Varese Sarabande has announced a new subscription series of limited edition soundtrack CDs. Once a month for the next year, beginning with Charles Bernstein's score for the 1986 horror film APRIL FOOL'S DAY, the label will release a CD featuring the contents of one of their earlier soundtrack LPs that had yet to be released on CD.
Music Box has announced two new releases -- a remastered edition (with the same cues from the earlier Milan release) of Antoine Duhamel's score for Francois Truffaut's romantic thriller MISSISSIPPI MERMAID, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve and based on Cornel Woolrich's Waltz Into Darkness (and later remade as Original Sin, with Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie and a score by Terence Blanchard); and an expanded version of Ennio Morricone's score for the 1971 heist thriller LE CASSE (THE BURGLARS).
The latest release from Quartet is a four-disc set titled ANTONIONI: SUONI DEL SILENZIO, featuring the scores from four of director Michelangelo Antonioni's early films -- L'Avventura (Givoanni Fusco), La Notte (Giorgio Gaslini), L'Eclisse, and Il Deserto Rosso [The Red Desert] (both Fusco)
Intrada plans to release two new CDs next week.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Avengers: Age of Ultron - Brian Tyler, Danny Elfman - Hollywood
Blackwood - Lorne Balfe - Lakeshore
Commando - James Horner - La-La Land
Far from Men - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Goliath
The Firm - Dave Grusin - La-La Land
Orphan Black - Trevor Yuile - Varese Sarabande
Poltergeist - Marc Streitenfeld - Sony
IN THEATERS TODAY
Aloft - Michael Brook
Chocolate City - Andrew "Durty" Akinpelu, Matthew "Blast" Burdette
The Film Critic - Juan Blas Caballero
Intrepido: A Lonely Hero - Franco Piersanti
Poltergeist - Marc Streitenfeld - Score CD on Sony
Sunshine Superman - Kaada
Tomorrowland - Michael Giacchino - Score CD due June 2 on Disney
When Marnie Was There - Takatsugu Muramatsu - Score CD on Takuma (import)
COMING SOON
May 26
The D Train - Andrew Dost - Lakeshore
Ex Machina - Ben Salisbury, Geoff Barrow - Invada
June 2
Lost River - Johnny Jewel - Republic of Music (import)
Marco Polo - Peter Nashel, Eric V. Hachikian - Sony (import)
Spy - Theodore Shapiro - Milan
Tomorrowland - Michael Giacchino - Disney
Woman in Gold - Martin Phipps, Hans Zimmer - Sony (import)
June 9
Demons: 30th Anniversary Edition - Claudio Simonetti - Rustblade
Jurassic World - Michael Giacchino - Backlot
Pas de Deux [concert music] - James Horner - Mercury Classics
Puppet Master 1 & 2 - Richard Band - Full Moon
Somewhere in Time: The Film Music of John Barry, Vol. 1 (re-recordings) - John Barry - Buysoundtrax
June 16
April Fool's Day - Charles Bernstein - Varese Sarabande
Cinderella - Paul J. Smith, Oliver Wallace - Disney
Inside Out - Michael Giacchino - Disney
Obsession (re-recording) - Bernard Herrmann - Tadlow
Testament of Youth - Max Richter - Milan
June 23
A Boy Named Charlie Brown - Rod McKuen, Vince Giraldi - Varese Sarabande
Insidious Chapter 3 - Joseph Bishara - Void
A Little Chaos - Peter Gregson - Milan
Max - Trevor Rabin - Sony
Slow West - Jed Kurzel - Lakeshore
June 30
Broken Age - Peter McConnell - Sumthing Else
July 10
Minions - Heitor Pereira - Backlot
Toy Story - Randy Newman - Disney
July 17
Game of Thrones, Season 5 - Ramin Djawadi - Watertower
August 8
Shaun the Sheep Movie - Ilan Eshkeri - Silva
August 15
Animals - Ian Hultquist - Phineas Atwood
Date Unknown
Antonioni: Suoni Del Silenzio - Giovanni Fusco, Giorgo Gaslini - Quartet
Backlight - Nuno Malo - Kronos
Belle du Seigneur - Gabriel Yared - Caldera
Doctor Who: Series 8 - Murray Gold - Silva
The Dovekeepers - Jeff Beal - Varese Sarabande
From Earth to Mars - Arturo Rodriguez -MovieScore Media
Gli Intoccbilii/La Donna Invisible - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Il Lumacone/Virilita - Daniele Patucci - Digitmovies
Il Tuo Dolce Corpo Da Uccidere - Carlo Savina - Digitmovies
La Legge Dei Gangsters - Piero Umiliani - Beat
Le Casse (The Burglars) - Ennio Morricone - Music Box
L'Italia Vista Dal Cielo - Piero Piccioni - Saimel
L'Uomo Che Sfido Lorganizzazione - Luis Bacalov - Beat
Midsomer Murders: The Ballad of Midsomer County - Jim Parker - Silva
Mississippi Mermaid - Antoine Duhamel - Music Box
Pirate's Passage - Andrew Lockington - MovieScore Media
Ripper Street - Dominik Sherrer - Silva
The Searchers - Max Steiner - BYU
Spooks: The Greater Good - Dominic Lewis - Silva
Violentata Sulla Sabbia Bella Di Giorno Moglie Di Notte - Gianfranco Plenizio - Digitmovies
Viral - Sergo Jimenez Lacima - Kronos
West and Soda - Giampiero Boneschi - Beat
White Witch Doctor - Bernard Herrmann - Kritzerland
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
May 23 - Michel Colombier born (1939)
May 23 - William Stromberg born (1964)
May 23 - George Bruns died (1983)
May 23 - Recording sessions begin for John Ottman's score for The Invasion (2007)
May 24 - Jerry Fielding begins recording his score for Shirts/Skins (1973)
May 24 - Duke Ellington died (1974)
May 25 - Pierre Bachelet born (1944)
May 25 - Star Wars released in theaters (1977)
May 25 - Alien released in theaters (1979)
May 26 - Miles Davis born (1926)
May 26 - William Bolcom born (1938)
May 26 - Nicola Piovani born (1946)
May 26 - Howard Goodall born (1958)
May 26 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Satan Bug (1964)
May 26 - Earle Hagen died (2008)
May 28 - Vertigo is released in theaters (1958)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
EVERLY - Bear McCreary
"Kudos to editor Evan Schiff, cinematographer Steve Gainer, and frequent VIP Bear McCreary for providing the music; these are the people who make an action flick work. Especially one that takes place exclusively in two rooms and one hallway. Also nice work from the stuntpeople, many of whom take a lot of punishment for our viewing pleasure."
Scott Weinberg, Nerdist
THE HUNTING GROUND - Miriam Cutler
"Co-directors Dick and Ziering made 'The Invisible War,' which dealt with assaults reported and unreported within the U.S. military. 'The Hunting Ground' covers a tremendous amount of ground, not always carefully. The on-camera subjects are dangerously light on official collegiate administrative voices, evasive or otherwise. The tension sometimes feels rigged, and the mushy, ominous wall of scare music from composer Miriam Cutler does not help our understanding. But Pino and Clark, and so many others, exhibit true heroism. The system didn't do right by them, and the film takes heart from their efforts to show why it needs fixing so badly."
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
"Snappy design and animation by Bil White for the factual title cards add vitality and energy to a smoothly assembled package. Special praise is due to editors Doug Blush, Derek Boonstra and Kim Roberts, who keep up the propulsive pace and provide wry counterpoint through juxtapositions. A song, 'Til It Happens to You,' contributed by Lady Gaga and Diane Warren provides an extra jolt of poignancy, although if the film has one glaring flaw it’s Miriam Cutler’s mediocre, off-the-peg score elsewhere that sounds too much like tabloid TV docs."
Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter
"The score, by Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson, offers perfectly fun pastiches of John Barry’s iconic work on the 007 films."
James Rocchi, The Wrap
"So, while seriousness has overtaken the Bond franchise in recent years (hardly a bad thing, mind you), 'Kingsman' runs no such risk. Vaughn welcomes details that might seem silly in another director’s hands, such as a bulletproof umbrella or tiny microchips that can make one’s head explode, presenting everything playfully enough that plausibility isn’t a factor. It’s all a question of attitude, really, from the film’s funky score (which clearly owes a debt to John Barry) to cocky newcomer Egerton, who looks plenty tough speeding backward through oncoming traffic or skydiving without a chute, but softens up the instant he’s asked to train a Pug puppy."
Peter Debruge, Variety
"Reviewed in nearly final form, the widescreen feature pops with sharp action, including a brief bit of parkour and a car chase in reverse. Until choppiness overcomes the final section, all of it is choreographed with urgency by cinematographer George Richmond and enhanced by Henry Jackman and Matthew Margeson's lush score."
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
THE LOFT - John Frizzell
"Flashbacks upon flashbacks unfold while the five guys pace around in the loft, examining the corpse. Somehow everyone has betrayed everyone else, in a timeline that becomes more ludicrous with every reveal: business deals, spousal relations, secret videotapes. Van Looy shoots and paces the action like a telenovela, with an abundance of medium-shots, cheap sets, and a ponderous score. When revealing her profession to a man she's just lured into bed, one woman says, 'I'm a whore.' Pause. 'I'm a prostitute.' Pause. 'I sleep with men for money.' It's the triple-washed lettuce of movie dialogue."
Andrew Lapin, NPR
MY LIFE DIRECTED BY NICOLAS WINDING REFN - Cliff Martinez
"Though 'My Life Directed' has some touches, like Cliff Martinez’s score, that put it a notch above DVD-supplement material, the film is nonetheless banal and inconsequential."
Scott Tobias, The Dissolve
"Though billed as a documentary, this 59-minute doodle barely rises above homemovie status, featuring more material of Corfixen’s two daughters dancing naked around hotel rooms than it does actual on-set footage -- though ambient music from 'Drive' composer Cliff Martinez gives her a distinct advantage over most amateur videographers. Still, considering how poorly 'Only God Forgives' did in theaters, it’s hard to imagine even the most die-hard fans showing up to see Radius’ day-and-date VOD release on the bigscreen, unless distribs got really creative and packaged the hourlong trifle with something else."
Peter Debruge, Variety
SEVENTH SON - Marco Beltrami
"Time-lapse photography, a bombastic soundtrack, and a swirling 3D camera partial to taking aerial shots of mountaintops and whooshing down into underground prisons are just some of the tools 'Seventh Son' employs to grab audiences -- and that's just in the first one or two minutes."
Elise Nakhnikian, Slant Magazine
"Look at the production team for 'Seventh Son' and you stand slack-jawed in awe: the cinematographer is Newton Thomas Sigel of 'Drive' and 'The Usual Suspects.' The music is by Marco Beltrami of 'Snowpiercer' and 'The Hurt Locker.' The production design is by Dante Ferretti of 'The Aviator' and 'Shutter Island.' John Dykstra of 'Star Wars,' 'Silent Running,' 'Godzilla' and 'Caddyshack,' is credited as the visual effects designer. But the film those luminaries have made is all slack and no awe; many of the scenes feel like they’re being shot through a foot-thick protective layer of Vaseline, with outside shots bathed in a murky, dirty-dishwater light that isn’t helped by the film’s 3D. The music is just noise. And the sets look as if the Max Fischer Players decided to pay tribute to 'Game of Thrones,' while the effects are competently adequate, in service of a bland and busy script."
James Rocchi, The Wrap
"The movie opens with Marco Beltrami’s orchestra at full blare, swiftly yet clumsily setting up the scale of its widescreen world, which alternates between 'Lord of the Rings'-like vistas and second-rate Sergio Leone-style compositions, where characters who appear to have been shot against greenscreens are restaged against more dramatic backdrops."
Peter Debruge, 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.
May 22
ALIEN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Nuart]
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (Carmen Dragon), BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (Herschel Burke Gilbert) [AMPAS]
KILL BILL VOL. 1 (The RZA) [New Beverly]
PARIS IS BURNING [Silent Movie Theater]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosenman), THE UGLY AMERICAN (Frank Skinner) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SOMETHING WILD (John Cale, Laurie Anderson), MARRIED TO THE MOB (David Byrne) [New Beverly]
SUPERCOP (Jonathan Lee), SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW (Fu-Liang Chou) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
May 23
THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (George Bruns) [New Beverly]
CAGED HEAT (John Cale) [New Beverly]
DRUNKEN MASTER (Fu-Liang Chou), THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER (Michael Wandmacher) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (John Williams), HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (John Williams, William Ross), HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN (John Williams), HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Patrick Doyle) [Cinematheque: Aero]
PARIS IS BURNING [Silent Movie Theater]
SOMETHING WILD (John Cale, Laurie Anderson), MARRIED TO THE MOB (David Byrne) [New Beverly]
May 24
THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (George Bruns) [New Beverly]
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX (Nicholas Hooper), HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE (Nicholas Hooper), HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT. 1 (Alexandre Desplat), HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT. 2 (Alexandre Desplat) [Cinematheque: Aero]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WHAT A WAY TO GO (Nelson Riddle), GAMBIT (Maurice Jarre) [New Beverly]
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Alan Silvestri) [Arclight Culver City]
May 25
WHAT A WAY TO GO (Nelson Riddle), GAMBIT (Maurice Jarre) [New Beverly]
May 26
HERCULES AND THE CAPTIVE WOMEN (Gino Marinuzzi Jr., Armando Trovaioli), THE AVENGER (Giovanni Fusco) [New Beverly]
KISS ME DEADLY (Frank DeVol) [LACMA]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosenman) [Silent Movie Theater]
May 27
THE HANGOVER (Christophe Beck) [Arclight Hollywood]
PARIS IS BURNING [Silent Movie Theater]
THE SAND PEBBLES (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
THE WARRIORS (Barry DeVorzon) [Arclight Culver City]
May 28
A DRY WHITE SEASON (Dave Grusin), SIMEON (Bruno Coulais) [Cinematheque: Aero]
LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (Francis Seyrig), THE INNOCENTS (Georges Auric) [AMPAS]
THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (Peer Raben), FOX AND HIS FRIENDS (Peer Raben) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE SAND PEBBLES (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
May 29
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN (Angelo Badalamenti) [Silent Movie Theater]
MADMAN (Stephen Horelick) [Silent Movie Theater]
MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (Joe Hisashi) [Nuart]
OKLAHOMA! (Richard Rodgers, Robert Russell Bennett, Jay Blackton, Adolph Deutsch) [AMPAS]
THE SAND PEBBLES (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
THE SEARCHERS (Max Steiner), THE TALL T (Heinz Roemheld) [Cinematheque: Aero]
May 30
HANDS ON A HARD BODY (Neil Kassanoff) [New Beverly]
JURASSIC PARK (John Williams), THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK (John Williams), JURASSIC PARK III (Don Davis) [Cinematheque: Aero]
LABYRINTH (Trevor Jones) [Silent Movie Theater]
THE SAND PEBBLES (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
SON OF FLUBBER (George Bruns) [New Beverly]
VERONIKA VOSS (Peer Raben), THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
May 31
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (George Gershwin, Johnny Green, Saul Chaplin) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
BEGGARS OF LIFE (Karl Hajos), WILD BOYS OF THE ROAD [UCLA]
EARTHQUAKE (John Williams) [Arclight Culver City]
GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT (Jack Elliott, Allyn Ferguson), BOXCAR BERTHA (Gib Guilbeau, Thad Maxwell) [New Beverly]
MON ONCLE (Franck Barcellini), THE 400 BLOWS (Jean Constantin) [Cinematheque: Aero]
SON OF FLUBBER (George Bruns) [New Beverly]
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