This week, as the second in their new We Hear You series, Varese Sarabande is releasing a limited edition "Enhanced Edition" CD of one their rarest and most in-demand LPs, REVENGE OF THE NINJA, with music composed, arranged and performed by Rob Walsh (Young Warriors, Necromancy).
Intrada plans to release one new CD next week.
Tomorrow, January 21st, at 1:00 p.m., composer Mark Mancina and director Jan de Bont will be at Creature Features in Burbank to discuss their collaboration on the 1996 hit TWISTER, with copies of La-La Land's new expanded CD release of the score on hand.
And the following day at 1:00 p.m., also at Creature Features, composer Rob Walsh and director Sam Firstenberg will have a Q&A moderated by Daniel Schweiger to promote Varese's new REVENGE OF THE NINJA CD.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
An Act of Love - Lolita Ritmanis, Michael McCuistion, Kristopher Carter - La-La Land
The Book of Love - Justin Timberlake, Michael Owens - Sony [CD-R]
The Film Music of William Alwyn, vol. 4 - William Alwyn - Chandos
L'Insegnante - Piero Umiliani - Digitmovies
Revenge of the Ninja - Rob Walsh - Varese Sarabande
Scuola di Ladri - Bruno Zambrini - Beat
Twister - Mark Mancina - La-La Land
2 Samurai Per 100 Geishe/Franco E Ciccio E Le Vedove Allegre - Carlo Savina, Luis Bacalov, Nico Fidenco - Digitmovies
Underworld: Blood Wars - Michael Wandmacher - Lakeshore
IN THEATERS TODAY
Alone in Berlin - Alexandre Desplat
Antarctica: Ice and Sky - Cyrille Aufort - Score CD La glace et le ciel on Cristal (import)
The Axe Murders of Villisca - Brandon Roberts
Detour - Toydrum
Doobious Sources - Christopher Lord, E. Sheperd Stevenson
My Bakery in Brooklyn - Lucio Godoy
My Father, Die - Ohad Benchetrit, Justin Small
Split - West Dylan Thordson
Staying Vertical - Music Supervisor: Thibault Deboaisne
Trespass Against Us - The Chemical Brothers
Worlds Apart - Kostas Christides
XXX: Return of Xander Cage - Brian Tyler, Robert Lydecker
COMING SOON
January 27
The Man from Snowy River and Other Themes for Piano - Bruce Rowland - Varese Sarabande
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter - Paul Haslinger - Milan
The Space Between Us - Andrew Lockington - Sony (import)
A Summer Story - Georges Delerue - Music Box
February 3
Cliffhanger - Trevor Jones - La La Land
Westworld: Season 1 - Ramin Djawadi - WaterTower
February 10
Billions - Eskmo - Milan
Planet Earth II - Hans Zimmer, Jacob Shea, Jasha Klebe - Silva
February 17
A Cure for Wellness - Benjamin Wallfisch - Milan
Fifty Shades Darker - Danny Elfman - Backlot
Gears of War 4 - Ramin Djawadi - Sumthing Else
The Great Wall - Ramin Djawadi - Milan
The Man in the High Castle: Seasons 1 & 2 - Henry Jackman, Dominic Lewis - Varese Sarabande
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege - Ben Frost, Paul Haslinger - Sumthing Else
February 24
Silence - Kim Allen Kluge, Kathryn Kluge - Rhino
March 3
John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection - John Williams - Sony
March 17
Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken - Disney
Date Unknown
Contratiempo - Fernando Velazquez - Quartet
Guy Farley Film Music Collection - Guy Farley - Caldera
Sherlock, Series 4 - David Arnold, Michael Price - Silva
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
January 20 - Emil Newman born (1911)
January 20 - Recording sessions begin for Miklos Rozsa's score for Double Indemnity (1944)
January 20 - John Beal born (1947)
January 20 - Franz Waxman begins recording his score to Untamed (1955)
January 20 - Bronislau Kaper begins recording his score to The Prodigal (1955)
January 20 - Pedro Bromfman born (1976)
January 20 - Christopher Young’s scores for the Twilight Zone episodes “A Matter of Minutes” and “A Small Talent for War” are recorded (1986)
January 20 - Basil Poledouris records his score for the Twilight Zone episode “Monsters!” (1986)
January 20 - Gerry Mulligan died (1996)
January 20 - Recording sessions begin for John Powell’s score to Agent Cody Banks (2003)
January 21 - Bernard Herrmann records his score for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode “An Unlocked Window” (1965)
January 21 - Peer Raben died (2007)
January 22 - Sid Ramin born (1919)
January 22 - J.J. Johnson born (1924)
January 22 - Al Kasha born (1937)
January 22 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
January 22 - Velton Ray Bunch born (1948)
January 22 - Keith Forsey born (1948)
January 22 - Ben Mink born (1951)
January 22 - Marc Blitzstein died (1964)
January 22 - Alexander Courage's score to the Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," is recorded (1965)
January 22 - Bruce Broughton records his score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Guardians” (1981)
January 22 - Christopher Palmer died (1995)
January 22 - Billy May died (2004)
January 23 - Walter Greene born (1910)
January 23 - Marty Paich born (1925)
January 23 - George Aliceson Tipton born (1932)
January 23 - Dick DeBenedictis born (1937)
January 23 - Casablanca released in theaters (1943)
January 23 - David Arnold born (1962)
January 23 - Riz Ortolani died (2014)
January 24 - Muir Mathieson born (1911)
January 24 - Norman Dello Joio born (1913)
January 24 - Joseph Carl Breil died (1926)
January 24 - Nico Fidenco born (1933)
January 24 - Neil Diamond born (1941)
January 24 - Bernard Herrmann records his score for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode “The Jar” (1964)
January 25 - Albert Glasser born (1916)
January 25 - Antonio Carlos Jobim born (1927)
January 25 - Benny Golson born (1929)
January 25 - Tobe Hooper born (1943)
January 25 - Hans-Erik Philip born (1943)
January 25 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Poltergeist (1982)
January 25 - Paul J. Smith died (1985)
January 25 - James Horner begins recording his score for A Far Off Place (1993)
January 25 - Gregory Smith records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Field of Fire” (1999)
January 25 - Normand Corbeil died (2013)
January 26 - Hugo Riesenfeld born (1879)
January 26 - Stephane Grappelli born (1908)
January 26 - Ken Thorne born (1924)
January 26 - Christopher L. Stone born (1952)
January 26 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
January 26 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for The Miracle (1959)
January 26 - George Bassman records his score for Ride the High Country (1962)
January 26 - Wendy Melvoin born (1964)
January 26 - Victoria Kelly born (1973)
January 26 - Gustavo Dudamel born (1981)
January 26 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Far Beyond the Stars” (1998)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
BONE TOMAHAWK - S. Craig Zahler, Jeff Herriot
"There’s an elegance to 'Bone Tomahawk' that doesn’t let up even when it veers into cult-movie territory. Zahler is a patient director, willing to let scenes unfold, with tension developing organically. He uses music sparingly; the early scenes in town are almost unnaturally quiet, with the moody, minimalist score (credited to Jeff Herriot and Zahler himself) only kicking in once the search party strikes out for the territory."
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture
"It’s in the genre twist that 'Bone Tomahawk’s' lovingly bronzed craft contributions really prove their mettle, with Benji Bakshi’s sunbaked widescreen lensing taking on a seamier sense of claustrophobia precisely when required. There’s a subtle degree of revue-style exaggeration to the pic’s timber-textured period production design and natty costumes, appropriately planting proceedings just shy of reality -- though excellent sound design could hardly be more crunchily immediate. A leanly atmospheric score, co-composed by the helmer, peaks with a hilarious parody of a regional folk dirge that shows up -- like much else in the film -- the shortcomings of Seth MacFarlane’s more innocuous, but fatally strained, Western satire 'A Million Ways to Die in the West.' Among the other virtues of his debut, Zahler has surely found the one-million-and-first."
Guy Lodge, Variety
"Design elements and photography are strong, especially considering what was likely a tight budget, but a key ingredient here is the subtle score credited to Zahler and Jeff Herriott, neither of whom has scored a feature before. Avoiding the usual widescreen grandeur, the sober music portends a noble effort that might come to naught; however repellent the enemy may be, it suggests there will be little glory in facing them."
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
GOODNIGHT MOMMY - Olga Neuwirth
"It’s the trio of chilly and chilling performances at the heart of 'Goodnight Mommy' that raises the film to a higher level of existential dread. Olga Neuwirth’s nerve-jangling score, and the film’s unsettling sound design do much to induce anxiety bordering on outright, cringing panic. (As does the twins’ collection of pet Madagascar hissing cockroaches.)"
Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle
"However, there's also subtlety and sophistication in the way that Franz and Fiala, aided by editor Michael Palm, toy with audience expectations. The complex use of sound and disquieting music is effective at manipulating the mood within a highly charged atmosphere, alternating between propulsive suspense and transfixing shock, and between images of pastoral serenity with ugliness and violence. While there are echoes of Seidl's work in the compositional formality, the sinuous, sometimes urgent movement of Gschlacht's camera (the end credits close with 'Shot on glorious 35mm') demonstrates that the filmmakers have their own visual sensibility."
David Rooney, 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.
January 20
EYES DO NOT WANT TO CLOSE AT ALL TIMES, HISTORY LESSONS [UCLA]
THE GREAT DICTATOR (Charles Chaplin, Meredith Willson) [Cinematheque: Aero]
GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Jerry Goldsmith) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [New Beverly]
LABYRINTH OF PASSION (Bernardo Bonezzi) [Silent Movie Theater]
METROPOLIS (Toshiyuki Honda) [Nuart]
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Alberto Igelsias) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE YAKUZA (Dave Grusin), ROLLING THUNDER (Barry DeVorzon) [New Beverly]
January 21
THE DEATH OF EMPEDOCLES [UCLA]
THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (Victor Young) [New Beverly]
HIGH HEELS (Ryuichi Sakamoto) [Silent Movie Theater]
LAW OF DESIRE [Silent Movie Theater]
THE NIGHT EVELYN CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE (Bruno Nicolai) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (John Williams), INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (John Williams) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SHANTY TRAMP (Frank Linales) [New Beverly]
TIE ME UP, TIE ME DOWN (Ennio Morricone) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE YAKUZA (Dave Grusin), ROLLING THUNDER (Barry DeVorzon) [New Beverly]
January 22
THE BARKER [UCLA]
THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET (Alberto Iglesias) [Silent Movie Theater]
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (Victor Young) [New Beverly]
ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
A PUBLIC AFFAIR (Joe Greene), DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND (Stu Phillips) [New Beverly]
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Richard Rodgers, Irwin Kostal) [Cinematheque: Aero]
January 23
CLASS RELATIONS [UCLA]
THE GODFATHER PART II (Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola) [Arclight Hollywood]
THE LOVE WITCH (Anna Biller) [Silent Movie Theater]
A PUBLIC AFFAIR (Joe Greene), DEAD HEAT ON A MERRY-GO-ROUND (Stu Phillips) [New Beverly]
January 24
ANOTHER DAWN (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) [LACMA]
HIGH SCHOOL CAESAR (Nicholas Carras), T-BIRD GANG (Shelly Manne) [New Beverly]
PUBLIC ENEMIES (Elliot Goldenthal) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
SCARFACE (Giorgio Moroder) [Arclight Santa Monica]
January 25
THE ANTIGONE OF SOPHOCLES [UCLA]
THE LOVE WITCH (Anna Biller) [Silent Movie Theater]
TWO WOMEN (Armando Trovajoli), BEBO'S GIRL (Carlo Rustichelli) [New Beverly]
January 26
THE LOVE WITCH (Anna Biller) [Silent Movie Theater]
MODEL SHOP (Spirit) [Cinematheque: Aero]
NAKED (Andrew Dickson) [Silent Movie Theater]
TO BE OR NOT TO BE (Werner R. Heymann), THE 39 STEPS (Louis Levy) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
TWO WOMEN (Armando Trovajoli), BEBO'S GIRL (Carlo Rustichelli) [New Beverly]
January 27
EMPIRE OF THE SUN (John Williams) [New Beverly]
THE GREAT ESCAPE (Elmer Bernstein) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE HITCHER (Mark Isham) [Silent Movie Theater]
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [New Beverly]
INTO THE INFERNO, ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Henry Kaiser, David Lindley) [Cinematheque: Aero]
January 28
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen), TIME BANDITS (John Du Prez) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
EMPIRE OF THE SUN (John Williams) [New Beverly]
THE FIGHTING FIST OF SHANGHAI JOE (Bruno Nicolai) [New Beverly]
FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS [New Beverly]
FITZCARRALDO (Popol Vuh) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH (Nora Orlandi) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
January 29
CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS (Ernst Reijseger) [Cinemathque: Aero]
FIRST SPACESHIP ON VENUS [New Beverly]
HUSBANDS AND WIVES [Silent Movie Theater]
A NIGHT AT EARL CARROLL'S [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Bernard Herrmann) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE SEARCHERS (Max Steiner), SERGEANT RUTLEDGE (Howard Jackson) [New Beverly]
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