Intrada has announced two new limited edition releases, one of which has already sold out at most sites.
James Horner had a whopping ten films released in 1993, including the blockbuster hit The Pelican Brief. Eight of those scores were released on CD in conjunction with the films; Jack the Bear remained unreleased until Intrada put it out in 2002, and now Intrada has made the last of Horner's '93 output available with their release of his score to HOUSE OF CARDS, the offbeat drama starring Kathleen Turner as the mother of a traumatized girl, helped back to health by quirky therapist Tommy Lee Jones. The CD is limited to 1500 units and is already sold out from both Intrada and Screen Archives.
Their other new release, limited to 1000 units, features the score from Cannon Pictures' 1984 adventure film THE SEVEN MAGNIFICENT GLADIATORS, starring Lou Ferrigno and Sybil Danning. The music was composed by Dov Seltzer, whose many other credits include Kazablan, The Ambassador, The Assisi Underground and Hanna's War.
Varese Sarabande has announced two new releases due in November -- Gabriel Yared's score for AMELIA, the biopic of Amelia Earhart starring Hilary Swank, and the sci-fi thriller THE FOURTH KIND, scored by Atli Orvarsson (Vantage Point, Babylon A.D.), starring Milla Jovovich as a psychiatrist investigating alien abductions in Nome, Alaska (fun fact from the trailer -- her last name is pronounced "Yo-vo-vich." Who knew?).
Buysoundtrax has announced two new limited edition releases -- Bill Conti's score for the TV biopic MURDERERS AMONG US: THE SIMON WIESENTHAL STORY, with Ben Kingsley as the real-life Nazi hunter (Bay Cities previously released Conti's score on CD, but the Buysoundtrack release adds 25 minutes of previously unreleased music), and Alan Howarth's score for the 1996 Danish horror film MORKELEG (BACKSTABBED). Both discs are limited to 1000 units.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Bright Star - Mark Bradshaw - Lakeshore
Children of the Corn [1984] - Jonathan Elias - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Collectors Edition Vol. 1 - Howard Shore - Howe
Couples Retreat - A.R. Rahman - Relativity Media
Crime in the Streets - Franz Waxman - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Escape from the Planet of the Apes - Jerry Goldsmith - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past - Rolfe Kent - Silva
House of Cards - James Horner - Intrada Special Collection
I.Q./Seconds - Jerry Goldsmith - La-La Land
Knife Edge - Guy Farley - MovieScore Media
The Secret Agent - Philip Glass - Orange Mountain
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators - Dov Seltzer - Intrada Signature Edition
17 Again - Rolfe Kent - Silva
Toxic - Scott Glasgow - MovieScore Media
A Walk in the Spring Rain - Elmer Bernstein - Varese Sarabande CD Club
IN THEATERS TODAY
Adventures of Power - Ethan Gold
Black Dynamite - Adrian Younge - Score CD due Oct. 20 on Wax Poetics
Bronson - Soundtrack CD on EMI (import)
Law Abiding Citizen - Brian Tyler
New York, I Love You - Tonino Baliardo, Nicholas Britell, Paul Cantelon, Mychael Danna, Ilhan Erashin, Jack Livesey, Shoji Mitsui, Mark Mothersbaugh, Peter Nashel, Atticus Ross, Leopold Ross, Claudia Sarne, Marcelo Zarvos
The Stepfather - Charlie Clouser - Song CD on Lakeshore
Trucker - Mychael Danna
Where the Wild Things Are - Carter Burwell, Karen O. - Song CD on Interscope with 1 Burwell cue
COMING SOON
October 20
Astro Boy - John Ottman - Varese Sarabande
Black Dynamite - Adrian Younge - Wax Poetics
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Stephen Trask - Varese Sarabande
Triangle - Christian Henson - MovieScore Media
October 27
Pandorum - Michl Britsch - MovieScore Media
November 3
Fantastic Mr. Fox - Alexandre Desplat - Abcko
A Serious Man - Carter Burwell - Lakeshore
November 10
Amelia - Gabriel Yared - Varese Sarabande
2012 - Harald Kloser, Thomas Wander - RCA
November 17
The Fourth Kind - Atli Orvarsson - Varese Sarabande
November 24
New Moon - Alexandre Desplat - E1
The Princess and the Frog - Randy Newman - Disney
December 8
Avatar - James Horner - Atlantic
Date Unknown
Bananas/Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask - Marvin Hamlisch/Mundell Lowe - Kritzerland
Child's Play - Joe Renzetti - La-La Land
Morkeleg (Backstabbed) - Alan Howarth - AHI
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story - Bill Conti - Buysoundtrax
Night of the Creeps - Barry DeVorzon - La-La land
Space 1999: Year Two - Derek Wadsworth - Silva
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
October 17 - Around the World in Eighty Days premieres in New York (1956)
October 17 - Bullitt opens in New York (1968)
October 18 - Frederick Hollander born (1896)
October 18 - Allyn Ferguson born (1924)
October 18 - John Morris born (1926)
October 18 - Peter Best born (1943)
October 18 - Howard Shore born (1946)
October 18 - Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score to The Wrong Man (1956)
October 18 - Wynton Marsalis born (1961)
October 18 - Pete Carpenter died (1987)
October 19 - Fiorenzo Carpi born (1918)
October 19 - George Fenton born (1950)
October 19 - Victor Young begins recording his score to Scaramouche (1951)
October 20 - Frank Churchill born (1901)
October 20 - Thomas Newman born (1955)
October 20 - Lucien Moraweck died (1973)
October 21 - Malcolm Arnold born (1921)
October 21 - John W. Morgan born (1946)
October 21 - Brian Banks born (1955)
October 22 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score to Bhowani Junction (1955)
October 22 - Hugo Friedhofer begins recording his score to Never So Few (1959)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
COUPLES RETREAT - A.R. Rahman
"Each of these characters is exactly the same person the whole way through, until one night when they all magically experience an epiphany that makes them more communicative, patient and loving. During such moments, a distracting, feel-good score -- surprisingly from 'Slumdog Millionaire' Oscar-winner A.R. Rahman -- pipes in early and often."
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
AN EDUCATION - Paul Englishby
"Every scene sparkles with spry dialogue, as Jenny navigates her way in the big wide world of exciting, if devious, adults. Pic will remind viewers that, as of 1961-62, England was still stuck in postwar austerity, with the Swinging Sixties a couple of years off. Scherfig, Hornby, lenser John de Borman, production designer Andrew McAlpine, composer Paul Englishby, music supervisor Kle Savidge, costume designer Odile Dicks-Mireaux and all other hands alertly attend to the details of period looks, sounds and attitudes."
Todd McCarthy, Variety
35 SHOTS OF RUM - Tindersticks
"It is a warm, embracing work, with a flowing lyricism and a delicate poignancy, accompanied by a shimmering Tindersticks score and an evocative use of pop songs."
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Kritzerland's imminent, first-ever release of the scores to Woody Allen's Bananas and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex reminds me of the great wealth of scores from the 1970s and 1980s that have seen their first soundtrack release in recent years. I feel like I've probably made the list before (and will probably make it again), but here are most of the 70s and 80s scores that have been newly released since I started writing these columns seven-and-a-half years ago:
1970s
THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (Kirchin)
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (Shire)
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13 (Carpenter)
THE BALLAD OF CABLE HOGUE (Goldsmith)
BANK SHOT (Morris)
BIG WEDNESDAY (Poledouris)
BLAZING SADDLES (Morris)
BLOOD FROM THE MUMMY'S TOMB (Cary)
BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (Wilkinson)
BRANNIGAN (Frontiere)
BREAKHEART PASS (Goldsmith)
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Fielding)
CANNON FOR CORDOBA (Bernstein)
CAPTAIN KRONOS, VAMPIRE HUNTER (Johnson)
CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (Morley)
THE CAREY TREATMENT (Budd)
THE CHINA SYNDROME (Small - rejected)
COLD TURKEY (R. Newman)
COMES A HORSEMAN (Small)
COPS AND ROBBERS (Legrand)
CRYPT OF THE LIVING DEAD (Lambro)
DEMON SEED (Fielding)
DIRTY HARRY (Schifrin)
DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN (Gale)
DRACULA A.D. 1972 (Vickers)
THE DRIVER (Small)
EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (DeVol)
THE ENFORCER (Fielding)
ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES (Goldsmith)
FORCE 10 FROM NAVARONE (Goodwin)
FROM NOON TILL THREE (Bernstein)
FUTUREWORLD (Karlin)
THE GETAWAY (Fielding - rejected)
HANOVER STREET (Barry)
THE HELLSTROM CHRONICLE (Schifrin)
KES (Cameron)
KLUTE (Small)
LASERBLAST (Band/Goldsmith)
MAGIC (Goldsmith)
MAGNUM FORCE (Schifrin)
THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING (Legrand - rejected)
THE MAN WHO LOVED CAT DANCING (Williams)
McQ (Bernstein)
MR. MAJESTYK (C. Bernstein)
A NAME FOR EVIL (Frontiere)
NIGHTWING (Mancini)
NORMA RAE (Shire)
ONE LITTLE INDIAN (Goldsmith)
ONE MAN JURY (Stevens)
THE OUTFIT (Fielding)
THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (Scott)
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOMES (Rozsa - re-recording)
PSYCHOMANIA (Cameron)
REPORT TO THE COMMISSIONER (Bernstein)
ROBIN AND MARIAN (Barry)
ROBIN AND MARIAN (Legrand - rejected)
THE SEVEN-UPS (Ellis)
THE SEVEN-UPS (Mandel - rejected)
SILVER STREAK (Mancini)
SKY RIDERS (Schifrin)
SOYLENT GREEN (Myrow)
THE SUPER COPS (Fielding)
THX 1138 (Schifrin)
THE TRAVELING EXECUTIONER (Goldsmith)
THE WHITE BUFFALO (Barry)
WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN (Rosenthal)
THE WRATH OF GOD (Schifrin)
THE YAKUZA (Grusin)
1980s
AIRPLANE! (E. Bernstein)
ALIEN NATION (Goldsmith - rejected)
AUTHOR! AUTHOR! (Grusin)
AUTHOR! AUTHOR! (Mandel - rejected)
BABY: SECRET OF THE LOST LEGEND (Goldsmith)
BIG (Shore)
BLACK WIDOW (Small)
BODY DOUBLE (Donaggio)
BROADCAST NEWS (Conti)
BRUBAKER (Schifrin)
CAVEMAN (Schifrin)
THE CHANGELING (Wannberg/Wilkins)
COMMANDO (Horner)
THE CREATURE WASN'T NICE (Spear/Kimmel)
CROSS CREEK (Rosenman)
THE DEAD POOL (Schifrin)
DIE HARD (Kamen)
THE DUNGEONMASTER (Band)
THE ESCAPE ARTIST (Delerue)
FADE TO BLACK (Safan)
GHOST WARRIOR (Band)
GHOSTBUSTERS (Bernstein)
GHOULIES (Band)
GLORIA (Conti)
HEART LIKE A WHEEL (Rosenthal)
HONEY, I SHRUNK THE KIDS (Horner)
I OUGHT TO BE IN PICTURES (Hamlisch)
THE ICE PIRATES (Broughton)
IRON EAGLE (Poledouris)
JOE VS. THE VOLCANO (Delerue)
THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN (Bernstein - rejected)
THE JOURNEY OF NATTY GANN (Horner)
THE KARATE KID (Conti)
THE KARATE KID PART II (Conti)
THE KARATE KID PART III (Conti)
KNIGHTRIDERS (D. Rubinstein)
LITTLE MONSTERS (D. Newman)
LOCK UP (Conti)
LUCAS (Grusin)
MALONE (D. Newman)
THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (Mancini)
MAX DUGAN RETURNS (Shire)
MEMORIES OF ME (Delerue)
METALSTORM: THE DESTRUCTION OF JARED-SYN (Band)
MIKE'S MURDER (Barry)
MONKEY SHINES (Shire)
THE MONSTER SQUAD (Broughton)
NEIGHBORS (Conti)
NEIGHBORS (Scott - rejected)
A NIGHT IN THE LIFE OF JIMMY REARDON (Conti)
PARASITE (Band)
THE PICK UP ARTIST (Delerue)
PREDATOR (Silvestri)
PRINCE JACK (Bernstein)
THE PRODIGAL (Broughton)
THE RIGHT STUFF (Conti)
ROMANCING THE STONE (Silvestri)
SATURN 3 (Bernstein)
SCARECROWS (Plumeri)
SHORT CIRCUIT (Shire)
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES (Horner)
SPACEBALLS (Morris)
SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE (Bernstein)
THE STAR CHAMBER (Small)
STRIPES (Bernstein)
SUPERMAN IV: THE QUEST FOR PEACE (Courage/Williams)
TANGO & CASH (Faltermeyer)
THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN (D. Newman)
THE VERDICT (Mandel)
VICTORY (Conti)
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? (Rubinstein)
WITHOUT A CLUE (Mancini)
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