THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
March 3 - Lee Holdridge born (1944)
March 3 - Jeff Rona born (1957)
March 3 -
John Williams begins recording his score for
Jaws (1975)
March 3 - Leonard Rosenman begins recording his unused score for The Last Hard Men (1976)
March 3 - Peter Ivers died (1983)
March 3 -
Basil Poledouris records his score for the
Twilight Zone episode “Profile in Silver” (1986)
March 3 - Arthur Kempel died (2004)
March 4 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold's score for Anthony Adverse wins the Oscar; however, as per Academy policy, the score is awarded to the head of the studio's music department, Leo Forbstein (1937)
March 4 - Lucio Dalla born (1943)
March 4 -
Max Steiner wins score Oscar for
Now, Voyager (1943)
March 4 - Leonard Rosenman died (2008)
March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos born (1887)
March 5 - Harry Lubin born (1906)
March 5 -
Max Steiner's score for
The Informer wins the Oscar; Academy policy at the time awards to the score to the head of the studio's music branch -- who, in this case, is Max Steiner (1936)
March 5 - Bruce Smeaton born (1938)
March 5 - Robert Folk born (1949)
March 5 - Michael Gore born (1951)
March 5 - Sergei Prokofiev died (1953)
March 5 - Graham Reynolds born (1971)
March 5 -
John Williams begins recording his score to
Star Wars (1977)
March 5 - Bruce Broughton records his Emmy-winning score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Satyr” (1981)
March 5 - Maurice Jarre begins recording his score for A Walk in the Clouds (1995)
March 5 -
Theodore Shapiro begins recording his score for
Idiocracy (2005)
March 5 -
Gustavo Santaolalla wins his first Oscar, for the
Brokeback Mountain score (2006)
March 6 - Stephen Schwartz born (1948)
March 6 - Leonard Rosenman records his score for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode “Beast in View” (1964)
March 6 - Richard Hageman died (1966)
March 6 - Erik Nordgren died (1992)
March 6 - Robert B. Sherman died (2012)
March 7 -
King Kong premieres in New York (1933)
March 7 -
Miklos Rozsa wins his first Oscar for
Spellbound score (1946)
March 7 - Recording sessions begin for
John Ottman’s score for
X2 (2003)
March 7 - Gordon Parks died (2006)
March 7 -
Michael Giacchino wins his first Oscar for
Up (2010)
March 8 - Dick Hyman born (1927)
March 8 - Bruce Broughton born (1945)
March 8 -
Jerry Goldsmith records his score for the pilot to
Dr. Kildare (1961)
March 8 - Alex North begins recording his unused score for Sounder (1972)
March 8 -
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording orchestral cues for
Logan's Run score (1976)
March 8 - William Walton died (1983)
March 8 -
James Newton Howard begins recording his score for
Dave (1993)
March 8 - George Martin died (2016)
March 9 - John Cale born (1940)
March 9 - Arlon Ober born (1943)
March 9 - Mark Mancina born (1957)
March 9 -
Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score for
Psycho (1960)
March 9 - Deborah Lurie born (1974)
March 9 - Jane Antonia Cornish born (1975)
March 9 - Bill Conti begins recording his score for Wrongfully Accused (1998)
March 9 -
Richard Stone died (2001)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
"The insistent, intrusive music score by David Wingo doesn’t help matters, and neither do the too-many subsequent montages, all of which are of the always mistaken 'We Need A Montage' variety. What’s ultimately most frustrating is the evidence that the makers of this movie were fully capable of creating something as smart and ruthless as its lead character. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental."
Glenn Kenny, RogerEbert.com
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, Arclight, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
March 3
PULP FICTION [New Beverly]
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Basil Poledouris) [Nuart]
STRAW DOGS (Jerry Fielding), LENNY (Ralph Burns) [New Beverly]
TROUBLE IN PARADISE, I TAKE THIS WOMAN [UCLA]
March 4
THE APARTMENT (Adolph Deutsch), BEING THERE (Johnny Mandel) [Cinematheque: Aero]
BATMAN (Nelson Riddle) [New Beverly]
FRIGHT NIGHT (Brad Fiedel) [New Beverly]
GOOD REFERENCES, THE POOR NUT [UCLA]
LOS TALLOS AMARGOS (Astor Piazzola), SHE-DEVIL ISLAND [UCLA]
STRAW DOGS (Jerry Fielding), LENNY (Ralph Burns) [New Beverly]
March 5
AKIRA (Shoji Yamashiro) [Cinematheque: Aero]
BATMAN (Nelson Riddle) [New Beverly]
LAST SUMMER (John Simon), LADYBUG, LADYBUG (Robert Cobert) [New Beverly]
THE MURDER OF FRED HAMPTON [UCLA]
March 6
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA [Silent Movie Theater]
HIGH NOON (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Cinematheque: Aero]
LAST SUMMER (John Simon), LADYBUG, LADYBUG (Robert Cobert) [New Beverly]
March 7
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter), COMBAT COPS (Jerry Styner) [New Beverly]
THE DEER HUNTER (Stanley Myers) [LACMA]
March 8
ULZANA'S RAID (Frank DeVol), VALDEZ IS COMING (Charles Gross) [New Beverly]
March 9
THE LOVE WITCH (Anna Biller), LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (Alfred Newman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE THIN RED LINE (Hans Zimmer) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
ULZANA'S RAID (Frank DeVol), VALDEZ IS COMING (Charles Gross) [New Beverly]
March 10
BADLANDS (George Aliceson Tipton), DAYS OF HEAVEN (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
GASLIGHT (Bronislau Kaper), SUDDEN FEAR (Elmer Bernstein) [Cinematheque: Aero]
PULP FICTION [New Beverly]
RAISE THE TITANIC (John Barry), AIRPORT '77 (John Cacavas) [New Beverly]
THEY LIVE (John Carpetner, Alan Howarth) [Silent Movie Theater]
March 11
RAISE THE TITANIC (John Barry), AIRPORT '77 (John Cacavas) THE BAT PEOPLE (Artie Kane) [New Beverly]
BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Shirley Walker) [New Beverly]
ROSEMARY'S BABY (Christopher Komeda), DIABOLIQUE (Georges Van Parys) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE SALVATION HUNTERS [Silent Movie Theater]
March 12
BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Shirley Walker) [New Beverly]
DIAL M FOR MURDER (Dimitri Tiomkin), SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Cinematheque: Aero]
DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE, PLAY IT AS IT LAYS [New Beverly]
A STAR IS BORN (Max Steiner) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE TREE OF LIFE (Alexandre Desplat) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]