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This Year's Movies, Part Two
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 2/8/2010 - 9:00 PM

GET HIM TO THE GREEK
COMPOSER: Lyle Workman
WRITERS: Nicholas Stoller, Jason Segel
DIRECTOR: Nicholas Stoller
CAST:  Jonah Hill, Russell Brand, Rose Byrne

This latest Judd Apatow production is sort of a rock-n-roll My Favorite Year, with Hill as Mark Linn-Baker and Brand as Peter O'Toole.

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The 2009 Top Forty Composer Countdown (in 2010!), Part Six
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 2/8/2010 - 9:00 AM
 
CURRENT COMPOSERS FROM A TO F: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
 

MICHAEL ANDREWS
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Funny People--51 (U.S. gross in millions)
2. Orange County--41
3. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story--18
4. Unaccompanied Minors--16
5. Out Cold--13
6. Me and You and Everyone We Know--3

He shared the scoring credit on Judd Apatow's Funny People with co-star Jason Schwarzman, and next he scores a vehicle for Apatow veteran Jay Baruchel, She's Out of My League.

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Don't Open That Door! or, The Unexplored Land of Radio Music
Posted By Michael Barrett 2/7/2010 - 9:00 PM
I have the impression that little is known about the place of "soundtracks" in Old Time Radio, by which I mean that I know little about it. Try Googling "radio music" and see what you get. 
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Aisle Seat Olympic Edition
Posted By Andy Dursin 2/7/2010 - 9:00 PM
A brand new Special Edition of THE WOLF MAN (***½, 70 mins.; Universal), the 1941 Universal monster classic, has been issued just in time for the February 12th release of the highly anticipated (and oft-delayed) big-screen remake.
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Goldsmith on Murder -or- Reinstating My Charter Membership in The Cult of Jerry
Posted By Neil Shurley 2/6/2010 - 9:00 PM
I've never seen the TV show Hawkins. Essentially, nobody has.

Originating as a 1973 TV movie starring James Stewart, it became a short-lived series and vanished into oblivion. From the descriptions, it sounds like a progenitor to Matlock.

The show disappeared. But the music lives on.
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The GSPO needs our support!
Posted By TJ Pridonoff 2/6/2010 - 12:40 PM
The Golden State Pops Orchestra is a class organization, putting several concerts per year of film music, music from Broadway and various other pops music, but what seperates the GSPO from the rest of the pops organizations, is the emphasis on music from hollywood, and the ability to operate on a much smaller budget than the standard Symphony Orchestra, and by result, offer much lower ticket prices for it's attendees.
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Film Score Friday 2/5/10
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 2/4/2010 - 9:00 PM
Intrada has announced two new limited edition CD releases, including the first-ever release of a score by one of film music's most beloved composers.

John Frankenheimer had originally planned to direct PLAYERS, a Robert Evans-produced romance pairing a young tennis player (Dean-Paul Martin) and a mysterious older woman (Ali McGraw), but he left the project to make Prophecy, and the directing reins went to Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter, They Might Be Giants). The natural choice for the score would have seemed to be John Barry, but instead the filmmakers hired Jerry Goldsmith, who had written the classic, romantic Chinatown score for producer Evans. None of Goldsmith's Players music has ever been released, and Intrada's CD, limited to 3000 units, features the complete score mastered from the original tapes, including two love themes (one in the Chinatown vein) and a thrilling theme for the tennis matches.

Their other release, limited to 1500 units, presents the first-ever CD release of Gil Melle's music for Robert Wise's classic 1971 film version of Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN. The CD features the same tracks as the original Kapp soundtrack LP, which was first released as a special hexagonal disc (which was later rereleased in a traditional shape because the oddly shaped disc damaged needles on automatic turntables), but though the CD is only 26 minutes long, it features nearly all of Melle's groundbreaking score.

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The 2009 Top Forty Composer Countdown (in 2010!), Part Five
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 2/3/2010 - 9:00 PM

 

TEN (WELL, ELEVEN) COMPOSERS ON THE RISE:


JEFF BEAL

AGE: 46
BIRTHPLACE: Hayward, California
REPRESENTATION: First Artists Management
3 EMMYS, 9 NOMINATIONS
ONGOING FILMMAKER RELATIONSHIPS:
Ed Harris, Jessica Yu
BACKGROUND: Teenage jazz trumpet player/composer, Eastman School of Music, recording artist, jazz/concert composer
FAN FAVORITE: Appaloosa
TOP GROSSING FILMS:
1. Appaloosa--20 (U.S. gross in millions)
2. Pollock--8

Jeff Beal had an impressive career as a jazz recording artist before he made his big screen breakthrough with Ed Harris's Oscar-winning biopic Pollock. Replacing an unused score by Knightriders composer Donald Rubinstein, Beal wrote a fresh and original work which did a striking job of musically depicting the film's subject, groundbreaking painter Jackson Pollock. Despite the film's relatively high profile, the film led to virtually no feature work for its composer, and his major big screen films have been the stylized documentaries of Oscar-winner Jessica Yu (whose acceptance speech featured the memorable line "You know you've entered into new territory when you realize your dress costs more than your film"), such as In the Realms of the Unreal and Protagonist. Throughout the last decade, Beal has become one of the most acclaimed composers in television, earning Emmys for his music for Monk, Nightmares and Dreamscapes and The Company as well as nominations for Carnivale, Rome and his TV movie scores. Ed Harris made a welcome return to directing with the underrated 2008 Western Appaloosa, and brought Beal along with him, his offbeat music fapproach the demands of the genre while expanding the classic history of Western scoring. Beal is continuing his feature work with Al Pacino's Wilde Salome, an exploration of the Oscar Wilde play that continues to fascinate the star.

WHAT'S NEXT: Once Fallen, Wilde Salome
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The Worst Films of 2008 (Finally!)
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 2/2/2010 - 9:00 PM
Because what better time is there to discuss the worst films of 2008 than February of 2010?
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The Burbs - or - I may get disbarred from the cult of Jerry
Posted By Neil Shurley 2/2/2010 - 2:00 PM
I knew nothing about the Varese Sarabande Soundtrack Club (original incarnation) until after it died, so the initial release of the soundtrack completely passed me by. I eventually heard the End Titles on the Varese 25th Anniversary set and it didn't really strike me as anything extraordinary. It has a pleasant enough tune, with a goofy Patton pastiche and then the "hilarious" whistle stuff at the very end. in short, it didn't make me want to fork over the big bucks for the out of print club cd.

Then the expanded edition came out.

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