Music Box has announced two new releases - one with a pair of Gabriel Yared scores, ZONE ROUGE (aka Zone Red, 1986) and LA JAVA DES OMBRES (1983), and a new score by Cyrille Aufort (Splice, A Royal Affair) for the documentary LE CHENE ET SES HABITANTS (aka Heart of Oak).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Star Trek -- The Motion Picture - Jerry Goldsmith - La-La Land
Videodrome - Howard Shore - La-La Land
The Witcher: Season 2 - Joseph Trapanese - Sony (import)
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Automat - Hummie Mann
Big Gold Brick - Justin Hori
Butter - Jeff Toyne
The Desperate Hour - Fil Eisler
Gasoline Alley - Scott Currie
I'll Find You - Jan A.P. Kaczmarek
My Best Part - Olivier Marguerit
Studio 666 - Roy Mayorga
COMING SOON
March 4
Le chene et ses habitants - Cyrille Aufort - Music Box
Profumo di donna (Scent of a Woman) - Armando Trovajoli - CAM Sugar
Zone rouge/Le java des ambres - Gabriel Yared - Music Box
March 11
Redes/The City [re-recording] - Silvestre Revueltas/Aaron Copland - Naxos
April 1
The Big Gundown - Ennio Morricone - Beat
Il Serpente - Ennio Morricone - Beat
Milano Trema: La Polizia Vuole Giustizia - Guido & Maurizio De Ajngelis - Beat
April 8
Spencer - Jonny Greenwood - Mercury
Date Unknown
Alfred the Great - Raymond Leppard - Kritzerland
Black Patch/The Man [re-recording] - Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada
Cosi' Dolce, Cosi' Perversa - Riz Ortolani - Quartet
Lisa and the Devil - Carlo Savina - Quartet
Music for Games, Film, Televsion and Concert Hall - Raphael Benjamin Meyer - Alhambra
Orgasmo/Paranoia - Piero Umiliani - Quartet
The Thief of Bagdad [1925] - Mortimer Wilson - Naxos
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
February 25 - George Duning born (1908)
February 25 - Don Randi born (1937)
February 25 - Erich Wolfgang Korngold begins recording his score for The Sea Wolf (1941)
February 25 - Victor Reyes born (1962)
February 25 - Penka Kouneva born (1967)
February 25 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Outland (1981)
February 25 - Haim Mazar born (1983)
February 25 - Laurence Rosenthal records his score for To Heal a Nation (1988)
February 25 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “Divergence” (2005)
February 25 - Ennio Morricone wins an Honorary Oscar, "for his magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music;" Gustavo Santaolalla wins his second consecutive Best Score Oscar, for Babel (2007)
February 26 - Hagood Hardy born (1937)
February 26 - Bernard Herrmann wins his only Oscar, for the All That Money Can Buy score (1942)
February 26 - Richard LaSalle records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Graveyard of Fools” (1970)
February 26 - Moisey Vainberg died (1996)
February 26 - John Lanchbery died (2003)
February 26 - Ludovic Bource wins the Original Score Oscar for The Artist (2012)
February 26 - Justin Hurwitz wins Oscars for La La Land’s score and original song “City of Stars” (2017)
February 27 - The first score Oscar is awarded, to Victor Schertzinger and Gus Kahn's score to One Night of Love; however, Academy policy at the time awards the Oscar to the head of the studio's music department, Louis Silvers (1935)
February 27 - Leigh Harline, Ned Washington, Paul J. Smith win Best Score Oscar for Pinocchio (1941)
February 27 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score to A Life of Her Own (1950)
February 27 - Mort Glickman died (1953)
February 27 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for True Grit (1969)
February 27 - Joseph Mullendore records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Return of Inidu” (1969)
February 27 - Leith Stevens records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Rescue” (1969)
February 27 - Herbert Don Woods records his score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Crystals” (1981)
February 27 - George Duning died (2000)
February 27 - Nathan Scott died (2010)
February 27 - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross win the Original Score Oscar for The Social Network (2011)
February 28 - Albert Elms born (1920)
February 28 - Pierre Jansen born (1930)
February 28 - Charles Bernstein born (1943)
February 28 - Loek Dikker born (1944)
February 28 - Mike Figgis born (1948)
February 28 - Edward Shearmur born (1966)
February 28 - Murray Gold born (1969)
February 28 - Armando Trovajoli died (2013)
February 28 - Ezra Laderman died (2015)
February 28 - Ennio Morricone wins his first “competitive” Oscar for The Hateful Eight score (2016)
February 28 - Andre Previn died (2019)
February 29 - Herbert Stothart wins Original Score Oscar for The Wizard of Oz (1940)
February 29 - Mervyn Warren born (1964)
March 1 - Leo Brouwer born (1939)
March 1 - Jose Nieto born (1942)
March 1 - Tony Ashton born (1946)
March 1 - Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score for The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956)
March 1 - Nino Oliviero died (1980)
March 1 - David Newman begins recording his score for Talent for the Game (1991)
March 1 - Laurence Rosenthal begins recording his score for Inherit the Wind (1999)
March 1 - James Horner begins recording his score for The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)
March 1 - Lucio Dalla died (2012)
March 2 - Marc Blitzstein born (1905)
March 2 - Richard Hazard born (1921)
March 2 - Mario Zafred born (1922)
March 2 - Andrzej Korzynski born (1940)
March 2 - Alfred Newman wins Oscar for The Song of Bernadette score (1944)
March 2 - Larry Carlton born (1948)
March 2 - Ralph Schuckett born (1948)
March 2 - Basil Poledouris begins recording his score to Big Wednesday (1978)
March 2 - Antoni Komasa-Lazarkiewicz born (1980)
March 2 - Serge Gainsbourg died (1991)
March 2 - Recording sessions begin on Toru Takemitsu’s score for Rising Sun (1993)
March 2 - John Debney records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Nagus” (1993)
March 2 - Goffredo Petrassi died (2003)
March 2 - Malcolm Williamson died (2003)
March 2 - Steven Price wins Oscar for Gravity score (2014)
March 3 - Kazimierz Serocki born (1922)
March 3 - Lee Holdridge born (1944)
March 3 - Jeff Rona born (1957)
March 3 - John Williams begins recording his score for Jaws (1975)
March 3 - Leonard Rosenman begins recording his unused score for The Last Hard Men (1976)
March 3 - Peter Ivers died (1983)
March 3 - Basil Poledouris records his score for the Twilight Zone episode “Profile in Silver” (1986)
March 3 - Arthur Kempel died (2004)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
THE CURSED - Robin Foster
"Writer-director Sean Ellis revisits the werewolf legend as a fogbound descent into Victorian Gothic in 'The Cursed' (reviewed out of Sundance under its original title, 'Eight for Silver'). Led by Boyd Holbrook as a pathologist in the late 1800s who knows a thing or two about nightmarish curses, stalking lycanthropic beasts and family tragedy, the film is more suspenseful than scary, higher on sustained atmosphere than well-rounded characters. But it moves along at a stately pace and remains involving, driven by eerie ambient music, soupy chiaroscuro visuals and sporadic bursts of blood, gore and body horror. It won’t disturb Lon Chaney Jr. in his grave, but still offers meat for genre fans to chew on."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
MADRES - Isabelle Engman-Bredvik, Gerardo Garcia Jr.
"In general, 'Madres' is played far too obvious with its music cues (whether it’s a choral voice, or the ol’ music box device narrative trope), and its investigative edge, learning more about the true horror of it all, is full of hand-holding with scant innovation. Calling a movie like 'Madres' by-the-numbers would be a compliment, and an overstatement, because that would indicate that the makers were even mildly successful."
Nick Allen, RogerEbert.com
THE MANOR - Christopher Drake
"'The Manor' does an impressive job of adhering to the conventions of the genre -- there are plenty of jump scares and ominous music -- while also weighing in on broader themes like elder care and aging. According to press notes, Carolyn’s narrative was inspired by her experience watching her father battle dementia during the last two years of his life. Her screenplay began as a story about dementia, and one can see remnants of that in the final version of 'The Manor,' which handles the reality of the facility’s conditions with care."
Lovia Gyarke, The Hollywood Reporter
UNCHARTED - Ramin Djawadi
"It’s to the immense credit of director Ruben Fleischer ('Zombieland,' 'Venom') that 'Uncharted' remains a modestly engaging and entertaining watch even despite these flaws. It’s cud that at least contains some discernible traces of the previously digested product. Fleischer channels the tenor of the influences his film wears on its sleeve: the manipulative music demanding awe, the lighthearted spirit of the action, the smirking star-power needed to sell quippy banter. But his tonal fidelity cannot entirely cover the seams of this sloppily assembled script. Nor can it disguise the film’s feeble fealty to franchises whose footsteps it fails to follow."
Marshall Shaffer, The Playlist
"The filmmakers have the right idea of what makes an Uncharted action set piece, whether they’re molding a sequence after something from the games, or inventing something entirely new that would fit within one of them, like a bit involving characters battling inside pirate ships hoisted into the air by airplanes. But the execution is flat, inconsequential, and boring. Not even a remix of the 'Uncharted' theme during a climactic shootout, padded up to that point by generic action muzak, brings joy."
Robert Kojder, Polygon
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
February 25
AFTER LIFE (Yasahiro Kasamatsu) [Los Feliz 3]
BUCK AND THE PREACHER (Benny Carter), THE SLENDER THREAD (Quincy Jones) [Aero]
DJANGO UNCHAINED [New Beverly]
GHOST RIDER (Christopher Young) [Landmark Westwood]
THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS (Ennio Morricone), OEDIPUS REX [Academy Museum]
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO (Alexei Aigui) [Academy Museum]
KICK-ASS (Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri, Henry Jackman, John Murphy) [Landmark Westwood]
THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Trevor Jones, Randy Edelman) [New Beverly]
LEGEND (Tangerine Dream) [Los Feliz 3]
MARIE ANTOINETTE [Brain Dead Studios]
POINT BLANK (Johnny Mandel), PRIME CUT (Lalo Schifrin) [New Beverly]
THE WAR OF THE ROSES (David Newman) [Brain Dead Studios]
WOMEN IN LOVE (Georges Delerue) [Los Feliz 3]
February 26
BLAZING SADDLES (John Morris) [New Beverly]
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Patrick Doyle) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HOUSE (Asei Kobayashi, Mikki Yoshino) [Nuart]
JOKER (Hildur Guonadottir) [Landmark Westwood]
KING KONG (Max Steiner) [Los Feliz 3]
LOST HORIZON (Dimtri Tiomkin) [Los Feliz 3]
LOULOU [Brain Dead Studios]
LOVE EXPOSURE (Tomohide Harada) [Brain Dead Studios]
MAX, MON AMOUR (Michel Portal) [Los Feliz 3]
MYSTERY MAN (Stephen Warbeck, Shirley Walker) [Landmark Westwood]
NOTTING HILL (Trevor Jones) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (Franz Waxman) [New Beverly]
POINT BLANK (Johnny Mandel), PRIME CUT (Lalo Schifrin) [New Beverly]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
A RAISIN IN THE SUN (Laurence Rosenthal) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SOUL (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste) [Academy Museum]
THE VAMPIRE BAT [Los Feliz 3]
WATCHMEN (Tyler Bates) [Landmark Westwood]
February 27
BASIC INSTINCT (Jerry Goldsmith) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE DEAD ZONE (Michael Kamen) [Los Feliz 3]
DIARY OF A MAD HOUSEWIFE [Brain Dead Studios]
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Patrick Doyle) [Alamo Drafthouse]
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Minoru Miki), MAX, MON AMOUR (Michel Portal) [Aero]
THE LANDLORD (Al Kooper) [Los Feliz 3]
THE LOST WORLD [Alamo Drafthouse]
MOONLIGHT (Nicholas Britell) [Academy Museum]
MOONSTRUCK (Dick Hyman) [Fine Arts]
NOTTING HILL (Trevor Jones) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ORGAZMO (Paul Robb) [Landmark Westwood]
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Andrew Lloyd Webber) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (Franz Waxman) [New Beverly]
POINT BLANK (Johnny Mandel), PRIME CUT (Lalo Schifrin) [New Beverly]
POSSESSION (Andrzej Korzynski) [Brain Dead Studios]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SUPER (Tyler Bates) [Landmark Westwood]
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Elmer Bernstein) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW (Arthur Lange) [Los Feliz 3]
February 28
DEATHDREAM (Carl Zittrer) [Los Feliz 3]
IN THE REALM OF THE SENSES (Minoru Miki) [Los Feliz 3]
KICK-ASS (Marius De Vries, Ilan Eshkeri, Henry Jackman, John Murphy) [Landmark Westwood]
MOONLIGHT (Nicholas Britell) [Alamo Drafthouse]
TEOREMA (Ennio Morricone), PORCILE [Academy Museum]
WATCHMEN (Tyler Bates) [Landmark Westwood]
March 1
HARAKIRI (Toru Takemitsu) [Academy Museum]
JE T'AIME, JE T'AIME (Krzyzstof Penderecki) [Los Feliz 3]
JOKER (Hildur Guonadottir) [Landmark Westwood]
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (Andrew Lloyd Webber) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SUPER (Tyler Bates) [Landmark Westwood]
March 2
HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE (Patrick Doyle) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ORGAZMO (Paul Robb) [Landmark Westwood]
SABRINA (Frederick Hollander), ROMAN HOLIDAY (Georges Auric) [New Beverly]
THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI (Piero Piccioni) [Laemmle Playhouse] [Laemmle Royal]
TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (Wang Chung) [Brain Dead Studios]
TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME (Angelo Badalamenti) [Alamo Drafthouse]
WATCHMEN (Tyler Bates) [Landmark Westwood]
Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN [Los Feliz 3]
March 3
DIVA (Vladimir Cosma) [Los Feliz 3]
JOKER (Hildur Guonadottir) [Landmark Westwood]
MEDEA [Academy Museum]
MYSTERY MEN (Stephen Warbeck, Shirley Walker) [Landmark Westwood]
SABRINA (Frederick Hollander), ROMAN HOLIDAY (Georges Auric) [New Beverly]
TALES FROM THE HOOD (Christopher Young) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE TREE OF LIFE (Alexandre Desplat) [Academy Museum]
March 4
BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (Jerry Fielding) [Brain Dead Studios]
THE DECAMERON (Ennio Morricone) [Academy Museum]
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Joe Walsh), REAL GENIUS (Thomas Newman) [New Beverly]
FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS (Vernon Reid) [Academy Museum]
INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM (John Williams) [New Beverly]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE (Seung-Hyun Choi, Cho Young Wuk) [Brain Dead Studios]
March 5
THE CANTERBURY TALES (Ennio Morricone) [Academy Museum]
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Joe Walsh), REAL GENIUS (Thomas Newman) [New Beverly]
FUNNY FACE (George Gershwin, Adolph Deutsch) [Academy Museum]
KUNG FU HUSTLE (Raymond Wong) [Brain Dead Studios]
A MOST VIOLENT YEAR (Alex Ebert) [Los Feliz 3]
ROAD HOUSE (Michael Kamen) [Brain Dead Studios]
SPEED RACER (Michael Giacchino) [New Beverly]
SPIRITED AWAY (Joe Hisaishi) [New Beverly]
TWO FORGOTTEN BOXES [Academy Museum]
March 6
DO THE RIGHT THING (Bill Lee) [Brain Dead Studios]
DREDD (Paul Leonard-Morgan) [Brain Dead Studios]
FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH (Joe Walsh), REAL GENIUS (Thomas Newman) [New Beverly]
ON GAKU: OUR SOUND (Tomohiko Banse, Grandfunk, Wataru Sawabe) [Los Feliz 3]
SPIRITED AWAY (Joe Hisaishi) [New Beverly]
TOUCH OF EVIL (Henry Mancini) [Brain Dead Studios]
WAXWORKS [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON (Arnold Freed) [Los Feliz 3]
WHITE HEAT (Max Steiner) [Academy Museum]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Matchstick Men (Zimmer), The Miracle Worker (Rosenthal), Mickey One (Sauter), By Request (Carlos), Switched on Bach (Carlos), Switched on Bach II (Carlos), The Chase (Barry), The Missouri Breaks (Williams), The Well-Tempered Synthesizer (Carlos), Switched on Brandenburg (Carlos), Matador/What Have I Done to Deserve This? (Bonezzi), The French Connection Collection (Ellis/Fiedel), The Seven-Ups (Ellis), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Bonezzi), Whisper of the Heart (Nomi),Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (Morricone)
Read: You Only Live Twice, by Ian Fleming
Seen: Mamma Roma, La ricotta [1963], Love Meetings, The Cursed, Uncharted, Death Wish II, Marry Me, Dog, The Gospel According to St. Matthew, Sopralluoghi in Palestina per 'Il vangelo secondo Matteo' [1965], Coming 2 America
Watched: The Maltese Falcon [1941]; Star Trek ("A Piece of the Action"); The Other Two ("Chase Gets a Nosebleed," "Chase Turns Fourteen," "Chase Drops a New Album," "Chase Performs at the VMAs"); Rome ("A Necessary Fiction")
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