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| Film Score Friday 11/20/09
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/19/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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Varese Sarabande has announced two new limited edition (1000 units) CDs which can be ordered now and which are expected to begin shipping this week -- Brian Tyler’s score for the psychological thriller THE KILLING ROOM, just released on DVD, and Jeff Beal's score for the first of the TV movies based on Robert B. Parker's Jesse Stone novels, JESSE STONE: STONE COLD, starring Tom Selleck and directed by Robert Harmon (The Hitcher).
Kritzerland has just announced the first ever release of Ernest Gold's score to PRESSURE POINT, the 1962 psychological drama directed by Hubert Cornfeld and starring Sidney Poitier, Bobby Darin and Peter Falk. The disc will begin shipping next month and is limited to 1000 units.
Mark Isham has put together a suite of score cues from his latest film, Werner Herzog's BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS. The suite can be heard by using this link.
Intrada will announce two new limited edition CDs next week.
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| One Francis or Another; notes on some animated music
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| Posted By
Michael Barrett
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11/19/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Alexeieff's colorful advertising films, whose abstractions often have little direct relation to the function of the product in question, are often presented with titles and a music credit. The disc comes with a long technical booklet explaining the animation techniques but says nothing about the music, so I'm filling in a few blanks here. |
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| Next FSM ONLINE Issue Live Today!
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| Posted By
Tim Curran
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11/15/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| The November edition of FSM ONLINE is now live. This issue’s cover story is revealing feature on Miklós Rózsa and the time he spent under contract at M-G-M studios. Also in this issue are an incisive audio interview with Alexandre Desplat on THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON and FANTASTIC MR. FOX; the indelible Rolfe Kent talks about THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS, as well as his musical philosophy and approach; just in time for Thanksgiving, a celebration of film music for MOVIES EMPHASIZING FOOD; a FRENCH CONNECTION Score Restore; a report from the STAR WARS IN CONCERT series; Cary Wong's HOLIDAY BUYER'S GUIDE; the music of the video game UNCHARTED 2; a French-flavored Soundtrack Obscurities; more embedded audio clips, and more.
We had hoped to unveil our new redesigned site this month, but it's taking us just a bit longer to make it all ship-shape. But don't worry, it's arrival is imminent!
Subscribers, you’ll get notification by email as soon as the issue is live. Or, come end of day, just go here to log in with your email and password. For those who want to join FSM ONLINE, go here, click on the big yellow “Click to Subscribe!” button and follow the instructions. And email us at support@filmscoremonthly.com if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Your Friends at FSM ONLINE |
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| Star Wars in Concert - or - Hey, listen, it's not the Concert Arrangements! Well, mostly not. Okay, it is, but still...
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| Posted By
Neil Shurley
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11/14/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Apparently, a series of films were made about some sort of war amidst the stars, featuring people, spacecraft, robots, muppets, and, eventually, a metric crapload of CGI.
They also had, by all accounts, pretty good scores. |
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| Film Score Friday 11/13/09
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/12/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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Intrada has just released two new Special Collection CDs, both featuring scores from 1978 by three-time Oscar nominee Jerry Fielding.
GRAY LADY DOWN is a disaster thriller about the attempt to rescue a sunken nuclear submarine. The film was directed by David Greene (Sebastian, Godspell) and the cast included Charlton Heston, David Carradine, Stacy Keach, and Christopher Reeve in his first feature film role. The Intrada CD represents the first-ever release of Fielding's score, and is limited to 2000 units.
THE BIG SLEEP was the Michael Winner-directed remake of Raymond Chandler's classic private eye novel, updated to contemporary England, with Robert Mitchum repeating his role as Philip Marlowe from the 1975, period-faithful version of Farewell, My Lovely. The all-star cast included Sarah Miles, Candy Clark, Oliver Reed, Richard Boone, Joan Collins, Edward Fox and James Stewart, and Intrada's CD, limited to 1500 copies, features the complete Fielding score (a suite from the score had been included on one of Bay Cities' Fielding compilation CDs) as well as the gorgeous poster art by the late, great Richard Amsel.
Buysoundtrax has announced two new CDs, to begin shipping at the end of the month. Basil Poledouris managed to express his love of the sea musically in two scores paired by the label on one disc (1500 units) - the Carroll Ballard boat-racing romance WIND (previously released on CD in Japan and by Citadel), and the previously unrelased score for the TV movie A WHALE FOR THE KILLING. The label's other new CD is the first release (1000 units) of the score to the 1975 Western WINTERHAWK, with music by Lee Holdridge and additional music by William Goldstein and Nicholas Flagello.
A few months ago, Varese Sarabande began a new series of limited edition CDs featuring contemporary scores with their releases of Marco Beltrami's In the Electric Mist and John Debney's The Stoning of Soraya M. This Monday, they plan to announce two new CDs in this series. |
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| Aisle Seat November Mania Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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11/8/2009 - 9:00 PM |
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| Robert Redford’s 1969 film DOWNHILL RACER (***, 101 mins., Criterion) is a film that its admirers have long desired to see on DVD, and understandably so: director Michael Ritchie, Redford (who produced the film and came up with its concept), and writer James Salter fashioned a taut, economically-told portrait of a skier named David Cappellet, whose single-minded desire to achieve success on the U.S. ski team fuels his ego-centric behavior. |
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| Film Score Monthly Online |
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The Lion's Voice: Miklós Rózsa at M-G-M |
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Fantastic Mr. Desplat |
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Rolfe Kent Stares at Goats |
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Listen While You Eat: Movies about Cooking and Eating, and Music for Them. |
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Listen While You Eat: A Turkey Side Dish |
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Star Wars, Aerosmith style |
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Ear of the Month Contest |
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Soundtrack Obscurities 19: The French Edition |
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Uncharting a Course |
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Wong's Turn: Do They Know It's Christmas on Main Street? |
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Score Restore: The French Connection |
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