The latest release from Intrada is an expanded, two-disc edition of Charles Fox's score for the hit 1978 romantic comedy thriller FOUL PLAY, the directorial debut of screenwriter Colin Higgins (Harold and Maude, Silver Streak), which teamed Goldie Hawn with Chevy Chase in his first leading role. The release features the full film score including its nominated original song "Ready to Take a Chance Again," written by Fox and his regular lyricist collaborator Norman Gimbel, plus the sequencing from the original LP release.
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its related labels are THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE-FICTION VOL 6, featuring music from Valley of the Dragons (Ruby Raksin) and Island of Terror (Malcolm Lockyer); THE PAUL CHIHARA COLLECTION VOL. 5, featuring the composer's music for the TV movies The Bad Seed, Killer Instinct and With Intent to Kill; David Spear's score for the 1994 action thriller PENTATHLON, starring Dolph Lundgren; and the fourth volume of their FRANZ WAXMAN: LEGENDARY HOLLYWOOD series, including re-recorded cues from such classic Waxman scores as Bride of Frankenstein, Captains Courageous and The Silver Chalice.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Foul Play - Charles Fox - Intrada Special Collection
IN THEATERS TODAY
Between the Temples - Music Supervisors: Melissa Chapman, Annie Pearlman
Blink Twice - Chanda Dancy
The Crow - Volker Bertelmann
Red Island - Arnaud Rebotini - Score LP L'ile Rouge on Blackstrobe (import)
Strange Darling - Craig DeLeon
Stream - Paul Wiley
We Will Dance Again - Tal Yardeni
COMING SOON
August 30
Exotic Themes for the Silver Screen: Vol. 1 - Michael Giacchino - Mutant
September 13
Industry: Season 2 - Nathan Micay - LuckyMe
October 4
White Bird - Thomas Newman - Lakeshore
Coming Soon
Doctor Who: The Daleks in Colour - Mark Ayres, Tristram Cary - Silva
Fallen Angels Vol. 1 - Peter Bernstein - Dragon's Domain
Franz Waxman: Legendary Hollywood Vol. 4 - Franz Waxman - Citadel
The Gerald Fried Collection Vol. 2 - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol. 6 - Malcolm Lockyer, Ruby Raksin - Dragon's Domain
The Paul Chihara Collection Vol. 5 - Paul Chihara - Dragon's Domain [CD-R]
Pentathlon - David Spear - Dragon's Domain
Safe House - Kevin Kiner - Dragon's Domain [CD-R]
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
August 23 - Constant Lambert born (1905)
August 23 - Martial Solal born (1927)
August 23 - Ian Fraser born (1933)
August 23 - Willy Russell born (1947)
August 23 - Julian Nott born (1960)
August 23 - Alexandre Desplat born (1961)
August 23 - Howard Blake begins recording his score for S.O.S. Titanic (1979)
August 23 - Marvin Hatley died (1986)
August 23 - David Rose died (1990)
August 23 - Jurriaan Andriessen died (1996)
August 24 - Jean-Michel Jarre born (1948)
August 24 - Peter Kyed born (1963)
August 24 - Dave Grusin begins recording his score for Absence of Malice (1981)
August 24 - Mark Lawrence died (1991)
August 24 - John Debney wins his first Emmy, for the Young Riders episode score “Kansas;” Richard Bellis wins for part 1 of It; Randy Newman wins his first Emmy for his Cop Rock songs (1991)
August 25 - Ray Heindorf born (1908)
August 25 - Leonard Bernstein born (1918)
August 25 - Harry Manfredini born (1943)
August 25 - Tom Manoff born (1945)
August 25 - John Williams begins recording his score for Bachelor Flat (1961)
August 25 - Leith Stevens records his score for the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “Time Bomb” (1965)
August 25 - Robert Drasnin records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night of the Casual Killer” (1965)
August 25 - Richard Markowitz records his score for The Wild Wild West episode “The Night of the Raven” (1966)
August 25 - Joby Talbot born (1971)
August 25 - Zoe Poledouris born (1973)
August 25 - Elvis Costello born (1954)
August 25 - Jack Nitzsche died (2000)
August 26 - Humphrey Searle born (1915)
August 26 - Recording sessions begin for Miklos Rozsa’s score to The Hour Before the Dawn (1943)
August 26 - Alan Parker born (1944)
August 26 - Mark Snow born (1946)
August 26 - Ralph Vaughan Williams died (1958)
August 26 - Branford Marsalis born (1960)
August 26 - John Williams records his score for the Lost in Space pilot episode "The Reluctant Stowaway" (1965)
August 26 - Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "Spock's Brain" is recorded (1968)
August 26 - Nico Muhly born (1981)
August 26 - John Frizzell begins recording his score for Alien Resurrection (1997)
August 27 - Eric Coates born (1886)
August 27 - Sonny Sharrock born (1940)
August 27 - Miles Goodman born (1949)
August 27 - Bernard Herrmann records his score for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode "Nothing Ever Happens in Linvale" (1963)
August 27 - Dimitri Tiomkin begins recording his score to 36 Hours (1964)
August 27 - Lennie Hayton records his score for the Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea episode “…And Five of Us Are Left” (1965)
August 27 - Harry Geller records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “The Golden Cage” (1968)
August 27 - Jerry Fielding records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “The Execution” (1968)
August 27 - John Williams begins recording his score for 1941 (1979)
August 27 - Geoffrey Burgon begins recording his score for The Dogs of War (1980)
August 27 - Johnny Mandel records his score for the Amazing Stories episode "One for the Road" (1985)
August 27 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Night” (1998)
August 27 - John Altman wins the Emmy for RKO 281; Joseph LoDuca wins for the Xena: Warrior Princess episode “Fallen Angel;” W.G. Snuffy Walden wins for The West Wing main title theme (2000)
August 27 - John Williams begins recording his score for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
August 28 - Ustad Vilayat Khan born (1928)
August 28 - Annette Focks born (1964)
August 28 - Duane Tatro’s score for The Invaders episode “Valley of the Shadow” is recorded (1967)
August 28 - Laurence Rosenthal wins his third consecutive Emmy, for The Bourne Identity; Lee Holdridge wins his first Emmy, for the Beauty and the Beast pilot score (1988)
August 28 - Richard Hartley wins the Emmy for his Alice in Wonderland score; Carl Johnson wins for the Invasion America episode score “Final Mission;” Martin Davich wins for his main title to Trinity (1999)
August 29 - Anthony Adverse released in theaters (1936)
August 29 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for The Miniver Story (1950)
August 29 - Victor Young begins recording his score to The Tall Men (1955)
August 29 - Fred Steiner's score for the Star Trek episode "Charlie X" is recorded (1966)
August 29 - Recording sessions begin for Richard Rodney Bennett's score for Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976)
August 29 - James Horner begins recording his score for Gorky Park (1983)
August 29 - John Williams begins recording his score for The River (1984)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
AKA - Etienne Forget
"'AKA' doesn’t add any new wrinkles to the undercover cop genre; but Florent Astolfi’s cinematography is suitably moody, Etienne Forget’s score provides texture and drive, and Lenoir and Dalibert (who co-wrote the script) keep the conflicts clear. There’s a real dilemma for the hero here, who feels called to protect Victor’s kids, even when it puts him in opposition to his superiors in the French government -- who will almost certainly abandon him if the mission goes sour. This is an ideal role for Lenoir, who handles the punching and shooting parts of action movies well, but really excels at the brooding. His Adam is aptly named; he’s a biblical kind of hero, sinning and suffering."
Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times
BIRD BOX BARCELONA - Zeltia Montes
"The fortress setting is a striking location for a climactic struggle that points the way to further sequels. Laia Colet’s production design in general is effective -- even when the brushstrokes of the CG team are visible, seeing a wrecked cruise liner half-sunk in the port or bridges festooned with dangling corpses gives a vivid sense of a world without mercy or hope. The film’s most impressive nerve-jangling element, however, is its dense sound design, deftly blended with Zeltia Montes’ ominous score. Too bad there’s little in the story that gets under the skin with comparable skill."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
BRUISER - Robert Ouyang Rusli
"Going into specifics about what this not entirely unexpected revelation turns out to be is far less important than the way in which it is all presented. More than just the narrow aspect ratio that works perfectly in tandem with the rich visuals from cinematographer Justin Derry and an evocative score by composer Robert Ouyang Rusli, it is the delicate way key moments play out that ensures it manages to move beyond some residual bluntness. In particular, the scenes where we just see Darious and Porter alone together are where the film excels."
Chase Hutchinson, Collider
"These scenes, sometimes, lyrically slow to molasses ala 'Crooklyn' or speed up like a mosquito. The slightly overexposed lighting by cinematographer Justin Derry, steadied by oblique angles and smart blocking, is matched by Robert Ouyang Rusli’s poetic, pinching score."
Robert Daniels, The Playlist
"'Bruiser' is a classic tale of a father and son who are just not on the same page at this moment in their lives. The danger, of course, is that kids don’t know what they are doing and will turn to whatever seems easiest or most fun in a time of crisis. But a lost adult can be just as terrifying. The writing, direction, and acting are spectacular. The score by Robert Ouyang Rusli is stirring and never ceases to amaze. Among 2023's film entries, 'Bruiser' stands among the year's best so far."
Nadir Samara, Screen Rant
"That intense, evocative subjectivity reminded me of 'Moonlight' -- especially the middle chapter, about teenage Chiron. While 'Bruiser' is not as well rounded overall, it promises great things to come from Warren. The helmer avoids clichés while making the story specific to these characters, answering stereotypes of Black aggression with images of family and church life. From the squarish Academy ratio and unconventional framing to composer Robert Ouyang Rusli’s tense, bracing-for-conflict score, Warren’s choices frequently surprise, building to an ending that does exactly the right thing with the showdown we could feel coming all along."
Peter Debruge, Variety
"The men represent two sides of the same coin. They both struggle with emotional regulation and self-expression -- yet whereas Porter is honest about his challenges, Malcolm clings to respectability as a shield. Warren and Medina’s screenplay does tip into cliché, but avoids living in that territory by building out the inner lives of these two men. Instead of relying on expository speeches, Warren experiments with scene staging, camera angles, light and music to highlight Porter and Malcolm’s differences and similarities. Occasionally, 'Bruiser' leans too heavily on Robert Ouyang Rusli’s beautifully sonorous score, but the attempt to connect the visual vocabulary to an auditory one is welcome."
Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter
LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR - Harumi Fuuki
"As a thematic follow-up to 'Colorful''s depressed teens and 'Miss Hokusai''s feminist storytelling, Hara and his returning collaborators make a promising team for this adaptation. Produced at Sony-owned A-1 Pictures '(Sword Art Online,' 'Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War'), the animation is competent, but its art direction is thoroughly uninteresting. The sets and backgrounds, while not always imaginative, are gorgeous. This seems in part due to contributions by AKIRA animation director Takashi Nakamura, who is thanked by Hara as the final credit of the film. Contributions from other past collaborators, including 'Miss Hokusai' screenwriter Miho Maruo and composer Harumi Fuuki, also make the movie a well-executed adaptation. But again, 'Lonely Castle in the Mirror' offers nothing as a movie that the novel doesn’t already deliver."
Autumn Wright, Paste Magazine
ODDITY - Richard G. Mitchell
"Aza Hand’s ominous sound design and composer Richard G. Mitchell’s tense score skillfully conceal some of these deficiencies, however, effectively propelling the action throughout the film. Interestingly, 'Oddity's plot bears some resemblance to the unsolved 1996 murder of a woman in the same area, portrayed in Netflix’s 2021 limited docuseries 'Sophie: A Murder in West Cork.'"
Justin Lowe, The Hollywood Reporter
OUR BODY - Elias Boughedir
"Even with an almost three-hour run time, this is not the kind of film where experts weigh in with facts about health care policy or particular diseases or treatments. And it is not the kind of film where we see what happens to the patients we observe with their caregivers. Every scene is just a tile in the mosaic, not a part of a linear storyline arc. Very occasionally, we hear Simon ask a question off camera, and sometimes there is a light trickle of music on the soundtrack. But most of the film is quiet conversation, punctuated only by the hospital sounds echoing in the hallways and examination rooms."
Nell Minow, RogerEbert.com
REALITY - Nathan Micay
"The banality is chilling. Satter has already staged this conversation, Off Broadway in 2019, and then on Broadway in 2021, with the show’s title, 'Is This a Room,' taken from one of the transcript’s more absurdist quotes. Satter, a veteran theater director, makes a smooth transition into her feature film debut, written with James Paul Dallas. She’s skilled at evoking tension from a minimal set. Her lighting is intelligent and controlled -- you sense Winner’s last free sunset slipping past through the windows -- as the whining, almost mosquito-pesky sound design (Ryan Billia) and score (Nathan Micay) make your jaw clench. The new medium allows for a new flourish. Whenever the transcription stumbles across a redaction, the image glitches as the characters disappear into a poof of pixels, snapping back when someone says, appropriately, “Reality!'"
Amy Nicholson, The New York Times
"What makes this different from Josef K.’s ordeal, of course, is that this is, well, reality. To remind us of this, the film intermittently interrupts the staged drama with cuts to a wave pattern of the dialogue or staged footage of the official transcript being typed up. More than merely reminding us of their verité conceit, though, the filmmakers’ intermixing of dramaturgy and document reminds the audience of the complex network of information streams that make up our and 'Reality''s reality. As the film ratchets up the tension with traditional methods like tighter close-ups and a crescendoing score by Nathan Micay, it also finds more gaps in the record, holes in the information stream that augment the slipperiness of the real."
Pat Brown, Slant Magazine
"But aside from Sweeney’s performance -- and in addition to the unnerving presences of Hamilton and Davis -- Satter does very little to transcend one medium to another. While being questioned in the back room, we see shots of the other government agents rifling through Winner’s belongings, and of Winner’s two pets, the dog left in its outside pen and a cat tied to the leg of a chest of drawers in her bedroom. It’s an obvious visual metaphor for their owner’s own entrapment, but it’s not terribly creative visual language; nor are the glitchy, VFX disappearances of Winner and the agents within their respective frames when they reach the sections of the transcript with classified information. Along with recreated flashbacks leading up to the day Winner mailed the document, that’s about as far as this revision goes towards playing with its new form -- though, DP Paul Yee does the most. Enhanced by a creeping score from Nathan Micay, Yee’s camera works with the confines of the narrow locale to make Winner’s home feel simultaneously expansive and smothering."
Brianna Zigler, Paste Magazine
"Her interactions with the other agents are more unequivocally intimidated, causing her to shuffle nervously and at times collapse in on herself like a ragdoll. Satter rightly trusts her actors and her text to give dramatic life to Reality’s ordeal without technical distractions, the only embellishments being Nathan Micay’s prickly ambient score and occasional sound distortion to put us inside the protagonist’s head."
David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
SKYWALKERS: A LOVE STORY - Jacques Brautbar
"Zimbalist is efficient with their early courtship, moving us along narratively and emotionally with voiceover summaries and a playful score. These choices help when we are just getting acquainted with the duo, but there’s an over-reliance on them in later sections. One wishes Zimbalist would let his extraordinary footage speak for itself; these videos reveal more about the couple than their voiceovers, which include unnecessarily clichéd exposition. Whether it’s go-pro footage of a madcap escape in France or excerpts of interviews the pair did in Russia after they announced their relationship, we can see that Nikolau and Beerkus have fallen madly, deeply in love."
Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter
SOUND OF HOPE: THE STORY OF POSSUM TROT - Sean Johnson
"As these things go, Weigel directs the proceedings with a heaping helping of po-faced earnestness, syrupy music playing over wide-eyed performances dripping with conviction."
Clint Worthington, RogerEbert.com
USERS - Dave Cerf
"Working with her husband, music and sound designer Dave Cerf, and her brother-in-law, cinematographer Bennett Cerf, Almada vividly explores the increasing encroachment of technology and automation into the natural world. She creates a vibe that feels like an eerie stream of consciousness, often accompanied by the dark, melancholy strings of the Kronos Quartet. But her mission is also clearly personal, as she incorporates footage of her two young sons, a toddler and an infant, playing in a bathtub, finger painting, or napping. The video of her younger son taking his tentative first steps at a park is far more artful than anything the rest of us could ever capture on our iPhones."
Christy Lemire, RogerEbert.com
"The observation encapsulates a concern that’s haunted Almada throughout her motherhood: the rapid proliferation of advanced technology and its relationship to humans, specifically her own children as they grow up. Following the opening, which sets the stage for the rest of 'Users,' Almada launches into a boldly visceral articulation of this notion without ever feeling academic. With a complex sound design, richly cinematic images, and a propulsive musical score, this ambitious documentary reflects Almada’s wide range of feelings in its very aesthetic fiber. Between its observational shots of how technology is embedded in our daily lives and Philip Glass-esque score by the Kronos Quartet, 'Users' invites comparison to the 'Qatsi' trilogy, but there’s a playfulness to Almada’s documentary, especially as a result of its juxtapositions, that differentiates it from Godfrey Regio’s work. After showing a scuba diver painstakingly laying down an internet cable in the middle of the ocean, Almada jarringly cuts to one recipient of this data: a young boy mindlessly playing a video game in the comfort of his home, clearly oblivious of the complex web of processes that made this pastime possible."
Wes Greene, Slant Magazine
"That underlying sense of awe and dread percolates through the duration of Almada’s audacious fourth feature. A far cry from the more conventional non-fiction portraits of Mexican life in 'The Night Watchmen' and 'The General,' Almada has crafted a hypnotic, visually-driven work in the tradition of 'Baraka' and 'Koyaanisqatsi' for the digital age, replete with an immersive score by Kronos Quartet and Dolby Atmos sound design."
Eric Kohn, IndieWire
"Such diffuse, sometimes contradictory ideas sit at odds with the definitive clarity and beauty of the images, and also the scintillating, Sabatier edge of Dave Cerf’s glimmering soundscapes, including a score performed by the Kronos Quartet. If 'Users' were a 'Koyaanisqatsi'-type experiment or a Nikolaus Geyrhalter film, presented without verbal commentary, its exceptional technique might actually bring us to the opposite conclusion to the doomy one Almada loosely draws."
Jessica Kiang, Variety
"It’s hard not to admire the ambition of director Natalia Almada (who has made several documentaries in Mexico as well as feature drama 'Everything Else') to grapple with the big, profound ideas of the day. There is also something very likable about the fact that this is a family affair, employing Almada’s husband Dave Cerf, who designs the fusion of sound and music (parts of which are performed by storied classical group the Kronos Quartet), and her brother-in-law Bennett Cerf, who has captured the limpid digital imagery. Even Almada’s own adorable two little boys, a toddler and an infant, are core to the movie, filmed with both obvious love but also an unsettling detachment at times."
Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
August 23
BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (Alan Silvestri) [New Beverly]
BIG WEDNESDAY (Basil Poledouris) [Vista]
BOTTLE ROCKET (Mark Mothersbaugh) [Vidiots]
BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (Patrick Doyle) [Los Feliz 3]
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Alexandre Desplat), BOTTLE ROCKET (Mark Mothersbaugh) [New Beverly]
GONE GIRL (Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross) [Aero]
PRINCESS MONONOKE (Joe Hisaishi) [Vidiots]
ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION (Steve Bartek) [Los Feliz 3]
SHOWGIRLS (David A. Stewart) [Vidiots]
SID AND NANCY (Pray for Rain) [Nuart]
THE TOXIC AVENGER [Alamo Drafthouse]
TRUE ROMANCE (Hans Zimmer) [New Beverly]
August 24
AKEELAH AND THE BEE (Aaron Zigman) [Academy Museum]
ALMA'S RAINBOW (Jean-Paul Bourelli) [Los Feliz 3]
ANNIE (Charles Strouse, Ralph Burns) [Vidiots]
THE BAT WOMAN [Vidiots]
BIG WEDNESDAY (Basil Poledouris) [Vista]
THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI (Malcolm Arnold) [Egyptian]
THE DEPARTED (Howard Shore) [Landmark Westwood]
DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (Elmer Bernstein) [Academy Museum]
DOCTOR DETROIT (Lalo Schifrin) [Vista]
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Alexandre Desplat), BOTTLE ROCKET (Mark Mothersbaugh) [New Beverly]
GREASE [Alamo Drafthouse]
A KNIGHT'S TALE (Carter Burwell) [Egyptian]
MIAMI VICE (John Murphy) [Egyptian]
MODERN TIMES (Charles Chaplin) [Aero]
MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (John Du Prez) [Vidiots]
NIGHT TIDE (David Raksin) [Academy Museum]
THE ONION FIELD (Eumir Deodato) [Aero]
ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE (Josef van Wissem, Squrl) [New Beverly]
PONYO (Joe Hisaishi) [New Beverly]
THE PRESIDEN'T ANALYST (Lalo Schifrin) [Los Feliz 3]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
STREETWISE [Alamo Drafthouse]
TANK GIRL (Graeme Revell) [Los Feliz 3]
VAMPIRE'S KISS (Colin Towns) [Vidiots]
YOU'VE GOT MAIL (George Fenton) [Los Feliz 3]
August 25
ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN (David Shire) [Vidiots]
THE BIRDS (Remi Gassman, Oskar Sala, Bernard Herrmann) [Egyptian]
CASABLANCA (Max Steiner) [Vidiots]
CHICKEN RUN (Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell) [Los Feliz 3]
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS [Aero]
THE DEER HUNTER (Stanley Myers) [BrainDead Studios]
DOCTOR DETROIT (Lalo Schifrin) [Vista]
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Alexandre Desplat), BOTTLE ROCKET (Mark Mothersbaugh) [New Beverly]
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (John Williams, William Ross) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE LAST STARFIGHTER (Craig Safan) [Alamo Drafthouse]
MODEL SHOP [Academy Museum]
PONYO (Joe Hisaishi) [New Beverly]
SHAUN THE SHEEP MOVIE (Ilan Eshkeri) [Vidiots]
SHOESHINE (Alessandro Cicognini) [Egyptian]
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE (Daniel Pemberton) [Academy Museum]
THE THIN MAN (William Axt) [Los Feliz 3]
TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (Wang Chung) [Egyptian]
UNBREAKABLE (James Newton Howard) [Los Feliz 3]
UNDER FIRE (Jerry Goldsmith) [Los Feliz 3]
August 26
COCKFIGHTER (Michael Franks) [Los Feliz 3]
GREASE [Alamo Drafthouse]
HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS (John Williams, William Ross) [Alamo Drafthouse]
KILLER PARTY (John Beal), SORORITY HOUSE MASSACRE (Michael Wetherwax) [New Beverly]
THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTAN (Jeff Moss) [Alamo Drafthouse]
NATURAL BORN KILLERS [Egyptian]
ONE CRAZY SUMMER (Cory Lerios) [Aero]
SERIAL MOM (Basil Poledouris) [Egyptian]
SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT (Erik Nordgren) [Los Feliz 3]
THREE KINGS (Carter Burwell) [Landmark Sunset]
August 27
MARIE ANTOINETTE [Aero]
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE (Stanley Myers, Hans Zimmer) [Vidiots]
THE RULES OF THE GAME, THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (Oscar Straus, Georges Van Parys) [New Beverly]
VANJA ON 42ND STREET (Joshua Redman) [Egyptian]
WHAT HAPPEND WAS... (Tom Noonan) [Egyptian]
WHITE PALACE (George Fenton) [Los Feliz 3]
August 28
THE ADVENTURES OF PRISCILLA, QUEEN OF THE DESERT (Guy Gross) [Egyptian]
BREWSTER McCLOUD (Gene Page) [Vidiots]
CABIN BOY (Steve Bartek) [Egyptian]
ICE AGE (David Newman) [Academy Museum]
MIDNIGHT RUN (Danny Elfman) [Los Feliz 3]
THE RULES OF THE GAME, THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (Oscar Straus, Georges Van Parys) [New Beverly]
THE TRUMAN SHOW (Burkhard Dallwitz) [Aero]
August 29
DOLEMITE (Arthur Wright) [Vidiots]
THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (Carter Burwell) [Egyptian]
LOVE STREAMS (Bo Harwood) [New Beverly]
THE PLAYER (Thomas Newman) [Los Feliz 3]
SOMEWHERE [Academy Museum]
THE STRANGER AND THE FOG [Los Feliz 3]
WES CRAVEN'S NEW NIGHTMARE (J. Peter Robinson) [Egyptian]
August 30
BREATHLESS (Jack Nitzsche) [Academy Museum]
BUFFALO '66 (Vincent Gallo) [BrainDead Studios]
CITY OF GOD (Antonio Pinto, Ed Cortes) [BrainDead Studios]
GREEN ROOM (Brooke Blair, Will Blair) [Nuart]
HORROR OF DRACULA (James Bernard) [Vista]
LADY SNOWBLOOD (Masaaki Hiaro) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LOVE STREAMS (Bo Harwood) [New Beverly]
M [Aero]
THE MUMMY RETURNS (Alan Silvestri) [New Beverly]
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE (John Swihart) [Los Feliz 3]
QUEST FOR CAMELOT (Patrick Doyle) [Alamo Drafthouse]
REPO MAN (Steven Hufsteter, Humberto Larriva) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE SHINING (Wendy Carlos, Rachel Elkind) [Egyptian]
STAR TREK -- THE MOTION PICTURE (Jerry Goldsmith) [Fine Arts]
SURF NINJAS (David Kitay) [Vidiots]
TRUE ROMANCE (Hans Zimmer) [New Beverly]
August 31
ADIEU PHILIPPINE [Los Feliz 3]
THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) [Egyptian]
APARAJITO (Ravi Shankar) [Vidiots]
BEFORE SUNSET [Vidiots]
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP (Walter Scharf) [Vista]
THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (Zbigniew Preisner) [Egyptian]
ESCAPE FROM L.A. (Shirley Walker, John Carpenter) [Academy Museum]
FOLLOW THAT BIRD (Van Dyke Parks, Lennie Niehaus) [New Beverly]
GOODFELLAS [Aero]
HORROR OF DRACULA (James Bernard) [Vista]
I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (John Debney) [Vidiots]
KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (John Massari) [New Beverly]
MONSTERS, INC. (Randy Newman) [Academy Museum]
MULHOLLAND DRIVE (Angelo Badalementi) [Egyptian]
SPACE JAM (James Newton Howard) [Vidiots]
STAR TREK: THE WRATH OF KHAN (James Horner), STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK (James Horner) [Fine Arts]
STRANGERS KISS (Gato Barbieri) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE SWARM (Jerry Goldsmith) [Los Feliz 3]
THE TERMINATOR (Brad Fiedel) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE THING (Ennio Morricone) [Los Feliz 3]
13 GOING ON 30 (Theodore Shapiro) [Los Feliz 3]
THREE ON A MATCH, BLONDE CRAZY [New Beverly]
September 1
AMADEUS [Egyptian]
BLUE COLLAR (Jack Nitzsche) [Los Feliz 3]
BRAZIL (Michael Kamen) [Vidiots]
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA (Theodore Shapiro), CLOCKWATCHERS (Mader) [Aero]
DON'T GIVE UP THE SHIP (Walter Scharf) [Vista]
FOLLOW THAT BIRD (Van Dyke Parks, Lennie Niehuus) [New Beverly]
FRENZY (Ron Goodwin) [Egyptian]
HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER'S APOCALYPSE (Todd Boekelheide) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HEATHERS (David Newman) [Vidiots]
MEET DANNY WILSON [Los Feliz 3]
POINT BREAK (Mark Isham) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PRIDE & PREJUDICE (Dario Marianelli) [Los Feliz 3]
STAGECOACH (Richard Hageman, Frank Harling, John Leipold, Leo Shuken) [Academy Museum]
STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME (Leonard Rosenman) [Fine Arts]
STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER (Jerry Goldsmith) [Fine Arts]
STAR TREK VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (Cliff Eidelman) [Fine Arts]
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES II: THE SECRET OF THE OOZE (John DuPrez) [Vidiots]
THE THING (Ennio Morricone) [Los Feliz 3]
THREE ON A MATCH, BLONDE CRAZY [New Beverly]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: Sunset (Mancini); Unforgiven (Niehaus); Geronimo: An American Legend (Cooder); Wyatt Earp (Howard); Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (Zimmer); Brother Bear (Mancina/Collins); The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Cave/Ellis); There Will Be Blood (Greenwood); 3:10 to Yuma (Beltrami); Australia (Hirschfelder); True Grit (Burwell); The Lone Ranger (Zimmer); The Revenant (Sakamoto); The Power of the Dog (Greenwood)
Read: God Knows, by Joseph Heller
Seen: Gone to Earth; A Cinderella Story; The Elusive Pimpernel; Artists and Models [1937]; Alien: Romulus; Little Women [2019]; The Big Boss; Fist of Fury; The Deliverance; Slumberland
Watched: The Outer Limits ("The Galaxy Being"); Silicon Valley ("To Build a Better Beta"); The Nightcomers; Person of Interest ("Identity Crisis"); 30 Rock ("Black Light Attack!"); Nobody's Fool [1994]
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