The latest limited edition releases from the Varese Sarabande CD Club are the first full release of Jerry Goldsmith's score for Robert Mulligan's underrated 1972 horror thriller THE OTHER (previously only a handful of cues and a suite had been available from this first-rate score, which was short-listed for an Oscar nomination), and an expanded Deluxe Edition of John Debney's score for director Peter Hyams' Die-Hard-at-a-hockey-game SUDDEN DEATH, starring the muscles from Brussells, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
The latest releases from Quartet are an expanded version of Mark Isham's score for director Mike Figgis' 1994 remake of THE BROWNING VERSION, starring Albert Finney; and Fernando Velazquez's score for the animated Western BUFFALO KIDS.
Music Box is releasing a CD featuring music from three scores by Philippe Sarde: LE CHOICE DES ARMES, GARCON! and LA GARCE.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Dinosaur - James Newton Howard - Intrada
IN THEATERS TODAY
All Shall Be Well - Veronica Lee
Amber Alert - Don Riggs
Azrael - Toti Guoanson
Escape from Extinction Rewilding - Chihsuan Yang
The Featherweight - Retail Space
Girls Will Be Girls - Pierre Oberkampf, Sneha Khanwalkar
Lee - Alexandre Desplat
Megalopolis - Osvald Golijov
Notice to Quit - Giosue Greco
Saturday Night - Rob Simonsen
She Taught Love - Esin Aydingoz
The Wild Robot - Kris Bowers
COMING SOON
October 4
White Bird - Thomas Newman - Lakeshore
October 18
Coraline - Bruno Coulais - Mnrk Music
October 25
Leonardo Da Vinci - Caroline Shaw - Nonesuch
November 15
The Matrix: 25th Anniversary Edition - Don Davis - Varese Sarabande
January 3
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Isobel Waller-Bridge - Sony (import)
January 10
The Outrun - John Gurtler, Jan Miserre - Decca (import)
Coming Soon
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Danny Elfman - Waxwork
Bernard Hoetger - Carsten Rocker - Alhambra
The Brian May Collection Vol. 1 - Brian May - Dragon's Domain
The Browning Version - Mark Isham - Quartet
Buffalo Kids - Fernando Velazquez - Quartet
Desire Hope - Szymon Szewczyk - Kronos
Desperate Voyage - Bruce Broughton - Dragon's Domain
Elliot Goldenthal: Music for Film - Elliot Goldenthal - Silva
Geo - Matteo Cremolini - Kronos
Godzilla: Minus One: Deluxe Edition - Naoki Sato - Rambling
Haunted Heart - Zbigniew Preisner - Caldera
I 3 serpenti d'oro - Roberto Pregadio, Walter Rizzati - Beat [CD-R]
Johnny Yuma - Nora Orlandi - Beat
Le choice des armes/Garcon!/La garce - Philippe Sarde - Music Box
The Moonwalkers - Anne Nikitin - Silva
The Other - Jerry Goldsmith - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Silence of the North - Alan McMillan, Jerrold Immel - Dragon's Domain
Sudden Death: The Deluxe Edition - John Debney - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Zondebokken - Joris Hermy - Kronos
THIS WEEK IN FILM MUSIC HISTORY
September 27 - Recording sessions begin for Sol Kaplan’s score for Niagara (1952)
September 27 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Silicon Avatar” (1991)
September 28 - Evan Lurie born (1954)
September 28 - Leith Stevens begins recording his score for The Scarlet Hour (1955)
September 28 - Laurent Petitgand born (1959)
September 28 - John Williams records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Hungry Sea" (1965)
September 28 - Geoff Zanelli born (1974)
September 28 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Lonely Guy (1983)
September 28 - Miles Davis died (1991)
September 28 - John Williams begins recording his score to Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
September 28 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Relics” (1992)
September 29 - Billy Strange born (1930)
September 29 - Mike Post born (1944)
September 29 - Manuel Balboa born (1958)
September 29 - Theodore Shapiro born (1971)
September 29 - John Barry begins recording his score for First Love (1976)
September 29 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Survivors” (1989)
September 30 - Miklos Rozsa begins recording his score for Young Bess (1952)
September 30 - Elmer Bernstein begins recording his score to The View From Pompey's Head (1955)
September 30 - Marty Stuart born (1958)
September 30 - Lyn Murray records his score for the Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode “Lonely Place” (1964)
September 30 - Jack Urbont records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “Wheels” (1966)
September 30 - Andrew Gross born (1969)
September 30 - Artie Kane records his score for The New Adventures of Wonder Woman episode “Knockout” (1977)
September 30 - Richard Einhorn begins recording his score to Dead of Winter (1986)
September 30 - Virgil Thomson died (1989)
October 1 - Irwin Kostal born (1911)
October 1 - Elia Cmiral born (1950)
October 1 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score to The Prize (1963)
October 1 - Ernst Toch died (1964)
October 1 - Lalo Schifrin records his score for the Mission: Impossible episode “Operation Rogosh” (1966)
October 1 - Ron Goodwin begins recording his score to Where Eagles Dare (1968)
October 1 - Johannes Kobilke born (1973)
October 1 - Dave Grusin begins recording his score for Falling in Love (1984)
October 1 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Haven” (1987)
October 1 - Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Dragon’s Teeth” (1999)
October 1 - Dennis McCarthy records his scores for the Star Trek: Enterprise episodes “Impulse” and “Twilight” (2003)
October 1 - Stelvio Cipriani died (2018)
October 2 - Leroy Shield born (1893)
October 2 - Bruce Montgomery born (1921)
October 2 - Eric Demarsan born (1938)
October 2 - Bernard Herrmann marries his first wife, writer Lucille Fletcher (1939)
October 2 - Damon Gough born (1969)
October 2 - Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Visitor” (1995)
October 2 – Recording sessions begin for Richard Rodney Bennett’s score for Gormenghast (1999)
October 2 - Recording sessions begin on Nathan Barr's score to Hostel (2005)
October 2 - Tom Petty died (2017)
October 3 - Roy Webb born (1888)
October 3 - Nick Glennie-Smith born (1951)
October 3 - Arnold Bax died (1953)
October 3 - Jeff Alexander begins recording his unused score to Saddle the Wind (1957)
October 3 - Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score for Tender Is the Night (1961)
October 3 - Robert Drasnin records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Thief from Outer Space" (1966)
October 3 - Gerald Fried records his score for the Lost in Space episode "Collision of Planets" (1967)
October 3 - Johnny Mandel begins recording his unused score to The Seven-Ups (1973)
October 3 - Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1974)
October 3 - Harry Sukman begins recording his score for Salem’s Lot (1979)
October 3 - Stu Phillips begins recording his score for the two-part Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Plot to Kill a City” (1979)
October 3 - Shirley Walker begins recording her score for Turbulence (1996)
October 3 - Richard Bellis records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The House of Quark” (1994)
DID THEY MENTION THE MUSIC?
BLINK TWICE - Chanda Dancy
"Kravitz’s stewardship is sinister and Chanda Dancy’s score is ominous, yet 'Blink Twice' is run of the mill and its resemblance to 'Get Out' doesn’t do it any favors. It’s simply too easy to get out ahead of these proceedings, and that problem is exacerbated by the fact that the film barely cares to explicate the nuts and bolts of its madness. With a more polished screenplay, the actress-turned-director might have generated real menace. As it stands, though, her maiden behind-the-camera outing is the sort of late summer throwaway that’s now normally reserved for streaming."
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
MAMI WATA - Tunde Jegede
"Obasi manages to distill themes that are at once primal and complex with virtuosic simplicity via the film’s arresting score, its refined story and dialogue and its black and white cinematography, which is more striking than most any modern Technicolor fantasy. It’s a tightly controlled vision that, like many parables, induces a sense of the suddenly, viscerally new -- in the look of a figure against the ocean, or the words of a mother telling her child to run -- in what we’ve seen before and have always known."
Brandon Yu, The New York Times
REAGAN - John Coda
"Then again, 'Reagan' seems weirdly eager to portray Ronald Reagan as easily manipulated. The first half of the movie finds young Reagan changing his whole life on a whim whenever something in the media wanders into his frame of vision. He reads a dime-store novel that makes him want to go into politics. He hears one public speaking engagement about communism and his views are solidified forever. He has one conversation with studio executive Jack L. Warner (Kevin Dillon) and it permanently affects his position on unions. In the film’s zeal to cover all the bases, it doesn’t explain how the game worked, and despite its reverent cinematography and music and speeches, it makes Reagan look like an empty vessel (again, presumably by accident)."
William Bibbiani, The Wrap
SPEAK NO EVIL - Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans
"Like the American copies of George Sluizer’s 'The Vanishing' and Ruben Östlund’s 'Force Majeure' (the chief inspirations for Tafdrup’s original), Watkins’ 'Speak No Evil' betrays its tale by reworking it into a conventional B-movie potboiler devoid of the tonal and narrative idiosyncrasies that made it remake-worthy in the first place. Its visuals are flat, its score is flatter, and its gutsiness is non-existent. Substituting psychological and interpersonal frictions for turgid skirmishes, the film rants and rampages without being surprising or scary, and its ultimate interest in comforting its audience is embarrassing."
Nick Schager, The Daily Beast
STRANGE DARLING - Craig DeLeon
"'Strange Darling' also has a specific and stylish visual language, making us look at things in a new way while paying homage to the classics, with cinematographer Giovanni Ribisi seamlessly and immersively capturing the vibes of ‘70s genre classics. There’s a sickly, almost unsettlingly bright colorization to the rural scenes -- the 'Midsommar' effect -- and the interior shots are sleek and sexy while charged with danger. From the black-and-white bookends to the red lighting of the motel bathroom, everything feels both intentional and effortless. Even the font choices and the way the credits flash onscreen add to the carefully curated throwback aesthetic. The same can be said for the music choices, with the score and needle drops alike elevating every scene."
Taylor Gates, Collider
THE NEXT TEN DAYS IN L.A.
Screenings of older films in Los Angeles-area theaters.
September 27
BASKET CASE (Gus Russo) [Nuart]
COHERENCE (Kristin Ohrn Dyrud) [Vidiots]
DEMOLITION MAN (Elliot Goldenthal) [Vidiots]
HUSH (The Newton Brothers) [Egyptian]
JACKIE BROWN [New Beverly]
THE JERK (Jack Elliott) [Alamo Drafthouse]
L.A. STORY (Peter Rodgers Melnick) [Vidiots]
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Kevin Shields) [Vista]
THE MACHINIST (Roque Banos) [New Beverly]
MOSQUITA Y MARA (Ryan Beveridge) [Academy Museum]
PARIS, TEXAS (Ry Cooder) [Los Feliz 3]
PSYCHO (Bernard Herrmann) [Vista]
THE SKIN I LIVE IN (Alberto Iglesias) [BrainDead Studios]
SOUTHERN COMFORT (Ry Cooder) [Aero]
TOTAL RECALL (Jerry Goldsmith) [Aero]
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John Morris), THE PRODUCERS (John Morris) [New Beverly]
September 28
AMAR TE DUELE (Enrique Quezadas) [Academy Museum]
BAD HAIR (Camilo Froideval) [Academy Museum]
BEING THERE (Johnny Mandel) [Alamo Drafthouse]
BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (Stu Phillips) [Vidiots]
BRIDE OF CHUCKY (Graeme Revell) [New Beverly]
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON [New Beverly]
ENCANTO (Germaine Franco) [Academy Museum]
ED WOOD (Howard Shore) [Egyptian]
THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE (John Debney) [Vidiots]
THE FUGITIVE (James Newton Howard) [Vidiots]
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Werner Heymann) (Werner Heymann) [Vista]
HOOP DREAMS (Ben Sidran) [Alamo Drafthouse]
LOS OLVIDADOS (Rodolfo Halffter, Gustavo Pittaluga) [Vidiots]
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Kevin Shields) [Vista]
MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (Danny Bensi, Saunder Jurriaans) [Aero]
PAIN AND GLORY (Alberto Iglesias) [BrainDead Studios]
PSYCHO (Bernard Herrmann) [Vista]
THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (Richard O'Brien, Richard Hartley) [Nuart]
SCARFACE (Giorgio Moroder) [Aero]
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE (Tobe Hooper, Wayne Bell) [Egyptian]
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John Morris), THE PRODUCERS (John Morris) [New Beverly]
September 29
CLASH OF THE WOLVES [Alamo Drafthouse]
CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON [New Beverly]
DAZED AND CONFUSED [Vidiots]
DARKMAN (Danny Elfman), THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (Alan Silvestri), DRAG ME TO HELL (Christopher Young) [Egyptian]
THE FALL (Krishna Levy) [Egyptian]
THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin) [Academy Museum]
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, John Debney, Joseph Trapanese) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO (Werner Heymann) [Vista]
LETHAL WEAPON (Michael Kamen), THE LAST BOY SCOUT (Michael Kamen), KISS KISS BANG BANG (John Ottman), THE NICE GUYS (John Ottman, David Buckley) [Aero]
LOST IN TRANSLATION (Kevin Shields) [Vista]
A MAN ESCAPED [Los Feliz 3]
METROPOLIS [Vidiots]
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT (Cyril J. Mockridge) [Academy Museum]
TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING, JULIE NEWMAR (Rachel Portman) [BrainDead Studios]
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John Morris), THE PRODUCERS (John Morris) [New Beverly]
September 30
BEING THERE (Johnny Mandel) [Alamo Drafthouse]
BEN-HUR (Miklos Rozsa) [Culver]
THE CAR (Leonard Rosenman), CRASH! (Andrew Belling) [New Beverly]
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, John Debney, Joseph Trapanese) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 (Alexandre Desplat) [Alamo Drafthouse]
A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (Charles Bernstein) [Aero]
SLEEPAWAY CAMP (Edward Bilous) [Alamo Drafthouse]
October 1
THE BABADOOK (Jed Kurzel) [Vidiots]
GOOD TIME (Daniel Lopatin), UNCUT GEMS (Daniel Loptain) [New Beverly]
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, John Debney, Joseph Trapanese) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 (Alexandre Desplat) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE JERK (Jack Elliott) [Alamo Drafthouse]
October 2
BEING THERE (Johnny Mandel) [Alamo Drafthouse]
BURDEN OF DREAMS [Vidiots]
THE CROW (Graeme Revell) [Egyptian]
THE ENGLISH PATIENT (Gabriel Yared) [Academy Museum]
THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin) [Academy Museum]
GOOD TIME (Daniel Lopatin), UNCUT GEMS (Daniel Loptain) [New Beverly]
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 1 (Alexandre Desplat) [Alamo Drafthouse]
HELLBOY (Marco Beltrami) [Egyptian]
HOOP DREAMS (Ben Sidran) [Alamo Drafthouse]
THE JERK (Jack Elliott) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PHANTOM THREAD (Jonny Greenwood) [Vista]
October 3
THE CELL (Howard Shore) [Egyptian]
ELECTION (Ta-Yu Lo) [Vidiots]
GOOD TIME (Daniel Lopatin), UNCUT GEMS (Daniel Loptain) [New Beverly]
KING KONG (Max Steiner) [Academy Museum]
PHANTOM THREAD (Jonny Greenwood) [Vista]
October 4
CLUE (John Morris) [Vidiots]
THE EVIL DEAD (Joseph LoDuca), DEMONS (Claudio Simonetti) [New Beverly]
FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (Graeme Revell) [New Beverly]
THE LURE (Ballady i Romanse) [Vidiots]
MANIAC COP (Jay Chattaway) [Nuart]
PEARL (Tyler Bates, Tim Williams) [Alamo Drafthouse]
PULP FICTION [Vista]
SAW (Charlie Clouser) [Egyptian]
SLITHER (Tyler Bates) [New Beverly]
SPACE IS THE PLACE (Sun Ra) [UCLA/Hammer]
UNBREAKABLE (James Newton Howard) [Vista]
October 5
BLUE VELVET (Angelo Badalamenti) [Egyptian]
A BOY AND HIS DOG (Tim McIntire, Jaime Mendoza-Nava), THE HOT SPOT (Jack Nitzsche) [Aero]
DUNE (Toto) [Egyptian]
THE EVIL DEAD (Joseph LoDuca), DEMONS (Claudio Simonetti) [New Beverly]
FANTASTIC MR. FOX (Alexandre Desplat) [Vidiots]
FIGHT CLUB (Dust Brothers) [Vidiots]
FRANKENSTEIN [Academy Museum]
THE GREEN FOG [Aero]
THE HIDDEN (Michael Convertino) [Egyptian]
THE HILLS HAVE EYES (tomandandy) [El Capitan]
MAD MONSTER PARTY? (Maury Laws) [Vista]
MANIAC (Jay Chattaway) [New Beverly]
NOSFERATU [Alamo Drafthouse]
PLANET OF THE APES (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
PRACTICAL MAGIC (Alan Silvestri) [Vidiots]
PULP FICTION [Vista]
THE ROOM (Mladen Milicevic) [Landmark Westwood]
THE TIME MACHINE (Russell Garcia) [Fine Arts]
UNBREAKABLE (James Newton Howard) [Vista]
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (John Morris) [Vidiots]
October 6
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (Max Steiner) [Vidiots]
THE BLACK CAULDRON (Elmer Bernstein) [Vidiots]
EVENT HORIZON (Michael Kamen, Orbital) [Egyptian]
THE EVIL DEAD (Joseph LoDuca), DEMONS (Claudio Simonetti) [New Beverly]
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Naoki Sato), SHIN GODZILLA (Shiro Sagisu) [Egyptian]
HARDCORE (Jack Nitzsche) [Alamo Drafthouse]
L'AVVENTURA (Giovanni Fusco) [Vidiots]
THE LOVE LIGHT [UCLA/Hammer]
MAD MONSTER PARTY? (Maury Laws) [Vista]
PLANET OF THE APES (Jerry Goldsmith) [New Beverly]
PULP FICTION [Vista]
THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD (Christopher Dedrick) [Aero]
SECONDS (Jerry Goldsmith) [Los Feliz 3]
VERTIGO (Bernard Herrmann) [Academy Musuem]
THINGS I'VE HEARD, READ, SEEN OR WATCHED LATELY
Heard: The Ladykillers: Music from Those Glorious Ealing Films (various); Sunset Boulevard: The Classic Film Scores of Franz Waxman (Waxman); Marilyn Monroe: The Diamond Collection (various); Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Elfman); Lioness: Hidden Treasures (Winehouse); Wonka (Talbot/Hannon); Stuart Little (Silvestri); Television's Greatest Hits Vol. 3: 70s and 80s (various); Charlotte's Web (Elfman)
Read: The Swarm, by Arthur Herzog
Seen: Casino; Once in a Lifetime; The Cohens and Kellys in Holywood; Bluebeard's Eighth Wife; Wolfs; Afraid to Talk; Law and Order [1932]; The Substance; A Different Man; The Lone Ranger [2013]; City War; The Legend of Wisely; The Public Enemy; Transformers One
Watched: The Set-Up; Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ("Spock Amok"); Action ("The Last Ride of the Elephant Princess")
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