Intrada's Kickstarter campaign for a new recording of Jerry Goldsmith's thrilling score for the 1969 spy thriller THE CHAIRMAN has met its goals including its "stretch goal" of new recordings of previously unavailable cues from Lilies of the Field, Not Without My Daughter, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Under Fire. Recording sessions may begin later this summer.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Mirror Crack'd - John Cameron - Caldera
Par ou t'es rentre...on t'a pas vu sortir - Alan Silvestri - Music Box
Plus beau que moi, tu meurs - Armando Trovajoli - Music Box
Thelma & Louise - Hans Zimmer - La-La Land
IN THEATERS TODAY
Black Tea - Armand Amar
Caught by the Tides - Giong Lim
Final Destination: Bloodlines - Tim Wynn
Hurry Up Tomorrow - Abel Tesfaye, Daniel Lopatin
The Kiss - Henrik Skram
Things Like This - Charles Humenry
COMING SOON
May 23
Speak No Evil - Sune "Koter" Kolster - Svart
Aug 1
The Brutalist - Daniel Blumberg - Milan
Coming Soon
Alien: Romulus - Benjamin Wallfisch - Mutant
Cobra-Kai: The Final Season - Leo Birenberg, Zach Robinson - Mutant
The Penguin - Mick Giacchino - Mutant
Sinners - Ludwig Goransson - Mutant
Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - Mick Giacchino - Mutant
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
May 16 - Jonathan Richman born (1951)
May 16 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score to Hawaii (1966)
May 16 - Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for Back to the Future (1985)
May 16 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Shadow (1994)
May 16 - Recording sessions begin for David Arnold’s score for Shaft (2000)
May 17 - Taj Mahal born (1942)
May 17 - Joanna Bruzdowicz born (1943)
May 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos died (1959)
May 17 - Trent Reznor born (1965)
May 17 - Ron Grainer begins recording his score for The Omega Man (1971)
May 17 - Joshua Homme born (1973)
May 17 - Hugo Friedhofer died (1981)
May 17 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for Wild Wild West (1999)
May 17 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Equinox: Part 1” (1999)
May 17 - Ikuma Dan died (2001)
May 17 - Cy Feuer died (2006)
May 18 - Meredith Willson born (1902)
May 18 - Recording sessions begin for Cyril Mockridge’s score to The Luck of the Irish (1948)
May 18 - Rick Wakeman born (1949)
May 18 - Mark Mothersbaugh born (1950)
May 18 - Jacques Morelenbaum born (1954)
May 18 - Reinhold Heil born (1954)
May 18 - Ruby Raksin died (1979)
May 18 - James Horner begins recording his score for Testament (1983)
May 18 - Hilding Rosenberg died (1985)
May 18 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Menage a Troi" (1990)
May 18 - Kevin Gilbert died (1996)
May 18 - Albert Sendrey died (2003)
May 18 - Philippe-Gerard died (2014)
May 19 - Irving Gertz born (1915)
May 19 - Larry Crosley born (1932)
May 19 - Anton Garcia Abril born (1933)
May 19 - Tom Scott born (1948)
May 19 - James L. Venable born (1967)
May 19 - Kyle Eastwood born (1968)
May 19 - Earle Hagen wins the Emmy for his score for the I Spy episode “Laya” (1968)
May 19 - Jerry Goldsmith wins his second Emmy, for QB VII Parts 1 & 2; Billy Goldenberg wins for the Benjamin Franklin episode “The Rebel” (1975)
May 19 - James Horner begins recording his score for Titanic (1997)
May 19 - Edwin Astley died (1998)
May 19 - Hans Posegga died (2002)
May 20 - Zbigniew Preisner born (1955)
May 20 - Jerry Goldsmith wins his first Emmy, for The Red Pony; Charles Fox wins an Emmy for his Love, American Style music (1973)
May 20 - Lyn Murray died (1989)
May 20 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Sacred Ground” (1996)
May 21 - Kevin Shields born (1963)
May 21 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Inner Light” (1992)
May 21 - Fiorenzo Carpi died (1997)
May 21 - Frank Comstock died (2013)
May 22 - Roger Bellon born (1953)
May 22 - Iva Davies born (1955)
May 22 - Richard Rodgers wins the Outstanding Music Emmy for Winston Churchill – The Valiant Years (1962)
May 22 - John Sponsler born (1965)
May 22 - Laurence Rosenthal wins the Emmy for his score to Michelangelo: The Last Giant (1966)
May 22 - Mario Zafred died (1987)
May 22 - James Horner begins recording his score for Unlawful Entry (1992)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
THE ACCOUNTANT 2 - Bryce Dessner
"Still, I’d watch 'The Accountant 2' on an airplane twice more if it had a dozen other scenes like these. Pity it feels a sense of obligation to have Chris shoot more than lovelorn blanks. The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings."
Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times
APRIL - Matthew Herbert
"Her debut feature, 2020’s masterful 'Beginning,' tells the story of a disillusioned Jehovah’s Witness who starts to unravel after her church is firebombed by extremists in the very first shot, a static tableau held for several minutes before its Haneke-like remove is shattered with a molotov cocktail. Kulumbegashvili’s even more accomplished and terrifying follow-up 'April' -- which concerns a hospital obstetrician whose career is put at risk when a rare stillbirth threatens to expose her unsanctioned night job as an abortion provider — requires even less time to crush your entire being in its brace. It opens on the sight of a faceless (but visibly female) skin monster slouching through a void as Matthew Herbert’s asynchronous score breathes down your neck."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"It’s Lars Ginzel’s layered, rattling sound design that often wrests the film from abrasive realism into the realm of radical subjectivity, and even the uncanny. Amplifying the racket of raging weather, the muffled workings of the human body or the hum of interior white noise, it merges with a brittly echoing score by experimental composer Matthew Herbert -- played with the same equine-skeleton instrumentation he used for his cult album 'The Horse' -- to suggest something of the inner scream pushing against Nina’s outer composure."
Guy Lodge, Variety
"That extends as well to Matthew Herbert’s very subtle score (performed partly on bones, apparently), which meshes imperceptibly with Lars Ginzel’s soundscape of dog woofs, murmurs and heavy breathing. Most of the time it’s Sukhitashvili’s breathing that we hear, which sort of makes her soloist in the film’s symphonic composition. Her performance, with its clenched anxiety and brisk efficiency, is a marvel to watch, and anchors what by degrees starts to feel like a miraculous work."
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
BLUE SUN PALACE - Sami Jano
"As these themes gain further complexity, Li’s camera also follows suit with a number of interesting composition choices that emphasize the characters’ respective remoteness with a lens that sees them from further distances on occasion. Elsewhere, Sami Jano’s sparse yet poetic score echoes the feeling of melancholy on the screen, without being preachy or prescriptive."
Tomris Laffly, RogerEbert.com
"As befits a film that cites a massage consultant in the closing credits, the scene that most lingers after the film ends is a lengthy one showing the treatment Amy performs on a Caucasian client. Claustrophobically shot by experienced Canadian DP Norm Li, it epitomizes the drawbacks of her profession. Indeed, Li’s tender yet tightly framed cinematography, shot on Kodak film, underlines the confined situations in which the characters exist and captures their cluttered surroundings with a documentarian’s eye. Composer Sami Jano provides an effective but sparsely used score."
Alissa Simon, Variety
'At the helm of her first feature, Tsang has made a sharp and tender story about dislocation, centering on a trio of hardworking Chinese immigrants in New York. In the movie’s first 30 minutes, Tsang draws us into the intimate orbit of her expatriate characters: a construction company employee and two colleagues at a massage parlor. Then, the sudden absence of one of them sets everything askew. Absence is the current that drives the narrative: absence from family, from homeland, from purpose. The world these characters inhabit, within an enclave of Flushing, Queens, is a place of in-between, captured in the evocative half-light of Norm Li’s cinematography, suggesting the cool-hot glow of the title’s blue sun. The poignant chords of Sami Jano’s elegantly lean score further fuel the angsty mood.'
Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter
RUST - Lilie Bytheway-Hoy, James Jackson
"Halyna Hutchins’ dusk-and-sunset cinematography, abetted by the work of Bianca Cline, may be the best thing about 'Rust'; the film has a moody sensuality to it. But as written and directed by Joel Souza, the tale the film is telling comes down to Rust and Lucas stopping at one place and then another, never settling in long enough to have those places mean much; the posse will then show up at those same settings. 'Rust,' in its picaresque way, is more vigorous than Costner’s 'Horizon' films, yet it has an arid quality, enhanced by Lilie Bytheway-Hoy and James Jackson’s modernist musical score. The film finds a token place for Native characters, but it never summons the kind of spirit you saw in 'Tombstone,' a movie that demonstrated how a retro Western could be serious without being joyless. Will the offscreen tragedy that now defines 'Rust' make viewers curious to see it or turn people off? Either way, those who seek it out will find that the movie 'delivers' without ever becoming an adventure to remember."
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
WATCH THE SKIES - Gustaf Spetz, Oskar Sollenberg
"Everything in 'Watch the Skies' is either overwrought or underdeveloped, including the dubbing carried out by SyncFlawless. I didn’t know any AI was used for the speech until the film’s end. While watching, however, I couldn’t shake the uncanny valley feeling that the technology usually brings. Something about the alignment of the face and voice threw me off in a way that even cartoonish dubbing doesn’t. On the other hand, the film’s score is indistinguishable from others of the same ilk, like 'Stranger Things,' to the point that I nearly thought it was lifted from other sources."
Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com
WILLIAM TELL - Steven Price
"The language is purposely stilted -- 'load thy bow' and the like -- but the visual language is pure 21st century action epic. Everything is writ large: Tell’s nobility, Gessler’s savagery and the sheer scale of this revenge tale set amidst craggy mountains and stormy lakes. Technically, the film is stunning, from Jamie D. Ramsay’s monumental cinematography to Tonino Zera’s production design and Francesca Sartori’s costumes to the score from Steven Price, who showed with Alfonso Cuaron’s 'Gravity' that scale is no problem for a composer who began work in indie films."
Steve Pond, The Wrap
"From that preposterous first impression, the movie cuts to three days earlier and begins to unfurl its brassy epic, complete with hideous period-appropriate haircuts, lines like 'scimble scamble' and Steven Price’s overblown orchestral score. There are rousing war speeches and elaborate, multi-stage battle sequences, but the best pleasures come from basking in how seriously the stately film takes itself. Mounted at a substantial $45 million budget, the decorated medieval sets and big vistas are captured in widescreen by DP Jamie D. Ramsay, though the visuals don’t cast the transportive spell that the best adventure films do."
J. Kim Murphy, Variety
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
May 16
DEAD RINGERS (Howard Shore) [Egyptian]
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Alamo Drafthouse]
FIGHT CLUB (Dust Brothers) [Vista]
GODSPEED (Si-Ming Tseng) [Los Feliz 3]
GOING DOWN [Vidiots]
GRAVITY (Steven Price) [New Beverly]
PARKING (Dong An) [Los Feliz 3]
STREETS OF FIRE (Ry Cooder) [Nuart]
TRUE ROMANCE (Hans Zimmer) [New Beverly]
THE WIZ (Charlie Smalls, Quincy Jones) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE WOLF MAN (Hans J. Salter, Frank Skinner), THE MUMMY [New Beverly]
May 17
BOXING GYM [Los Feliz 3]
CADDYSHACK (Johnny Mandel) [Vidiots]
CARS (Randy Newman) [Vidiots]
COOLEY HIGH (Freddie Perren) [Alamo Drafthouse]
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Alamo Drafthouse]
FIGHT CLUB (Dust Brothers) [Vista]
THE FLORDIA PROJECT [BrainDead Studios]
THE FOX AND THE HOUND (Buddy Baker) [New Beverly]
FUN WITH DICK AND JANE (Ernest Gold) [Los Feliz 3]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
ROMEO MUST DIE (Stanley Clarke) [Vidiots]
RUMBLE FISH (Stewart Copeland) [BrainDead Studios]
THE STRAIGHT STORY (Angelo Badalamenti) [Vidiots]
A SUN (Sheng-Xiang Lin, Luming Lu) [Aero]
THUNDERBALL (John Barry) [Vista]
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (Ben Charest), THE ILLUSIONIST (Sylvain Chomet) [New Beverly]
TROLL 2 (Carlo Maria Cordio) [New Beverly]
WILLOW (James Horner) [Aero]
May 18
THE BOXER'S OMEN (Chin-Yung Shing, Chen-Hou Su) [BrainDead Studios]
CALIGULA [BrainDead Studios]
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF [Vidiots]
COOLEY HIGH (Freddie Perren) [Alamo Drafthouse]
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Alamo Drafthouse]
DOUBT (Howard Shore) [Academy Museum]
FIRST BLOOD (Jerry Goldsmith) [Los Feliz 3]
FLOATING WEEDS (Takanobu Saito) [Egyptian]
THE FOX AND THE HOUND (Buddy Baker) [New Beverly]
INCEPTION (Hans Zimmer) [Fine Arts]
MINORITY REPORT (John Williams) [Egyptian]
OPEN YOUR EYES (Alejandro Amenabar) [Vidiots]
SLEEP DEALER (tomandandy) [Academy Museum]
STRANGER THAN PARADISE (John Lurie) [Los Feliz 3]
THUNDERBALL (John Barry) [Vista]
THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (Ben Charest), THE ILLUSIONIST (Sylvain Chomet) [New Beverly]
WILLOW (James Horner) [Vidiots]
THE WIZ (Charlie Smalls, Quincy Jones) [Culver]
May 19
AUSTIN POWERS: INTERNATIONAL MAN OF MYSTERY (George S. Clinton) [Culver]
COOLEY HIGH (Freddie Perren) [Alamo Drafthouse]
CUT-THROATS NINE (Carmen Bernaola) [New Beverly]
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Alamo Drafthouse]
GREY GARDENS [Egyptian]
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (David Shire) [Los Feliz 3]
SLEEP DEALER (tomandandy) [Academy Museum]
SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (Jon Brion) [Academy Museum]
TOMMY (Pete Townsend) [Egyptian]
WHIRLPOOL (Stelvio Cipriani) [Los Feliz 3]
May 20
COOLEY HIGH (Freddie Perren) [Alamo Drafthouse]
CROSSROADS (Trevor Jones) [Alamo Drafthouse]
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE GODFATHER PART II (Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola) [Egyptian]
MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE [Academy Museum]
NASHVILLE [Egyptian]
NIGHT RAIDERS (Moniker) [Academy Museum]
RED LINE 7000 (Nelson Riddle) [Los Feliz 3]
ROBOCOP (Basil Poledouris), THE TERMINATOR (Brad Fiedel) [New Beverly]
TALK TO ME (Cornel Wilczek) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY [Los Feliz 3]
THE WIZ (Charlie Smalls, Quincy Jones) [Alamo Drafthouse]
May 21
BARRY LYNDON (Leonard Rosenman) [Egyptian]
CHINATOWN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Egyptian]
CRAZY HORSE [Los Feliz 3]
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Alamo Drafthouse]
MALCOLM X (Terence Blanchard) [Vidiots]
NYMPHOMANIAC VOLS. 1 &2 [BrainDead Studios]
ROBOCOP (Basil Poledouris), THE TERMINATOR (Brad Fiedel) [New Beverly]
WAKE IN FRIGHT [OUTBACK] (John Scott) [Los Feliz 3]
THE WIZ (Charlie Smalls, Quincy Jones) [Culver]
May 22
ALL THAT JAZZ (Ralph Burns) [Los Feliz 3]
BETTER DAYS (Varqua Buehrer) [Academy Museum]
EL TOPO (Alejandro Jodorowsky) [BrainDead Studios]
ROBOCOP (Basil Poledouris), THE TERMINATOR (Brad Fiedel) [New Beverly]
May 23
BARBIE (Mark Ronson, Andrew Wyatt) [Academy Museum]
JAWS (John Williams) [Los Feliz 3]
JAWS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (John Massari) [Vista]
THE LAKE HOUSE (Rachel Portman) [Vidiots]
MUPPETS FROM SPACE (Jamshied Sharifi) [Nuart]
NIGHT RAIDERS (Moniker) [Academy Museum]
PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (John Barry) [Vidiots]
RAGING BULL [New Beverly]
STAR WARS EPISODE I - THE PHANTOM MENACE (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
STAR WARS EPSIODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
TRUE ROMANCE (Hans Zimmer) [New Beverly]
May 24
CECIL B. DEMENTED (Basil Poledouris, Zoe Poledouris) [Vidiots]
DEEP BLUE SEA (Trevor Rabin) [New Beverly]
THE DOORS [Vidiots]
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN (John Powell) [Academy Museum]
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT [Vista]
JAWS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
JAWS (John Williams) [Vidiots]
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (John Massari) [Vista]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
ROLLING THUNDER REVUE [Aero]
ROSEMARY'S BABY (Christopher Komeda) [BrainDead Studios]
A SIMPLE LIFE (Wing-Fai Law) [Academy Museum]
STAR WARS (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
STAR WARS EPISODE III - REVENGE OF THE SITH (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Alan Silvestri) [Vidiots]
May 25
ALIEN (Jerry Goldsmith) [BrainDead Studios]
ALIENS (James Horner) [BrainDead Studios]
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (Akira Ifukube) [Vidiots]
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT [Vista]
JAWS (John Williams) [Egyptian]
JAWS (John Williams) [New Beverly]
THE MASTER (Jonny Greenwood) [Academy Museum]
NIGHT RAIDERS (Moniker) [Academy Museum]
RETURN OF THE JEDI (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
SHREK 2 (Harry Gregson-Williams) [Vidiots]
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS (John Williams) [Fine Arts]
THE THIN RED LINE (Hans Zimmer) [Egyptian]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: The Soloist (Marianelli); I'm Breathless (Madonna); Sherlock Holmes (Zimmer); Hidden Man (Errera); Hanna (Chemical Brothers); Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (Zimmer)
Read: Gideon's Badge, by J.J. Marric, aka John Creasey
Seen: One Night in Miami...; The Ugly Stepsister; Zatoichi the Fugitive; Zatoichi on the Road; Watch the Skies; Shadow Force; Juliet & Romeo; The Big Lebowski; Along Came Polly; Clown in a Cornfield; Fight or Flight; Friendship; Charlie Wilson's War; A Nice Indian Boy; Squirm; Bug [1975]; Orlando; Female Perversions; When Fall Is Coming
Watched: Mystery Science Theater 3000 ("Robot Wars"); 52 Pick-up; Dollhouse ("Epitaph Two: Return"); Mystery Science Theater 3000 ("Pipeline to the Clouds;" "Let's Make a Meal in 20 Minutes")
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