Intrada plans to release one new score CD next week.
Varese Sarabande has announced two new, Limited Edition expanded CDs of scores for popular animated films: a two-disc edition of John Powell's score for the Oscar-nominated sequel HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 2, and Michael Kamen's score for director Brad Bird's contemporary classic THE IRON GIANT.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
How to Train Your Dragon 2: The Deluxe Edition - John Powell - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Incubo Sulla Citta' Contaminita - Stelvio Cipriani - Quartet
The Iron Giant: The Deluxe Edition - Michael Kamen - Varese Sarabande CD Club
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue - Giuliano Sorgini - Quartet
Virus Apocalipsis Canibal - Gianni Dell'orso, Goblin - Quartet
IN THEATERS TODAY
Alice - Common
The Hater - Benjamin Jaffe
Master - Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Measure of Revenge - Nick Urata
The Outfit - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD due April 8 on Backlot
Umma - Roque Banos
X - Tyler Bates, Chelsea Wolfe
COMING SOON
April 1
The Big Gundown - Ennio Morricone - Beat
Braveheart [re-release] - James Horner - La-La Land
Il Serpente - Ennio Morricone - Beat
The Lost City - Pinar Toprak - La-La Land
Milano Trema: La Polizia Vuole Giustizia - Guido & Maurizio De Ajngelis - Beat
Strange Behavior - Tangerine Dream - Buysoundtrax
April 8
The Outfit - Alexandre Desplat - Backlot
Spencer - Jonny Greenwood - Mercury
April 15
Outlander: Season 6 - Bear McCreary - Sony
April 22
Operation Mincemeat - Thomas Newman - Lakeshore
May 6
Invasion: Season 1 - Max Richter - Decca
June 3
Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes - John Williams - Deutsche Grammophon
Date Unknown
Alfred the Great - Raymond Leppard - Kritzerland
Le temps de secrets - Philippe Rombi - Music Box
That Man from Rio - Georges Delerue - Music Box
The Thief of Bagdad [1925] - Mortimer Wilson - Naxos
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
March 18 - William Lava born (1911)
March 18 - John Kander born (1927)
March 18 - Yoko Kanno born (1964)
March 18 - Frank Ilfman born (1970)
March 18 - Clinton Shorter born (1971)
March 18 - Dominic Frontiere begins recording his score for Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
March 18 - Guillaume Roussel born (1980)
March 18 - John Williams begins recording his score for The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)
March 18 - John Phillips died (2001)
March 18 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Enterprise episode “The Crossing” (2003)
March 19 - Jean Weiner born (1896)
March 19 - Dimitri Tiomkin wins Oscars for High Noon’s score and song (1953)
March 19 - Anthony Marinelli born (1959)
March 19 - Joseph Mullendore records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Shell Game” (1969)
March 19 - George Garvarentz died (1993)
March 19 - Velton Ray Bunch records his score for the Enterprise episode “Acquisition” (2002)
March 19 - Michel Legrand begins recording his score for The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
March 20 - Michel Magne born (1930)
March 20 - John Cameron born (1944)
March 20 - Miklos Rozsa wins his second Oscar, for A Double Life score (1948)
March 20 - Franz Waxman wins his second consecutive Best Score Oscar, for A Place in the Sun (1952)
March 20 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for The Tin Star (1957)
March 20 - Amit Poznansky born (1974)
March 20 - Stu Phillips records his score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Hand of Goral” (1981)
March 20 - Ray Cook died (1989)
March 20 - Georges Delerue died (1992)
March 20 - Johnny Pearson died (2011)
March 20 - Johnny Harris died (2020)
March 21 - Antony Hopkins born (1921)
March 21 - Gary Hughes born (1922)
March 21 - Mort Lindsey born (1923)
March 21 - Alfred Newman wins his seventh Oscar, his second for Score, for Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1956)
March 21 - Joseph S. DeBeasi born (1960)
March 21 - Alex North begins recording his score for Spartacus (1960)
March 21 - Alexander Courage records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Mechanical Men" (1967)
March 21 - John Williams wins his fifth Oscar, for his Schindler's List score (1994)
March 21 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Journey’s End “ (1994)
March 22 - Stephen Sondheim born (1930)
March 22 - Angelo Badalamenti born (1937)
March 22 - Andrew Lloyd Webber born (1948)
March 22 - Goran Bregovic born (1950)
March 22 - Wally Badarou born (1955)
March 22 - Max Richter born (1966)
March 22 - Zeltia Montes born (1979)
March 22 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for Time After Time (1979)
March 22 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Time Squared” (1989)
March 22 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Lessons” (1993)
March 22 - Bebo Valdes died (2013)
March 22 - Scott Walker died (2019)
March 23 - Alan Blaikley born (1940)
March 23 - Michael Nyman born (1944)
March 23 - David Grisman born (1945)
March 23 - Trevor Jones born (1949)
March 23 - Aaron Copland wins his only Oscar, for The Heiress score (1950)
March 23 - Philip Judd born (1953)
March 23 - Richard Shores records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night of the Burning Diamond” (1966)
March 23 - Damon Albarn born (1968)
March 23 - Lionel Newman re-records pre-existing Jerry Goldsmith cues for The Last Hard Men’s replacement score (1976)
March 23 - Hal Mooney died (1995)
March 23 - Michael Linn died (1995)
March 23 - James Horner begins recording his score for Braveheart (1995)
March 23 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Hard Time” (1996)
March 23 - James Horner wins his first and last Oscars, for Titanic's score and song; Anne Dudley wins the third Comedy or Musical Score Oscar, for The Full Monty (1998)
March 23 - Elliot Goldenthal wins his first Oscar, for the Frida score (2003)
March 24 - Michael Masser born (1941)
March 24 - Brian Easdale wins his only Oscar, for The Red Shoes score (1949)
March 24 - Alberto Colombo died (1954)
March 24 - Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "The City on the Edge of Forever" is recorded (1967)
March 24 - John Barry begins recording his score for The Deep (1977)
March 24 - Arthur B. Rubnstein begins recording his score for WarGames (1983)
March 24 - Ira Newborn begins recording his score for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
March 24 - Alex North wins an Honorary Oscar, "in recognition of his brilliant artistry in the creation of memorable music for a host of distinguished motion pictures; " John Barry wins his fourth Oscar, for the Out of Africa score (1986)
March 24 - Gabriel Yared wins the Dramatic Score Oscar for The English Patient; Rachel Portman wins the second Comedy or Musical Score Oscar, for Emma (1997)
March 24 - John Barry wins his fifth and final Oscar, for the Dances With Wolves score; Stephen Sondheim wins his only Oscar, for the song "Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy (1991)
March 24 - Gerard Schurmann died (2020)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
ASCENSION - Dan Deacon
"'Ascension' often veers into the surreal, made more unnerving by Kingdon’s static camera and long takes, not to mention Dan Deacon’s quietly eerie score. But as surreal as it may at first seem ('Look at these crazy Chinese kids and their wacky company cultural training boot camps!'), there is absolutely no difference between China and the Western world in the underlying market forces at work here. We’re all headed there: China just got there first because it’s the most populated country on the planet. As one of the many banners in front of a factory intones 'Sense of worth. Chinese dream.' You may also add, 'Welcome to the machine.'"
Josh Kupecki, The Austin Chronicle
"Nothing in 'Ascension' is stated outright or offered to the audience with an encouraging nudge, though, so perhaps a lack of context is appropriate. A strings-heavy score is the only influence in this regard, cresting at certain moments and colliding in discord during others. Like Kingdon, it seems to know better than to get in the way of the subjects, whose ghostly, blank movements through China’s economic revolution speak more succinctly than any text card or talking head ever could."
Warren Cantrell, The Playlist
"On a broader scale, 'Ascension' stands as a spiritual cousin to Rahul Jain’s 'Machines,' an Indian film about the exploitation of poor individuals in a textile factory, but with its sights set upwards as it tracks the different layers of the Chinese social strata. Kingdon’s imagery meanwhile gives the impression of spontaneity but communicates loudly who the beneficiaries and the victims are of relentless industrial growth. Their faces are accompanied by an ominous score from composer Dan Deacon."
Carlos Aguilar, RogerEbert.com
"Jessica Kingdon’s fascinating observational documentary, which looks at aspiration, manufacture, consumption and waste in China, is full of such intriguing snapshots. Accompanied by a lithe, organic score by Dan Deacon, which weaves the rhythms of industry and technology into the music, the film is a mosaic portrait of the realities and repercussions of 'the Chinese dream'."
The Observer
"Kingdon and fellow cinematographer Nathan Truesdell share a tremendous observational sense and Ascension succeeds when it drops the viewer into an unfamiliar setting and lets us situate at a deliberate pace. Sometimes that might just involve waiting for context clues before going, 'Oh, they’re making blue jeans,' or spending a few seconds figuring out how the shiny plastic caps and piles of containers popping off an assembly line are part of a line bottling water, or processing the positioning of the camera above a graveyard of yellow rent-a-bikes, all beautiful and all commentaries on waste. Ascension could probably function without any actual on-camera people at all, meshing the factory imagery and later more affluent locations like an elaborate water park with Dan Deacon’s score, which often uses ambient manufacturing sounds as atonal components within the music."
Daniel Feinberg, The Hollywood Reporter
THE DESPERATE HOUR - Fil Eisler
"There's an alternately pulse-pounding and ethereally uplifting score that evokes work by Thomas Newman ('The Shawshank Redemption,' 'In the Bedroom') and clever drone shots that help us admire the fall foliage in the woodland areas Amy runs through. At the very end, there's a plaintive tune that might have a shot at a Best Original Song nomination at next year's Oscars, if this movie gets some traction with Oscar bloggers."
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
"Amy (Naomi Watts) is on a long morning run in the woods, and the titular hour refers to the time that it takes her to get to her son Noah’s (Colton Gobbo) school, where an active shooter incident has broken out. That would be sufficient enough drama for most films, but Amy is also dealing with the grief of her husband’s recent death and anxiety over Noah’s severe depression. And the filmmakers insist on backing her near-constant panic and emotional strife with a relentlessly overwrought and sappy score that highlights the fact that she’s less a fully realized character than a cipher whose pain is whittled down to fodder for cheap suspense."
Derek Smith, Slant Magazine
"The joke of all this, or maybe just the low-camp arduousness of it, is that the smartphone is a device that now seems about as novel as a television remote or a dishwasher. Why spin an entire movie around a wide-eyed presentation of its capabilities? Because, I guess, it seems like a hook. Shot with small-scale ingenuity during the pandemic, 'The Desperate Hour' is a minimalist 'topical' thriller. A lot of it consists of the camera, hand-held, right up at Amy’s face, or surveying the woods, with the suspense music pounding. It’s meant to be 'real time' suspense, and Naomi Watts, there’s no question, goes all out. In an accomplished piece of acting, she screams and cries, she modulates, she hyperventilates; she gives a highly existential performance of live-wire fear."
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
GREAT FREEDOM - Nils Petter Molvaer, Peter Brötzmann
"Meise’s script is short on words and long on stolen moments; much of the information we’re given is encrypted in prison code and untranslated by a score that tells us how to feel (there’s no non-diegetic music except for a few isolated appearances by a mournful jazz horn, which aren’t used to augment a certain emotion so much as they are to detail its absence)."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
THE PACT - Frederic Vercheval
"Deftly mounted, shot and scored, 'The Pact' is a master class in ensemble acting, led by Neumann in a visceral, deeply layered and knife‘s-edge turn. Bennebjerg is affecting as an Everyman caught between traditional and higher-minded desires, while Voss and August (the director’s daughter) deliver acutely sensitive, often heartbreaking performances."
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
SUPERCOOL - Jacques Brautbar
"The jokes might fall notably flatter than they do if 'Supercool' didn’t do a fair job living up to its title in all design departments, their contributions creating a slick, genial package. Burns Burns’ production design, Natalia Collazo’s costumes, Cory Geryak’s widescreen cinematography and more take pains to provide a lot of vividly hued stimulation, all propelled along by Jussi Rautaniemi’s lively editorial pace. One element that doesn’t elevate is the somewhat routinely antic synth sounds of Jacques Brautbar’s original score."
Dennis Harvey, Variety
"The concept behind 'Turning Red' premise is as inventive and zippy as anything in their catalog and, coming from the studio that has made animated classics about silent robots and an old man in a flying house, that says a lot. Mei (Rosalie Chiang) is a 13-year-old Chinese girl living in Toronto right after the turn of the millennium. She’s full of self-confidence and gumption -- she goes to school where she excels, then comes home to the temple her family runs and tries to make her exacting mother, Ming (Sandra Oh), happy. Also, she has a group of girlfriends (what would be referred to in contemporary culture as a squad), and together they obsess over their favorite boy band, 4*Town. (4*Town’s ultra-catchy songs were created by Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas and the intentionally syrupy score was composed by Ludwig Göransson.) So, you know, the usual."
Drew Taylor, The Playlist
"That of course means downplaying her obsession with 4*Town, a boy band whose pelvic gyrations and confusingly punctuated moniker are clearly modeled on ’N Sync (N*Sync? *NSYNC?) at the peak of its early-aughties popularity. It’s probably not revealing too much to note that a badly timed 4*Town concert will factor heavily into the plot, or that the band’s songs are velvety earworms of the highest order. (Billie Eilish and Finneas wrote the songs; Ludwig Göransson composed the movie’s score.) There’s something particularly pleasing about the harmony that 'Turning Red' achieves between the lyricism of ancient Chinese legend and the synthetic creaminess of teeny-bopper pop."
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"That of course takes place at the SkyDome, where Ludwig Göransson’s score -- mixing bouncy, big-synth pop with traditional Chinese music -- is interwoven with infernally catchy 4*Town gems titled 'U Know What’s Up,' 'Nobody Like U' and '1 True Love' (sample lyrics: 'Heavy rain on a Saturday / When you said my name in the saddest way'). Co-songwriter O’Connell also provides the sugary-sweet tight harmonies with Jordan Fisher, Topher Ngo, Grayson Villanueva and Josh Levi. Yes, there are five of them despite being called 4*Town, as Ming pedantically points out."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
WRITING WITH FIRE - Tadjar Juniad
"Thomas and Ghosh, who also shoot (along with co-DP Kharan Thapliyal) and edit, don’t make any huge formal leaps here. And a basic foreknowledge of India’s recent socio-political shifts is recommended to place some of the outlet’s heroics in context. But the directors have so much to work with, it’s impressive they produce as coherent a document as this. With composer Tadjar Juniad’s musical stings smoothing the transitions from one story to the next, they cover a lot. And just when it seems there’s no time for levity they’ll slip in an unexpectedly joyous moment, like a journalism-workshop tour of Kashmir where the women have a snowball fight. Or a beaming Suneetra, Khabar Lahariya’s first international representative, in a selfie video taken on a bright Sri Lankan beach."
Jessica Kiang, Variety
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
March 18
ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS (Frank Skinner) [Los Feliz 3]
CLOCKWATCHERS (Mader) [Academy Museum]
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Joe Hisaishi) [Landmark Westwood]
I SAW THE DEVIL (Mowg) [Brain Dead Studios]
I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Mark Korven) [Alamo Drafthouse]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
MAN BITES DOG (Jean-Marc Chenut, Laurence Dufrene, Philippe Malempre) [Brain Dead Studios]
MY HUSTLER [UCLA/Hammer]
PACIFIC RIM (Ramin Djawadi) [Landmark Nuart]
STALKER (Eduard Artemyev) [Aero]
THELMA & LOUISE (Hans Zimmer) [New Beverly]
VAGABOND (Joanna Bruzdowicz) [Los Feliz 3]
WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY [Los Feliz 3]
March 19
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (Theodore Shapiro), THE TREE OF LIFE (Alexandre Desplat) [Aero]
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (Nicholas Hooper) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE (Joe Hisaishi) [Landmark Westwood]
I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Mark Korven) [Alamo Drafthouse]
JENNIFER'S BODY (Theodore Shapiro, Stephen Barton) [New Beverly]
JOAN OF ARC OF MONGOLIA (Wilhelm Dieter Siebert) [Los Feliz 3]
THE KILLING (Gerald Fried) [Academy Museum]
MAGDALENA VIRAGA [Los Feliz 3]
MARY POPPINS (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Irwin Kostal) [Academy Museum]
POLICE STORY [Brain Dead Studios]
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Matthew Compton) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SEXY BEAST (Roque Banos) [Brain Dead Studios]
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Dimitri Tiomkin) [New Beverly]
TAKE SHELTER (David Wingo) [Los Feliz 3]
THIRTEEN CONVERSATIONS ABOUT ONE THING (Alex Wurman) [Academy Museum]
THE TWILGHT SAGA: NEW MOON (Alexandre Desplat) [Alamo Drafthouse]
March 20
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (Guy Gross) [Los Feliz 3]
AELITA: QUEEN OF MARS [Alamo Drafthouse]
BLACKSTAR: AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A CLOSE FRIEND [UCLA/Hammer]
CLIFFORD (Richard Gibbs) [Brain Dead Studios]
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN [Los Feliz 3]
HAPPY HOUR (Umitaro Abe) [Aero]
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Patrick Doyle) [IPIC Westwood]
I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Mark Korven) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE KILLING (Gerald Fried) [Brain Dead Studios]
NIGHTS OF CABIRIA (Nino Rota) [Los Feliz 3]
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (Bernard Herrmann) [Alamo Drafthouse]
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (Dimitri Tiomkin) [New Beverly]
THELMA & LOUISE (Hans Zimmer) [Academy Museum]
300 (Tyler Bates) [Hollywood Legion]
TO ARMS! WE ARE FACISTS (Egisto Macchi) [Academy Museum]
WEEKEND (Antoine Duhamel) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE WOMEN (Edward Ward, David Snell) [Los Feliz 3]
March 21
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
THE DEAD POOL (Lalo Schifrin) [Los Feliz 3]
EVIL DEAD 2 (Joseph LoDuca) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE GODFATHER (Nino Rota) [Academy Museum]
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (James Horner), LORDS OF THE DEEP (Jim Berenholtz) [New Beverly]
I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Mark Korven) [Alamo Drafthouse]
March 22
THE GRADUATE (Dave Grusin) [Academy Museum]
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Georges Delerue) [Los Feliz 3]
INDIA SONG (Carlos D'Alessio) [Los Feliz 3]
I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Mark Korven) [Alamo Drafthouse]
POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING (Matthew Compton) [Alamo Drafthose]
REAR WINDOW (Franz Waxman), TO CATCH A THIEF (Lyn Murray) [New Beverly]
March 23
THE GODFATHER PART II (Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola) [Academy Museum]
GOMORRAH [Brain Dead Studios]
HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (Nicholas Hooper) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR (Georges Delerue), INDIA SONG (Carlos D'Alessio) [Aero]
I'VE HEARD THE MERMAIDS SINGING (Mark Korven) [Alamo Drafthouse]
REAR WINDOW (Franz Waxman), TO CATCH A THIEF (Lyn Murray) [New Beverly]
THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME [Alamo Drafthouse]
TALK TO HER (Alberto Iglesias) [Laemmle Playhouse] [Laemmle Royal]
March 24
THE BLOODY CHILD, QUEEN OF DIAMONDS [Aero]
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
DISSOLUTION [Los Feliz 3]
MARIO PUZO'S THE GODFATHER, CODA: THE DEATH OF MICHAEL CORLEONE (Carmine Coppola) [Academy Museum]
REAR WINDOW (Franz Waxman), TO CATCH A THIEF (Lyn Murray) [New Beverly]
WHEN WE WERE KINGS [Brain Dead Studios]
March 25
COFFY (Roy Ayers), FOXY BROWN (Willie Hutch) [New Beverly]
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN [Los Feliz 3]
HELLO, DOLLY! (Jerry Herman, Lennie Hayton, Lionel Newman) [Aero]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
PERFECT BLUE (Masahiro Ikumi) [Landmark Nuart]
THE TERMINATOR (Brad Fiedel) [New Beverly]
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John Morris) [Landmark Westwood]
March 26
COFFY (Roy Ayers), FOXY BROWN (Willie Hutch) [New Beverly]
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
DJANGO (Luis Bacalov) [Brain Dead Studios]
FASTER, PUSSYCAT...KILL, KILL (Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter) [Brain Dead Studios]
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1 (Alexandre Desplat) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ICHI THE KILLER (Karera Musication, Seiichi Yamamoto) [Brain Dead Studios]
LA BAMBA (Carlos Santana, Miles Goodman)[Alamo Drafthouse]
LIVE AND LET DIE (George Martin) [New Beverly]
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (Joe Hisaishi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PHANTOM LOVE (Rich Ragsdale) [Los Feliz 3]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Landmark Nuart]
STUNT ROCK (Sorcery) [Alamo Drafthouse]
TWILIGHT (Carter Burwell) [New Beverly]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [Aero]
March 27
COMING APART (Francis Xavier) [Los Feliz 3]
THE CONVERSATION (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
FLESH + BLOOD (Basil Poledouris) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE GENERAL [Brain Dead Studios]
GOODBYE, DRAGON INN [Los Feliz 3]
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART 1 (Alexandre Desplat) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LIVE AND LET DIE (George Martin) [New Beverly]
NAUSICAA OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (Joe Hisaishi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD [New Beverly]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Julieta (Iglesias); The Pelican Brief (Horner); Pain and Glory (Iglesias); Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith); The Human Voice (Iglesias); Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Rosenman); Parallel Mothers (Iglesias); Escape from the Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith), The Film Music of Toru Takemitsu (Takemitsu), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (Scott)
Read: The Man with the Golden Gun, by Ian Fleming
Seen: Writing with Fire; Arabian Nights [1974]; Wolfwatchers; Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom; Turning Red; Great Freedom; When Harry Met Sally...; Doctor Zhivago; The Cuckoo Clock [1950]; Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
Watched: Death on the Nile [1978]; Star Trek ("A Private Little War"); Archer ("Bel Panto: Part 1"); Manhattan ("Overlord")
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