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Aisle Seat 10-1: Super Friends Fly onto Blu-Ray
Posted By Andy Dursin 9/30/2024 - 10:00 PM
If you grew up watching cartoons in the ‘70s or ‘80s, there was no way of not running into SUPER FRIENDS (Warner), the Hanna-Barbera adaptation of DC Comics heroes which became one of the era’s biggest Saturday morning ratings grabbers for ABC. Running in various formats from 1973 through 1985 (and for years thereafter in syndication), “Super Friends” brought young kids colorful action and the adventures of Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and other Justice League of America members, usually fighting crime and battling alien menaces that didn’t have a whole lot to do with the actual DC Comics they were based on.
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Film Score Friday 9/27/24
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/26/2024 - 10:00 PM
The latest limited edition releases from the Varese Sarabande CD Club are the first full release of Jerry Goldsmith's score for Robert Mulligan's underrated 1972 horror thriller THE OTHER (previously only a handful of cues and a suite had been available from this first-rate score, which was short-listed for an Oscar nomination), and an expanded Deluxe Edition of John Debney's score for director Peter Hyams' Die-Hard-at-a-hockey-game SUDDEN DEATH, starring the muscles from Brussells, Jean-Claude Van Damme.


The latest releases from Quartet are an expanded version of Mark Isham's score for director Mike Figgis' 1994 remake of THE BROWNING VERSION, starring Albert Finney; and Fernando Velazquez's score for the animated Western BUFFALO KIDS.


Music Box is releasing a CD featuring music from three scores by Philippe Sarde: LE CHOICE DES ARMES, GARCON! and LA GARCE.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Dinosaur
 - James Newton Howard - Intrada 

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Aisle Seat 9-24: Fall Arrival Edition!
Posted By Andy Dursin 9/23/2024 - 10:00 PM
Whatever happened to Richard Franklin? The Australian auteur became a hot commodity for a while in the ’80s thanks to genre films like “Psycho II” and the kid fantasy “Cloak and Dagger,” but he saw his career fizzle out after misfires like the barely released 1986 ape thriller LINK (103 mins., R; Kino Lorber). Produced for Thorn EMI before their film division went belly-up and was sold to Cannon, “Link” stars Terence Stamp as a daffy college professor whose work with intelligent simians results in one of those predictable “don’t mess with nature” plots, forcing grad student Elisabeth Shue to battle a chimp gone wild in Stamp’s isolated British manor.
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Film Score Friday 9/20/24
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/19/2024 - 10:00 PM
The latest releases from Intrada are an expanded, two-disc version of James Newton Howard's score for the 2000 Disney release DINOSAUR; and the first release of Frederic Talgorn's score for EDGE OF SANITY, the 1989 remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring Anthony Perkins in the double role. 


The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its related labels are DESPERATE VOYAGE, a 1980 TV movie featuring an early score by Bruce Broughton; the 1981 Ellen Burstyn vehicle SILENCE OF THE NORTH, with music by Allan McMillan adapted and scored by Jerrold Immel; and THE BRIAN MAY COLLECTION VOL. 1, featuring the composer's scores for Road Games and Bloodmoon.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F - Lorne Balfe - La-La Land
Edge of Sanity - Frederic Talgorn - Intrada Special Collection
Eyeball
 - Bruno Nicolai - Quartet 
Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning
 - Harry Manfredini - La-La Land  
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro (Short Night of Glass Dolls)
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet   

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Aisle Seat 9-17: Season 28 Premiere! 4K Debuts & New Release Wrap!
Posted By Andy Dursin 9/16/2024 - 10:00 PM
It’s unfathomably hard to believe I wrote the first Aisle Seat column for the internet way back when I was graduating from college in 1997 – since then we’ve been through more movies, home video releases, and format changes than you can count! Yet throughout it all, I’ve had a blast covering an industry that’s shifted from small “boutique labels” (in the earliest days of DVD) to major studios (the heyday of that format and Blu-Ray) and now back again to a lot of indie labels and distributors keeping physical media alive across Blu and 4K UHD (and DVD too for that matter – the format that simply will not die). We’ll still be here as the marketplace shifts, changes and adjusts to post-COVID viewing habits and a theatrical marketplace that has never recovered from “the pandemic” – and invite all of you to join me on our message boards for always-lively discussion about movies both new and (especially) vintage in nature.
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Film Score Friday 9/13/24
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/12/2024 - 10:00 PM
This year's Creative Emmys were awarded, including the following Music categories:

OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY: Book Of Calvin– Carlos Rafael Rivera 
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING: Sitzprobe  – Siddhartha Khosla
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A DOCUMENTARY SERIES OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
JIM HENSON IDEA MAN - David Fleming
 
OUTSTANDING MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
PALM ROYALE – Jeff Toyne
 
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING: Sitzprobe – “Which Of The Pickwick Triplets Did It?" – Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
THE OSCARS – Rickey Minor
 
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION
FALLOUT: The End - Trygge Toven 

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol. 6 - Malcolm Lockyer, Ruby Raksin - Dragon's Domain 
Industry: Season 2 - Nathan Micay - LuckyMe
The Paul Chihara Collection Vol. 5
 - Paul Chihara - Dragon's Domain [CD-R]
Pentathlon
 - David Spear - Dragon's Domain   
The Talented Mr. Ripley
 - Gabriel Yared - Music Box 

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Sept. FSMO Is Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 9/6/2024 - 9:00 AM

The September edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is a detailed analysis of STEFFEN THUM’s written score for SLINGSHOT, starring Casey Affleck and Laurence Fishburne. Also this issue are an interview with MICHELLE BIRSKY and KEVIN HENTHORN about their score for the latest incarnation

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Film Score Friday 9/6/24
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 9/5/2024 - 10:00 PM
La-La Land has announced two new releases due next week -- Lorne Balfe's score for Netflix's recent sequel BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F, which incorporates Harold Faltermeyer's classic theme from the original 1984 film; and an "ultimate cut" edition of Harry Manfredini's score for FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING.


The latest release from Music Box is a two-disc, expanded edition of Gabriel Yared's Oscar-nominated score for THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, the 1999 remake of Patricia Highsmith's classic first novel in her "Ripley" series (previously filmed as Purple Noon, and recently remade as the mini-series Ripley). Ripley was the second of four theatrical features Yared scored for writer-director Anthony Minghella, and starred Matt Damon as Ripley with a remarkable supporting cast - Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman and an Oscar-nominated Jude Law. Disc One features the full film score, while Disc Two features alternates and demo cues.


The latest release from Caldera presents the score to HAUNTED HEART, a new romantic thriller from director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, Chico & Rita), with music by Zbigniew Preisner (The Double Life of Veronique, Damage).


IN THEATERS TODAY

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Danny Elfman
The Cowboy and the Queen - Craig Richey
Don't Say It - Michele Josia
El Candidato Honesto - Dan Zlotnik
The Front Room - Marcelo Zarvos
His Three Daughters - Rodrigo Amarante
I'll Be Right There - James Righton
Paradise Is Burning - Giorgio Giampa
Red Rooms - Dominique Plante
Seeking Mavis Beacon - Fatima Al Qadiri 

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Aisle Seat 8-27: Labor Day Edition, From ALIEN ROMULUS to 70s Wrap!
Posted By Andy Dursin 9/2/2024 - 10:00 PM
Freshly remastered from the vaults of CBS’ Cinema Center Films this month is the tough, exciting PRIME CUT (86 mins., 1972, R), a gritty rural gangster thriller that receives a welcome upgrade on 4K UHD from Kino Lorber – the first of four ‘70s remasters headlining late August’s big disc releases.
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Film Score Friday 8/30/24
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 8/29/2024 - 10:00 PM
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour
 - Mark Ayres, Tristram Cary - Silva 
Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen: Vol. 1 - Michael Giacchino - Mutant 
Fallen Angels Vol. 1
 - Peter Bernstein - Dragon's Domain 
Franz Waxman: Legendary Hollywood Vol. 4
 - Franz Waxman - Citadel 
The Gerald Fried Collection Vol. 2
 - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain 
Safe House
 - Kevin Kiner - Dragon's Domain [CD-R] 
IN THEATERS TODAY

Across the River and Into the Trees - Edward Shearmur
AfrAId - Alex Weston
City of Dreams - Lisa Gerrard, Bennett Salvay
Close Your Eyes - Federico Jusid - Score CD Cerrar los ojos on Quartet
Merchant Ivory - Ryan Homsey
Mountains - Dyani Douze
1992 - Gilad Benamram
Slingshot - Steffen Thum
Take My Hand - Angela Little
Tokyo Cowboy - Chad Cannon
The Wasp - Adam Janota Bzowski
You Gotta Believe - Mike McCready
COMING SOON

September 13
Industry: Season 2 - Nathan Micay - LuckyMe
October 4
White Bird - Thomas Newman - Lakeshore
Coming Soon  
Eyeball
- Bruno Nicolai - Quartet
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol. 6 - Malcolm Lockyer, Ruby Raksin - Dragon's Domain
La corta notte delle bambole di vetro (Short Night of Glass Dolls)
- Ennio Morricone - Quartet 
The Paul Chihara Collection Vol. 5
 - Paul Chihara - Dragon's Domain [CD-R]
Pentathlon
 - David Spear - Dragon's Domain  
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October 3
Arnold Bax died (1953)
Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score for Tender Is the Night (1961)
Dennis McCarthy begins recording his score for Star Trek: Generations (1994)
Gerald Fried records his score for the Lost in Space episode "Collision of Planets" (1967)
Harry Sukman begins recording his score for Salem’s Lot (1979)
Jeff Alexander begins recording his unused score to Saddle the Wind (1957)
Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1974)
Johnny Mandel begins recording his unused score to The Seven-Ups (1973)
Nick Glennie-Smith born (1951)
Richard Bellis records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The House of Quark” (1994)
Robert Drasnin records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Thief from Outer Space" (1966)
Roy Webb born (1888)
Shirley Walker begins recording her score for Turbulence (1996)
Stu Phillips begins recording his score for the two-part Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Plot to Kill a City” (1979)
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