atwood
Warcraft - Ramin Djawadi - Backlot
June 17
Genius - Adam Cork - Milan
L'Outsider - Philippe Rombi - Music Box
X-Men: Apocalypse - John Ottman - Sony
June 24
Free State of Jones - Nicholas Britell - Sony
Independence Day: Resurgence - Harald Kloser - Sony
The Neon Demon - Cliff Martinez - Milan
The Nice Guys - John Ottman, David Buckley - Lakeshore
July 1
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate - Austin Wintory - Sumthing Else
The BFG - John Williams - Disney
July 8
Ghostbusters - Theodore Shapiro - Sony
The Girl in the Photographs - Nima Fakhrara - Phineas Atwood
Krisha - Brian McOmber - Phineas Atwood
Mr. Right - Aaron Zigman - Phineas Atwood
Viva - Stephen Rennicks - Phineas Atwood
Date Unknown
The Cat O'Nine Tails - Ennio Morricone - GDM
I Want to Be a Soldier - Federico Jusid - Kronos
The Legend of 1900 - Ennio Morricone - Sony (import)
Kattenoog - Joris Hermy - Kronos
The Night Manager - Victor Reyes - Silva
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
May 20 - Zbigniew Preisner born (1955)
May 20 - Lyn Murray died (1989)
May 21 - Kevin Shields born (1963)
May 21 - Fiorenzo Carpi died (1997)
May 21 - Frank Comstock died (2013)
May 22 - Roger Bellon born (1953)
May 22 - Iva Davies born (1955)
May 22 - John Sponsler born (1965)
May 23 - Michel Colombier born (1939)
May 23 - William Stromberg born (1964)
May 23 - Tom Tykwer born (1965)
May 23 - Jimmy McHugh died (1969)
May 23 - George Bruns died (1983)
May 23 - Recording sessions begin on
Patrick Doyle’s score for
Dead Again (1991)
May 23 - Kenyon Emrys-Roberts died (1998)
May 23 - Recording sessions begin for John Ottman's score for The Invasion (2007)
May 24 - Sadao Bekku born (1922)
May 24 - Bob Dylan born (1941)
May 24 - Pierre van Dormael born (1952)
May 24 - David Ferguson born (1953)
May 24 -
Jerry Fielding begins recording his score for
Shirts/Skins (1973)
May 24 - Duke Ellington died (1974)
May 25 - Pierre Bachelet born (1944)
May 25 - Alex North begins recording his score for Decision for Chemistry (1953)
May 25 - Rick Smith born (1959)
May 25 -
Miklos Rozsa begins Los Angeles recording sessions for
Ben-Hur (1959)
May 25 - Trevor Morris born (1970)
May 25 -
Quincy Jones begins recording his score for
Killer by Night (1971)
May 25 -
Star Wars released in theaters (1977)
May 25 -
Alien released in theaters (1979)
May 26 - Bruno Nicolai born (1926)
May 26 - Miles Davis born (1926)
May 26 - William Bolcom born (1938)
May 26 - Nicola Piovani born (1946)
May 26 - David Torn born (1953)
May 26 - Howard Goodall born (1958)
May 26 -
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for
The Satan Bug (1964)
May 26 - Sonny Sharrock died (1994)
May 26 - George Greeley died (2007)
May 26 - Earle Hagen died (2008)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
COP CAR - Phil Mossman
"Director Jon Watts may be thanked for some of that. But he should also be singled out for the visuals he gets (making the most of the area's horizontal desolation with long, nearly empty landscapes) and the tension he brings to such small moments as the unlocking of a car door. (It helps, too, that the images are married to an inventive soundtrack, which alternates tense silence with Phil Mossman's deliberately jarring score.)"
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
THE END OF THE TOUR - Danny Elfman
"I often find the cloyingly whimsical scores of Danny Elfman for Tim Burton to be maddening. But as he’s shown with Gus Van Sant and other indie filmmakers, when utilizing some completely different musical muscles, he can be wonderfully effective. The way his gauzy score taps into some of the introspection and inherent melancholy behind both men is simply ace and hits some sweet spots."
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlis
"For a movie that’s almost entirely driven by talk, this has a graceful fluidity thanks to Jakob Ihre’s elegant widescreen cinematography and Darrin Navarro’s editing, moving the action smoothly from place to place with unerring rhythm. And Danny Elfman’s gentle score serves to delicately coax out the story’s underlying sorrow. Lively song selections also punctuate the film, including a raucous Alanis Morissette shout-out, prompted by Wallace’s fandom, but tellingly catching him in a moment of brooding introspection."
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter
JENNY'S WEDDING - Brian Byrne
"It will come as little surprise to Heigl’s fans and haters alike that she socks over those monologues with righteous fury, and it helps that we’ve seen enough of Jenny by that point to understand that she’s a considerate, self-sacrificing individual whose natural inclination is to please those around her. Unfortunately, 'Jenny’s Wedding' contains rather too much blatant speechifying all around, with nearly every major declaration rendered even more heavy-handed by an unnecessary burst of musical punctuation (courtesy of either Brian Byrne’s score or the equally hyperactive soundtrack). These scenes also serve to bring about the sort of sudden, I-love-my-gay-daughter epiphanies that might have felt more moving -- and truer to life -- had they been arrived at more gradually."
Justin Chang, Variety
"Too bad so much else here feels cribbed from countless other movies and TV shows, as when Rose overhears, then confronts, friends gossiping about Jenny at the grocery store. Even more detrimental are some bafflingly awful directorial choices by Donoghue, who, for example, is not above ending a scene in which Jenny tells her mother that her days in the closet are over with a shot of our heroine marching off defiantly as Mary Lambert’s 'She Keeps Me Warm' blares on the soundtrack (its chorus: 'I can’t change, even if I tried, even if I wanted to…'). Elsewhere, Brian Byrne’s invasive score swerves back and forth between perky and tear-jerky."
Jon Frosch, Hollywood Reporter
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.
May 20
BOYZ N THE HOOD (Stanley Clarke) [Nuart]
THE GODFATHER (Nino Rota), THE GODFATHER PART II (Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SORCERER (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
VENOM (Michael Kamen) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 21
COVER GIRL (Jerome Kern, Morris Stoloff, Carmen Dragon) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
KILLER JOE (Tyler Bates) [New Beverly]
SORCERER (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
WHO'S MINDING THE MINT? (Lalo Schifrin) [New Beverly]
WILD AND WOOLLY [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
May 22
THE BELOVED ROGUE [Cinemathque: Egyptian]
FORBIDDEN PLANET (Louis & Bebe Barron) [Silent Movie Theater]
SORCERER (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
WHO'S MINDING THE MINT? (Lalo Schifrin) [New Beverly]
May 23
CHILDREN OF MEN (John Tavener) [Arclight Santa Monica]
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (Danny Elfman) [Arclight Hollywood]
SORCERER (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
May 24
AMUCK (Teo Usuelli), THE BLOOD SPATTERED BRIDE (Antonio Perez Olea) [New Beverly]
CHINATOWN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
FROM HERE TO ETERNITY (George Duning, Morris Stoloff) [LACMA]
TOUCHEZ PAS AU GRIBISI (Jean Wiener) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 25
BIGGER THAN LIFE (David Raksin) [Silent Movie Theater]
CASABLANCA (Max Steiner) [Arclight Culver City]
E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL (John Wiliams) [Arclight Hollywood]
EYES OF FIRE (Brad Fiedel) [Silent Movie Theater]
MACHETE (Chingon), HELL RIDE (Daniele Luppi) [New Beverly]
May 26
KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (Ernest Irving), THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (Georges Auric) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MACHETE (Chingon), HELL RIDE (Daniele Luppi) [New Beverly]
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Werner R. Heymann), IN NAME ONLY (Roy Webb) [UCLA]
May 27
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (Michael Kamen) [Nuart]
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Silent Movie Theater]
BUG (Brian Tyler), KILLER JOE (Tyler Bates) [New Beverly]
THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (Christopher Komeda), SCREAM OF FEAR (Clifton Parker), CIRCUS OF HORRORS (Franz Reizenstein) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Bernard Herrmann), TO CATCH A THIEF (Lyn Murray) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THIRTEEN (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
A TOUCH OF ZEN (Tai Kong Ng, Ta Chiang Wu) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 28
THE AFRICAN LION (Paul Smith) [New Beverly]
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Silent Movie Theater]
BUG (Brian Tyler), KILLER JOE (Tyler Bates) [New Beverly]
THE HUNTED (Brian Tyler) [New Beverly]
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (John Williams), INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (John Wiliams), INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (John Williams) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
REAR WINDOW (Franz Waxman), PSYCHO (Bernard Herrmann) [Cinematheque: Aero]
TEEN WITCH (Richard Elliot) [Silent Movie Theater]
A TOUCH OF ZEN (Tai Kong Ng, Ta Chiang Wu) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 29
THE AFRICAN LION (Paul Smith) [New Beverly]
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Silent Movie Theater]
DIAL M FOR MURDER (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE GREEN SLIME (Toshiaka Tsushima, Charles Fox) [Silent Movie Theater]
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Maurice Jarre) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
TROPICAL HEAT WAVE (Stanley Wilson), PANAMA SAL (Gerald Roberts) [New Beverly]
A TOUCH OF ZEN (Tai Kong Ng, Ta Chiang Wu) [Silent Movie Theater]
