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So, you were licensing from Paramount, were you?
In the process of, see above.
And can you tell me from whom you licensed One Potato, Two Potato? Just curious.
StudioCanal as the successor of Bawolco Picture Company. Rialto Pictures as the distributor informed us of StudioCanal as the current rights holder. We then licensed Man at the Top from them as well (since they now own the Hammer film catalogue).
I know all about Studio Canal, thank you.
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Apr 11, 2022 - 4:12 AM
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Graham Watt
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Ouch! I didn't know about the Caldera dispute so I hope I'm not stirring things up which had been, if not laid to rest, at least forgotten about.
I got this the other day, and I have to say it's a fabulous release. I love Gerald Fried's music in general and this twofer is right up my calle. I buy very infrequently nowadays, but sometimes just going on composer, genre and era I'll do the occasional blind buy. I knew I couldn't go wrong with this one. Having only had the chance to hear it once I'm not really in the position to make detailed comments, but my first impressions are... that as with all Fried scores I have, this stuff is just so effortlessly LISTENABLE! Never a dull moment.
I've said before until you're blue in the face that I never found Fried a terribly subtle composer. I don't mean that as a criticism. I mean that he paints in bold strokes or in delicate strokes with sometimes little in-between. CRUISE INTO TERROR is a joy! It's so in-your-face, with the use of the "Dies Irae", the OMEN-like demonic chanting, the pop-flavoured "Love Boat" travelogue music. I don't know if it's really that more sophisticated than THE RETURN OF DRACULA from twenty years before, but I do know that it's a bloody great listen.
SURVIVE! is another treat. I watched the beginning of the full-length Mexican version on YouTube, and Raul Lavista's score is downbeat, a logical decision in a way, since there are no spoilers in the story. Fried takes a completely different approach. The titles are scored in a way that might make you think that the Uruguayan rugby team are going to arrive safely and win the match. It reminds me of National Geographic music. But there's a lot more meat (!) to it than that. The tragedy is underscored in a classical-sounding way. It almost rings of Beethoven in parts, and there's a kind of religioso secondary theme which is reminiscent of Rózsa's "monk music" from THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. Full marks to whoever did the track titles too (Fried?) - "Friends For Dinner" (!)
I hope there's a Volume 2, but it's kind of hard to forget the issue which I unwittingly resurrrected. I also got THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION: VOLUME 1, but I've only had time so far to play the Marlin Skiles score. A bit goofy in places, but with a film such as QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE what was there to do? Will we be getting a Volume 2 of that?
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I got this the other day, and I have to say it's a fabulous release.
It's not. It's a bootleg.
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