Dragon's Domain has announced three new releases: THE DAVID MICHAEL FRANK COLLECTION VOL. 1, featuring the composer's music for the Chuck Norris thriller Code of Silence, the documentary Cosmic Voyage and the corporate event Boeing 777 Rollout; the score for the 2009 horror film BASEMENT JACK, by Alan Howarth; and Chuck Cirino's scores for two horror comedies, TEENAGE EXORCIST (1991) and WITCH ACADEMY (1995).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog/D'Artacan y los tres Mosqueperros - Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Quartet
Parallel Mothers (Madres Paralelas) - Alberto Iglesias - Quartet
IN THEATERS TODAY
Becoming Cousteau - Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
De Gaulle - Romain Troulliet
Dune - Hans Zimmer - Score CD and "Sketchbook" 2-disc set on WaterTower
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain - Arthur Sharpe
The Estate - Daniel Dombrowki
Every Last One of Them - Nima Fakhrara, Scott Hedrick
The French Dispatch - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD due Nov. 19 on ABKCO
The Harder They Fall - Jeymes Samuel
Luzzu - Jon Natchez
No Future - Jon Natchez
Ron's Gone Wrong - Henry Jackman
The Spine of Night - Peter Scartabello
COMING SOON
November 5
Basement Jack - Alan Howarth - Dragon's Domain
The David Michael Frank Collection Vol. 1 - David Michael Frank - Dragon's Domain
Teenage Exorcist/Witch Academy - Chuck Cirino - Dragon's Domain
November 12
The Serpent - Dominick Scherrer - Svart
November 19
The French Dispatch - Alexandre Desplat - ABKCO
The Tamarind Seed - John Barry - Silva
Without Remorse - Jonsi - Krunk
November 26
The United Way - George Fenton - Gearbox
Date Unknown
Byleth il demone dell'incesto - Vasco Vassil Kojucharov - Beat
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons - Bary Gray - Silva
Gabriel Yared: Music for Film - Gabriel Yared - Silva
Gli occhi freddi della paura - Ennio Morricone - Beat
The Hitcher - Mark Isham - Silva
Labyrinth of Peace - Annette Focks - Alhambra
The Little Polar Bear - Nigel Clarke, Michael Csyani-Wills - Alhambra
Matalo! - Mario Migliardi - Beat
Musik in Dokumentar-Filmen - Hor-Reisen Zun Fremden & Unbekannten - Enjott Schneider - Alhambra
Mychael Danna: Music for Film - Mychael Danna - Silva
Ostwind - Der Grosse Orkan - Annette Focks - Alhambra
Shigeru Umebayashi: Music for Film - Shigeru Umebayashi - Silva
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
October 22 - Joseph Kosma born (1905)
October 22 - Giorgio Gaslini born (1929)
October 22 - Ed Welch born (1947)
October 22 - Greg Hawkes born (1952)
October 22 - Hans J. Salter begins recording his score for The Far Horizons (1954)
October 22 - Marc Shaiman born (1959)
October 22 - Hugo Friedhofer begins recording his score to Never So Few (1959)
October 22 - Bernard Herrmann records his score for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "Body in the Barn" (1963)
October 22 - Nuno Malo born (1977)
October 23 - Manos Hadjidakis born (1925)
October 23 - Gary McFarland born (1933)
October 23 - Recording sessions begin for Dimitri Tiomkin’s score for Lost Horizon (1936)
October 23 - Graeme Revell born (1955)
October 23 - Jonathan Wolff born (1958)
October 23 - David Kitay born (1961)
October 23 - Duane Tatro’s score for The Invaders episode “The Prophet” is recorded (1967)
October 23 - Duane Tatro records his only Mission: Impossible score, for the episode “Ultimatum” (1972)
October 23 - David Bell records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Treachery, Faith and the Great River” (1998)
October 23 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Enterprise episode “The Andorian Incident” (2001)
October 23 - Ray Ellis died (2008)
October 24 - Bill Wyman born (1936)
October 24 - Ernest Irving died (1953)
October 24 - John Frizzell born (1966)
October 24 - David Bell records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Sacrifice of Angels” (1997)
October 24 - Merl Saunders died (2008)
October 25 - Konrad Elfers born (1919)
October 25 - Don Banks born (1923)
October 25 - Recording sessions begin for Alex North's score to I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
October 25 - Bronislau Kaper begins recording his score to The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
October 25 - Alexander Courage's "Plato's Stepchildren," the last score composed for the original Star Trek series, is recorded (1968)
October 25 - Billy Goldenberg begins recording his score for Duel (1971)
October 25 - Benny Golson records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “Blues” (1971)
October 25 - David Shire begins recording his score for Max Dugan Returns (1982)
October 25 - Recording sessions begin for W.G. Snuffy Walden’s score for The Stand (1993)
October 25 - Recording sessions begin for Danny Elfman’s score for Good Will Hunting (1997)
October 26 - Bob Cobert born (1924)
October 26 - Jacques Loussier born (1934)
October 26 - Victor Schertzinger died (1941)
October 26 - Recording sessions begin for Roy Webb's score to Fixed Bayonets (1951)
October 26 - Curt Sobel born (1953)
October 26 - Howard Shore begins recording his score for She-Devil (1989)
October 27 - Samuel Matlovsky born (1921)
October 27 - Recording sessions begin for Hugo Friedhofer's score for Ace in the Hole (1950)
October 27 - Richard Markowitz records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night of the Green Terror” (1966)
October 27 - John Williams begins recording his score for Pete ‘n’ Tillie (1972)
October 27 - Jerry Fielding begins recording his score for The Enforcer (1976)
October 27 - Frank DeVol died (1999)
October 27 - James Newton Howard begins recording his score to Peter Pan (2003)
October 27 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Cold Station 12” (2004)
October 27 - Hans Werner Henze died (2012)
October 28 - Gershon Kingsley born (1922)
October 28 - Carl Davis born (1936)
October 28 - Howard Blake born (1938)
October 28 - Lalo Schifrin records his score for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode “Memo from Purgatory” (1964)
October 28 - Jerry Fielding records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “The Exchange” (1968)
October 28 - Lalo Schifrin records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “Submarine” (1969)
October 28 - Oliver Nelson died (1975)
October 28 - Recording sessions begin for James Newton Howard’s score for Eye for an Eye (1995)
October 28 - Gil Melle died (2004)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
I'M YOUR MAN - Tobias Wagner
"Taking inspiration from a short story by German writer Emma Braslavsky, Schrader and co-writer Jan Schomburg serve up a rich panoply of questions, answers and stray ideas. Rarely are these assembled into neat combinations, even if the script veers too far into thematic explication in the final third. There’s no clear moral or practical solution to Alma’s quandary; viewers with differing personalities and relationship histories may well reach very different conclusions, while the film’s own sweetly melancholic resolution is far from clear-cut. Schrader’s filmmaking, more fluent and less mannered than in her last feature 'Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe,' keeps proceedings supple but not soft, colored by Tobias Wagner’s wistful, jazz-laced score and the overcast pastels of Benedict Neuenfels’ lensing, which finds a guarded romanticism in Berlin’s severe streetscapes. (The city’s wonderful Pergamon Museum, meanwhile, gets the moody after-hours treatment it has long deserved on screen.)"
Guy Lodge, Variety
"Across the lived-in clutter and disarray of her high-rise apartment, Alma determines to keep her distance. (The outstanding production design and set decoration are fully in sync with the understated but expressive tone of the film as a whole, as is the score’s unforced mix of playful and poignant.) With fresh flowers and pastries and endless watchfulness, Tom maintains his focus on seduction. Out in the city, he embraces the chance to act 'like a person who wants things' by placing an order at a coffee shop, with gusto."
Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
"The film reunites Bond with the old gang of M (Ralph Fiennes), Q (Ben Whishaw), Moneypenny (Naomie Harris) and Tanner (Rory Kinnear) -- all of them shrewdly employed. But it also introduces some new buddies, including a sparky double-0, Nomi (Lashana Lynch), who has been recruited since Bond retired from MI6 at the end of 'Spectre.' It has countless references to previous Bond movies, and even finds material in Ian Fleming's novels that hasn't been used before. But it also takes its hero somewhere unusual. It piles on the grief and raises the emotional stakes, with the help of Hans Zimmer's operatic music and Linus Sandgren's warm cinematography. But it also keeps the jokes and the silliness coming: it's been decades since Bond had this many groan-worthy one-liners, and he's never had this many Oliver Hardy-style exasperated glances."
Nicholas Barber, BBC.com
"So there are many greatest hits played here, including a snippet of Monty Norman’s glorious intro music. Six decades on, it’s still a kick, hearing that cross between crime jazz and surf rock play as a certain familiar tuxedoed figure spins and fires. The movie theme song is by Billie Eilish."
Mark Feeney, Boston Globe
"Regardless of the plotting deficiencies and occasional pacing lags, there’s plenty here for diehard Bond fans to savor, with a frisson of excitement every time Hans Zimmer’s stirring score sneaks in a few bars of Monty Norman’s classic original Bond theme. It may not rank up there with 'Skyfall,' but it’s a moving valedictory salute to the actor who has left arguably the most indelible mark on the character since Connery."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
OLD HENRY - Jordan Lehning
"When a trio of lawmen (or are they?) show up in search of the wounded man, Henry sends them away and Wyatt is excited by hints of darkness in his father’s past. The film rarely ventures beyond the small farm; it’s a chamber western of sorts, austere and foreboding and often as not set to the mournful strains of string compositions from Jordan Lehning."
Steve Pond, The Wrap
"Directing with a sure hand and an obvious love for the classics of the genre, Ponciroli plants clues throughout as to the plot’s major disclosure, all of which acquire clarity in retrospect. Making skillful use of a pensive score by Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Jordan Lehning, full of mournful strings and notes of quiet foreboding, the director keeps the pace humming while allowing each scene room to breathe. His choreography of both the preliminary violence and the explosive final showdown is detailed and dynamic."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
TITANE - Jim Williams
"Maybe that’s exactly what Ducournau’s movie is. But to these eyes, ravished by the retina-scorching purples and blues of Ruben Impens’ cinematography -- and also to these ears, ringing with the ominous choral chants of Jim Williams’ score -- a little self-infatuation is more than warranted. If 'Titane' is sometimes a bit too taken with its own daring, it also has a sharp, poker-faced awareness of its own absurdity. As in her splendid cannibal thriller, 'Raw,' with its artful commingling of the delicate and the grotesque, Ducournau excels at keeping contradictory themes and tones in productive tension. You will sometimes hear the grind of shifting narrative gears (along with some ingeniously repurposed pop-rock songs), but you are also borne smoothly along as the story glides from body-horror nightmare into a more subtly unnerving dramatic register."
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"Till now the film has been peculiar -- in the reptilian sympathy it evokes for its serial killing antiheroine, in its ritualistic detailing (the chanting male choirs of Jim Williams’ score lend a creepy hand there) in its splattery violence and, oh yeah, in how a car and a woman make a baby."
Jessica Kiang, The Playlist
"A few stylistic flourishes, like the Dario Argento-style colored lighting and the ominous chanting that lends a sense of doom to Jim Williams’ score, carry over from Raw. (Williams and cinematographer Ruben Impens both worked on that film, too, so there you go.) Others are newly accentuated: The retro-kitsch needle drops gain a pulpy, Tarantinoesque resonance by being paired with scenes of extreme violence. Although this film is too inscrutable to work as a true midnight crowd-pleaser, gore hounds will appreciate one sadistic kill involving a bar stool, set to The Zombies' 'She’s Not There.'"
Katie Rife, The Onion AV Club
"With 'Titane,' audiences occasionally just have to give themselves over to the movie’s demented momentum, taking whatever perverse pleasure they can from Ducournau’s willingness to push the boundaries: Alexia doesn’t stop at cutting her hair and binding her breasts, but decides to demolish her face as well, smashing it against the sink in one of the movie’s many wince-worthy moments. As if DP Ruben Impens’ velvety, high-contrast cinematography weren’t dark enough, there’s the unnerving low chanting of Jim Williams’ score to make it all sound like a Black Mass."
Peter Debruge, Variety
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
October 22
THE CRAFT (Graeme Revell) [Brain Dead Studios]
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (Graeme Revell) [New Beverly]
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (Tamar-kali) [Academy Museum]
KIKI'S DELIVERY SERVICE (Joe Hisaishi) [Academy Museum]
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Joe Hisaishi) [Academy Museum]
NORTH BY NORTHEWST (Bernard Herrmann), CANYON PASSAGE [Aero]
OUT OF THE PAST (Roy Webb) [Los Feliz 3]
PERFECT BLUE (Masahiro Ikumi) [Brain Dead Studios]
RACE WITH THE DEVIL (Leonard Rosenman), THE BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN (Jaime Mendoza-Nava) [New Beverly]
October 23
ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (Frank Skinner) [Academy Museum]
BASKET CASE (Gus Russo) [Brain Dead Studios]
BLOW OUT (Pino Donaggio) [Los Feliz 3]
CHINATOWN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Los Feliz 3]
THE FLY (Howard Shore) [Academy Museum]
THE HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS (Koji Endo, Koji Makaino) [Brain Dead Studios]
MAD MONSTER PARTY? (Maury Laws) [New Beverly]
THE MUPPET MOVIE (Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher) [Los Feliz 3]
PONYO (Joe Hisaishi) [Academy Museum]
PUPPET MASTER (Richard Band) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE RAVEN (Les Baxter) [Los Feliz 3]
THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH (Sean Schafer Hennesy)
October 24
BLOW OUT (Pino Donaggio) [Los Feliz 3]
BLOW-UP (Herbie Hancock) [Los Feliz 3]
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Wojciech Kilar) [Academy Museum]
DRACULA [Hollywood Legion]
FRANKENSTEIN [Hollywood Legion]
FREAKS [Los Feliz 3]
GOD TOLD ME TO (Frank Cordell) [Brain Dead Studios]
HAXAN [Brain Dead Studios]
IMPERFECT JOURNEY [Academy Museum]
MAD MONSTER PARTY? (Maury Laws) [New Beverly]
POSSESSION (Andrzej Korzynski) [Los Feliz 3]
SEVEN (Howard Shore) [New Beverly]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [IPIC Westwood]
October 25
CURE (Gary Ashiya) [Los Feliz 3]
DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE (Richard Einhorn), DON'T GO IN THE WOODS (H. Kingley Thurber) [New Beverly]
PHANTASM (Fred Myrow, Malcolm Seagrave) [Alamo Drafthouse]
POSSESSION (Andrzej Korzynski) [Los Feliz 3]
TEZA (Viyay Iyer, Jorga Mesfin) [Academy Museum]
THE WIND RISES (Joe Hisaishi) [Academy Museum]
October 26
BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (Wojciech Kilar) [Brain Dead Studios]
CARRIE (Pino Donaggio) [New Beverly]
DIABOLIQUE (Georges Van Parys) [Los Feliz 3]
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (Joe Hisaishi) [Academy Museum]
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (Charles Bernstein) [Alamo Drafthouse]
POSSESSION (Andrzej Korzynski) [Los Feliz 3]
THIRST (Cho Young-Wuk) [Brain Dead Studios]
October 27
CACHE [Los Feliz 3]
CARRIE (Pino Donaggio) [New Beverly]
DAUGHTERS OF THE DUST (John Barnes) [Academy Museum]
POSSESSION (Andrzej Korzynski) [Los Feliz 3]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [IPIC Westwood]
October 28
BELLY (Stephen Cullo) [Academy Museum]
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Los Feliz 3]
THE LEOPARD MAN (Roy Webb), SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Aero]
THE RAGE: CARRIE 2 (Danny B. Harvey), PET SEMATARY TWO (Mark Governor) [New Beverly]
RED ROAD (Glenn Gregory) [Los Feliz 3]
THE WAY OF THE DRAGON (Joseph Koo) [Academy Museum]
October 29
ATTACK THE BLOCK (Steven Price) [New Beverly]
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Los Feliz 3]
DEF BY TEMPTATION (Paul Laurence) [Los Feliz 3]
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (Graeme Revell) [New Beverly]
THE LEOPARD MAN (Roy Webb) [Los Feliz 3]
NIGHTBREED (Danny Elfman) [Brain Dead Studios]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Bernard Herrmann) [Los Feliz 3]
REBECCA (Franz Waxman), I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE (Roy Webb) [Aero]
October 30
BEETLEJUICE (Danny Elfman) [New Beverly]
THE BOOK OF LIFE (Gustavo Santaolalla) [Academy Museum]
CASTLE IN THE SKY (Joe Hisaishi) [Academy Museum]
CURE (Gary Ashiya) [Aero]
CURSE OF THE DEMON (Clifton Parker), THE BIRDS (Remi Gassman, Oskar Sala, Bernard Herrmann) [Aero]
HI, MOM (Eric Kaz) [Los Feliz 3]
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Johan Soderqvist) [Brain Dead Studios]
MUNSTER, GO HOME (Jack Marshall) [Los Feliz 3]
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Javier Navarrete) [Academy Museum]
SHAUN OF THE DEAD (Daniel Mudford, Pete Woodhead) [New Beverly]
SHOCKPROOF (George Duning) [Los Feliz 3]
THE SIXTH SENSE (James Newton Howard) [Academy Museum]
TAXI DRIVER (Bernard Herrmann) [Los Feliz 3]
ZOMBIE (Giorgio Tucci, Fabio Frizzi) [Brain Dead Studios]
October 31
BEETLEJUICE (Danny Elfman) [New Beverly]
CREEPSHOW (John Harrison) [Los Feliz 3]
DRAG ME TO HELL (Christopher Young) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE EXORCIST [Los Feliz 3]
GET OUT (Michael Abels) [Academy Museum]
HALLOWEEN (John Carpenter) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE HAUNTING (Humphrey Searle) [Los Feliz 3]
HOCUS POCUS (John Debney) [Academy Museum]
POSSESSION (Andrzej Korzynski) [Los Feliz 3]
PSYCHO (Bernard Herrmann), CAT PEOPLE (Roy Webb) [Aero]
SCREAM (Marco Beltrami) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: The Fly/Return of the Fly (Sawtell/Shefter), The Curse of the Fly (Shefter), The Fly II (Young), The Dead Zone (Kamen), eXistenZ (Shore), The Big Boss (Thomas), Game of Death (Barry), Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story (Edelman), Enter the Dragon (Schifrin), Unbreakable (Howard), Signs (Howard), The Village (Howard), Lady in the Water (Howard), The Happening (Howard), The Last Airbender (Howard), After Earth (Howard), The Witches of Eastwick (Williams)
Read: The Judgment of Deke Hunter, by George V. Higgins
Seen: Eyes without a Face, Mad Love [1935], Lamb, The Velvet Underground, No Time to Die, Funny Boy, Alien, The Earth Dies Screaming, Calling Dr. Death, Weird Woman, The Frozen Ghost
Watched: Saboteur; Star Trek: Discovery ("Terra Firma, Part 1"); Fosse/Verdon ("Providence")
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