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| Film Score Friday 4/18/25
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Scott Bettencourt
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4/17/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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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 |
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| Aisle Seat 4-15: Arrow, Warner Archive Rundown
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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4/14/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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| Director Renny Harlin’s ill-fated pirate sojourn with then-wife Geena Davis, “Cutthroat Island,” became an immediate box-office bomb upon its release in 1995 – making it a good thing their next collaboration, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (120 mins., 1996, R; Arrow), was already in production. A movie that brought its screenwriter, Shane “Lethal Weapon” Black, an enormous sum before a frame was shot (a then-record $4 million), “The Long Kiss Goodnight” one-upped Harlin’s seafaring adventure yet still underwhelmed with a disappointing $32 million domestic gross for New Line. |
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| Aisle Seat 4-1: April (No Foolin') Arrival Edition!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/31/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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| Among the glut of ‘80s teen comedies, THE JOY OF SEX (90 mins., 1984, R; Cinematographe) was one of the few that became notoriously difficult to track down over the years. Despite being a Paramount Summer of ‘84 comedy that found director Martha Coolidge working in between her memorable hits “Valley Girl” (1983) and “Real Genius” (1985), this infamously troubled picture only wound its way onto VHS before essentially being banished into home video purgatory for decades. Now remastered in Cinematographe’s limited-edition Blu-Ray set, curious viewers can finally get an understanding of what happened with this teen comedy that was being pulled apart by the disparate intentions of its filmmakers and studio executives. |
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| Film Score Friday 3/28/25
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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3/27/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest CD from Quartet features the first release of the original score tracks for John Barry's music for Richard Lester's 1965 sex comedy THE KNACK (remastered from music-and-effects tracks), plus the cues from the original LP recording and a couple bonus versions of the main theme. (Barry went on to score Petulia and Robin and Marian for Lester; for the latter film, he replaced a more somber and classical score by Michel Legrand).
The latest CD from Caldera features David Shire's score for the 1991 TV movie SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL, a frontier romance starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken, paired with Shire's music for its first sequel, SKYLARK (Shire's music tracks for the third in the series, Winter's End, are apparently lost).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Histoires extraordinaires/Les Cousins de la Constance/La-haut, les quartre saisons - Georges Delerue - Music Box
One Deadly Summer/The White Queen - Georges Delerue - Music Box
IN THEATERS TODAY
Audrey's Children - Genevieve Vincent
The Ballad of Wallis Island - Adem Ilhan
Being Maria - Benjamin Biolay
Day of Reckoning - Jay Christopherson
Death of a Unicorn - Dan Romer, Giosue Greco
The Penguin Lessons - Federico Jusid
The Woman in the Yard - Lorne Balfe
A Working Man - Jared Michael Fry |
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| Aisle Seat 3-25: Criterion 4K Reviews
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/24/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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| In Michael Mann’s dazzling THIEF (124 mins., 1981, R; Criterion), jewel thief Frank (James Caan) moonlights as a Chicago car dealer by day and cool, by-the-book safecracker at night. Having served time, Frank is weary of the criminal world he engages in, keeping his dealings on a simple, plain level that changes when he meets crime boss Leo (Robert Prosky), who subsequently provides Frank with assorted jobs, enables him to buy a new home and even helps him and girlfriend Jessie (Tuesday Weld) adopt a child. With their new dealings, though, comes a price that Frank is ultimately unwilling to pay… |
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| Film Score Friday 3/21/25
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Scott Bettencourt
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3/20/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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Intrada has just released their latest Kickstarter-sponsored re-recording, of Frank Skinner's score for the horror-comedy classic ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, plus cues from ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS, composed by William Lava, Henry Mancini and Herman Stein.
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its related labels are -- STARSHIP INVASIONS, the 1977 sci-fi B-movie starring Robert Vaughn and Christopher Lee, with a score by Gil Melle; a re-release of Elmer Bernstein's symphonic score for the little-seen 1989 sci-fi adventure SLIPSTREAM; and STAR TREK: A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION, a two-disc re-release of the mid-80s Label X re-recordings of suites from original Star Trek episode scores, featuring music by George Duning, Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried, Sol Kaplan, Samuel Matlovsky and Joseph Mullendore, plus the series theme by Alexander Courage.
Mutant recently announced an upcoming LP of Alan Silvestri's score for Netflix's megabudget science-fiction adventure THE ELECTRIC STATE, directed by Silvestri's Avengers collaborators the Russo brothers. This is of course part of the current trend of major films and scores getting released on vinyl only instead of on CD, as was still the norm pre-pandemic. For those interested in other (fairly) recent and upcoming vinyl-only scores (I am of course not counting download releases), there is a list at the end of this column.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein/Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops - Frank Skinner, Wiliam Lava, Henry Mancini, Herman Stein - Intrada
Anthology: The Paris Concerts - Howard Shore - Deutsche Grammophon
The Apprentice - Martin Dirkov, David Holmes, Brian Byrne - Filmtrax
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog - John Scott - JOS
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown - Vince Guaraldi - LMFP
The Reivers - John Williams - La-La Land |
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Today in Film Score History:
April 23 |
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| Alain Jomy born (1941) |
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| Andre Previn begins recording his score for The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) |
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| Arthur B. Rubinstein died (2018) |
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| Bernard Herrmann begins recording his North by Northwest score (1959) |
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| Christopher Komeda died (1969) |
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| Harold Arlen died (1986) |
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| Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson born (1958) |
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| James Horner begins recording his score for House of Cards (1992) |
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| Jay Gruska born (1952) |
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| Jonsi born (1975) |
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| Kenji Kawai born (1957) |
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| Louis Barron born (1920) |
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| Patrick Williams born (1939) |
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| Robert Farnon died (2005) |
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| Satyajit Ray died (1992) |
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| Sergei Prokofiev born (1891) |
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