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| Aisle Seat 1-10: New Year Chill Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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1/9/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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| It’s just been one of those weeks – I went to upload this week’s Aisle Seat on Thursday morning when the entire column froze during a laptop crash. When I went back to open up the document, the column was replaced with a number of pound signs! Thus this week’s Aisle Seat had to be rewritten from scratch and I apologize in advance for any grammatical errors – yet I can’t delay this column any longer because I’ve received a number of exciting new releases since the holiday column went live. |
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| CD Checklist 2022
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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1/3/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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ABELS, MICHAEL
NOPE [Waxwork]
ADAMO, RICCARDO
NATI MORTI [Digitmovies]
AKERFELDT, MIKAEL
CLARK [Inside Out]
AKINOLA, SEGUN
DOCTOR WHO SERIES 13: FLUX/REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS [Silva]
ALESSANDRINI, RAYMOND
LE ROI DE PATAGONIE/FABIEL DE LA DROME [Music Box]
LES B.O. INTROUVABLES VOL. 4 [Music Box]
ALLERSTORFTER, CHRISTOPH
THE JACK IN THE BOX : AWAKENING [Howlin’ Wolf]
ARNOLD, DAVID
TOMORROW NEVER DIES [La-La Land]
ARUJ, MAX
THE ICE ROAD [Rambling]
AUFORT, CYRILLE
LE CHENE ET SES HABITANTS [Music Box] |
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| Aisle Seat Holiday Edition 2022: 4K Gifts, Blu-Ray Treats
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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12/19/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| Putting a cap on what’s been a spectacular year for 4K UHD catalog releases is Kino Lorber’s all-new restoration of Joseph Sargent’s tense, terrific 1974 thriller THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE (105 mins., R). For those unfamiliar with this classic New York City-set picture, Walter Matthau stars as a subway transit chief plunged into a terrorist situation when a trio of armed robbers (led by Robert Shaw, just before he set sail in “Jaws”) take hostage of a subway train. Shaw’s plan? Extortion, of course, but despite being assisted by Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo, Matthau has a few tricks up his own sleeve that prove to be a bit more than the terrorists can handle. |
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| Film Score Friday 12/16/22
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Scott Bettencourt
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12/15/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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Quartet has announced four new end-of-year CDs, including one truly historic release.
FRENZY was the penultimate film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his first film to shoot in England since Stage Fright 22 years earlier, and was his best-reviewed film in the years after The Birds. With a witty script by Anthony Shaffer and a top-flight cast of British actors including Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Vivien Merchant, Anne Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Barry Foster and Billie Whitelaw (the latter two imported from the Hitchcockian, Herrmann-scored Twisted Nerve), the film was originally intended to feature a score by the legendary Henry Mancini, but when Hitchcock heard the score the maestro recorded he allegedly remarked "If I wanted Herrmann I would have hired Herrmann" and threw out Mancini's score, the only time this happened to the four-time Oscar winner. Hitchcock ultimately hired Ron Goodwin (Where Eagles Dare, Village of the Damned) to write a replacement score, and until now, re-recordings of Goodman's "London theme" and Mancini's unused main theme have been the only cues released from either score. Quartet's release features both scores for the first time, and all one can say about this release is "Lovely! Lovely!"
Elmer Bernstein's score for the original Magnificent Seven is one of his most popular including one of his most instantly recognizable themes, and Quartet is releasing a four-disc boxed-set, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN COLLECTION, featuring all four of the scores from the series. The Magnificent Seven features the original score plus bonus tracks; Return of the Seven features the tracks from the LP re-recording, as the original score tracks are currently lost; Guns of the Magnificent Seven features the same tracks as the previous Film Score Monthly release; The Magnificent Seven Ride is the first release of the final score for the series, with Bernstein conducting and his orchestrators Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes adapting his themes. The second disc also features the music Bernstein recorded for the Philip Morris promotional album, Music for the Marlboro Country (Bernstein's Magnificent Seven theme was also later well known as the Marlboro theme).
John Barry received his fourth Oscar nomination for 1971's MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Trevor Howard and Ian Holm (not to be confused with the recent retelling of the same historical events, starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie), and Quartet's features the original LP sequencing plus the full mono score tracks. (This film and Chaplin were the only occasions in which Barry was nominated but did not win - five out of seven is pretty impressive).
Their final new release is an expanded edition of Ennio Morricone's score for the 1969 French gangster film, THE SICILIAN CLAN. |
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Today in Film Score History:
March 20 |
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| Amit Poznansky born (1974) |
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| Bruno Alexiu born (1965) |
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| Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for The Tin Star (1957) |
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| Franz Waxman wins his second consecutive Best Score Oscar, for A Place in the Sun (1952) |
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| Georges Delerue died (1992) |
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| John Cameron born (1944) |
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| Johnny Harris died (2020) |
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| Johnny Pearson died (2011) |
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| Michel Magne born (1930) |
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| Miklos Rozsa wins his second Oscar, for A Double Life score (1948) |
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| Ray Cook died (1989) |
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| Stu Phillips records his score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Hand of Goral” (1981) |
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