La-La Land has announced their first two new releases of 2023, due at the end of next week - an expanded edition of John Barry's score for the Richard Attenborough-directed biopic, CHAPLIN, which earned the composer the last of his seven Oscar nominations; and a "Remixed and Remastered Ultimate Cut" edition of Harry Manfredini's score for FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 2.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Women Talking - Hildur Guonadottir - Mercury
IN THEATERS TODAY
Megan - Anthony Willis
COMING SOON
January 13
Chaplin - John Barry - La-La Land
Doctor Who: Series 13 - The Specials - Segun Akinola - Silva
Friday the 13th Part 2 - Harry Manfredini - La-La Land
Till - Abel Korzeniowski - Decca
January 20
Halloween Ends - John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel E. Davies
February 24
The Retaliators - Kyle Dixon, Michael Stein - Better Noise
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
January 6 - David Whitaker born (1931)
January 6 - Aaron Zigman born (1963)
January 6 - John Williams records his score for Nightwatch (1966)
January 6 - A.R. Rahman born (1967)
January 6 - Leith Stevens records his score for the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “Man-Beast” (1968)
January 6 - Jerry Fielding begins recording his score for The Wild Bunch (1969)
January 6 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Blood Fever” (1997)
January 6 - Georgy Sviridov died (1998)
January 6 - Mario Nascimbene died (2002)
January 7 - Jose Maria Vitier born (1954)
January 7 - Jeff Richmond born (1961)
January 7 - Clint Mansell born (1963)
January 7 - Jerry Goldsmith records the pilot score to The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (1964)
January 7 - Paul Sawtell records his score for the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “Eleven Days to Zero” (1964)
January 7 - Joseph Mullendore records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Panic” (1970)
January 7 - Jeff Toyne born (1975)
January 7 - James Horner begins recording his score for Rascals and Robbers: The Secret Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1982)
January 7 - David Lindup died (1992)
January 8 - Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score to On Dangerous Ground (1951)
January 8 - Ron Goodwin died (2003)
January 8 - Andrae Crouch died (2015)
January 9 - Vic Mizzy born (1916)
January 9 - Robert F. Brunner born (1938)
January 9 - Scott Walker born (1943)
January 9 - Jimmy Page born (1944)
January 9 - Leroy Shield died (1962)
January 9 - James T. Sale born (1967)
January 9 - Alexander Courage records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" (1968)
January 9 - Kazimierz Serocki died (1981)
January 9 - Anton Karas died (1985)
January 9 - Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for The Delta Force (1986)
January 9 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Vanishing (1993)
January 9 - Recording sessions begin for John Powell’s score to Forces of Nature (1999)
January 10 - Jesus Garcia Leoz born (1904)
January 10 - Recording sessions begin for Hugo Friedhofer’s score to Wild Harvest (1947)
January 10 - Tom Chase born (1949)
January 10 - Carlo Siliotto born (1950)
January 10 - Recording sessions begin for Frederick Hollander's score for The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1952)
January 10 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Wounded” (1991)
January 11 - Charles Previn born (1888)
January 11 - Francesco De Masi born (1930)
January 11 - Michael J. Lewis born (1939)
January 11 - Wolfgang Zeller died (1967)
January 11 - Robert Prince records his score for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman episode “Spaced Out” (1979)
January 11 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The High Ground" (1990)
January 11 - David Whitaker died (2012)
January 12 - Joseph Gershenson born (1904)
January 12 - Pino Calvi born (1930)
January 12 - Franco Piersanti born (1950)
January 12 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score to Men of the Fighting Lady (1954)
January 12 - Frank LaLoggia born (1954)
January 12 - Jeremy Sams born (1957)
January 12 - Gabriel Migliori born (1975)
January 12 - Maurice Jarre begins recording his score for Mandingo (1975)
January 12 - John Williams begins recording his score for Family Plot (1976)
January 12 - Anna Meredith born (1978)
January 12 - Bryan Senti born (1983)
January 12 - Basil Poledouris begins recording his score to Amerika (1987)
January 12 - David Newman records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Such Interesting Neighbors" (1987)
January 12 - Luis Bonfa died (2001)
January 12 - Sadao Bekku died (2012)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
BONES AND ALL - Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
"Guadagnino’s formidable crew deserves credit for shaping the movie’s world too, including Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and regular film composing partner Atticus Ross, who contribute a striking score that imaginatively combines spare acoustic strumming with intense synthesizer blasts. Like 'Bones And All' itself, it’s simultaneously freaky and from the heart in a special, singular way."
Brett Buckalew, The Onion AV Club
"The director tries to fill in the empty spaces where emotional engagement should be with some nice photography and a deluge of music, much of it consisting of an insistently twangy, sub-Sundance faux-folk score that, shockingly, is credited to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. The approach might have worked, once. Wim Wenders used to make movies like this in his sleep. But those classic road movies worked because that director (and others who delved into the genre, such as Terrence Malick and Gus Van Sant) clearly shared a fascination with -- and even love for -- the land and the people along the way. It’s hard to sense any similar affection or interest in this world on Guadagnino’s part. The whole film, for all its gore and talk of animalistic abandon, feels like a dutiful, skin-deep pastiche."
Bilge Ebiri, New York
"Special notice should go to costume designer Giulia Piersanti, working for the fifth time with Guadagnino, who captures a believable thrift shop glamour for both Russell and Chalamet, while fashioning Rylance into something both creepy and mundane. The Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, working for the first time with Guadagnino, create a delicate, wistful score, including the tender ballad '(You Made It Feel Like) Home,' which provides a fitting final piece of punctuation."
Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
"'Bones and All' is a period piece, set at some point in the Eighties. Maren drifts silently through the chewed-up parts of America that the decade’s capitalist maximalism feasted on. There are school hallways plastered with vacant paintings of telephone pole landscapes. Morose, red-eyed service workers who seem like they haven’t had a good night’s sleep since they came out of the womb. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s minimalist score hums mournfully in the background like an elegy."
Clarisse Loughrey, The Independent
"Blood pours across gothic mahogany in rooms lined with chintzy floral wallpaper and ’80s tchotchkes, made better still by the film’s stunning sound design. Some scenes bring detached cannibalistic chomping, others have crescendoing winds across American plains. The soundtrack, largely period appropriate and featuring Duran Duran and Kiss, is perfectly utilized throughout. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s track for the film, '(You Made it Feel Like) Home,' punches through, in awful harmony with the haunting tragedy of the film itself."
Leila Latif, IndieWire
"'Bones and All' sees the filmmaker go big – hell, it sees everyone go big, from Rylance’s turbo-charged weirdo to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’ wall-to-wall score. The scares are real and lasting, the romantic interludes swoon, and the shots of rugged American grandeur are never too far off. Even apart from the tonal swings from prairie reverie to epic romance to body horror, the project treats its central conceit with similar 'Why Not Both?' gluttony."
Ben Croll, The Wrap
"'Bones and All' isn’t another addition to the 'actually about trauma' canon. But for a film that is also about cannibals, 'Bones and All' is far too tame, and too dull, and a chore to sit through. I’m not asking for 'The Green Inferno' or 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre', but it’s a tepid approach to man-eating horror that strips the subgenre of any real, tangible passion (even 'Raw,' a film I am extremely lukewarm on, did this better). Cannibal horror is given a sleek, lifeless arthouse sheen without the texture or pulp it deserves, beautiful but visually unexciting -- which takes away from much of the emotional impact of such a ravenous story. Bones and All is a gorgeous patchwork of rural American landscapes (cinematography credited to Arseni Khachaturan), with a handful of arresting transitions and a score by the powerhouse team of Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. But it all feels like a hollow shell harboring little underneath, especially not enough to sustain all 138 minutes."
Brianna Zigler, Paste Magazine
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older movies in Los Angeles-area theaters.
January 6
BRICK (Nathan Johnson) [New Beverly]
DJANGO UNCHAINED [New Beverly]
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Zbigniew Preisner) [Los Feliz 3]
FANTASIA [New Beverly]
GET OUT (Michael Abels) [BrainDead Studios]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Howard Shore) [Alamo Drafthouse]
TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME (Angelo Badalamenti) [Los Feliz 3]
WHAT'S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT (Stanley Clarke) [Los Feliz 3]
January 7
BODY DOUBLE (Pino Donaggio) [BrainDead Studios]
DEEP END (The Can, Cat Stevens] [Los Feliz 3]
FANTASIA [New Beverly]
FRANKENHOOKER (Joe Renzetti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE HUSTLER (Kenyon Hopkins) [Academy Museum]
LITTLE CHILDREN (Thomas Newman), IN THE BEDROOM (Thomas Newman) [Aero]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Howard Shore) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE PARENT TRAP (Alan Silvestri) [BrainDead Studios]
REAL WOMEN HAVE CURVES (Heitor Pereira) [Los Feliz 3]
TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME (Angelo Badalamenti) [Los Feliz 3]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [BrainDead Studios]
THE VIGIL (Michael Yezerski) [New Beverly]
WILLOW (James Horner) [Academy Museum]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart) [New Beverly]
January 8
BONNIE AND CLYDE (Charles Strouse) [Academy Museum]
FANTASIA [New Beverly]
FORCE MAJEURE [Los Feliz 3]
MEMENTO (David Julyan) [BrainDead Studios]
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Angelo Badalamenti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PORTRAIT OF JASON [BrainDead Studios]
SHALLOW HAL (Billy Goodrum, Ivy) [BrainDead Studios]
THE SQUARE [Los Feliz 3]
SUNSET BLVD. (Franz Waxman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (John Williams) [Academy Museum]
VIRDIANA [Los Feliz 3]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart) [New Beverly]
January 9
THE BIG RASCAL (Mou-Shan Huang), SHAOLIN KUNG FU MASTER (Fu-Liang Chou) [New Beverly]
ESSENTIAL KILLING (Pawel Mykietyn) [Los Feliz 3]
FORMULA FOR A MURDER (Francesco De Masi) [Los Feliz 3]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Howard Shore) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Angelo Badalamenti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SUNSET BLVD. (Franz Waxman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
January 10
BUSTING (Billy Goldenberg), LITTLE DARLINGS (Charles Fox) [New Beverly]
FRANKENHOOKER (Joe Renzetti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING (Howard Shore) [Alamo Drafthouse]
METROPOLIS (Gottfried Huppertz) [Academy Museum]
MOONLIGHTING (Stanley Myers) [Los Feliz 3]
WAITING TO EXHALE (Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds) [Los Feliz 3]
January 11
BUSTING (Billy Goldenberg), LITTLE DARLINGS (Charles Fox) [New Beverly]
THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER [BrainDead Studios]
FRANKENHOOKER (Joe Renzetti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HOW STELLA GOT HER GROOVE BACK (Michel Colombier) [Los Feliz 3]
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Angelo Badalamenti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
January 12
BORDER (Christoffer Berg, Martin Dirkov) [Los Feliz 3]
RACHEL, RACHEL (Jerome Moross) [Academy Museum]
January 13
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Los Feliz 3]
BOTTLE ROCKET (Mark Mothersbaugh) [New Beverly]
DJANGO UNCHAINED [New Beverly]
FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 6: JASON LIVES (Harry Manfredini) [Alamo Drafthouse]
JASON GOES TO HELL: THE FINAL FRIDAY (Harry Manfredini) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LIONS LOVE (...AND LIES) (Joseph Byrd) [Academy Museum]
VIOLENT STREETS (Masaru Sato) [Alamo Drafthouse]
January 14
BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM (Shirley Walker) [New Beverly]
BIG TOP PEE-WEE (Danny Elfman) [Academy Museum]
THE DARJEELING LIMITED [BrainDead Studios]
IDENTIFICATION MARKS: NONE (Kryzysztof Sadowski) [Los Feliz 3]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS (Howard Shore) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MODEL SHOP [Academy Museum]
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Danny Elfman) [New Beverly]
SUBMARINE (Andrew Hewitt) [Los Feliz 3]
THE VIGIL (Michael Yezerski) [New Beverly]
WINGS OF DESIRE (Jurgen Knieper) [BrainDead Studios]
January 15
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Los Feliz 3]
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND (John Williams) [Academy Museum]
HUGO (Howard Shore) [Aero]
JOHNNY EAGER (Bronislau Kaper) [Los Feliz 3]
KAGEMUSHA (Shinichiro Ikebe) [BrainDead Studios]
PADDINGTON (Nick Urata) [BrainDead Studios]
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Danny Elfman) [New Beverly]
THE RED SHOES (Brian Easdale) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SERPICO (Mikis Theodorakis) [Academy Museum]
SPARTACUS (Alex North) [New Beverly]
WALKOVER (Andrzej Trzaskowski) [Los Feliz 3]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: The Breakfast Club (various), Henry and June (various), The Addams Family (Shaiman), Wonder Boys (Young), John Q. (Zigman), Fireflies in the Garden (Navarrete), Fireflies in the Garden (Cornish)
Read: The Liar, by Stephen Fry
Seen: Pina; A Man Called Otto; Broker; Goodbye to Language; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Inside Out; Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery; I Wanna Dance with Somebody; The Poseidon Adventure; Corsage; Moon
Watched: The Man from Hong Kong; Star Trek: Enterprise ("Observer Effect"); Bob's Burgers ("Art Crawl"); Counterpart ("Shadow Puppets"); The Good Place ("Everything Is Great! Parts 1 & 2"); The Deuce ("All You'll Be Eating Is Cannibals"); Hacks ("Tunnel of Love"); Fargo ("The Principle of Restricted Choice"); Inside Amy Schumer ("A Porn Star Is Born"); Justified ("When the Guns Come Out"); Key & Peele ("Das Negroes"); The Knick ("Mr. Paris Shoes"); Silicon Valley ("Optimal Tip-To-Tip Efficiency")
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