The latest Kickstarter project from Intrada is a new recording of Jerry Goldsmith's complete score for director J. Lee Thompson's 1969 China-set international spy thiller THE CHAIRMAN, starring Gregory Peck.
Quartet has announced two new Ennio Morricone CDs - an expanded edition of A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), Elio Petri's 1968 psychological thriller starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave; and a remastered edition of his score for Petri's 1971 drama THE WORKING CLASS GO TO HEAVEN (La classe operaia va in paradiso).
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its associated labels are GERALD FRIED: DISASTERS!, featuring two TV scores by the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning composer, Disaster on the Coastliner and Condominium; THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 8, featuring music from The Day Mars Invaded Earth (Richard LaSalle), 12 to the Moon (Michael Anderson), Flight to Mars (Marlin Skiles) and Target Earth (Paul Dunlap); and THE INQUIRER - THE FILM MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN, a collection of Herrmann music, both re-recordings and original tracks, previously released by Label X.
The Soundtrax Film Music Festival and conference will be held this year on October 16-18 in Rochester, New York. For more information go to this link.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
La morte non conta i dollari - Nora Orlandi, Robby Poitevin - Beat
L'anticristo/Sepolta viva - Ennio Morricone - Beat
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Legend of Ochi - David Longstreth
The President's Wife - Anne-Sophie Versnaeyen
The Shrouds - Howard Shore
Sinners - Ludwig Goransson
Sneaks - Terrace Martin
The Teacher - Alex Baranowski
The Ugly Stepsister - John Erik Kaada
The Uninvited - Eric Avery
We Were Dangerous - Cam Ballantyne
The Wedding Banquet - Jay Wadley
COMING SOON
May 2
Once Within a Time - Philip Glass, Susan Deyhim - Orange Mountain
May 9
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Chris Benstead - Filmtrax
May 23
Speak No Evil - Sune "Koter" Kolster - Svart
May 30
A Quiet Place in the Country - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
The Working Class Go to Heaven - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Aug 1
The Brutalist - Daniel Blumberg - Milan
Coming Soon
Gerald Fried: Disasters! - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Vol. 8 - Michael Anderson, Paul Dunlap, Richard LaSalle, Marlin Skiles - Dragon's Domain
Gladiator - Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard - La-La Land
The Inquirer: The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann - Bernard Herrmann - Dragon's Domain
Stand By for Action! 2: Tunes of Danger - various - Silva
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
April 18 - Alois Melichar born (1896)
April 18 - Miklos Rozsa born (1907)
April 18 - Tony Mottola born (1918)
April 18 - Buxton Orr born (1924)
April 18 - Mike Vickers born (1941)
April 18 - Kings Row released in theaters (1942)
April 18 - Andrew Powell born (1949)
April 18 - Ed Plumb died (1958)
April 18 - Maurice Jarre wins his second Oscar, for Doctor Zhivago's score; presumably decides to stick with this David Lean kid (1966)
April 18 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Players (1979)
April 18 - Dave Grusin begins recording his score for The Goonies (1985)
April 18 - John Debney records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Progress” (1993)
April 18 - Mike Leander died (1996)
April 18 - Recording sessions begin for Marco Beltrami’s score for Red Eye (2005)
April 18 - Robert O. Ragland died (2012)
April 19 - William Axt born (1888)
April 19 - Joe Greene born (1915)
April 19 - Sol Kaplan born (1919)
April 19 - Dudley Moore born (1935)
April 19 - Jonathan Tunick born (1938)
April 19 - Alan Price born (1942)
April 19 - David Fanshawe born (1942)
April 19 - Lord Berners died (1950)
April 19 - Ragnar Bjerkreim born (1958)
April 19 - Henry Mancini begins recording his score for The Great Race (1965)
April 19 - John Williams begins recording his score for Fitzwilly (1967)
April 19 - Michael Small begins recording his score to Klute (1971)
April 19 - Thomas Wander born (1973)
April 19 - John Addison begins recording his score for Swashbuckler (1976)
April 19 - Dag Wiren died (1986)
April 19 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "We'll Always Have Paris" (1988)
April 19 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “When It Rains…” (1999)
April 20 - Herschel Burke Gilbert born (1918)
April 20 - David Raksin begins recording his score for Kind Lady (1951)
April 20 - Miklos Rozsa records his score to Valley of the Kings (1954)
April 20 - Richard LaSalle records his score for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman episode “The Man Who Could Not Die” (1979)
April 20 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for The Monster Squad (1987)
April 20 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Die Is Cast” (1995)
April 20 - Johnny Douglas died (2003)
April 20 - Bebe Barron died (2008)
April 21 - Mundell Lowe born (1922)
April 21 - John McCabe born (1939)
April 21 - Steve Dorff born (1949)
April 21 - Franz Waxman begins recording his score to The Story of Ruth (1960)
April 21 - Recording sessions begin for Michel Colombier’s score to Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969)
April 21 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Wild Rovers (1971)
April 21 - Charles Fox begins recording his score for The New, Original Wonder Woman (1975)
April 21 - Eddie Sauter died (1981)
April 21 - Georges Delerue begins recording his unused score for Something Wicked This Way Comes (1982)
April 21 - David Bell records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Soldiers of the Empire” (1997)
April 21 - Velton Ray Bunch records his score for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “The Council” (2004)
April 22 - Isao Tomita born (1932)
April 22 - Jack Nitzsche born (1937)
April 22 - Lalo Schifrin begins recording the soundtrack to Kelly's Heroes (1970)
April 22 - Steven Price born (1977)
April 22 - Craig Safan records his score for the Remo Williams TV pilot (1987)
April 22 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Pen Pals” (1989)
April 22 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Emergence” (1994)
April 22 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Muse” (1996)
April 22 - Brian Tyler records his score for the Enterprise episode “Regeneration” (2003)
April 22 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Terra Prime” (2005)
April 23 - Sergei Prokofiev born (1891)
April 23 - Louis Barron born (1920)
April 23 - Patrick Williams born (1939)
April 23 - Alain Jomy born (1941)
April 23 - Jay Gruska born (1952)
April 23 - Kenji Kawai born (1957)
April 23 - Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson born (1958)
April 23 - Christopher Komeda died (1969)
April 23 - Jonsi born (1975)
April 23 - Harold Arlen died (1986)
April 23 - Satyajit Ray died (1992)
April 23 - James Horner begins recording his score for House of Cards (1992)
April 23 - Robert Farnon died (2005)
April 23 - Arthur B. Rubinstein died (2018)
April 24 - Vaclav Trojan born (1907)
April 24 - Barbra Streisand born (1942)
April 24 - Double Indemnity is released in theaters (1944)
April 24 - Hubert Bath died (1945)
April 24 - Dana Kaproff born (1954)
April 24 - Lennie Hayton died (1971)
April 24 - John Williams begins recording his score for Dracula (1979)
April 24 - Georges Delerue records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "The Doll" (1986)
April 24 - Tristam Cary died (2008)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
THE ACTOR - Richard Reed Parry
"The fact that Edna is the one person that stands out to Paul certainly evokes 'Anomalisa,' wherein the lead character experiences the Fregoli delusion and cannot differentiate the faces of even those closest to him, aside from one exceptional woman. Yet Paul’s wholesome infatuation with Edna is somewhat portrayed as a genuine salve to his previous tendency to womanize. It would seem that the blunt force trauma has brought out his best self: he is innately polite, attentive, and eager to please. Of course, these qualities in 20th-century New York translate as wimpish, making him an easy target for ridicule and violence. Richard Reed Parry’s score, which grows artfully dissonant over time, is essential for communicating this escalating tension."
Natalia Keogan, AV Club
"Cuttingly funny at times, 'The Actor' isn’t much interested in answering any of those questions, but this semi-inert death trip of a film teases a certain pull from its cosmic uncertainty. Slight as a nagging thought and often carried along by nothing but the constancy of Richard Reed Parry’s quavering noir score, Johnson’s solo debut grows darker and more distressing until Paul’s sense of self is made so inextricable from his memories (or lack thereof) that he has no choice but to start over from scratch."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"Working with Anomalisa cinematographer Joe Passarelli, Johnson casts Paul’s experiences in a beguiling and ephemeral glow. The visuals are soft and cloudy, as if blanketed by a gossamer veil, and movement between scenes possess a feathery quality (editing is by Garret Elkins). Richard Reed Perry ('Eileen,' 'The Iron Claw') composes a score of appropriately spectral quality, and Paulina Rzeszowska, who did production design on Rose Glass’s 'Saint Maud,' builds an equally haunting world."
Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter
THE BALLAD OF WALLIS ISLAND - Adem Ilhan (score); Tom Badsen (songs)
"Charles used a chunk of his money to travel the world and settled down with souvenir magnets cluttering every inch of his fridge. 'Katmandu was very much a case of Katman-did,' the lonely widower says, bubbling over with his need to impress his famous guest or really, just to talk to anybody. The composer Adem Ilhan has written a warm score of creaky horns and foot-stomping jangles to pair with Basden’s 16 original songs, but the film’s actual soundtrack is Charles’ constant chatter."
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times
"Basden’s songs similarly had a warm texture to the film, and while they might not be as catchy as other tracks in similar films, he and Mulligan make wonderful music together, and their fractured bond is most believable when they’re singing together. The result is a cozy crowdpleaser with real heart and some lovely songs, and one that doesn’t trade honesty for predictable beats."
Kate Erbland, IndieWire
"And this is where music, and its raw way of more than just healing the listener, comes more into play in the narrative. Where Charles’s love of McGwyer Mortimer is deeply connected to his love of his wife, his desire to see Herb and Nell sing together doesn’t consider the stinging pain and regret that plagues Herb when he’s forced to confront his past mistakes. For both men, the past was a happier time, but they continue to ascribe different meanings to the music they associate with that time. The fact that Tom Basden’s original songs are quite good only further aids 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' in locating both the latent and immediate power of music, and the ways our emotional connection to it inevitably morphs over the years."
Derek Smith, Slant Magazine
"Tensions may flare among the former bandmates, but the overall disposition of 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' never changes. They disagree over music and life, but the movie never begins to feel disagreeable as a result. Griffiths keeps a tempo that just feels right for a movie about three people who have each tricked themselves into thinking they are happy enough to get by and could stand to reconnect with the things that bring them true joy. Everyone involved might not get the exact arrangement they imagined, but the outcome is still magical in its own way. (Having genuinely good original music, written by none other than the multihyphenate Basden, certainly helps.)"
Marshall Shaffer, The Playlist
"That earnestness extends to the music itself. Written by Basden, the folk songs toe the line between amusingly of-its-folk-rock-era and genuinely enjoyable. Basden and Mulligan’s harmonies are delicate and careful as they shake off the cobwebs, and the lyrics echo the likes of Johnny Flynn or Mumford & Sons without parodying them. This nostalgic charm, wistful with age, is such a key component of 'The Ballad Of Wallis Island' that it’s shocking to remember that the film began as a short almost 20 years ago. The snappy sketch-like premise has weathered into a more contemplative and sentimental reckoning with artistry and identity; even Charles’ well-honed banter takes on a more desperate, relatable dimension coming from an older, sadder goofball."
Jacob Oller, AV Club
"Enter Nell Mortimer, soulfully played by Carey Mulligan, and her husband Michael (Akemnji Ndifornyen), arriving on the island to Herb’s shock. Stuck in a rut both musically and romantically, he protests their involvement at first, with Nell also ambivalent about all the old wounds this reunion might open up. There is still some chemistry there, however, which is palpable when they harmonize and vocalize together, singing stirring and engaging tunes with gorgeous lyrics (many written by Basden). It’s a spiritual pleasure to watch them make music together and something altogether divine to spot the glimmer in Charles’ eyes when he takes in their art, as if he were watching Baez and Dylan, who were undoubtedly real-world inspirations for McGwyer-Mortimer."
Tomris Laffly, Variety
"While the duo’s songs are heard on Charles’ turntable from the start, the first time we see them performing together kicks the movie’s poignancy up several notches. Basden wrote the songs, which are tuneful and pleasing to the ear, even if it’s the window they provide into Herb and Nell’s past that makes them so stirring. The actors sound lovely together, with the warmth of two people who have a history, etched deep enough to make the good stuff count, even if it eventually curdled."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
DEATH OF A UNICORN - Dan Romer, Giosuè Greco
"The delivery of its big themes is where the screenplay falters the most. When it has a point to make, it makes it repeatedly; when something's about to happen, it telegraphs it so hard that there's almost no surprises in store. Ridley looks up the story behind The Unicorn Tapestries, then tells the story to everyone else while directly stating the themes, then watches it play out in front of her (side note: it gives me some hope that all the explanations here for why you shouldn't hunt unicorns draw from actual mythology and not from 'Harry Potter,' which absolutely would have been the touchpoint a decade ago). She repeatedly nags her dad about him not remembering their trip to see the Tapestries at the Cloisters with her mom, an obvious signpost of their emotional conflict but not really effective dramatization -- the father-daughter conflict is by far the weakest and most forced part of the story. Jenna Ortega's acting and the musical score by Dan Romer and Giosuè Greco have to do all the heavy lifting to give the extremely predictable climax any emotional impact at all."
Reuben Baron, Looper
"'Death of a Unicorn' was clearly inspired by 'Jurassic Park' -- I swear there’s even a music cue nod late in the film during a sequence that recalls the raptor attack -- in both its structure and theme. It’s a story that Michael Crichton would have dug, one about the wealthy ignoring not only the signs in front of them but the history and the mythology of this world."
Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com
THE FRIEND - Jay Wadley, Trevor Gureckis
"Filmmaking duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel have previously shepherded (and sometimes radically reimagined) books to screen with 'The Deep End,' 'Bee Season,' and 'What Maisie Knew.' But in adapting Sigrid Nunez’s National Book Award winning novel, they’ve produced a less finely observed and plotted film. Teetering toward made-for-TV in its facile depiction of Walter’s many wives and veering tonally from too broad to totally mawkish (the score wants to arm-wrestle tears out of you), 'The Friend' is all soft edges. A passing reference to Walter and some “misconduct nonsense” narratively sounds promising but it’s dropped instantly as an avenue of exploration. And the voiceover is so overwhelming and overwritten, it eventually becomes white noise. None of this hangs on Watts, who’s wonderful. Quite believable as a literature professor in beret and blazer, lugging her LL Bean tote around the city, she would have been dazzling as a Nora Ephron leading lady. Robbed of that, can we get her in a Nicole Holofcener film instead?"
Kimberley Jones, The Austin Chronicle
MAGAZINE DREAMS - Jason Hill
"At a certain point, the humanity that a committed Majors so effectively communicates begins to take something of a backseat to the sensorial intensity of it all. With a soundtrack that skillfully bounces between thrash metal and ominous synth growls, and a camera likewise flexible but deliberate in its movement through space, each scene impresses with its intensity and expression of the progressively degrading state of things. At times, though, Maddox can seem like a grab-bag of psychological complexes and verbal tics assembled to serve the story’s themes."
Pat Brown, Slant Magazine
"Jonathan Majors’ incredible transformation to play bodybuilder Killian Maddox in 'Magazine Dreams' is breathtaking, first seen in godlike glory in a daydream, striking the requisite professional competition poses, caressed by shafts of golden light. But as the soaring strains of Jason Mills’ [sic] score wind down into a deflating drone, signaling trouble ahead, the image shifts to Killian under the naked lightbulbs of his humble garage. That’s the first hint that this physically imposing Adonis is in fact a lonely, painfully shy and desperately insecure man, whose feelings of inadequacy, buried self-loathing and resentment often manifest in eruptions of violent rage...Nor do the questionable decisions take away from the movie’s consistently sharp craftsmanship, notably Arkapaw’s highly controlled visuals -- the images alternately naturalistic, dreamlike and poetic, or darkening into brooding menace. Jon Otazua’s editing tracks Killian’s descent with sinuous fluidity that fuels the story’s fatalistic progression. And Hill’s tonally precise and richly varied score -- laced with classical passages from Elgar, Wagner and Saint-Saens -- makes haunting use of mournful strings and employs urgent drumming to chilling effect."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
A MINECRAFT MOVIE - Mark Motherbaugh
"Fleet pacing, vivid colors, and a poppy Mark Mothersbaugh score do what they can to paper over the film’s prefab nature, but even kids -- especially kids -- will pick up on the disconnect between what they can make in 'Minecraft' (anything they can imagine) and what Hess has made of 'Minecraft”'(nothing they haven’t seen before). Things unfold without any trace of surprise, as the gang links up with Steve and embarks on a spirited quest in search of the other MacGuffin thingy they need to get home or whatever. They fight the undead, they fly across a valley in order to escape from Malgosha’s war party, and, just when it seems like the film might finally ease up on the 'Fellowship of the Ring' homage, they take refuge in a mountain pass that turns out to be teeming with monsters."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
SACRAMENTO - Jacob Erskine
"It also helps considerably that he and cinematographer Ben Mullen have made such a good-looking movie. Likewise, music supervisor Sally O’Connor deftly pairs their crisp visuals with a score (and soundtrack heavy on SoCal indie band Sylvie) that captures both the existential dread and unexpected beauty of adulthood. Very little, 'Sacramento' wants to remind us, is better than riding shotgun in a cool car on a sunny California day."
Elizabeth Weitzman, The Wrap
THE VISITOR - Hannah Holland
"As the Visitor that this story will follow washes up on the shore of the River Thames while a reactionary radio host spews anti-immigrant rhetoric on the soundtrack, the film immediately sets the xenophobic attitudes of white Britons in its crosshairs. If LaBruce’s long-time outsider punk credentials weren’t already clear, the thumping beats of Hannah Holland’s electronic score also announces that 'The Visitor' will be a singularly energetic middle finger to power structures."
Mark Hanson, Slant Magazine
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
April 18
CRASH (Howard Shore) [Nuart]
THE DEAD ZONE (Michael Kamen) [Vidiots]
FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE (Zhao Jiping) [Academy Museum]
FEMALE TROUBLE [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE FLY (Howard Shore) [BrainDead Studios]
HIGH FIDELITY (Howard Shore) [Vidiots]
KILL BILL: VOL 2 (RZA, Robert Rodriguez) [New Beverly]
THE MATRIX (Don Davis) [Academy Museum]
MIDNIGHT COWBOY (John Barry) [BrainDead Studios]
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Geoffrey Burgon) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MUSTANG (Warren Ellis), CUTIES (Niko Noki) [UCLA/Hammer]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Egyptian]
REEFER MADNESS (Abe Meyer) [Vista]
RUNAWAY TRAIN (Trevor Jones) [New Beverly]
SHORT CUTS (Mark Isham) [New Beverly]
THE THIRD MAN (Anton Karas) [Fine Arts]
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (Ennio Morricone) [Fine Arts]
TOMMY BOY (David Newman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
TWISTER (Hans Zimmer) [Aero]
WILD TALES (Gustavo Santaolalla) [Vidiots]
April 19
CLAUDINE (Curtis Mayfield) [Vidiots]
DO THE RIGHT THING (Bill Lee) [Los Feliz 3]
DUMB AND DUMBER (Todd Rundgren) [Vidiots]
EXPERIMENTER (Bryan Senti) [Los Feliz 3]
FERNGULLY: THE LAST RAINFOREST (Alan Silvestri) [Academy Museum]
FINDING DORY (Thomas Newman) [Vidiots]
THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (Henry Mancini) [New Beverly]
THE GREAT RACE (Henry Mancini) [Fine Arts]
HARVEY (Frank Skinner) [Vista]
HUD (Elmer Bernstein) [Fine Arts]
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN (Suzanne Ciani) [New Beverly]
KILLING THEM SOFTLY (Marc Strieitenfeld) [Los Feliz 3]
KING KONG (Max Steiner) [Fine Arts]
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (Carter Burwell) [Los Feliz 3]
MARJORIE PRIME (Mica Levi) [Egyptian]
NEW YORK, NEW YORK (Ralph Burns) [BrainDead Studios]
PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (Danny Elfman) [Aero]
POPCORN (Paul Zaza) [New Beverly]
REEFER MADNESS (Abe Meyer) [Vista]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
THE SWIMMER (Marvin Hamlisch), DAVID AND LISA (Marc Lawrence) [Aero]
TEKKONKINKREET (Plaid) [BrainDead Studios]
TOKYO DRIFTER (Hajime Kaburagi) [Vidiots]
TOMMY BOY (David Newman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
12 MONKEYS (Paul Buckmaster) [Egyptian]
April 20
AFTER THE FOX (Burt Bacharach) [BrainDead Studios]
AIRPLANE! (Elmer Bernstein), THE NAKED GUN: FROM THE FILES OF POLICE SQUAD (Ira Newborn) [Fine Arts]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Alamo Drafthouse]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Egyptian]
DONNIE DARKO (Michael Andrews), THE EVIL DEAD (Joseph LoDuca) [Aero]
THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (Henry Mancini) [New Beverly]
HARVEY (Frank Skinner) [Aero]
HARVEY (Frank Skinner) [Vista]
THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING WOMAN (Suzanne Ciani) [New Beverly]
INHERENT VICE (Jonny Greenwood) [Vidiots]
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Denny Zeitlin) [BrainDead Studios]
LADYBUG LADYBUG (Robett Cobert) [Los Feliz 3]
LEAVE NO TRACE (Dickon Hinchliffe) [UCLA/Hammer]
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (Alan Menken, Miles Goodman) [Vidiots]
MAGNOLIA (Jon Brion) [Academy Museum]
MARY POPPINS (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Irwin Kostal) [Fine Arts]
MARY POPPINS (Richard M. Sherman, Robert B. Sherman, Irwin Kostal) [Vidiots]
THE MATRIX (Don Davis) [Academy Museum]
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (DeWolfe) [Alamo Drafthouse]
NADJA (Simon Fisher Turner) [Los Feliz 3]
A PLACE IN THE SUN (Franz Waxman) [Los Feliz 3]
THE PUPPETOON MOVIE (Buddy Baker) [Fine Arts]
SILENCE (Kathryn Kluge, Kim Allen Kluge) [Egyptian]
April 21
CARLITO'S WAY (Patrick Doyle) [Aero]
DUEL (Billy Goldenberg), THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
HAROLD AND MAUDE (Cat Stevens) [Egyptian]
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (Nino Rota) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LA HAINE [Los Feliz 3]
LAND OF THE DEAD (Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek) [Los Feliz 3]
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Geoffrey Burgon) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Geoffrey Burgon) [Culver]
ROMAN HOLIDAY (Georges Auric) [Egyptian]
THE SAVAGES (Stephen Trask) [Academy Museum]
THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA (Ton-That Tiet) [Vidiots]
TOMMY BOY (David Newman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
April 22
DAVID AND LISA (Marc Lawrence) [Los Feliz 3]
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Elmer Bernstein) [Egyptian]
DUEL (Billy Goldenberg), THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
FORBIDDEN PLANET (Louis & Bebe Barron) [Fine Arts]
IN THE SPIRIT (Patrick Williams) [BrainDead Studios]
LOST HIGHWAY (Angelo Badalamenti) [Landmark Pasadena]
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (Nino Rota) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Geoffrey Burgon) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MY DINNER WITH ANDRE [Vidiots]
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY (Marc Shaiman) [Egyptian]
April 23
AMERICAN GIGOLO (Giorgio Moroder) [Vidiots]
INDEPENDENCE DAY (David Arnold) [BrainDead Studios]
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andre Previn, Herbert Spencer), HAIR (Galt MacDermot) [New Beverly]
JULIET OF THE SPIRITS (Nino Rota) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE MATRIX (Don Davis) [Academy Museum]
MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN (Geoffrey Burgon) [Alamo Drafthouse]
NARROW MARGIN (Bruce Broughton) [Los Feliz 3]
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS [Los Feliz 3]
ROGER & ME [Academy Museum]
April 24
IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Michael Galasso, Shigeru Umebayashi) [Academy Museum]
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andre Previn, Herbert Spencer), HAIR (Galt MacDermot) [New Beverly]
LA HAINE [Los Feliz 3]
SHREDDER ORPHEUS (Roland Barker) [BrainDead Studios]
April 25
EASTERN PROMISES (Howard Shore) [Nuart]
THE ELEPHANT MAN (John Morris) [Aero]
HAPPY GILMORE (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HOLY MOTORS [Vidiots]
THE KEEP (Tangerine Dream) [Alamo Drafthouse]
KILL BILL: VOL. 2 (RZA, Roberg Rodriguez) [New Beverly]
LA NANA (THE MAID) [Los Feliz 3]
LEGEND (Tangerine Dream) [New Beverly]
NOROI: THE CURSE [BrainDead Studios]
OFFICE SPACE (John Frizzell) [Vidiots]
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (Nino Rota) [New Beverly]
ROSEMARY'S BABY (Christopher Komeda) [BrainDead Studios]
ROTTING IN THE SUN (Nascuy Linares) [Los Feliz 3]
SCREAM (Marco Beltrami) [Vista]
April 26
BOUND (Don Davis) [Vidiots]
DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE [Los Feliz 3]
DOLPHIN TALE 2 (Rachel Portman) [Academy Museum
IDIOCRACY (Theodore Shapiro) [New Beverly]
JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS (Bernard Herrmann) [BrainDead Studios]
THE KEEP (Tangerine Dream) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LIFE OF PI (Mychael Danna) [Vidiots]
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION (Ralph Burns) [Vista]
NEPTUNE FROST (Saul Williams) [Academy Museum]
THE RED BALLOON (Maurice Le Roux) [Vidiots]
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (Nino Rota) [New Beverly]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
SCREAM (Marco Beltrami) [Vista]
SECONDS (Jerry Goldsmith) [BrainDead Studios]
SHADOWS (Shafi Hadi, Charles Mingus) [Los Feliz 3]
SHREK (Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SPIDER-MAN 3 (Christopher Young) [New Beverly]
V FOR VENDETTA (Dario Marianelli) [Vidiots]
April 27
ALMOST FAMOUS (Nancy Wilson) [Academy Museum]
THE BEACHES OF AGNES (Joanna Bruzdowicz, Stephane Vilar) [Vidiots]
8 1/2 (Nino Rota) [Vidiots]
THE ELEPHANT MAN (John Morris)
FRIDA (Elliot Goldenthal) [Vidiots]
THE KILLING FLOOR (Elizabeth Swados) [UCLA/Hammer]
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION (Ralph Burns) [Vista]
ON THE WATERFRONT (Leonard Bernstein) [BrainDead Studios]
PLAY IT AS IT LAYS [Los Feliz 3]
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS (Nino Rota) [New Beverly]
SPIDER-MAN 3 (Christopher Young) [New Beverly]
U-571 (Richard Marvin) [Aero]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [BrainDead Studios]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Renaissance (Dodd); Nine (Yeston); Eat Drink Man Woman (Mader); Dredd (Leonard-Morgan); Thriller: Well of Doom (Goldsmith); Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Tan); Le Bel Age (Delerue); Drokk (Salisbury/Barrow); Lust, Caution (Desplat)
Read: Tanner's Tiger, by Lawrence Block
Seen: Raise the Red Lantern; Ju Dou; The Friend; Warfare; The Amateur [2025]; Sacramento; Nobody's Fool [1994]; Barking Dogs Never Bite; Angels with Dirty Faces; They Made Me a Criminal
Watched: Columbo ("Playback"); Breakheart Pass; Succession ("The Summer Palace"); Veep ("Some New Beginnings")
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