Counterpoint has just released Sol Kaplan's score for the 1952 Australia-set adventure KANGAROO, starring Maureen O'Hara, Peter Lawford and Richard Boone, and directed by two-time Oscar winner Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front, Ocean's 11).

The latest release from Kritzerland is a two-disc set featuring two scores by composer Paul Glass (Lady in a Cage, Bunny Lake Is Missing) -- the little seen 1964 drama ETHAN, and the Oscar-nominated documentary short GEORGE GROSZ'S INTERREGNUM.

Quartet's slate of new releases includes the score to the 1969 race car film SAFARI 5000, scored by Oscar nominee Toshiro Mayuzumi (The Bible, Reflections in a Golden Eye); the first CD release of the LP tracks for Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis' score for KILLERFISH; and CHRISTOPHER SLASKI FILM WORKS, a collection of the composer's work including cues from such films as the Brothers Quay's The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes and Kevin Spacey's Bobby Darin biopic Beyond the Sea.

 Intrada plans to release two new CDs next week.

CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Game - Daniel Pemberton - MovieScore Media
Justice League: Throne of Atlantis - Frederik Wiedmann - La-La Land
Kangaroo: The Australian Story - Sol Kaplan - Counterpoint
The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power - Geoff Zanelli - La-La Land
Son of a Gun - Jed Kurzel - Milan

IN THEATERS TODAY

Alien Outpost - Theo Green
Amira & Sam - Heather McIntosh
The Devil’s Violinist - David Garrett, Franck Van Der Heidjen
The Loft - John Frizzell - Score CD on Varese Sarabande
Plato's Reality Machine - Raymond Watts
Preservation - Sam & Alexis
Project Almanac - no original score
Suburban Gothic - Michl Britsch
Supremacy - Michael Einziger
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast - Joel McNeely
Tumbuktu - Amine Bouhafa - Score CD on Emarcy (import)
Wild Card - Dario Marianelli

COMING SOON

February 3
Broadchurch - Olafur Arnaulds - Mercury
John Carpenter's Lost Themes - John Carpenter - Sacred Bones
February 10 
Flash Gordon Vol. 3 - Michael Picton - Perseverance 
Jupiter Ascending - Michael Giacchino - Sony (import)
Outlander - Bear McCreary - Madison Gate
Pinocchio - Leigh Harline, Paul J. Smith, Ned Washington - Disney
Switch - Brian Satterwhite - Phineas Atwood
February 17
The Boy Next Door - Randy Edelman, Nathan Barr - Varese Sarabande
Fifty Shades of Grey - Danny Elfman - Republic
Film Fest Gent - Cliff Martinez - Milan
McFarland, USA - Antonio Pinto - Disney
February 24
A Most Violent Year - Alex Ebert - Community Music
My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn - Cliff Martinez - Milan
March 3
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel - Thomas Newman - Sony
March 10
Bankstas - Steve London - Phineas Atwood
Chicago Fire: Season One - Atli Orvarsson - Phineas Atwood
Chicago Fire: Season Two - Atli Orvarsson - Phineas Atwood
GirlHouse - tomandandy - Lakeshore
Reach Me - Tree Adams - Phineas Atwood
Regarding Susan Sontag - Laura Karpman, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum - Phineas Atwood
Wolf Hall - Debbie Wiseman - Silva (import)
April 7
Good Kill - Christophe Beck - Lakeshore
Date Unknown
Alles Ist Liebe - Annette Focks - Alhambra
Berlin Is in Germany/Das Konto - Florian Appl - Alhambra
Christopher Slaski Film Works - Christopher Slaski - Quartet
Col Ferro E Col Fuoco - Francesco De Masi - Kronos
Contraband - Fabio Frizzi - Beat
Don Giovanni in Sicilia - Bruno Nicolai - Kronos
Eros E Thanatos: Riflessi Di Luce/The Broken Mirror - John Sposito - Beat
Ethan/George Grosz's Interregnum - Paul Glass -- Kritzerland
Killerfish - Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis - Quartet
Montecarlo - Renzo Rossellini - Saimel
Musaranas - Joan Valent - Saimel
Obsession - Bernard Herrmann - Music Box
Pest - Ulrich Reuter - Alhambra
Pollyanna - Christopher Gunning - Caldera
Safari 5000 - Toshiro Mayuzumi - Quartet
Sangraal La Spada Di Fuoco - Franco Campanino - Kronos
Scacco Internazionale - Carlo Rustichelli - Beat
Transsiberian/Princesas - Alfonso Villalonga - Caldera

THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY

January 30 - Morton Stevens born (1929)
January 30 - Steve Bartek born (1952)
January 30 - George Duning begins recording his score to Toys in the Attic (1963)
January 30 - George Duning begins recording his score for the pilot movie for Then Came Bronson (1969)
January 30 - John Barry died (2011)
January 31 - Benjamin Frankel born (1906)
January 31 - Al De Lory born (1930)
January 31 - Philip Glass born (1937)
February 1 - Herbert Stothart died (1949)
February 1 - Karl Hajos died (1950)
February 1 - Miklos Rozsa records his score for The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
February 1 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "A Matter of Perspective" (1990)
February 1 - Howard Shore begins recording his score for The Score (2001)
February 2 - Giuseppe Becce born (1877)
February 2 - Mike Batt born (1950)
February 2 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for Crisis (1950)
February 2 - Dimitri Tiomkin begins recording his score for Take the High Ground! (1953)
February 2 - Cliff Martinez born (1954)
February 2 - Gerald Fried records his score for Cast a Long Shadow (1959)
February 2 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score to Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
February 2 - Richard Band begins recording his score for Parasite (1982)
February 3 - Paul Sawtell born (1906)
February 3 - Lionel Newman died (1989)
February 4 - Hal Mooney born (1911)
February 4 - David Raksin begins recording his score for The Girl in White (1952)
February 4 - Kitaro born (1953)
February 4 - Don Davis born (1957)
February 4 - Bronislau Kaper begins recording his and Heitor Villa-Lobos' score to Green Mansions (1959)
February 4 - Patton premieres in New York City (1970)
February 4 - Joe Raposo died (1989)
February 4 - Von Dexter died (1996)
February 4 - J.J. Johnson died (2001)
February 5 - Bronislau Kaper born (1902)
February 5 - Clifton Parker born (1905)
February 5 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "When the Bough Breaks" (1988)
February 5 - Douglas Gamley died (1998)

DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?

FOXCATCHER - Rob Simonsen; additional music by West Dylan Thordson; Valley Forge theme by Mychael Danna

"The color is drained out of Bennett Miller’s 'Foxcatcher.' The sparely used score sounds notes of dread. Steve Carell, wearing a beak of a nose and speaking with a deliberate, nasal drone, goes from scene to scene like a vampire in his 15,000-square-foot coffin. More than two hours are required for confirmation, but it’s fair to assume that we’re as much at a funeral as at a movie. The movie seems directed unto death. The camera often keeps its distance. The cutting and writing build so intently toward something grim that a sense of fear permeates even the slivers of comedy. The seriousness and mystery of the film seep into you. You want to know where it’s headed. But the movie is so chiseled down and sculpted that even once it gets there (you know when), it’s unclear that it’s earned it."

Wesley Morris, Grantland

"John's existence could hardly be less energized, as the filmmakers stress by mixing all the colors with large quantities of gray. Dreary Pennsylvania mists drift across the du Pont estate while Mychael Danna duels with Arvo Part to see which can provide the more funereal music. (It's a tie.)"

Mark Jenkins, NPR

"The film's studied funereal tone (overcast skies, fall colors, mournful solo piano music) tips you to where this tale will eventually end up: in a doom spiral, climaxing in murder, that could have been titled 'An American Meathead Tragedy.'"

Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com

"The screenplay by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman focuses intently on the central triangle, to the exclusion of any outside world. The results are all of a piece, yet there are times when the accumulation of atmospheric ingredients — the desaturated color palette, the low, scary hum of the musical score -- gets to be a bit much and indicates what's coming long before it comes. The best passages are far better and more subtle."

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

"Enervated to the point of somnolence, Bennett Miller's 'Foxcatcher' squanders inherently intriguing material -- the murder of Olympic gold medalist David Schultz by eccentric scion John E. du Pont -- by sapping it of any dramatic or satiric potential in favor of a smothering mood of muted solemnity. And I do mean muted: Miller favors repeated sequences where the diegetic sound dips to the threshold of audibility so that composer Mychael Danna (the same culprit behind 'The Captive''s bombastic score) has free reign to do his best Arvo Part impersonation. Once in a while, almost as though by accident, a character will do or say something remotely amusing, which, without fail, will be Miller's cue to bring the sound down and slather on some more Danna from heaven."

Budd Wilkins, Slant Magazine

"After the flat, brown prairies of 'Capote' and the ugly backrooms of 'Moneyball,' Miller here confirms his stature as a poet of plain-looking America, bringing us into a humdrum world of hotel rooms, locker rooms and school auditoriums. Warm, bright colors have been leached almost entirely from d.p. Greig Fraser’s muted, wintry images and from Jess Gonchor’s subtly ’80s production design; Rob Simonsen’s score is spare and beautifully ominous, while the exceptional sound work often alternates feverish background noise with silence to highly unsettling effect."

Justin Chang, Variety

PIONEER - Air

"Despite this, a verification dive in the actual North Sea is organized. In the film’s tensest and most nerve-wracking scene, Knut’s oxygen mask is smashed, which forces Petter to swim back to safety outside of the diving bell, carrying his knocked-out brother and without access to oxygen. The mise-en-scene is mesmerizing here and the score, by French duo Air, also expertly ratchets up the tension during the accident and its immediate aftermath. Skjoldbaerg then wisely drops the music entirely when CPR is required as the life of Knut hangs in the balance, creating a deafening silence that no-doubt mirrors the silence of the audience members collectively holding their breath."

Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter

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.

January 30
CREEPSHOW (John Harrison), TRICK 'R' TREAT (Douglas Pipes) [New Beverly]
FANTASIA [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE FRENCH CONNECTION (Don Ellis), THE DRIVER (Michael Small) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
LIFE OF OHARU (Ichiro Saito) [UCLA]
MORTAL KOMBAT (George S. Clinton) [Nuart]
TAXI DRIVER (Bernard Herrmann), UPTIGHT (Booker T. Jones) [LACMA/AMPAS]
VAMPIRE'S KISS (Colin Towns) [Silent Movie Theater]

January 31
CREEPSHOW (John Harrison), TRICK 'R' TREAT (Douglas Pipes) [New Beverly]
THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Frederick Hollander) [New Beverly]
THE GOLD RUSH [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
GRIEF (Tom Judson) [UCLA]
HIGH CRIME (Guido & Maurizio De Angelis), THE FAMILY (Ennio Morricone)[Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Mark Mothersbaugh), BARRY LYNDON (Leonard Rosenman) [LACMA/AMPAS]
LOST HIGHWAY [Silent Movie Theater]

February 1
THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (Frederick Hollander) [New Beverly]
THE PLAGUE DOGS (Patrick Gleeson) [Silent Movie Theater]
A TALE OF TWO CITIES (Herbert Stothart) [Arclight Hollywood]
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (Elmer Bernstein) [UCLA]
THE UNINVITED (Victor Young), DESERT FURY (Miklos Rozsa) [New Beverly]

February 2
ANNIE HALL [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
GOODFELLAS [Arclight Hollywood]
THE PLAGUE DOGS (Patrick Gleeson) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE UNINVITED (Victor Young), DESERT FURY (Miklos Rozsa) [New Beverly]

February 3
DEATH LAID AN EGG (Bruno Maderna), THE SCHOOL THAT COULDN'T SCREAM [WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO SOLANGE?] (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (Lionel Newman) [LACMA/AMPAS]
GONE WITH THE WIND (Max Steiner) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
LEAVING LAS VEGAS (Mike Figgis) [Arclight Hollywood]
THE PLAGUE DOGS (Patrick Gleeson) [Silent Movie Theater]

February 4
BARABBAS (Mario Nascimbene) [New Beverly]
MOULIN ROUGE (Craig Armstrong) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
ROAD TO PERDITION (Thomas Newman) [Arclight Hollywood]

February 5
BARABBAS (Mario Nascimbene) [New Beverly]
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Louis Silvers) [Arclight Hollywood]

February 6
ANNIE HALL, FINGERS [LACMA/AMPAS]
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (Carter Burwell) [Nuart]
CEMETERY MAN (Manuel De Sica) [Silent Movie Theater]
FACE TO FACE (Ennio Morricone), THE FAMILY (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]
THE GODFATHER (Nino Rota), THE GODFATHER PART II (Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE LADY EVE (Leo Shuken, Charles W. Bradshaw), THE PALM BEACH STORY (Victor Young) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM (Shiro Fukai, Senji Ito) [UCLA]

February 7
BLADE RUNNER (Vangelis) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
BOOGIE NIGHTS (Michael Penn) [LACMA]
THE CHEAT, THE GOLDEN CHANCE [UCLA]
FACE TO FACE (Ennio Morricone), THE FAMILY (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]
HOT FUZZ (David Arnold) [New Beverly]
SHADOW OF A DOUBT (Dimitri Tiomkin), LAURA (David Raksin) [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE SHAGGY D.A. (Buddy Baker) [New Beverly]

February 8
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (Louis Silvers), THE APARTMENT (Adolph Deutsch) [New Beverly]
MALCOLM X (Terence Blanchard) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
MARIE ANTOINETTE (Brian Reitzell) [Arclight Hollywood]
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH (Dean Elliott) [UCLA]
THE SHAGGY D.A. (Buddy Baker) [New Beverly]
TO TAKE A WIFE (Michel Korb), 7 DAYS (Michel Korb, Sergio Leonardi)[Cinematheque: Aero]