Music Box is releasing a newly expanded version of Georges Delerue's score for Philippe DeBroca's 1965 comic adventure LES TRIBULATIONS D'UN CHINOIS EN CHINE (also known as Chinese Adventures in China and Up to His Ears), inspired by the Jules Verne story which also, strangely enough, inspired Warren Beatty's Bulworth. They have also re-released their CD of Delerue's music for the 1991 documentary series TOURS DU MONDE TOURS DU CIEL, paired with his string quartet Premier quartuor a cordes.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Babylon - Justin Hurwitz - Interscope
Bunker - Andrew Morgan Smith - MovieScore Media [CD-R]
...Dopo di che, uccide il maschio e lo divora - Piero Piccioni - CSC
The Hummie Mann Collection, Vol. 2 - Hummie Mann - Dragon's Domain
Le ultime ore di una vergine - Daniele Patucchi - CSC
Piedone a Hong Kong - Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - CSC
Raiders of the Lost Ring - Panu Aaltio - MovieScore Media [CD-R]
Steiner: Das eiserne kruez 2 (Cross of Iron II) - Peter Thomas - CSC
Superposition - Pessi Levanto - MovieScore Media [CD-R]
Wallenberg: A Hero's Story - Ernest Gold - Dragon's Domain
IN THEATERS TODAY
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Pierre Foldes
Hilma - Jon Ekstrand
Mafia Mamma - Alex Heffes
Nefarious - Bryan E. Miller
Once Upon a Time in Ukraine - Dario Vero
Petite Solange - Benjamin Esdraffo
The Pope's Exorcist - Jed Kurzel
Rare Objects - Bobby Wooten III
Renfield - Marco Beltrami
Sick of Myself - Turns
Suzume - Kazuma Jinnouchi, Radwimps
Sweetwater - Jeff Cardoni
COMING SOON
April 21
Dino/I, Mobster - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain
The Manions of America - Morton Stevens - Dragon's Domain
The Peter Bernstein Collection Vol. 4 - Peter Bernstein - Dragon's Domain
May 5
God of War: Ragnarok - Bear McCreary - Sony
May 19
The Last Kingdom: Destiny Is All - John Lunn, Eivor, Danny Saul - Absolute Label Services
A Man Called Otto - Thomas Newman - Mercury
Date Unknown
The Big Caper - Albert Glasser - Kronos
Come svalgiamo la banca d'Italia/Il lungo, il corto, il gatto - Lallo Gori - Beat
Counterplot - Paul Sawtell, Bert Shefter - Kronos
Les tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine - Georges Delerue - Music Box
The Music of Gunther Kauer - Gunther Kauer, Douglas M. Lackey - Kronos
Nessuno e' perfetto - Riz Ortolani - Beat
Tours du monde tours du ciel/Premier quatuor a cordes [reissue] - Georges Delerue - Music Box
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
April 14 - Jack Shaindlin born (1909)
April 14 - Ali Akbar Khan born (1922)
April 14 - Shorty Rogers born (1924)
April 14 - A.C. Newman born (1968)
April 14 - John Barry wins his third Oscar, for The Lion in Winter score (1969)
April 14 - Win Butler born (1980)
April 14 - Georges Delerue wins his only Oscar, for A Little Romance's score; David Shire wins song Oscar for Norma Rae's "It Goes Like It Goes" (1980)
April 14 - Elisabeth Lutyens died (1983)
April 14 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Enterprise episode “E2 (2004)
April 15 - Gert Wilden born (1917)
April 15 - Michael Kamen born (1948)
April 15 - Dick Maas born (1951)
April 15 - Carlo Crivelli born (1953)
April 15 - Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score for A Hatful of Rain (1957)
April 15 - John Williams records his replacement score for the Land of the Giants pilot episode “The Crash” (1968)
April 15 - Francis Lai wins his only Oscar, for Love Story’s score (1971)
April 15 - John Greenwood died (1975)
April 15 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Parts 1 & 2 of Masada (1980)
April 15 - John Williams records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Ghost Train" (1985)
April 15 - Tim McIntire died (1986)
April 15 - Arthur Morton died (2000)
April 15 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Enterprise episode “Cogenitor” (2003)
April 15 - Les Reed died (2019)
April 15 - Lee Konitz died (2020)
April 16 - Charles Chaplin born (1889)
April 16 - Warren Barker born (1923)
April 16 - Henry Mancini born (1924)
April 16 - Perry Botkin Jr. born (1933)
April 16 - Chaz Jankel born (1952)
April 16 - David Raksin records his score for Pat and Mike (1952)
April 16 - Alex North begins recording his score for Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
April 16 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Detective (1968)
April 16 - Basil Poledouris begins recording his score to Quigley Down Under (1990)
April 16 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Frame of Mind” (1993)
April 17 - Jan Hammer born (1948)
April 17 - David Bell born (1954)
April 17 - Recording sessions begin for Bronislau Kaper's score for The Power and the Prize (1956)
April 17 - Ernest Gold wins his only Oscar, for the Exodus score (1961)
April 17 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score for Summer and Smoke (1961)
April 17 - Philippe Sarde begins recording his score for The Tenant (1976)
April 17 - John Williams begins recording his score for Stanley & Iris (1989)
April 17 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Enterprise episode “Vox Sola” (2002)
April 18 - Alois Melichar born (1896)
April 18 - Miklos Rozsa born (1907)
April 18 - Tony Mottola born (1918)
April 18 - Buxton Orr born (1924)
April 18 - Mike Vickers born (1941)
April 18 - Kings Row released in theaters (1942)
April 18 - Andrew Powell born (1949)
April 18 - Ed Plumb died (1958)
April 18 - Maurice Jarre wins his second Oscar, for Doctor Zhivago's score; presumably decides to stick with this David Lean kid (1966)
April 18 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Players (1979)
April 18 - Dave Grusin begins recording his score for The Goonies (1985)
April 18 - John Debney records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Progress” (1993)
April 18 - Mike Leander died (1996)
April 18 - Recording sessions begin for Marco Beltrami’s score for Red Eye (2005)
April 18 - Robert O. Ragland died (2012)
April 19 - William Axt born (1888)
April 19 - Joe Greene born (1915)
April 19 - Sol Kaplan born (1919)
April 19 - Dudley Moore born (1935)
April 19 - Jonathan Tunick born (1938)
April 19 - Alan Price born (1942)
April 19 - David Fanshawe born (1942)
April 19 - Lord Berners died (1950)
April 19 - Ragnar Bjerkreim born (1958)
April 19 - Henry Mancini begins recording his score for The Great Race (1965)
April 19 - John Williams begins recording his score for Fitzwilly (1967)
April 19 - Michael Small begins recording his score to Klute (1971)
April 19 - Thomas Wander born (1973)
April 19 - John Addison begins recording his score for Swashbuckler (1976)
April 19 - Dag Wiren died (1986)
April 19 - Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "We'll Always Have Paris" (1988)
April 19 - Paul Baillargeon records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “When It Rains…” (1999)
April 20 - Herschel Burke Gilbert born (1918)
April 20 - David Raksin begins recording his score for Kind Lady (1951)
April 20 - Miklos Rozsa records his score to Valley of the Kings (1954)
April 20 - Richard LaSalle records his score for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman episode “The Man Who Could Not Die” (1979)
April 20 - Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for The Monster Squad (1987)
April 20 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Die Is Cast” (1995)
April 20 - Johnny Douglas died (2003)
April 20 - Bebe Barron died (2008)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
BLUEBACK - Nigel Westlake
"An inspiring, strings-centric score by Nigel Westlake plus a nice cover-version use of the 1980s-era, Crowded House hit 'Don’t Dream It’s Over,' are bonuses."
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"But where sensibility fails, sense takes over. The dives and landscape shots are gorgeous, silent beyond Nigel Westlake’s aptly emotional orchestral score. Newcomer Fogg, who is in a majority of scenes as teenage Abby, is lovely. And Mitchell, who grounds every film lucky enough to have her, is a force as strong as any Dora aims to protect."
Elizabeth Weitzman, The Wrap
A GOOD PERSON - Bryce Dessner
"Beautifully photographed in suitably autumnal fashion by DP Mauro Fiore in unglamorous New Jersey locations and effectively scored by Bryce Dessner of the rock band The National, the film, in any case, marks Braff’s most assured work since his award-winning 'Garden State' nearly 20(!) years ago."
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
A THOUSAND AND ONE - Gary Gunn
"It’s also long. Running at 116 minutes, the modestly operatic narrative initially surges on Gary Gunn’s sweeping score and Erik K Yue’s breathtaking photography, which uniquely wraps us in the warm glow of the 1990s. The film then lurches ahead: Inez’s boyfriend Lucky (Will Catlett), Terry’s father, returns from prison. The trio attempt to form a family, and in another movie, their journey in this period would morph into a feel-good story about overcoming adversity by loving one another. Life, unfortunately, isn’t so simple. Rockwell opts for a kind of realism that feels more truthful; and yet, is without a tight rhythm."
Robert Daniels, The Playlist
"It’s clear the film has displacement on its mind long before Inez stands on the sidewalk, skeptically eyeing a new white neighbor. But the characters come first, and impassive economic forces become only the latest in a line of threats to their existence rather than the film’s thematic center. The score, by Gary Gunn, quivers with anticipation rather than foreboding. Rockwell does sometimes rush things -- there’s a thread about the misogynoir that teen Terry absorbs from the atmosphere around him, for instance, that could have been its own chapter. Yet 'A Thousand and One' is rich and complex overall, the saga of someone battling to build a family and a stable home with no real experience of what that looks like. 'Where are your people?' a woman Inez is trying to rent a room from asks her, and while we know that she bounced from foster care to group homes to shelters, nothing prepares you for her plaintive admission that 'I lost them,' as though she’d been tumbled through systems long enough for any connections to be buffed away."
Alison Willmore, New York
"'A Thousand and One' hums with familiarity and warmth for its setting and characters, which is one reason it’s such an affecting and engrossing family melodrama. Eric Yue’s gorgeous cinematography and Gary Gunn’s score reflect this nicely, inviting us into this family’s world no matter the time. Even the way the film uses audio of different mayors and news anchors outlining awful policies highlights the obstacles ahead for the family, grounding the film in their reality. Their film delivers on the audiences' investment in tender, quiet moments the characters share with each other, whether it be heart-to-heart conversations between Lucky and Terry or scenes of everyday life in the neighborhood."
Alejandra Martinez, The Austin Chronicle
"One of the many things that sets 'A Thousand and One' apart from other, similarly tough-minded stories of urban struggle, poverty and marginalization can be felt practically from the start, as director A.V. Rockwell introduces Inez (R’n’B performer and choreographer Teyana Taylor) walking the pavement along a painted brick wall in early-’90s Harlem. The way composer Gary Gunn’s symphonic music swells and swirls on the soundtrack, and the way the camera gazes up at her from below as it tracks her purposeful stride, give this ordinary woman, whom we already know has only recently been released from Rikers Island, a heroic kind of dignity."
Jessica Kiang, Variety
"There’s a meandering quality to A Thousand and One that at times makes it feel slightly underpowered and overlong. But the drama is fully inhabited and its relationships drawn with love and compassion for the characters’ failings as much as their hopes, qualities enhanced by Gary Gunn’s mellow score."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
April 14
THE ADOLESCENT (Philippe Sarde) [Los Feliz 3]
BAND OF OUTSIDERS (Michel Legrand), PULP FICTION [Aero]
CARLITO'S WAY (Patrick Doyle) [New Beverly]
CLOAK AND DAGGER, NONE SHALL ESCAPE (Ernst Toch) [Academy Museum]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Alamo Drafthouse]
DRYLONGSO (Curt Harpel, Pat Thomi) [Los Feliz 3]
KILL BILL: VOL. 2 (RZA, Robert Rodriguez) [New Beverly]
KILLER OF SHEEP [UCLA/Hammer]
MAN ON FIRE (Harry Gregson-Williams) [New Beverly]
MANDY (Johann Johannsson) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE PLACE PROMISED IN OUR EARLY DAYS (Tenmon) [Los Feliz 3]
SKY CAPTAIN AND THE WORLD OF TOMORROW (Edward Shearmur) [BrainDead Studios]
THEY LIVE (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth) [Nuart]
WEATHERING WITH YOU (Radwimps) [Los Feliz 3]
April 15
CHILDREN WHO CHASE LOST VOICES (Tenmon) [Los Feliz 3]
COMPENSATION (Atiba Y. Jali, Reginald R. Robinson) [UCLA/Hammer]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Alamo Drafthouse]
EASY RIDER [Los Feliz 3]
MANDY (Johann Johannsson) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PAPRIKA (Susumu Hirasawa) [New Beverly]
PORCO ROSSO (Joe Hisaishi) [New Beverly]
RED HOLLYWOOD [Academy Museum]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
SALAAM BOMBAY (L. Subramanian) [Los Feliz 3]
SEVEN SAMURAI (Fumio Hayasaka) [Aero]
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Nacio Herb Brown, Lennie Hayton), IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD [New Beverly]
THE STRANGER (Satyajit Ray) [Academy Museum]
THE WILD THORNBERRYS MOVIE (Drew Neumann) [Academy Museum]
YOUR NAME (Radwimps) [Los Feliz 3]
April 16
DOG DAY AFTERNOON [Fine Arts]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Alamo Drafthouse]
FINAL FANTASY: THE SPIRITS WITHIN (Elliot Goldenthal) [BrainDead Studios]
5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND (Tenmon) [Los Feliz 3]
THE GODFATHER (Nino Rota) [Fine Arts]
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (Mark Mothersbaugh) [BrainDead Studios]
THE MAN WHO ENVIED WOMEN [Los Feliz 3]
MANDY (Johann Johannsson) [Alamo Drafthouse]
A PLACE IN THE SUN (Franz Waxman) [Fine Arts]
PORCO ROSSO (Joe Hisashi) [New Beverly]
REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (Leonard Rosenman) [Academy Museum]
THE SANDLOT (David Newman) [UCLA/Hammer]
SELENA (Dave Grusin) [Alamo Drafthouse]
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN (Nacio Herb Brown, Lennie Hayton), IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD [New Beverly]
TOOTSIE (Dave Grusin) [Los Feliz 3]
THREE FACES WEST (Victor Young) [Academy Museum]
THE WRONG MAN (Bernard Herrmann) [Los Feliz 3]
April 17
BUSTER & BILLIE (Al DeLory), THE FAST KILL (Alan Gorrie) [New Beverly]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (Alejandro Jodorowsky) [Los Feliz 3]
April 18
FIVE EASY PIECES [Academy Museum]
IMPULSE (Michel Colombier) [Los Feliz 3]
JACK & JILL (Rupert Gregson-Williams, Waddy Wachtel) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MANDY (Johann Johannsson) [Alamo Drafthouse]
OUT OF IT (Michael Small), THE REVOLUTIONARY (Michael Small) [New Beverly]
April 19
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Alamo Drafthouse]
MADEMOISELLE (Antoine Duhamel) [Los Feliz 3]
MANDY (Johann Johannsson) [Alamo Drafthouse]
OUT OF IT (Michael Small), THE REVOLUTIONARY (Michael Small) [New Beverly]
TUCKER: THE MAN AND HIS DREAM (Joe Jackson) [BrainDead Studios]
April 20
BELLY (Stephen Cullo) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Los Feliz 3]
THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (Dave Grusin) [Los Feliz 3]
UP IN SMOKE (Danny "Kootch" Kortchmar, Waddy Wachtel), CHEECH & CHONG'S NEXT MOVIE (Mark Davis) [New Beverly]
April 21
BLACK LEGION [Fine Arts]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [New Beverly]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Los Feliz 3]
DRYLONGSO (Curt Harpel, Pat Thomi) [Los Feliz 3]
THE HEROIC TRIO (William Hu) [Nuart]
KIKA [Academy Museum]
KILL BILL: VOL. 2 (RZA, Robert Rodriguez) [New Beverly]
LA NOTTE (Giorgio Gaslini), THE LOVERS [Aero]
THE MATRIX (Don Davis), LA JETEE [BrainDead Studios]
ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD [New Beverly]
THE ROCKETEER (James Horner) [BrainDead Studios]
SPIDER (Howard Shore) [Los Feliz 3]
THAT GIRL FROM PARIS [Fine Arts]
April 22
THE BRIDE WORE BLACK (Bernard Herrmann) [Los Feliz 3]
THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (Bruce Smeaton) [BrainDead Studios]
CHRISTINE (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth) [BrainDead Studios]
DUEL (Billy Goldenberg) [BrainDead Studios]
A GOOFY MOVIE (Carter Burwell) [New Beverly]
JOHNNY GUITAR (Victor Young) [Academy Museum]
ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD [New Beverly]
OPENING NIGHT (Bo Harwood) [Academy Museum]
THE RELUCTANT ASTRONAUT (Vic Mizzy), THE GHOST AND MR. CHICKEN (Vic Mizzy) [Fine Arts]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
RUDO Y CURSI (Leoncio Lara, Felipe Perez Santiago) [Los Feliz 3]
SHERLOCK HOLMES (Hans Zimmer) [Bay]
STRAIGHT TIME (David Shire), TRUE CONFESSIONS (Georges Delerue) [Aero]
2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY [New Beverly]
WALL-E (Thomas Newman) [Academy Museum]
April 23
CLEANERS (Glenn Barit) [UCLA/Hammer]
THE DOOM GENERATION (Dan Gatto) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE EXORCIST [Fine Arts]
FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA [Fine Arts]
GATES OF HEAVEN (Jim Harbert) [Los Feliz 3]
JULES AND JIM (Georges Delerue) [Los Feliz 3]
OBJECTIVE, BURMA! (Franz Waxman) [Academy Museum]
ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (John Barry) [Aero]
ONCE UPON A TIME...IN HOLLYWOOD [New Beverly]
SHERLOCK HOLMES (Hans Zimmer) [Bay]
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Alex North) [Academy Museum]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: The Man Who Laughs (Savina/Piccioni); To Catch a Thief/The Bridges at Toko-Ri (Murray); Thriller Jazz (various); The Red Pony (Copland); Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (Morricone); Kundun (Glass); The Last Emperor (Sakamoto/Byrne/Su); Knives Out (Johnson); The Sheltering Sky (Sakamoto); Torn Curtain (Herrmann); Little Buddha (Sakamoto); Company (Sondheim); Heartbeeps (Williams)
Read: Mary, Mary, by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter, aka Salvatore Lombino)
Seen: The Golden Fortress; Paint; Showing Up; An Enemy of the People [1989]; Sagdati; Tenet; The Maltese Falcon [1941]; The Lost King; Spinning Gold
Watched: Roy Colt & Winchester Jack; Rick & Morty ("Lawnmower Dog"); The Terror of the Tongs; The Office ("Motivation"); The Game of Death Redux; Game of Death; Star Trek: Enterprise ("Divergence"); Bob's Burgers ("Torpedo"); The Americans ("The Deal")
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