The latest release from Intrada is a two-disc edition of Jerry Goldsmith's rousing score for the 1977 biopic MACARTHUR. Producer Frank McCarthy's follow-up to his Best Picture winner Patton, it was directed by Joseph Sargent (Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) and starred Gregory Peck as the controversial US general, Dan O'Herlihy as FDR and Ed Flanders as Truman. Disc One features the original score as recorded for the film, plus alternates and source music, and Disc Two features the tracks re-recorded for the original MCA LP release.
Quartet has announced an epic batch of end-of-year releases, with scores by six top composers including five Oscar winners and one nominee.
Fernando Velazquez has conducted a new, two-disc recording of several John Barry scores - the first full recording of SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON, the Bryan Forbes-directed suspense thriller that starred Richard Attenborough and an Oscar-nominated Kim Stanley; the 1972 feature film version of Henrik Ibsen's classic play A DOLL'S HOUSE, starring Claire Bloom, Anthony Hopkins and Ralph Richardson; and three TV films starring Katharine Hepburn -- the 1973 TV adapation of Tennesse Williams' stage classic THE GLASS MENAGERIE, directed by Anthony Harvey (The Lion In Winter); LOVE AMONG THE RUINS, pairing Hepburn with another acting legend, Laurence Olivier, and directed by George Cukor; and another Cukor project, the remake of THE CORN IS GREEN.
A two-disc set pairing two early, Emmy-winning scores by John Williams: the 1968 version of HEIDI (including his score as well as the narrated LP tracks) and the 1970 version of JANE EYRE, starring Susannah York and George C. Scott, including some alternate cues.
Spain's submission for the 2023 International Feature Film Oscar is SOCIETY OF THE SNOW, an adaptation of the recent non-fiction book documenting the tragic 1972 plane crash in the Andes which previously inspired the films Survive! and Alive. Directed by J.A. Bayona (The Impossible, The Orphanage), the score reunites him with his Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom composer, Michael Giacchino.
One of the first major studio releases to feature a score by Michael Kamen was 1982's VENOM (no relation to the Marvel Comics character), an off-beat combination of hostage thriller and animals-attack horror, directed by Piers Haggard (The Blood on Satan's Claw, A Summer Story) and starring Klaus Kinski, Sterling Hayden, Nicol Williamson, Susan George and Oliver Reed. This is the first commercial release of Kamen's score, with the composer conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra.
Ennio Morricone scored the 1979 romantic thriller BLOODLINE, based on a Sidney Sheldon novel with Terence Young directing an all-star cast including Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Irene Papas, Romy Schneider, Gert Frobe and Omar Sharif. Quartet's two-disc edition features the full film score on Disc One, plus source cues, and the original sequencing from the Varese LP, plus alternates, on Disc Two.
James Horner composed the score to DAD, the 1989 dramedy starring Jack Lemmon (in Oscar-nominated Dick Smith age makeup) and Ted Danson. Quartet's two-disc release features the film score plus alternates on Disc One, and the original MCA release sequencing on Disc Two.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
La Donna Invisible - Ennio Morricone - Beat
MacArthur - Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada Special Collection
Pleasantville: The Deluxe Edition - Randy Newman - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Serenity: The Deluxe Edition - David Newman - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Terrahawks - Richard Harvey - Silva
Wonka - Joby Talbot (score), Neil Hannon (songs) - WaterTower [CD-R]
IN THEATERS TODAY
American Fiction - Laura Karpman
Anselm - Leonard Kubner - Score LP on Groenland Records
Rebel Moon: Part One - A Child of Fire - Tom Holkenborg
The Taste of Things - no original score
Wonka - Joby Talbot (score), Neil Hannon (songs) - Score CD-R on WaterTower
The Zone of Interest - Mica Levi
COMING SOON
January 12
Atlas - Ronald Stein - Kronos
Los Mercados - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter - Kronos
Uomini e mari - Francesco De Masi - Kronos
Date Unknown
The Bionic Woman: Vol. 5 - Joe Harnell - Buysoundtrax [CD-R]
Blastfighter - Fabio Frizzi - Beat
Bloodline - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Dad - James Horner - Quartet
The Daniel Licht Collection Vol. 2 - Daniel Licht - Dragon's Domain [CD-R]
El Cuco - Diego Navarro - MovieScore Media
Gli Italiani e l'industria - Piero Umiliani - Kronos
Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Colonne Sonore Delle Serie TV Dal 1985 Al 1998 - Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Beat
Heidi/Jane Eyre - John Williams - Quartet
The House Where Evil Dwells - Ken Thorne - Dragon's Domain
The Joe Harnell Collection Vol. 3 - Joe Harnell - Five Jays [CD-R]
Lee Holdridge and His Orchestra - Lee Holdridge, various - Buysoundtrax
Piedone d'egitto - Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Beat
Plane - Marco Beltrami, Marcus Trumpp - Rambling (import)
Runaway: The Early Works of David Shire - David Shire - Caldera
Seance on a Wet Afternoon/Katharine Hepburn - John Barry - Quartet
Society of the Snow - Michael Giacchino - Quartet
Squadra Antimafia - Goblin - Beat
Tess - Philippe Sarde - Music Box
Venom - Michael Kamen - Quartet
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
December 15 - Gone With the Wind has its world premiere in Atlanta (1939)
December 15 - The Man with the Golden Arm opens in New York (1955)
December 15 - Alan Ari Lazar born (1967)
December 15 - Ennio Morricone begins recording his score for Days of Heaven (1977)
December 16 - Lud Gluskin born (1898)
December 16 - Noel Coward born (1899)
December 16 - Georgy Sviridov born (1915)
December 16 - Camille Saint-Saens died (1921)
December 16 - Marco Frisina born (1954)
December 16 - Adam Gorgoni born (1963)
December 16 - Recording sessions begin for Cyril Mockdridge’s score for Donovan’s Reef (1963)
December 16 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for In Harm's Way (1964)
December 16 - Robert Prince records his score for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman episode “The Deadly Toys” (1977)
December 16 - Richard Band records his score for Terrorvision (1985)
December 16 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his unused Timeline score (2002)
December 16 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Chosen Realm” (2003)
December 16 - Freddie Perren died (2004)
December 17 - Leo Erdody born (1888)
December 17 - Craig Safan born (1948)
December 17 - Winfried Zillig died (1963)
December 17 - Lalo Schifrin begins recording his score for Rhino! (1963)
December 17 - Paul Hepker born (1967)
December 17 - Don Ellis died (1978)
December 17 - John Debney records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Pegasus” (1993)
December 17 - Galt MacDermot died (2018)
December 18 - Joel Hirschhorn born (1937)
December 18 - Jean Musy born (1947)
December 18 - Maurice Jarre begins recording his score for The Last Flight of Noah’s Ark (1979)
December 18 - Out of Africa opens in New York and Los Angeles (1985)
December 18 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Datalore" (1987)
December 19 - Paul Dessau born (1894)
December 19 - Robert B. Sherman born (1925)
December 19 - Galt MacDermot born (1928)
December 19 - Herbert Stothart begins recording his score for Northwest Passage (1939)
December 19 - Recording sessions begin for Frederick Hollander’s score for The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
December 19 - Walter Murphy born (1952)
December 19 - Duane Tatro’s score for The Invaders episode “Counter-Attack” is recorded (1967)
December 19 - Fred Karlin begins recording his score to The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1973)
December 19 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for Going Ape (1980)
December 19 - Michel Magne died (1984)
December 19 - Roger Webb died (2002)
December 20 - Aaron Copland begins recording his score to The Heiress (1948)
December 20 - Cyril Mockridge records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Questing Beast" (1966)
December 20 - Alex North begins recording his score to The Devil's Brigade (1967)
December 20 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Red Pony (1972)
December 20 - Ned Washington died (1976)
December 20 - Jerry Goldsmith records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Boo!" (1985)
December 20 - Richard Hazard died (2000)
December 20 - David Bell records his score for the Enterprise episode “Dawn” (2002)
December 20 - Arlon Ober died (2004)
December 21 - Derek Scott born (1921)
December 21 - Franco Micalizzi born (1939)
December 21 - Frank Zappa born (1940)
December 21 - David Michael Frank born (1948)
December 21 - Matthieu Chabrol born (1956)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
EILEEN - Richard Reed Parry
"Oldroyd and cinematographer Ari Wegner evoke an immersively detailed world beneath a fuzzed-out celluloid grit. Oldroyd’s affinity for rear projection in a couple of driving scenes and the Val Lewton-style typeface in the opening credits crawl summon a nostalgia for the noirish romances about unloved but not bad people of yore -- but the stylistic choices never feel hokey. Richard Reed Parry’s score, mixing jazz with more shivery ominous orchestral arrangements, amply abets the movie’s toxic pull."
Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire
"The film lives and dies by the electric connection between Eileen and Rebecca, escalating until a dark detour in the third act. Hathaway nails Rebecca’s toxic appeal. Styled like a Hitchcock blonde, she sashays her way between camp and truthfulness, crafting a deliciously appealing brand of unhingedness that signals a new phase for the actress. Underlined by the spectacularly jarring soundtrack by Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry, every moment shared between them feels almost supernatural."
Anna Bogutskaya, Time Out
"Apart from the shades of red that occasionally slip into the frame -- a slash of lipstick, a spurt of blood, a shiny Thunderbird convertible -- Ari Wegner’s muted images mostly run the visual gamut from industrial grays to nicotine browns. Craig Lathrop, the production designer behind the vivid, hallucinatory landscapes of Robert Eggers’ 'The Northman' and 'The Lighthouse,' here embeds us in a dimmer but no less enveloping world of dilapidated homes and joyless offices. It’s almost Christmas, but the chill in the air has less to do with the season than with a free-floating vibe of bitterness and disappointment -- signaled by the delicious notes of unease in Richard Reed Perry’s smoky-jazzy score."
Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
"For most of its runtime, Eileen’s stylistic choices click into place with its narrative. Oldroyd and Wegner smartly highlight Hathaway, McKenzie and spectacular pinch-hitter Marin Ireland’s best features in close-up, lingering on the three women long enough that the audience can become just as entranced by them as they are by each other. Richard Reed Parry’s score cracks and swings like the tenuous icicles that decorate Eileen’s front door. Even the more enthusiastic bops that buoy Eileen and Rebecca when they’re out dancing stew in their minor key bridges, underpinning any happiness with cynicism and warning. Oldroyd couldn’t be accused of subtlety, but that’s not what this rip-current is aiming for. By the time Eileen realizes that Rebecca’s investment in her isn’t one of pure, uncomplicated adoration, she’s already in too deep."
Shayne Maci Warner, Paste Magazine
"Anyone who saw British director William Oldroyd’s 'Lady Macbeth' at the Sundance Film Festival back in 2017 will hardly be surprised to hear that Oldroyd’s followup, 'Eileen,' is one of the boldest provocations to hit Sundance in 2023. A blackly humorous riff on film noir that tells you with the opening notes of Richard Reed Perry’s score that it’s heading for some very dark and doomy places, it’s both a tour de force for a cast led by Thomasin McKenzie and a sign that Oldroyd hasn’t lost his unsettling touch in the seven years since his last film."
Steve Pond, The Wrap
"Under the skittish brushed cymbals of Richard Reed Parry’s superb jazz score, which manages to be both sultry and impatient as it moves from discordant passages to sweetly tuneful resolves, Rebecca starts to takes a special interest in one of the penitentiary’s inmates. Leo Polk (Sam Nivola) is doing time for stabbing his father to death one night as he lay in bed next to his mother (Marin Ireland, whose shattering monologue here gives her her second outstanding Sundance moment this year after 'Birth/Rebirth'). Eileen is fascinated by the boy too, with his crime seemingly fuelling her own patricidal fantasies In direct contradiction of Rebecca’s airy assertion that Massachusetts is a place of 'no fantasy, no imagination,' Eileen daydreams violently in shocking sequences that Oldroyd deliberately shoots and edits like they’re really happening."
Jessica Kiang, Variety
"But the film springs a major surprise midway, as the psychologist confesses to a rash move, revealing the rattled woman beneath the smooth veneer. She pulls her young friend into a shockingly compromising situation that goes further awry once the initially reluctant Eileen gets on board and agrees to help. The dormant noir tones -- slyly suggested since the opening shot of a car shrouded in fog and fueled by the agitated crescendos of Richard Reed Parry’s wonderfully arch score -- blossom to full flower."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
GODZILLA MINUS ONE - Naoki Sato
"Godzilla’s also in 'Godzilla Minus One,' by the way, and he’s treated with apparent reverence. 'Godzilla Minus One' is a well-calibrated popcorn movie, and you can hear it in the way that its creators play up fan favorite devices and associations. It’s an event when he roars or deploys his fire breath for the first time in this movie. Godzilla fans will probably also feel appropriately flattered by the strategic use of a few song cues from Akira Ifukube’s now iconic 'Gojira' score. Ifukube’s music is worked in seamlessly without sounding much like new music by 'Godzilla Minus One' composer Naoki Sato, who lays down a droning orchestral wall of sound that his string section flits across like a surfer riding a towering and perpetually cresting wave. It’s one of the most rousing and nerve-wracking original scores in a recent Godzilla movie. Tactically deployed silences and mood-setting background noises also punctuate and goose the already overwhelming on-screen action."
Simon Abrams, RogerEbert.com
"As for Godzilla himself, this is a great design: a mixture of the sinister, snarling leviathan of the early Heisei era and the bubbling, twisted, cancerous mass of 'Shin Godzilla,' with a stunning new version of his energy-channeling back spikes. To see him smash through a newly rebuilt Tokyo to Akira Ifukube's classic theme, filmed in a way that might trigger memories of 'Saving Private Ryan,' is both astounding and oddly sobering. It's a spectacle throughout which Yamazaki keeps Koichi, his proxy family, and his oddball workmates centered. The real conflict is within, as the pilot faces a simple but defining choice: to finish his kamikaze mission, or to protect and embrace the life he doesn't feel he needs. And that's where Yamazaki truly finds the heart of 'Godzilla Minus One:' as a simple metaphor for the postwar change in Japanese culture from one where you were expected to sacrifice yourself without question to one where the hope is to live for others. There's as much of Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru here as there is the rubber-suit genius of Godzilla creator Ishiro Honda (himself never shy of political subtext), and that's a pairing as powerful as any monster mash-up."
Richard Whittaker, The Austin Chronicle
"Despite a few lapses into lumpy melodrama, Yamazki’s thoughtful script holds firm and is dotted with delightful humor at just the right moments. Much of the personal drama is serious and heartfelt but Yamazaki always remembers we’re in B-movie monster land, just not too campy this time around. Naoki Sato’s subtle orchestral score is perfectly in tune with the film’s emotional undercurrents and leaps wonderfully to life when Big G goes on the warpath. It’s always a pleasure to hear Akira Ifukube’s original Godzilla Theme, which is nicely incorporated into the soundscape."
Richard Kuipers, Variety
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES - James Newton Howard
"The orchestral thunder of James Newton Howard’s score marries well with Lucy Gray’s songs, in which executive music producer Dave Cobb crafts rousing tunes around Collins’ lyrics, adding fire to the heroine’s rebel spirit."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
SILENT NIGHT - Marco Beltrami
"Nobody speaks a full word of written dialogue. Characters grunt when they crash against a wall, get punched in the gut, or are struck by a car. They gasp or scream when they're shot or tortured. You hear sound effects and soundscape noises throughout, such as wind, rain, footsteps, and traffic. There are pop songs with lyrics on the soundtrack, interspersed with long stretches of Marco Beltrami's deeply felt, unabashedly melodramatic score. But nobody talks, as a regular person would. They exchange looks. Or, if they're alone and contemplating something tragic or troubling, they'll stare into space or down at their hands, lost in thought. The cast appears to have trusted Woo and jacked into his wavelength. Moreno and Kinnaman seem to be pulling things out of their guts that they didn't realize were in there. Some of the shots of characters grieving are difficult to watch because the performers are emotionally naked, not protecting themselves. When grief gives way to fear or rage, the effect is volcanic. Combine the actors' efforts with Beltrami's score, which runs through probably eighty percent of the running time, and Woo's conductor's-baton pacing, and you're looking at a river of feeling that never stops flowing.
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
"The whole production is so generically assembled that even the elements that should flourish in a movie light on dialogue (like Marco Beltrami’s score) feel phoned in. Having 'Silent Night' be a Christmas movie also proves a wash, since neither Woo’s filmmaking nor Lynn’s script really find super imaginative ways to incorporate the holiday into the story beyond some ham-fisted needle drops and a beleaguered cop saying, 'Some Christmas this is!' during a tense shootout. The yuletide backdrop of Godluck’s rampage is just another aspect of 'Silent Night' that never goes anywhere interesting."
Lisa Liman, Collider
"Woo underscores 'Silent Night''’s initially sullen tone through flourishes that find their greatest potency when he applies them for solely pathos-wringing purposes. A swelling music cue will commence right as a bereaved Brian stumbles through his son’s now-vacant room, one of the many dimly lit spaces in his mausoleum-like suburban home. A continuous shot of Brian running up a flight of stairs while battling a bunch of goons later on is electrifying, as is the big, climactic showdown that’s kicked into motion by a Grimes needle drop. But watching Woo apply his craft to comparably more humdrum episodes and bring poeticism to the prosaic is a welcome reminder that his gifts extend beyond orchestrating fierce shootouts."
Paul Attard, Slant Magazine
"'Silent Night' is not, as its title might suggest, a silent movie. Between all those bullets and Marco Beltrami’s pulsating score, it’s quite a noisy one, in fact. What Woo’s return to American shores really represents is an extended stab at what Alfred Hitchcock called 'pure cinema': using the camera, editing and sound design -- rather than dialogue -- to tell the story. Better yet, it’s a hat tip to French director Jean-Pierre Melville, an idol of Woo’s, who pared the talk down to a bare minimum in his masterpieces 'Le Samouraï' and 'Le Cercle Rouge.'"
Peter Debruge, Variety
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
December 15
BABEL (Gustavo Santaolalla) [Los Feliz 3]
BIRTH (Alexandre Desplat) [Los Feliz 3]
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [Alamo Drafthouse]
CAROL (Carter Burwell) [New Beverly]
THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE (James Newton Howard) [Vidiots]
DROP DEAD FRED (Randy Edelman) [Nuart]
THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD (Dalpalan, Young-gyu Jang) [Academy Museum]
GREMLINS (Jerry Goldsmith) [Vidiots]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Walter Schumann) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (Paul Williams, George Aliceson Tipton) [Vidiots]
RUN LOLA RUN (Tom Wykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil) [UCLA/Hammer]
SKINAMARINK [Alamo Drafthouse]
SIDEWAYS (Rofe Kent) [Aero]
2046 (Shigeru Umebayashi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
2046 (Shigeru Umebayashi) [New Beverly]
UNDER THE SKIN (Mica Levi) [Los Feliz 3]
WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Mihaly Vig) [BrainDead Studios]
December 16
THE FOUL KING (Young-gyu Jang), BROKER (Jung Jae-il) [Academy Museum]
THE GAME (Howard Shore) [Los Feliz 3]
A GHOST STORY (Daniel Hart) [BrainDead Studios]
HOME ALONE (John Williams) [Vidiots]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Alamo Drafthouse]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin), GREMLINS (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
LA LA LAND (Justin Hurwitz) [Aero]
MOONSTRUCK (Dick Hyman) [Vidiots]
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (Paul Williams, Miles Goodman) [New Beverly]
MYSTIC RIVER (Clint Eastwood) [Los Feliz 3]
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Walter Schumann) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Javier Navarrete) [Vidiots]
PAPER MOON [Los Feliz 3]
THE PASSIONS OF CAROL [New Beverly]
POLICE STORY (Siu-Tin Lai) [Vidiots]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
SHREK (John Powell, Harry Gregson-Williams) [Landmark Westwood]
UP (Michael Giacchino) [Academy Museum]
VERONIKA VOSS (Peer Raben) [BrainDead Studios]
WHEN THE WIND BLOWS (Roger Waters) [BrainDead Studios]
December 17
BASQUIAT (John Cale) [Aero]
BLAST OF SILENCE (Meyer Kupferman) [Los Feliz 3]
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [Alamo Drafthouse]
CHARADE (Henry Mancini) [Academy Museum]
DEEP IMPACT (James Horner) [BrainDead Studios]
ELF (John Debney) [Alamo Drafthouse]
GOLD DIGGERS OF 1935 (Harry Warren, Ray Heindorf) [Los Feliz 3]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Alamo Drafthouse]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin), GREMLINS (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (Paul Williams, Miles Goodman) [New Beverly]
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (Paul Williams, Miles Goodman) [Vidiots]
NINE DAYS (Antonio Pinto), AFTER LIFE (Yasuhiro Kasamatsu) [UCLA/Hammer]
SCROOGE (Leslie Bricusse, Ian Fraser, Herbert Spencer) [Vidiots]
SCROOGED (Danny Elfman) [Vidiots]
SEXY BEAST (Roque Banos) [Los Feliz 3]
SUNSET BLVD. (Franz Waxman) [BrainDead Studios]
A TIME FOR BURNING [Academy Museum]
2046 (Shigeru Umebayashi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
WOYZECK [BrainDead Studios]
December 18
BIRTH (Alexandre Despplat) [Los Feliz 3]
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [Alamo Drafthouse]
CHILDREN OF MEN (John Tavener), SNOWPIERCER (Marco Beltrami) [New Beverly]
ELF (John Debney) [Alamo Drafthouse]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Alamo Drafthouse]
REPO MAN (Steven Hufsteter, Humbertgo Larriva) [Los Feliz 3]
THE THRONE (Jun-seok Bang) [Academy Museum]
December 19
ALL THAT JAZZ (Ralph Burns) [Vidiots]
BLACK SWAN (Clint Mansell) [Vidiots]
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [Alamo Drafthouse]
CHILDREN OF MEN (John Tavener), SNOWPIERCER (Marco Beltrami) [New Beverly]
DEEP COVER (Michel Colombier) [Alamo Drafthouse]
FLAMIN' HOT (Marcelo Zarvos) [Los Feliz 3]
December 20
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [Alamo Drafthouse]
FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (Ira Newborn) [Vidiots]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Alamo Drafthouse]
JULES (Volker Bertelmann) [Aero]
THE LAST WALTZ [Vidiots]
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION (Angelo Badalamenti), SCROOGED (Danny Elfman) [New Beverly]
SKINAMARINK [Alamo Drathouse]
TIME OF THE WOLF [BrainDead Studios]
UNDER THE SKIN (Mica Levi) [Academy Museum]
WINTER KILLS (Maurice Jarre) [Los Feliz 3]
December 21
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (Jon Brion) [Vidiots]
GREMLINS (Jerry Goldsmith) [BrainDead Studios]
JOINT SECURITY AREA (Jun-seok Bang, Cho Young-wuk) [Academy Museum]
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S CHRISTMAS VACATION (Angelo Badalamenti), SCROOGED (Danny Elfman) [New Beverly]
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Danny Elfman) [Vidiots]
December 22
BAD SANTA (David Kitay) [Los Feliz 3]
COOLEY HIGH (Freddie Perren) [Academy Museum]
DR. SEUSS' THE GRINCH (Danny Elfman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (Danny Elfman) [Nuart]
EYES WIDE SHUT (Jocelyn Pook) [New Beverly]
IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD, MAD WORLD (Ernest Gold) [Egyptian]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Aero]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
MIAMI VICE (John Murphy) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Walter Schumann) [Los Feliz 3]
PROMETHEUS (Marc Streitenfeld) [New Beverly]
THE RAPTURE (Thomas Newman) [BrainDead Studios]
TANGERINE [Los Feliz 3]
THIEF (Tangerine Dream) [Alamo Drafthouse]
TRAIN TO BUSAN (Young-gyu Jang) [Vidiots]
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO + JULIET (Craig Armstrong, Nellie Hooper, Marius De Vries) [Vidiots]
December 23
ARTHUR CHRISTMAS (Harry Gregson-Williams) [New Beverly]
BATMAN RETURNS (Danny Elfman) [Egyptian]
BLACK CHRISTMAS (Carl Zittrer) [Vidiots]
CROSSING DELANCEY (Paul Chihara) [Los Feliz 3]
DIE HARD (Michael Kamen) [Egyptian]
DOWNFALL (Stephan Zacharias) [BrainDead Studios]
ELF (John Debney) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ELF (John Debney) [Vidiots]
EYES WIDE SHUT (Jocelyn Pook) [New Beverly]
EYES WIDE SHUT (Jocelyn Pook) [Vidiots]
HOLIDAY AFFAIR (Roy Webb), THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (Frederick Hollander) [Aero]
HOME ALONE (John Williams) [Los Feliz 3]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Alamo Drafthouse]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Egyptian]
JINGLE ALL THE WAY (David Newman) [Landmark Westwood]
KISS KISS BANG BANG (John Ottman) [Los Feliz 3]
MEDIUM COOL [Academy Museum]
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL (Paul Williams, Miles Goodman) [Vidiots]
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Walter Schumann) [Los Feliz 3]
THE NUTCRACKER AND THE FOUR REALMS (James Newton Howard) [Academy Museum]
THE SHINING (Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind) [New Beverly]
THIRST (Cho Young-wuk) [Academy Museum]
THE WAGES OF FEAR (Georges Auric) [BrainDead Studios]
December 24
THE BISHOP'S WIFE (Hugo Friedhofer) [Los Feliz 3]
DIE HARD (Michael Kamen) [New Beverly]
DIE HARD (Michael Kamen) [Vidiots]
ELF (John Debney) [Aero]
ELF (John Debney) [Alamo Drafthouse]
IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Egyptian]
THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Walter Schumann) [Los Feliz 3]
THE POLAR EXPRESS (Alan Silvestri) [Academy Museum]
TANGERINE [Los Feliz 3]
WHITE CHRISTMAS (Irving Berlin, Joseph J. Lilley) [Egyptian]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart) [Vidiots]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Kiss Me Kate (Porter); Hoop Dreams (Sidran); Follies (Sondheim); Turkish Delight (Van Otterloo); Assault on a Queen (Ellington); The China Syndrome (Small); Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook Vol. 1 (Berlin); The Film Music of Georges Auric Vol. 1 (Auric): The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 6 (Holiday); Dawn Reimagined (Rubinstein); News of the World (Howard)
Read: The Man Who Sold Death, by James Munro (aka James Mitchell)
Seen: Parasite [2019]; Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance; Ride the High Country; Saltburn; Memories of Murder; Origin; Secret Sunshine; America America; Monster [2023]; Life of Pi
Watched: Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter; Star Trek: Discovery ("Anomaly"); Arrested Development ("Not Without My Daughter")
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