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| Film Score Friday 7/1/22
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Scott Bettencourt
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6/30/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from Intrada is a two-disc expanded edition of James Horner's popular score for the lavish 1988 fantasy WILLOW, a collaboration between George Lucas and director Ron Howard, featuring 108 minutes of Horner's symphonic music.
After 13 Oscar nominations but no wins, songwriter Diane Warren has been named one of this year's winners of an Honorary Oscar, part of this year's group of "Governors Awards" to be presented on November 19th (Thomas Newman, call your publicist!). A list of her nominated songs is at the bottom of this column.* The other winners are directors Euzhan Palcy and Peter Weir, with Michael J. Fox winning the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
The Academy has also invited 397 actors, filmmakers and publicists as new members, including the following Music Branch invitees: composers Amie Doherty, Lili Yaydn, Leo Heiblum, Natalie Holt, Nathan Johnson, Jacobo Lieberman, Areial Rose Marx, Hesham Nazih, Dan Romer and Nerida Tyson-Chew, and songwriters Billie Eilish Baird O'Connell and Finneas O'Connell.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Mayrig/588 Rue Paradis - Jean-Claude Petit - Music Box
Mort d'un pourri - Philippe Sarde - Music Box
Willow - James Horner - Intrada Special Collection
IN THEATERS TODAY
Accepted - Nathan Matthew David
All the Lord's Men - Room8
Attack on Finland - Lasse Enerson
Code Name Banshee - Benjamin Weinman
The Forgiven - Lorne Balfe
Minions: The Rise of Gru - Heitor Pereira - Song CD with 1 score suite on Decca
Mr. Malcom's List - Amelia Warner |
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| Aisle Seat 6-28: Kino Lorber June Spectacular
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Andy Dursin
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6/27/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| So many films from the 1990s have fallen through the cracks in the transition to high-def, never mind Ultra HD. One of the catalogs that has received especially short shrift is the library of Savoy Pictures, an independent studio that distributed a handful of memorable films including Robert DeNiro’s “A Bronx Tale” and the Ray Liotta sci-fi thriller “No Escape.” My favorite among their few dozen releases was LAST OF THE DOGMEN (118 mins., 1995, PG), a sweeping romantic western that represented one of the last gasps of Mario Kassar’s Carolco Pictures, and a film that remains a wonderful, old-fashioned adventure that’s been long overdue for rediscovery. |
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| Film Score Friday 6/24/22
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Scott Bettencourt
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6/23/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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I am on vacation this week, so I apologize if some major piece of film music news broke and I did not report it in a timely fashion.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Highway 395 - Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders - Perseverance
IN THEATERS TODAY
Apples - The Boy
The Black Phone - Mark Korven - Score LP coming from Waxwork/Back Lot
Elvis - Elliott Wheeler
1982 - Nadim Mishlawi
COMING SOON
July 1
Jurassic World: Dominion - Michael Giacchino - Backlot
July 22
Clark - Mikael Akerfeldt - Inside Out
The Northman - Robin Carolan, Sebastian Gainsborough - Sacred Bones
Coming Soon
Mayrig/588 Rue Paradis - Jean-Claude Petit - Music Box
Mort d'un pourri - Philippe Sarde - Music Box |
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| Aisle Seat 6-21: Shaft, Northman Sizzle in 4K
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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6/20/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| Australian cinema hit its apex in the ’70s and ’80s, reaching its height when the likes of Mad Max and Crocodile Dundee became box-office smashes all over the world. Stars like Mel Gibson and Nicole Kidman and directors from George Miller to Phillip Noyce all found breakout success in the U.S., while a number of Australian comedies and dramas likewise met with North American distribution – if not in theaters than many on home video. |
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| Film Score Friday 6/17/22
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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6/16/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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This week Intrada has re-released two previously out-of-print CDs - James Horner's score for STAR TREK: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, and Alan Silvestri's music for Stephen King's CAT'S EYE.
Quartet has announced three new releases -- Ernest Gold's score for Sam Peckinpah's penultimate film, the WWII drama CROSS OF IRON, featuring the same cues as the original LP release; the 2021 thriller AMERICAN NIGHT, starring Jonathan Rhys-Meyers and scored by Marco Beltrami and Ceiri Torjussen; and the 2021 Danish World War II drama THE BOMBARDMENT (aka The Shadow in My Eye), scored by Marco Beltrami, Buck Sanders and Ceiri Torjussen.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Albert Glasser Collection Vol. 4: Science Fiction Atomic Mutation I - Albert Glasser - Dragon's Domain
American Night - Marco Beltrami, Ceiri Torjussen - Quartet
The Bombardment - Marco Belrami, Buck Sanders, Ceiri Torjussen - Quartet
Cat's Eye - Alan Silvestri - Intrada Special Collection
Cross of Iron - Ernest Gold - Quartet
Downton Abbey: A New Era - John Lunn - Decca (import)
The First Wives Club - Marc Shaiman - La-La Land
The Ratings Game - David Spear - Dragon's Domain
Scarface - Giorgio Moroder - La-La Land
Star Trek: The Search for Spock [re-release] - James Horner - Intrada Special Collection
The Velvet Queen (La panthere des neiges) - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Invada
Zero to Sixty - John Beal - Dragon's Domain |
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| Aisle Seat 6-14: All Kinds of Classics
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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6/13/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| It’s been a really good time to be a 4K UHD owner at this stage of the game, with the format finally the recipient of a number of outstanding catalog releases, as well as big new announcements coming up through the end of the year. This week brings collectible Limited Edition Steelbook 4K UHD editions of David Lean classics THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI as well as LAWRENCE OF ARABIA – the latter especially noteworthy as it marks its standalone 4K format debut, after being previously available only as part of Sony’s out-of-print “Columbia Classics” box-set anthology. |
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| Film Score Friday 6/3/22
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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6/2/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from Intrada is an expanded edition of Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1993 coming-of-age comedy MATINEE, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, starring John Goodman as a William Castle-esque filmmaker and directed by Joe Dante.
La-La Land has announced two new releases due in mid-June - the first-ever release (a two-disc set, no less) of Giorgio Moroder's only score for director Brian De Palma, the epic, hugely influential 1983 remake of SCARFACE; and an expanded edition of Marc Shaiman's Oscar-nominated score for the hit 1996 comedy THE FIRST WIVES CLUB, starring Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler.
Dragon's Domain has announced three new CDs - THE ALBERT GLASSER COLLECTION VOL. 4: SCIENCE FICTION ATOMIC MUTATION I, featuring the composer's music for two Bert I. Gordon 50s B-movie sci-fi spectacles, The Cyclops and Beginning of the End; the music for the 1984 cable movie THE RATINGS GAME, starring and directed by Danny DeVito and scored by David Spear (The Creature Wasn't Nice, Exterminator 2); and the score for the 1978 action-comedy ZERO TO SIXTY, composed by John Beal (The Funhouse, Terror in the Aisles)
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Blood on the Crown - Laurent Eyquem - Kronos
Farewell Gulsary - Andre Matthias - Kronos
I gabbiani volano bassi - Roberto Pregadio, Carlo Cristallini - CSC
La donna della calda terra - Carlo Savina - CSC
Matinee - Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada Special Collection
Storia e preistoria - Piero Umiliani - Kronos
Violin Concerto No. 2 & Selected Film Themes - John Williams - Deutsche Grammophon |
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Today in Film Score History:
July 1 |
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| Alfred Newman begins recording his score for The Robe (1953) |
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| Andrae Crouch born (1942) |
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| Francois Dompierre born (1943) |
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| Hans Werner Henze born (1926) |
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| Roddy Bottum born (1963) |
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| Seamus Egan born (1969) |
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| Sigmund Krumgold born (1896) |
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