CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad - Miklos Rozsa - Prometheus
Largo Winch - Alexandre Desplat - Varese Sarabande (import)
Les Enfants de Timpelbach - Frederic Talgorn - Milan (import)

IN THEATERS TODAY

Defiance - James Newton Howard - Score CD on Sony
Good - Simon Lacey

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

ADDISON, JOHN

THE MGM SOUNDTRACK TREASURY [THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE, THE HONEY POT] (Film Score Monthly)
SWASHBUCKLER (Intrada Special Collection)

ALESSANDRONI, ALESSANDRO

IL GIRO DEL MONDO DEGLI INNAMORATI DI PEYNET (GDM - import)

Film Score Monthly was a hardcopy publication (first a newsletter, then a magazine) I founded and largely edited from 1990 through 2005—when I was age 16 through 31. There were several stages of evolution of the journal, and all issues are archived on this website as pdf files.

The magazine began thanks to a letter I had published in Starlog magazine #155 about movie soundtracks, stating at the bottom, “Anyb

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.