The latest release from Intrada features Christopher Young's score for the Chinese fantasy adventure THE MONKEY KING 2 (the label released Young's score for the first Monkey King last year).
La-La Land plans to release their latest CDs at ComicCon on July 20 before making them available for sale on their website on July 26. Along with the previously announced Batman: The Killing Joke, they will release a two-disc, fourth volume of music from BATMAN: THE ANIMTAED SERIES, by Shirley Walker and more than a dozen of her collaborators; a CD of Blake Neely's music for the first season of SUPERGIRL; Neely's music for season two of THE FLASH; and music from JUSTICE LEAGUE, by Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis and Kristopher Carter.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced this year's nominations for the Primetime Emmys, including the following music categories:
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A LIMITED SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL
DRAMATIC SCORE)
ALL THE WAY - James Newton Howard
DESCENDANTS - David Lawrence
FARGO: Loplop - Jeff Russo
JESSE STONE: LOST IN PARADISE - Jeff Beal
WAR & PEACE: Part 1 - Martin Phipps
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
BATES MOTEL - Forever - Chris Bacon
CHEF'S TABLE - Grant Achatz - Duncan Thum
LIMITLESS - Pilot - Paul Leonard-Morgan
MINORITY REPORT - Pilot - Sean P. Callery
MR. ROBOT - eps1.0_ hellofriend. mov - Mac Quayle
PENNY DREADFUL - And They Were Enemies - Abel Korzeniowski
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND - Rachel Bloom, Adam Schlesinger
MARVEL'S JESSICA JONES - Sean P. Callery
SENSE8 - Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
THE WHISPERS – Robert Duncan
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
CRAZY EX-GIRLFRIEND - I'm Going on a Date with Josh's Friend! - “ Settle For Me” - Music by Adam Schlesinger, Lyrics by Adam Schlesinger, Rachel Bloom, Jack Dolgen
EMPIRE - A Rose By Any Other Name - “Good People” - Music & Lyrics by Jim Beanz,
GALAVANT - A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear – “ A New Season” - Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Glenn Slater
GARFUNKEL AND OATES: TRYING TO BE SPECIAL - “Frozen Lullaby" - Music & Lyrics by Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci
THE HUNTING GROUND – “ 'Til It Happens To You” - Music & Lyrics by Diane Warren
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
DANNY ELFMAN'S MUSIC FROM THE FILMS OF TIM BURTON (LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER) - Danny Elfman
JAZZ AT THE WHITE HOUSE - John Beasley
SINATRA: VOICE FOR A CENTURY (LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER) - Alan Gilbert
SMITHSONIAN SALUTES RAY CHARLES: IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE - Rickey Minor, Christian McBride
A VERY MURRAY CHRISTMAS - Paul Shaffer
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Cat O'Nine Tails - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Cutthroat Island - John Debney - La-La Land
Ghostbusters - Theodore Shapiro - Sony
Il Maestro E Margherita - Ennio Morricone - GDM
Il Signor Robinson, Monstruosa Storia D'Amore E D'Avventura - Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Beat
The Legend of 1900 - Ennio Morricone - Sony (import)
The Monkey King 2 - Christopher Young - Intrada Special Collection
IN THEATERS TODAY
C Street - Peter Himmelman
Cafe Society - Soundtrack CD on Sony
Equals - Sascha Ring, Dustin O'Halloran
Ghostbusters - Theodore Shapiro - Score CD on Sony
The Infiltrator - Chris Hajian - Score CD due July 22 on Lakeshore
Outlaws and Angels - Colin Stetson
Under the Sun - Karlis Auzans
Undrafted - Stephen Barton
COMING SOON
July 22
Ice Age: Collision Course - John Debney - Varese Sarabande
Il Grande Racket - Guido & Maurizio DeAngelis - CDS
The Infiltrator - Chris Hajian - Lakeshore
July 29
Batman: The Animated Series, vol. 4 - Shirley Walker et al - La-La Land
Batman: The Killing Joke - Michael McCuistion, Kristopher Carter, Lolita Ritmanis - La-La Land
Captain Fantastic - Alex Somers - Lakeshore
The Flash: Season Two - Blake Neely - La-La Land
Game of Thrones: Season 6 - Ramin Djawadi - WaterTower
Jason Bourne - John Powell, David Buckley - Backlot
Justice League - Michael McCuistion, Lolita Ritmanis, Kristopher Carter - La-La Land
Supergirl: Season One - Blake Neely - La-La Land
Star Trek Beyond - Michael Giacchino - Varese Sarabande
August 5
Jesse Stone: The Ultimate Collection - Jeff Beal - Varese Sarabande
August 12
Ben-Hur - Marco Beltrami - Sony
Florence Foster Jenkins - Alexandre Desplat - Decca (U.S. release)
Pete's Dragon - Daniel Hart - Disney
August 19
The Childhood of a Leader - Scott Walker - 4AD
Hell and High Water - Nick Cave, Warren Ellis - Milan
August 26
Is Paris Burning? (re-recording) - Maurice Jarre - Tadlow
A Tale of Love and Darkness - Nicholas Britell - Milan
October 28
Outlander: Season 2 - Bear McCreary - Madison Gate
Date Unknown
Adieu Bonaparte/The First Circle - Gabriel Yared - Music Box
Bermude: La Fossa Maledetta - Stelvio Cipriani - CSC
Dark Waves - Alexander Cimini - Kronos
Michele Strogoff: Il Corrirre Dello Zar - Marco Frisina - Kronos
The Panic in Needle Park - Ned Rorem - Kritzerland
She - Stelvio Cipriani - Kronos
Under Suspicion - Christopher Gunning - Caldera
Une Femme Fidele - Mort Shuman, Pierre Porte - Music Box
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
July 15 - H.B. Barnum born (1936)
July 15 - Geoffrey Burgon born (1941)
July 15 - Paul Sawtell begins recording his score for The Hunters (1958)
July 15 - Lalo Schifrin begins recording his score for The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
July 15 - Bill Justis died (1982)
July 15 - Dennis Wilson died (1989)
July 15 - Derek Hilton died (2005)
July 16 - Goffredo Petrassi born (1904)
July 16 - Fred Myrow born (1939)
July 16 - Stewart Copeland born (1952)
July 17 - Piero Umiliani born (1926)
July 17 - Wojciech Kilar born (1932)
July 17 - Peter Schickele born (1935)
July 17 - Stanley Wilson died (1970)
July 17 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to Babe (1975)
July 17 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score to Eloise at Christmastime (2003)
July 18 - Barry Gray born (1908)
July 18 - James William Guercio born (1945)
July 18 - Nathan Van Cleave begins recording his score for The Lonely Man (1956)
July 18 - Abel Korzeniowski born (1972)
July 18 - David Shire records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Hell Toupee" (1985)
July 19 - Paul Dunlap born (1919)
July 19 - Tim McIntire born (1944)
July 19 - Dominic Muldowney born (1952)
July 19 - Gerald Fried's score for the Star Trek episode "Amok Time" is recorded (1967)
July 19 - Gerald Fried's score for the Star Trek episode "The Paradise Syndrome" is recorded (1968)
July 20 - Franz Waxman begins recording his score for Elephant Walk (1953)
July 20 - Gail Kubik died (1984)
July 21 - Jerry Goldsmith died (2004)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
DIGGING FOR FIRE - Dan Romer
"'Digging For Fire' is a little moody and mysterious, but unlike the nightmarish aforementioned Kubrick marriage drama, it’s much more gentle and curious. It’s also a hazy movie, passing like a breeze on a balmy, boozy California evening, entrancing in the moment and then fleeting the next. Well shot by Ben Richardson, the contemplative atmosphere is perhaps most strongly rendered by composer Dan Romer ('Beasts Of The Southern Wild'). It’s a strange but memorable score and adds to the slightly surreal tone. Pillowy and synthy (unlike the folksy scores Romer is known for), it’s music that doesn’t always quite work in the moment, but something about the ambient swells being just left of center in any given scene certainly give the film an unusual flavor."
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
"Beautifully shot in 35mm by the gifted Ben Richardson ('Beasts of the Southern Wild') to a hypnotic synth score by Dan Romer, 'Digging for Fire' goes to the tantalizing edge of revelation and leaves us there to filter what we saw through the prism of our own strengths and weaknesses. I'd call that the mark of a true filmmaker."
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Meanwhile, composer Dan Romer’s original synths and an excellent selection of musical oddities make for a delightfully welcome score. At one point, [actor Jake] Johnson stomps around with the pistol to Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs’ 'Li’l Red Riding Hood' in a rich person’s white-washed living room, and it’s like we’ve suddenly stumbled back into Mia Wallace’s coked-out party den."
Amos Barshad, Grantland
"Joe Swanberg continues his march toward the mainstream even as he deepens his signature brand of hangout film in 'Digging for Fire,' a lovely slice of everything and nothing centered on a housesitting couple who discover possible evidence of a murder. There are feints toward a bona fide mystery plot, but that genre element is just a pretext for a stealth marital drama, held together through strong improv, tight editing (by Swanberg himself), moody cinematography and a synth score (from Dan Romer) that parties like it’s 1991. This is Swanberg’s starriest picture to date -- even if some appearances, like Jenny Slate’s, amount to glorified walk-ons -- making breakout success eminently possible."
Ben Kenigsberg, Variety
"Swanberg has made commendable efforts to make his films more movie-like -- here, Ben Richardson's cinematography and Dan Romer's score contribute substantially toward that end -- but he still relies on dialogue where he doesn't have to: Having DeWitt's character keep stumbling across the same self-help book about passionate marriages is a perfectly effective way of conveying things she nevertheless puts into words elsewhere."
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
Z FOR ZACHARIAH - Heather McIntosh
"Luminously shot by Tim Orr (David Gordon Green’s longtime DP), 'Z For Zachariah' is beautiful to look at. The distinguishing high-contrast, almost Instagram-filter looks at the ravaged towns below the mountains, next to the warmer hue of the trio’s farm of salvation. And while the movie features an elegant score by Heather McIntosh, the music occasionally overplays its hand in a few crucial moments and sometimes even strains to push emotions that haven’t been earned yet."
Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
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, Crest, LACMA, New Beverly, Nuart, Silent Movie Theater and UCLA.
July 15
CITIZEN KANE (Bernard Herrmann), THE LADY FROM SHANGHAI (Heinz Roemheld) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
DEMONOID (Richard Gillis), THE BEES (Richard Gillis) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE DEVILS (Peter Maxwell Davies) [Nuart]
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Miklos Rozsa), BODY HEAT (John Barry) [New Beverly]
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO (Bruno Alexiu), THE TRUTH [Cinematheque: Aero]
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [New Beverly]
July 16
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Miklos Rozsa), BODY HEAT (John Barry) [New Beverly]
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter) [New Beverly]
GREASE [New Beverly]
LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
PIERROT LE FOU (Antoine Duhamel), CONTEMPT (Georges Delerue) [Cinematheque: Aero]
July 17
THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (W. Franke Harling) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
GREASE [New Beverly]
HARAKIRI (Toru Takemitsu), SAMURAI REBELLION (Toru Takemitsu) [New Beverly]
LORD OF THE FLIES (Raymond Leppard), BATTLE ROYALE (Masamichi Amano) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE WILD PARTY [Silent Movie Theater]
July 18
GALAXY QUEST (David Newman) [Arclight Hollywood]
HARAKIRI (Toru Takemitsu), SAMURAI REBELLION (Toru Takemitsu) [New Beverly]
LA DOBLE VIDA DEL FAQUIR (Eduardo Arbide), ELS NENS DE RUSSIA (Albert Guinovart) [UCLA]
NATIONAL LAMPOON'S VACATION (Ralph Burns) [Arclight Santa Monica]
WEST SIDE STORY (Leonard Bernstein, Saul Chaplin, Johnny Green, Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal) [AMPAS]
July 19
CLUELESS (David Kitay) [Silent Movie Theater]
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (John Williams) [Arclight Sherman Oaks]
JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH (Randy Newman) [LACMA]
THE NAKED CAGE (Christopher L. Stone), SEX LIFE IN A WOMEN'S PRISON (Alberto Verrecchia) [New Beverly]
July 20
THE STEEL TRAP (Dimitri Tiomkin), HIGHWAY 301 (William Lava) [New Beverly]
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (Dave Grusin) [Arclight Culver City]
WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER (Theodore Shapiro, Craig Wedren) [Arclight Hollywood]
July 21
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS (Miles Goodman), A FISH CALLED WANDA (John DuPrez) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
7 MEN FROM NOW (Henry Vars), BUCHANAN RIDES ALONE [Cinematheque: Aero]
THE STEEL TRAP (Dimitri Tiomkin), HIGHWAY 301 (William Lava) [New Beverly]
July 22
THE BOY FRIEND (Peter Maxwell Davies) [Silent Movie Theater]
EDGE OF TOMORROW (Christophe Beck), ROBOT JOX (Frederic Talgorn) [New Beverly]
INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS [New Beverly]
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (Alfred Newman), BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (Franz Waxman) [Cinematheque: Aero]
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Angelo Badalamenti) [Nuart]
NAKED CHILDHOOD, GRADUATE FIRST (Voyage) [UCLA]
THE STING (Marvin Hamlisch), PAPER MOON [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT (Edward Shearmur) [Silent Movie Theater]
July 23
DAY OF WRATH [Silent Movie Theater]
EDGE OF TOMORROW (Christophe Beck), ROBOT JOX (Frederic Talgorn) [New Beverly]
FANTASTIC PLANET (Alain Goraguer) [Silent Movie Theater]
FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter) [New Beverly]
TROUBLE IN PARADISE, THE LADY EVE, THE MAJOR AND THE MINOR (Robert Emmett Dolan) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
WE WON'T GROW OLD TOGETHER, MAURICE PIALAT, LOVE EXISTS [UCLA]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart) [New Beverly]
July 24
BULLFIGHTER AND THE LADY (Victor Young), RIDE LONESOME (Heinz Roemheld) [Cinematheque: Aero]
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS (Victor Young) [UCLA]
THE GIRL ON THE BROOMSTICK (Angelo Michajlov) [Silent Movie Theater]
GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (Elmer Bernstein), THUNDER ROAD (Jack Marshall) [New Beverly]
THE HUSTLER (Kenyon Hopkins), NIGHT AND THE CITY (Franz Waxman) [Cinematheque: Egyptian]
THE MIRACLE WOMAN [Silent Movie Theater]
THE WIZARD OF OZ (Harold Arlen, Herbert Stothart) [New Beverly]
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