CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - John Williams - Disney
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One - Lorne Balfe - La-La Land
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Baker - Floqi
Bobi Wine: The People's President - Dan Jones
The First Slam Dunk - Satoshi Takebe
For the Animals - Andor Sperling
Haunted Mansion - Kris Bowers
Return to Dust - Peyman Yazdanian
Talk to Me - Cornel Wilczek
The Unknown Country - Alexis Marsh, Samuel Jones, Neil Halstead
War Pony - Christopher Stracey, Mato Wayuhi
COMING SOON
August 18
The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Brian Tyler - iam8bit
December 1
Scream VI - Brian Tyler, Sven Faulconer - Varese Sarabande
Date Unknown
Brutes and Savages - Riz Ortolani - Quartet
The David Michael Frank Collection Vol. 2: Cinematic Noir - David Michael Frank - Dragon's Domain
Excessive Force II: Force on Force - Kevin Kiner - Dragons' Domain [CD-R]
Gli Italiani e l'industria - Piero Umiliani - Kronos
Il sole buio/L'angelo con la pistola - Riz Ortolani - Beat
Le Secret - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Oppenheimer - Ludwig Goransson - Mondo
Phar Lap - Bruce Rowland - Buysoundtrax
Stridulum (The Visitor) - Franco Micalizzi - Quartet
Un sacco bello - Ennio Morricone - Beat
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
July 28 - Carmen Dragon born (1914)
July 28 - Ray Ellis born (1923)
July 28 - Brian May born (1934)
July 28 - Recording sessions begin for Frederick Hollander’s score for Disputed Passage (1939)
July 28 - Richard Hartley born (1944)
July 28 - On the Waterfront opens in New York (1954)
July 28 - Richard Shores records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night of the Firebrand” (1967)
July 28 - Robert Drasnin records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “Butterfly” (1970)
July 28 - Leonard Rosenman begins recording his adaptation score for Bound for Glory (1976)
July 28 - Laurence Rosenthal records his score for Proud Men (1987)
July 29 - Mikis Theodorakis born (1925)
July 29 - Gian Piero Reverberi born (1939)
July 29 - Michael Holm born (1943)
July 29 - Bronislau Kaper begins recording his score for Quentin Durward (1955)
July 29 - Lalo Schifrin begins recording his score for The Venetian Affair (1967)
July 29 - Lee Holdridge records his score for The Explorers: a Century of Discovery (1988)
July 29 - Doug Timm died (1989)
July 29 - Giorgio Gaslini died (2014)
July 30 - Guenther Kauer born (1921)
July 30 - Antoine Duhamel born (1925)
July 30 - Paul de Senneville born (1933)
July 30 - David Sanborn born (1945)
July 30 - Alexina Louie born (1949)
July 30 - Recording sessions begin for Frederick Hollander’s score for Remember the Night (1949)
July 30 - Leith Stevens records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Manhunt” (1968)
July 30 - John Williams begins recording his score for Earthquake (1974)
July 30 - Peter Knight died (1985)
July 30 - Richard Band begins recording his score for Zone Troopers (1985)
July 31 - Barry De Vorzon born (1934)
July 31 - Michael Wolff born (1952)
July 31 - Lionel Newman begins recording his score for The Last Wagon (1956)
July 31 - John 5 born as John Lowery (1971)
July 31 - Richard Band records his score for The Alchemist (1981)
July 31 - Lennie Niehaus records his score for the Amazing Stories episode “Vanessa in the Garden” (1985)
August 1 - Walter Scharf born (1910)
August 1 - Jerome Moross born (1913)
August 1 - Lionel Bart born (1930)
August 1 - Paddy Moloney born (1938)
August 1 - Michael Penn born (1958)
August 1 - Dean Wareham born (1963)
August 1 - Antony Partos born (1968)
August 1 - Martin Phipps born (1968)
August 1 - Dhani Harrison born (1978)
August 1 - Paul Sawtell died (1971)
August 1 - Arthur B. Rubinstein records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "Remote Control Man" (1985)
August 1 - Barrington Pheloung died (2019)
August 2 - Carlo Savina born (1919)
August 2 - Joe Harnell born (1924)
August 2 - Phillip Lambro born (1935)
August 2 - Arthur Kempel born (1945)
August 2 - Dimitri Tiomkin begins recording his score for Gunfight at the OK Corral (1956)
August 2 - Recording sessions begin on Leigh Harline’s score for No Down Payment (1957)
August 2 - Robert Drasnin records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night of the Man-Eating House” (1966)
August 2 - Lalo Schifrin records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “The Miracle” (1971)
August 2 - Muir Mathieson died (1975)
August 2 - John Williams begins recording his score for Monsignor (1982)
August 2 - Irwin Bazelon died (1995)
August 2 - Daniel Licht died (2017)
August 3 - Louis Gruenberg born (1884)
August 3 - David Buttolph born (1902)
August 3 - Robert Emmett Dolan born (1906)
August 3 - Ira Newborn begins recording his score for The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
August 3 - Alfred Schnittke died (1998)
August 3 - Warren Barker died (2006)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
BROADCAST SIGNAL INTRUSION - Ben Lovett
"As long as 'Broadcast Signal Intrusion' stays in the realm of shadowy ambiguity, it’s effectively suspenseful. Special credit goes to Ben Lovett’s mood-setting score, which is properly atmospheric but also more richly orchestrated than is the norm for modern genre films. The lush music makes a quixotic quest seem somehow more significant."
Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR - Joseph Bishara
"Wilson’s James Wan impression isn’t half bad, sectioning analysis of only the horror antics. Trailers spoil what’s definitively the sequel’s crowning fright -- Josh’s interrupted MRI scan -- but not a few other suitable thrills. Josh’s memory game with cardboard flippers taped to his window cleverly exploits a ghoul inching closer and closer with sporadic reveals, and Joseph Bishara’s score intensely spikes to elevate our heart rate as a clawed hand reaches from beyond the frame. 'Insidious: The Red Door' doesn’t appear foreign in these glimpses; a testament to Wilson’s vision as Josh and Dalton face off against the Lipstick-Face Demon’s remixed attacks. That’s why the imbalance between nostalgic Further ruthlessness and waning interest in Lambert lineage secrets is so frustrating to power through."
Matt Donato, Paste Magazine
"The swirling violins and sudden bangs don’t start until Dalton attends a dopey art class taught by Hiam Abbass, who encourages her students to draw from their subconscious. From that point on, neither of the Lambert men can make it five minutes without astral projecting, as the shared experience brings them closer together even as those pesky demons threaten to tear them apart forever. From the moment Josh is in danger, 'The Red Door' is overwhelmed by the feeling that it’s Wilson who’s just trying to get out of this thing alive."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"The shrieking of string instruments, the bright red title card flashing like a light bulb about to burn out: It’s time for another 'Insidious' film."
Jenny Nulf, The Austin Chronicle
THE PASSENGERS OF THE NIGHT - Anton Sanko
"Those strengths help counter the slight overuse of the video interludes, in which the intermittent shifts in aspect ratio often feel random and cine-modish. But the mix of those elements with the muted tones and soft edges of Sébastien Buchmann’s cinematography nonetheless helps to evoke a strong sense of Paris in the ‘80s, as does the synth-heavy score by Anton Sanko, mixed in with period cuts by Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, The Go-Betweens, John Cale and others."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
20 DAYS OF MARIUPOL - Jordan Dykstra
"Yet what’s also true is that, had his editors seen all the footage, they wouldn’t have been able to pass on much of it to news organizations. Chernov frequently blurs the most severe injuries, but it’s the puddles of blood, dead animals and lifeless limbs half-buried by rubble that indicate the sheer scale of suffering in Mariupol. His jarringly stoic narration and haunting original music by Jordan Dykstra add to the sense that, in Mariupol, nothing is left. This is not a film about President Zelensky’s Churchillian leadership or the heroism of first responders (though if you look, there is some of that)."
Adam Solomons, IndieWire
"A big part of what makes the movie so fascinating, valuable, and intense is how it lets certain events unfold in what feels like real-time, even though there are edits for the sake of compression and clarity. The only wholly unnecessary touch is a subdued minor-key synth score that plays during extended sequences of dread and terror. The movie doesn't need it. The images and sounds speak for themselves."
Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
"This is bleak but essential viewing, deftly edited by Michelle Mizner, video technology rendering Chernov’s camerawork discomfitingly bright and sharp where not long ago we might have been spared a degree of horror by lesser image clarity. Adding discreet notes of suspense is Jordan Dykstra’s original score. Structured by onscreen markers of the days passed, this nonfiction feature may not have a simple narrative arc, but the director’s unpretentious first-person narration and the intensity of the war-crimes evidence compiled make it riveting nonetheless."
Dennis Harvey, Variety
"The raw footage is largely unembellished, save for Jordan Dykstra’s eerie electronic music score that could easily be appropriated for a horror film (which, of course, '20 Days in Mariupol' is, of a sort). That immediacy only enhances the documentary’s visceral power, even if it occasionally gives it the feel of an extended news segment. What comes through most vividly, other than the human tragedy on display, is the vital importance of war correspondents and the courage and ingenuity they must possess in order to work under such life-threatening conditions."
Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
WARNING - Gregory Tripi
"Together, these tales feel like the hangover at a wake for mankind. The film’s dusky pastel color palette recalls dying flowers on a grave. Yet, even as the synth score mutters anxiously in the background, Alexander takes a prankish delight in her own doom and gloom."
Amy Nicholson, The New York Times
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
July 28
ALIEN (Jerry Goldsmith) [Vidiots]
APOCALYPSE NOW (Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola) [Aero]
CONTEMPT (Georges Delerue) [Los Feliz 3]
THE FACE OF ANOTHER (Toru Takemitsu) [Los Feliz 3]
THE HATEFUL EIGHT (Ennio Morricone) [New Beverly]
HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA 2 (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE LAST WALTZ [Academy Museum]
LISZTOMANIA (Rick Wakeman) [BrainDead Studios]
MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE [BrainDead Studios]
MON ONCLE (Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans) [Los Feliz 3]
THE ROOM (Mladen Milicevic) [Landmark Westwood]
SEIZURE (Lee Gagnon) [Los Feliz 3]
STARSHIP TROOPERS (Basil Poledoris) [New Beverly]
SUSPIRIA (Goblin) [Vidiots]
TRASH HUMPERS, BOARDINGHOUSE (33 and 1/3) [New Beverly]
July 29
APOCALYPSE NOW (Carmine Coppola, Francis Ford Coppola) [Aero]
THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Tony Cora) [New Beverly]
THE COMPANY (Van Dyke Parks) [BrainDead Studios]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Vidiots]
EASY A (Brad Segal) [Alamo Drafthouse]
FINDING NEMO (Thomas Newman) [Academy Museum]
THE KILLERS (Miklos Rozsa) [Aero]
LE COCHON [Los Feliz 3]
LILO & STITCH (Alan Silvestri) [New Beverly]
MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS [Los Feliz 3]
A POEM IS A NAKED PERSON [Academy Museum]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
STEVIE (Dirk Powell) [Los Feliz 3]
THIRTEEN (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Los Feliz 3]
TOMMY (Pete Townsend) [Nuart]
TRASH HUMPERS, BOARDINGHOUSE (33 and 1/3) [New Beverly]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [UCLA/Hammer]
July 30
AMADEUS [BrainDead Studios]
CINEMA PARADISO (Ennio Morricone) [Aero]
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (Tan Dun) [Vidiots]
FANCHON THE CRICKET, ROSITA [Academy Museum]
FOLLOWING (David Julyan) [Los Feliz 3]
I SAW THE DEVIL (Mowg) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LILO & STITCH (Alan Silvestri) [New Beverly]
MALCOLM X (Terence Blanchard) [Aero]
MATLIDA (David Newman) [Vidiots]
MON ONCLE (Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans) [Los Feliz 3]
STAND BY ME (Jack Nitzsche) [Vidiots]
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY (Ron Geesin) [Los Feliz 3]
SUPERBAD (Lyle Workman) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE TASTE OF TEA [BrainDead Studios]
TRASH HUMPERS, BOARDINGHOUSE (33 and 1/3) [New Beverly]
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (Alan Silvestri) [Academy Museum]
July 31
COBRA WOMAN (Edward Ward), WHITE SAVAGE (Frank Skinner) [New Beverly]
SRIGALA (Gatot Sudarto) [Los Feliz 3]
VALLEY GIRL (Scott Wilk Mark Levinthal) [Los Feliz 3]
ZOOT SUIT [Aero]
August 1
THE CHANGELING (Rich Wilkins, Kenneth Wannberg) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth), TOTAL RECALL (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
LIFE ITSELF (Joshua Abrams) [Los Feliz e]
TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (Wang Chung) [Academy Museum]
TOKYO POP (Alan Brewer) [Alamo Drafthouse]
August 2
THE CHANGELING (Rich Wilkins, Kenneth Wannberg) [Alamo Drafthouse]
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth), TOTAL RECALL (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
HEARTWORN HIGHWAYS [BrainDead Studios]
HOOP DREAMS (Ben Sidran) [Aero]
THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING (Howard Shore) [Academy Museum]
ROSEMARY'S BABY (Christopher Komeda) [Los Feliz 3]
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (John DuPrez) [Alamo Drafthouse]
August 3
ALTERED STATES (John Corigliano) [Academy Museum]
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK (John Carpenter, Alan Howarth), TOTAL RECALL (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! [Los Feliz 3]
GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (RZA) [Vidiots]
A TOUCH OF CLASS (John Cameron) [Los Feliz 3]
August 4
THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (Mason Daring) [Vidiots]
DAWN OF THE DEAD (Tyler Bates) [New Beverly]
KEY LARGO (Max Steiner), SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (Franz Waxman) [Aero]
THE LEATHER BOYS (Bill McGuffie) [Vidiots]
THE LEGO MOVIE 2: THE SECOND PART (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MASKED AND ANONYMOUS (Bob Dylan) [BrainDead Studios]
MON ONCLE (Franck Barcellini, Alain Romans) [Los Feliz 3]
PARTY GIRL (Anton Sanko) [Los Feliz 3]
RESERVOIR DOGS [New Beverly]
ROSEMARY'S BABY (Christopher Komeda) [Los Feliz 3]
SHE-DEVILS ON WHEELS [Vidiots]
SIGN O' THE TIMES (Prince) [Academy Museum]
THE THIRD MAN (Anton Karras), IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (Georges Auric) [New Beverly]
TOUKI BOUKI [Los Feliz 3]
August 5
AMERICAN GIGOLO (Giorgio Moroder) [Los Feliz 3]
BLIND WOMAN'S CURSE (Hajime Kubaragi) [Vidiots]
THE CURE IN ORANGE [Academy Museum]
A DOUBLE LIFE (Miklos Rozsa), THE VELVET TOUCH (Leigh Harline) [Aero]
GREASE [Alamo Drafthouse]
HIGH NOON (Dimitri Tiomkin) [Vidiots]
HOLLOW TRIUMPH (Sol Kaplan) [Aero]
INSIDE OUT (Michael Giacchino) [New Beverly]
MANHUNTER (Michel Rubini, The Reds) [New Beverly]
PARTY GIRL (Anton Sanko) [Los Feliz 3]
POINT BREAK (Mark Isham) [Vidiots]
THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG (Randy Newman) [Academy Museum]
THE THING (Ennio Morricone) [Vidiots]
THE THIRD MAN (Anton Karras), IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (Georges Auric) [New Beverly]
UNINVITED (Dan Slider) [Vidiots]
August 6
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (Alan Menken) [Academy Museum]
CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (Alfred Newman), LARCENY (Leith Stevens) [Aero]
THE DECAMERON (Ennio Morricone) [BrainDead Studios]
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Miklos Rozsa) [Vidiots]
EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! [Los Feliz 3]
FLESH AND THE DEVIL [Academy Museum]
THE GREAT MUPPET CAPER (Joe Raposo) [Vidiots]
HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE (John Williams) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT'S INFERNO (Bruno Alexiu) [BrainDead Studios]
THE HUNTED (Edward J. Kay) [Aero]
I WANT TO LIVE! (Johnny Mandel), NOT WANTED (Leith Stevens) [UCLA]
INSIDE OUT (Michael Giacchino) [New Beverly]
IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT [Los Feliz 3]
SPIRITED AWAY (Joe Hisaishi) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE THIRD MAN (Anton Karras), IT ALWAYS RAINS ON SUNDAY (Georges Auric) [New Beverly]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Mother of Tears (Simonetti); City of Men (Pinto); My Brother Is an Only Child (Piersanti); Edward Scissorhands ballet (Elfman, Davies); Parlami d'amore (Guerra); Mysterious Skin (Budd/Guthrie); Piano 17 (De Scalzi); White Bird in a Blizzard (Budd/Guthrie); Big Top Pee-Wee (Elfman); Raul (Morricone); Hairspray (various); Reality (Desplat); Serial Mom (Poledouris); Ripley's Game (Morricone); Pecker (Copeland, various); Scarlet Diva (Hughes); Cecil B. DeMented (Poledouris); Sleepless (Goblin)
Read: Hell House, by Richard Matheson
Seen: Soul Power; Ratatouille; Theater Camp; Afire; Return to Oz; The Car; Warlords of Atlantis; Legend [1986]; Oppenheimer
Watched: Bad Blonde; Sealab 2021 ("Feast of Alvis"); Night Games [1966]; Star Trek: Enterprise ("Terra Prime"); Barry ("Listen With Your Ears, React With Your Face")
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