La-La Land was scheduled to announce its latest slate of "Black Friday" releases at midnight. There should be updated information on these much-anticipated soundtrack CDs on our Message Board.

I am on vacation this week, which is why updates on CD releases and local screenings may be a bit sketchy, to say the least.

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Allies - Philippe Jacko - MovieScore Media
The Betsy (re-recording) - John Barry - Prometheus/Tadlow
Big Hero 6 - Henry Jackman - Disney
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 - James Newton Howard - Republic
The Imitation Game - Alexandre Desplat - Sony
The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken - Disney
One on One - Charles Fox - Varese Sarabande
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History - David Cieri - PBS
'71 - David Holmes - Touch Sensitive (import)

IN THEATERS TODAY

Antarctica: A Year on Ice - Plan 9
The Babadook - Jed Kurzel
Horrible Bosses 2 - Christopher Lennertz
The Imitation Game - Alexandre Desplat - Score CD on Sony
Once Upon a Time Veronica - Tomaz Alvez de Souza
Penguins of Madagascar - Lorne Balfe - Score CD due Dec. 9 on Sony (import)

COMING SOON

December 2
The Better Angels - Hanan Townshend - Lakeshore
Exodus: Gods and Kings - Alberto Iglesias - Sony
Far Cry 4 - Cliff Martinez - Invada
Warning Sign - Craig Safan - Invada
December 9
Elmer Bernstein: The Wild Side - Elmer Bernstein - Varese Sarabande
Fulci 2 Fulci: Live at Union Chapel - Fabio Frizzi - Beat
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies [single disc] - Howard Shore - Watertower
The Homesman - Marco Beltrami - Varese Sarabande
Mr. Turner - Gary Yershon - Varese Sarabande
Penguins of Madagascar - Lorne Balfe - Sony (import)
Rosewater - Howard Shore - Howe
Song of the Sea - Bruno Coulais - Mercury (import)
December 16
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies: Special Edition - Howard Shore - Watertower
Into the Woods (1- and 2-disc editions) - Stephen Sondheim - Disney
Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb - Alan Silvestri - Varese Sarabande
January 6
The Dance of Reality - Adan Jodorowsky - Real Gone
Sharknado 2: The Second One - Chris Ridenhour, Christopher Cano - Phinas Atwood
January 13
At the Devil's Door - Ronen Landa - Phineas Atwood
February 3
John Carpenter's Lost Themes - John Carpenter - Sacred Bones
Date Unknown
Cartouche - Georges Delerue - Disques CineMusique
Cherchez Hortense, et al - Alexei Aigui - Music Box
Collapse - Vincent Gillioz - Howlin' Wolf
The Dead 2 - Irmin Ahmad - Howlin' Wolf
Die Hebamme - Marcel Barsotti - Alhambra
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor/The Time of the Doctor - Murray Gold - Silva
Falling in Love - Dave Grusin - Kritzerland
Fantome Avec Chauffeur - Wojciech Kilar - Disques CineMusique
I Tre Volti - Piero Piccioni - Legend
The Jerry Goldsmith Collection Volume Two: Piano Sketches - Jerry Goldsmith - Buysoundtrax
The Light at the Edge of the World - Piero Piccioni - Quartet
The Mysterious Island of Captain Nemo - Gianni Ferrio - Quartet
P.J. - Neil Argo - Kronos
Summer Song - Andrew Holtzman, Peter Bateman - Kronos
To Kill a Priest - Georges Delerue - Music Box
Viy - Anton Garcia - Kronos

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

November 28 - Mario Nascimbene born (1913)
November 28 - Gato Barbieri born (1934)
November 28 - Randy Newman born (1943)
November 28 - Bernard Herrmann records his score for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode “Where the Woodbine Twineth” (1964)
November 28 - Laurence Rosenthal begins recording his score to Clash of the Titans (1980)
November 29 - Chuck Mangione born (1940)
November 29 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score to Moonfleet (1954)
November 29 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold died (1957)
November 29 - Russell Garcia begins recording his score for Atlantis the Lost Continent (1960)
November 29 - Alexander Courage's score to the second Star Trek pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," is recorded (1965)
November 29 - George Harrison died (2001)
November 30 - Gordon Parks born (1912)
November 30 - Edward Artemyev born (1937)
December 1 - Laurence Rosenthal begins recording his score to Heart Like a Wheel (1982)
December 1 - Stephane Grappelli died (1997)
December 2 - Harry Sukman born (1912)
December 2 - Eddie Sauter born (1914)
December 2 - Milton Delugg born (1918)
December 2 - Artie Butler born (1942)
December 2 - Gerald Fried's score to the Star Trek episode "Shore Leave" is recorded (1966)
December 2 - Aaron Copland died (1990)
December 3 - Nino Rota born (1911)
December 3 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score to McQ (1973)
December 3 - Hoyt Curtin died (2000)
December 3 - Dee Barton died (2001)
December 4 - Alex North born (1910)
December 4 - Richard Robbins born (1940)
December 4 - Benjamin Britten died (1976)
December 4 - Harry Sukman died (1984)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

THE GREAT INVISIBLE - David Wingo

"The last thing we need is another shoddily produced, finger-pointin’ issue-oriented documentary animated solely by indignation. Thankfully, director Margaret Brown understands this. Despite a few talking heads and the occasional reliance on graphics and maps, 'The Great Invisible' is a rebuke to the Alex Gibney factory-style, information-dump doc. Shots are edited and composed. Scenes play out, with subjects artistically lit and the camera mounted on a tripod. It isn’t an immersion experience like, say, 'Leviathan,' but shooting with good lenses, hiring a composer like David Wingo and approaching editing like a storyteller, not a pamphleteer, goes a long way in giving a signal boost to your activist film."

Jordan Hoffman, The Guardian

"The cinematography (by a trio of lensers) finds a hard, rugged beauty in the seaside towns and cities visited, while David Wingo’s score supplies subtly moving accompaniment."

Justin Chang, Variety

THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.

Screenings of older films, at the following L.A. movie theaters: AMPAS, American Cinematheque: Aero, American Cinematheque: Egyptian, Arclight, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.

November 28
FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES (Galt MacDermot), SHORT EYES (Curtis Mayfield) [New Beverly]
JURASSIC PARK (John Williams) [Nuart]
SHOCK WAVES (Richard Einhorn) [Silent Movie Theater]
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Lennie Hayton) [Cinematheque: Aero]
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY [Cinematheque:Egyptian]

November 29
FORTUNE AND MEN'S EYES (Galt MacDermot), SHORT EYES (Curtis Mayfield) [New Beverly]
GONE WITH THE WIND (Max Steiner) [Cinematheque: Aero]
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (Maurice Jarre) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]

November 30
CINEMA PARADISO (Ennio Morricone) [Cinematheque: Aero]
ROUSTABOUT (Joseph J. Lilley), TICKLE ME (Walter Scharf) [New Beverly]

December 1
LETHAL WEAPON (Michael Kamen, Eric Clapton) [Arclight Hollywood]
ROUSTABOUT (Joseph J. Lilley), TICKLE ME (Walter Scharf) [New Beverly]

December 2
KING KONG (Max Steiner) [LACMA/AMPAS]

December 3
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (Michel Legrand) [Silent Movie Theater]
GHOSTBUSTERS 2 (Randy Edelman) [Arclight Hollywood]

December 4
THE ADVENTURES OF FORD FAIRLANE (Yello) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (Alan Silvestri) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT (Thomas Newman), AUTO FOCUS (Angelo Badalamenti) [Cinematheque: Aero]

December 5
ED WOOD (Howard Shore), MAN ON THE MOON (REM) [Cinematheque: Aero]
PURPLE RAIN (Prince, Michel Colombier) [Nuart]
SUNRISE, THE LAST LAUGH [LACMA/AMPAS]

December 6
THE GOLDEN BED, MALE AND FEMALE [LACMA/AMPAS]
GREMLINS (Jerry Goldsmith), GREMLINS 2: THE NEW BATCH (Jerry Goldsmith), TALES FROM THE CRYPT PRESENTS: DEMON KNIGHT (Edward Shearmur) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]

December 7
A BUCKET OF BLOOD (Fred Katz), WAR OF THE SATELLITES (Walter Greene) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WHITE CHRISTMAS (Irving Berlin, Joseph J. Lilley) [Arclight Hollywood]