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| Aisle Seat 9-17: Season 28 Premiere! 4K Debuts & New Release Wrap!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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9/16/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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
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Scott Bettencourt
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9/12/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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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| Film Score Friday 9/6/24
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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9/5/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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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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| Film Score Friday 8/23/24
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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8/22/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from Intrada is an expanded, two-disc edition of Charles Fox's score for the hit 1978 romantic comedy thriller FOUL PLAY, the directorial debut of screenwriter Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude, Silver Streak), which teamed Goldie Hawn with Chevy Chase in his first leading role. The release features the full film score including its nominated original song "Ready to Take a Chance Again," written by Fox and his regular lyricist collaborator Norman Gimbel, plus the sequencing from the original LP release.
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its related labels are THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE-FICTION VOL 6, featuring music from Valley of the Dragons (Ruby Raksin) and Island of Terror (Malcolm Lockyer); THE PAUL CHIHARA COLLECTION VOL. 5, featuring the composer's music for the TV movies The Bad Seed, Killer Instinct and With Intent to Kill; David Spear's score for the 1994 action thriller PENTATHLON, starring Dolph Lundgren; and the fourth volume of their FRANZ WAXMAN: LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD series, including re-recorded cues from such classic Waxman scores as Bride of Frankenstein, Captains Courageous and The Silver Chalice.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Foul Play - Charles Fox - Intrada Special Collection |
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| Aisle Seat 8-20: LAST EMBRACE Remastered on 4K UHD
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/19/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| After the passing of Alfred Hitchcock numerous directors attempted to keep the director’s “vibe” alive by producing homages like Jonathan Demme’s 1979 affair LAST EMBRACE (102 mins., 1979, R; Cinematographe). This adaptation of Murray Teigh Bloom’s novel “The 13th Man” offers a laundry list of attractive ingredients – from a terrific lead performance by Roy Scheider to its outstanding supporting cast and Miklos Rozsa’s romantic, old-fashioned score – yet the movie itself doesn’t work, an unsuccessful attempt at melding the suspense of Hitch with the sensibilities of the late ‘70s. |
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Today in Film Score History:
September 19 |
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| Alfred Newman begins recording his score for How Green Was My Valley (1941) |
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| Arthur Benjamin born (1893) |
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| Daniel Lanois born (1951) |
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| Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Search - Part 1” (1994) |
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| Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Powder (1995) |
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| Joel McNeely wins the Emmy for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode “Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920;” Dennis McCarthy wins for his Star Trek: Deep Space Nine main title theme (1993) |
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| Johann Johannsson born (1969) |
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| Johnny Harris begins recording his score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “Planet of the Slave Girls” (1979) |
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| Nile Rodgers born (1952) |
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| Paul Williams born (1940) |
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| Vladimir Horunzhy born (1949) |
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| Willie Hutch died (2005) |
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