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| Film Score Friday 11/6/09
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/5/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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La-La Land has just released a limited edition (1200 units) CD of one of Bill Conti's finest and most underappreciated scores, for the 1982 drama THAT CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON. The film was based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by actor-playwright Jason Miller (otherwise best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Father Damien Karras in The Exorcist) about the reunion of a high school basketball team and their coach decades later. The original Broadway production, which ran for 700 performances, starred Charles Durning, Richard A. Dysart, Michael McGuire, Paul Sorvino and Walter McGinn, and Miller himself directed the film version, starring Robert Mitchum, Bruce Dern, Martin Sheen, Stacy Keach, and Sorvino recreating his stage role. Conti's score came during a period that featured some of his best scores, including Gloria, The Formula, Victory and The Right Stuff, and the La-La Land CD presents its first ever release.
Kritzerland's next limited edition CD (1000 units) will feature Ken Thorne's score for the 1968 comedy INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU. The film, made during the 11-year gap between A Shot in the Dark and The Return of the Pink Panther, was the only one of the original Clouseau films for which neither Peter Sellers nor Blake Edwards nor Henry Mancini were involved (though Clouseau screenwriter Frank Waldman co-wrote four of the later Panther sequels), with Alan Arkin taking over the title role and Bud Yorkin directing. The score featured none of Mancini's famous themes, with Oscar-winner Thorne providing his own material including a whimsical new theme for the inspector. The Kritzerland features the same cues as the original UA LP, which comprises the bulk of the original score.
Intrada will release two new CDs next week, featuring two scores by the same composer. |
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| Aisle Seat ON THE ROAD Edition (Updated)
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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11/1/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| It has been said (and written in this column) that it’s not a good time for archival titles to be released on DVD, something that was reaffirmed last week when Universal announced it was entering into a partnership with TCM to start a manufactured-on-demand DVD process for their catalog films. Similar to Warner Home Video’s Archive series, Universal and TCM are supposed to offer a variety of vintage movies for $19.99 a pop, starting with a series of Universal ‘30s chillers that fans have been anticipating for some time. |
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| Film Score Friday 10/30/09
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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10/29/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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Intrada has announced their latest two limited edition releases.
EXTREME CLOSE-UP is a 1990 TV movie written and executive produced by thirtysomething creators Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, about a teenage boy coping with the death of his mentally ill mother. The score was composed by James Horner, who had recently scored Glory for Zwick, and is one of his few works for television. This Intrada Signature Edition is limited to 1500 units.
Their Special Collection release, limited to 1200 units, features music from three war films released in the 1950s by 20th Century Fox - Alfred Newman's music for the 1952 remake of WHAT PRICE GLORY?, Roy Webb's music for 1951's FIXED BAYONETS, and Leigh Harline's music for 1953's THE DESERT RATS (which includes Daniele Amfitheatrof's prologue music for its predecessor, The Desert Fox).
On November 24, Varese Sarabande will release Rupert Gregson-Williams's music for the new TV version of the classic ‘60s series THE PRISONER, with Jim Caviziel taking the Patrick McGoohan role of Number Six, and Ian McKellen as the mysterious Number Two. |
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| Escapade Velocity: The SG Sound New Release
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| Posted By
Mark Ford
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10/27/2009 - 4:00 AM |
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Volume 1, Number 33
Several months back I posted a two part interview [ Part 1 & Part 2] with film composer, musician and one time FSM contributor Steve Greaves. Steve, in addition to his film compositions, also writes and performs music in the Space Age Pop vein and has since come to be known as "The King of Space Age Pop A-Go-Go" for this facet of his musical persona. Performing under the banner of The SG Sound, Steve has just recently released Escapade Velocity, an album filled with his latest Space Age Pop compositions and film music covers. |
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| Aisle Seat Halloween Special!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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10/25/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Plenty of tantalizing cinematic treats are available this season for your Halloween viewing pleasure, including several noteworthy new titles making their debuts on DVD. A full-length rundown on the latest genre titles follows below |
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| Children's Choirs and Devil's Lullabies, or The Kids Aren't Alright
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| Posted By
Michael Barrett
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10/22/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Brothers and sisters, it's devil music. No, I'm not talking about rock and roll, but about two related clichés in horror scores about bad kids: the children's choir and the demonic lullaby. These subjects occurred to me when reading a reference to a children's choir used in Jonathan Elias' soundtrack to the original CHILDREN OF THE CORN. A book is waiting to be written on this subject, but I'm not writing it. In case anyone is planning to write it, however, here are a few incomplete notes. |
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| Film Score Monthly Online |
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Marvelous Marvin |
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A Halloween Film Music Treat |
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From the Director's Chair: Peter Chelsom |
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The Horse Boy: It Takes Two |
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Book Smart |
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To Score or Not to Score? Stomp, Johnson and O'Hearn |
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Middle-earth Meets Manhattan |
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Gold Rush: The Bastard Child of Puccini |
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Score Restore: Aliens: "Futile Escape" |
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Ear of the Month Contest: Happy Halloween 2009 |
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