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| Welcome to the New Site! |
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| Posted By Lukas Kendall |
1/5/2009 - 4:00 PM |
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Happy new year and welcome to the updated FSM site. It's been around a decade in the coming. It's been a major project for us not only to make something visually more attractive and expansive but a powerful (and, we hope, useful) collection of our data: from the daily columns to backissues (coming soon) to our CD catalog...fun stuff like links, FAQs and polls...and the message board, don't forget that...well, it hasn't been easy. Many thanks to programmer Matthew Gelis of Veraprise and art director Joe Sikoryak of designWELL.
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| OSCAR PREDICTIONS |
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| Posted By Scott Bettencourt |
1/5/2009 - 12:00 AM |
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Predictions are in boldface, followed by those which I personally would nominate in italics. As with previous years' lists, for several categories I have NOT provided my own nominations, since frankly I know jack about costumes, sound and so forth. Films that I have listed as my own personal nominations yet which are not actually eligible in those categories are marked with an asterisk, with the reason for their ineligibility given in a footnote.
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| DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC 2008 |
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| Posted By Scott Bettencourt |
12/31/2008 - 12:00 AM |
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THE PRAISE
ADAM RESURRECTED - Gabriel Yared
"Gabriel Yared's plaintive score adds some feeling that's otherwise in short supply."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
ALEXANDRA - Andrei Sigle
"The value of a beautiful orchestral score in a movie is made clear in Russian director Alexander Sokurov's 'Alexandra,' an austere glimpse of life in war-torn Chechnya. Andrei Sigle, who produced the film, also composed the music, and its sweeping warmth carries something of the soul of mother Russia to that bleak and torrid landscape. Sigle's music, played by the Symphony Orchestra of the Marinsky Theatre, features symphonic waves and gentle solos on piano and cello. Subtle for the most part, it sweeps in where necessary and goes a long way to inform the picture's melancholy and moving sensibility."
Ray Bennett, Hollywood Reporter
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| FILM SCORE FRIDAY 12/26/08 |
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| Posted By Scott Bettencourt |
12/26/2008 - 12:00 AM |
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The latest release from Film Score Monthly, limited to 1500 units, is a dramatic change-of-pace for our label, consisting not of film or television music but of original concert music composed by three-time Oscar winner Maurice Jarre. MAURICE JARRE: CONCERT WORKS features five pieces, composed between 1951 and 1961: Three Dances for Ondes Martenot and Drums (1951), Passacaglia to the Memory of Arthur Honegger (1957), The Night Watch (1961), Mobiles for Violin and Orchestra (1961) and Ancient Suite for Percussion Instruments and Piano (1956).
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| MY FAVORITE CDS OF 2007 |
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| Posted By Scott Bettencourt |
12/24/2008 - 12:00 AM |
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The end of 2008 may seem like a strange time to start a list of one's favorite film music CDs of 2007 -- wouldn't the beginning of the year been a more apt occasion? Alas, the more columns I write, the more I feel I need to actually research my subject (especially since I ultimately spend so little time actually writing them -- as Truman Capote once famously said, "That's not writing, it's typing), and so many score CDs came out in 2007 that I felt I should actually listen to the bulk of them before I chose my favorites and wrote about them. So 300 CDs later, here's the first part of the list (and having listened to the major discs of 2007, I've finally started listening in earnest to the CDs of 2008. So far I've played Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, The Kentuckian, Iron Eagle, Comes a Horseman, The Happening, Shaft Anthology, Body Double...sigh).
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| Aisle Seat Holiday Edition |
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| Posted By Andy Dursin |
12/22/2008 - 12:00 AM |
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I'm not sure if it's an indication of our struggling economy, or perhaps a sign of movies that audiences simply aren't that interested in, but home video sales have been lagging over the last few months of the year. DVD sales basically flatlined during the third quarter, while Blu-Ray sales enjoyed some growth but have yet to experience the massive leaps and bounds some experts predicted (it'll be quite interesting to see how analysts project the format did over the holiday season, once numbers start coming in during the new year). Compared to a year ago, this has resulted in not nearly as many "Special Edition" DVD re-issues of catalog offerings, and with the exception of "The Dark Knight," nowhere near the amount of hot-selling "must have" new titles as well.
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| FILM SCORE FRIDAY 12/19/08 |
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| Posted By Scott Bettencourt |
12/19/2008 - 12:00 AM |
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Intrada has just released three new limited edition releases, including two which may have already sold out at most sites.
In a soundtrack collecting year which has seen the release of such much-desired scores as Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, Batman: The Animated Series, Heavy Metal, an expanded Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and the complete Boys from Brazil, the phrase "Holy Grail" gets overused (I may have to begin substituting another metaphor, like "Sacred Stones" or "Ark of the Covenant" or "Crystal Skull"), but Intrada has released yet another score which is a Holy Grail for many collectors, Pino Donaggio's music for Brian De Palma's 1984 thriller BODY DOUBLE. Body Double was the second DePalma reworking of Vertigo, but lacking the emotional power of Obsession and substituting a lot of silliness (including unconvincing effects makeup and a feeble finale). The film did benefit from Melanie Griffith's delightful performance, Steve Burum's expert cinematography, and particularly Donaggio's score, one of his most deservedly popular efforts, which has never had its own commercial soundtrack release (several cues were featured on the Milan compilation of DePalma/Donaggio tracks). Intrada's release, limited to 3000 units, features all 69 minutes of the music Donaggio composed for the film, both score and source tracks, including the classic porno dance music.
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| Film Score Monthly Online |
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Indiana Jones and the Box Set of Idolized Film Music |
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Indiana Jones: The Box Set Reviewed |
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The Voice of Bond, Part 2 |
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Smiert Spionom: A Tribute to Music for Spy Movies, Part 3 |
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Rózsa Memoirs: The First Visit |
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Wong's Turn: Memo to the Academy Music Branch 2008 |
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Ear of the Month Contest |
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Tales From the Blacklist: The Story of Hanns Eisler |
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Score Restore: How to Steal a Million |
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Howard Sings Ashman |
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Score Internationale: Carlo Savina, Plus 1 |
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