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| Aisle Seat 2-7: February Freeze Edition
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Andy Dursin
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2/6/2012 - 9:00 PM |
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| Now that we’re out of the January doldrums (much more tolerable here in New England this year thanks to Mother Nature taking it easy on us), a number of diverse titles are hitting Blu-Ray and DVD this month, from the arrival of more classic films on Blu-Ray to fresh manufactured-on-demand discs. Let’s kick things off this week with a quartet of titles illustrating how there’s a bit of something for everyone this month. |
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| Film Score Friday 2/3/12
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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2/2/2012 - 9:00 PM |
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Kritzerland has announced two new upcoming releases, which feature four scores for three films by three composers on two discs.
THE MOLLY MAGUIRES was a lavish, downbeat 1970 drama from director Martin Ritt about Pennsylviania coal miners in the 1870s, starring Sean Connery, Richard Harris and Samantha Eggar. It was Oscar-nominated for its Art Direction but the film, with its uncommercial subject matter and ambivalent lead characters, was a box-office flop. Though the film is underrated and still little-seen, one element that did survive is Henry Mancini's score, one of his finest. The score was originally released on LP by Paramount, and decades later the LP tracks were released on CD by Bay Cities. The Kritzerland Molly Maguires, limited to 1500 units, features the complete Mancini score plus alternates, and as an unexpected bonus it also includes the earlier, rejected score by Charles Strouse (Bonnie and Clyde, Bye Bye Birdie, Annie).
The other new Kritzerland CD pairs two previously unreleaed scores by B-movie great Albert Glasser, for two films which today are probably most widely seen as Mystery Science Theater 3000 episodes. INVASION USA was a Cold War drama from 1952 about a Russian takeover of the U.S. as seen from the point-of-view of a group of bar patrons, while TORMENTED was a change-of-pace project for monster movie director Bert I. Gordon (The Amazing Colossal Man, Empire of the Ants), a supernatural suspense film starring Richard Carlson and Gordon's young daughter Susan (surprisingly, Mr. Gordon is still with us, while Susan passed on last December at the age of 62). This CD is limited to 1000 units.
Buysoundtrax has announced two new upcoming CDs presenting the scores for films made in the late 1970s.
AVALANCHE was one of the last of the 70s run of disaster movies that saw such blockbuster hits as Oscar winners The Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake and The Towering Inferno (as well as less successful films like The Swarm and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure). Avalanche was a Roger Corman production directed by TV veteran Corey Allen (whose resume encompassed everything from an acting role in Rebel Without a Cause to directing duties on the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot), starring Rock Hudson, Mia Farrow and Robert Forster. The film's score was composed by William Kraft, who is best known for his concert work but his other film credits include Ralph Bakshi's Fire and Ice. The original soundtrack LP was released by Delos, and the Buysoundtrax CD, limited to 1000 units, features the LP tracks followed by a half-dozen bonus cues.
Their other new CD is the first ever release of the soundtrack to the comedy HARDLY WORKING, one of the last director-star vehicles for the legendary Jerry Lewis, with a score by Emmy winner Morton Stevens (Hawaii Five-O, Masada, Police Woman). This CD, limited to 1000 units, features Stevens' complete score as well as source cues. |
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| Aisle Seat Super Bowl Edition
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| Posted By:
Andy Dursin
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1/31/2012 - 9:00 PM |
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| Some five years after Classic Media brought the Japanese version of the original “Godzilla” to American shores, Criterion has enhanced the property immeasurably with a sterling Blu-Ray edition of GODZILLA [GOJIRA] – and the American GODZILLA, KING OF THE MONSTERS – complete with insightful new extras. |
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Much praise has been lavished upon Bill Stromberg and John Morgan for this outstanding recording and for which they are both totally deserving of, but they are only two of the members of the team responsible for the artistic quality of the TRIBUTE recordings, the third being Anna Bonn Stromberg. I feel it’s way past time that Anna gets the recognition she deserves for these nothing short of spectacular recordings. She is an integral and equal part of the TRI(for three)BUTE team. 
