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| Film Score Friday 4/18/25
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Scott Bettencourt
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4/17/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest Kickstarter project from Intrada is a new recording of Jerry Goldsmith's complete score for director J. Lee Thompson's 1969 China-set international spy thiller THE CHAIRMAN, starring Gregory Peck.
Quartet has announced two new Ennio Morricone CDs - an expanded edition of A QUIET PLACE IN THE COUNTRY (Un tranquillo posto di campagna), Elio Petri's 1968 psychological thriller starring Franco Nero and Vanessa Redgrave; and a remastered edition of his score for Petri's 1971 drama THE WORKING CLASS GO TO HEAVEN (La classe operaia va in paradiso).
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its associated labels are GERALD FRIED: DISASTERS!, featuring two TV scores by the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning composer, Disaster on the Coastliner and Condominium; THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 8, featuring music from The Day Mars Invaded Earth (Richard LaSalle), 12 to the Moon (Michael Anderson), Flight to Mars (Marlin Skiles) and Target Earth (Paul Dunlap); and THE INQUIRER - THE FILM MUSIC OF BERNARD HERRMANN, a collection of Herrmann music, both re-recordings and original tracks, previously released by Label X.
The Soundtrax Film Music Festival and conference will be held this year on October 16-18 in Rochester, New York. For more information go to this link.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
La morte non conta i dollari - Nora Orlandi, Robby Poitevin - Beat
L'anticristo/Sepolta viva - Ennio Morricone - Beat |
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| Film Score Friday 3/28/25
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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3/27/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest CD from Quartet features the first release of the original score tracks for John Barry's music for Richard Lester's 1965 sex comedy THE KNACK (remastered from music-and-effects tracks), plus the cues from the original LP recording and a couple bonus versions of the main theme. (Barry went on to score Petulia and Robin and Marian for Lester; for the latter film, he replaced a more somber and classical score by Michel Legrand).
The latest CD from Caldera features David Shire's score for the 1991 TV movie SARAH, PLAIN AND TALL, a frontier romance starring Glenn Close and Christopher Walken, paired with Shire's music for its first sequel, SKYLARK (Shire's music tracks for the third in the series, Winter's End, are apparently lost).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Histoires extraordinaires/Les Cousins de la Constance/La-haut, les quartre saisons - Georges Delerue - Music Box
One Deadly Summer/The White Queen - Georges Delerue - Music Box
IN THEATERS TODAY
Audrey's Children - Genevieve Vincent
The Ballad of Wallis Island - Adem Ilhan
Being Maria - Benjamin Biolay
Day of Reckoning - Jay Christopherson
Death of a Unicorn - Dan Romer, Giosue Greco
The Penguin Lessons - Federico Jusid
The Woman in the Yard - Lorne Balfe
A Working Man - Jared Michael Fry |
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| Film Score Friday 3/21/25
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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3/20/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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Intrada has just released their latest Kickstarter-sponsored re-recording, of Frank Skinner's score for the horror-comedy classic ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN, plus cues from ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET THE KEYSTONE KOPS, composed by William Lava, Henry Mancini and Herman Stein.
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its related labels are -- STARSHIP INVASIONS, the 1977 sci-fi B-movie starring Robert Vaughn and Christopher Lee, with a score by Gil Melle; a re-release of Elmer Bernstein's symphonic score for the little-seen 1989 sci-fi adventure SLIPSTREAM; and STAR TREK: A SYMPHONIC CELEBRATION, a two-disc re-release of the mid-80s Label X re-recordings of suites from original Star Trek episode scores, featuring music by George Duning, Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried, Sol Kaplan, Samuel Matlovsky and Joseph Mullendore, plus the series theme by Alexander Courage.
Mutant recently announced an upcoming LP of Alan Silvestri's score for Netflix's megabudget science-fiction adventure THE ELECTRIC STATE, directed by Silvestri's Avengers collaborators the Russo brothers. This is of course part of the current trend of major films and scores getting released on vinyl only instead of on CD, as was still the norm pre-pandemic. For those interested in other (fairly) recent and upcoming vinyl-only scores (I am of course not counting download releases), there is a list at the end of this column.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein/Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops - Frank Skinner, Wiliam Lava, Henry Mancini, Herman Stein - Intrada
Anthology: The Paris Concerts - Howard Shore - Deutsche Grammophon
The Apprentice - Martin Dirkov, David Holmes, Brian Byrne - Filmtrax
Far from Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog - John Scott - JOS
It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown - Vince Guaraldi - LMFP
The Reivers - John Williams - La-La Land |
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| Film Score Friday 3/7/25
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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3/6/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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Daniel Blumberg won the 2024 Original Score Oscar for THE BRUTALIST, only his second feature film score (his first film, 2020's The World to Come, was directed by Brutalist co-writer Mona Fastvold). Original Song went to "El Mal" from EMILIA PEREZ, for the songwriting team of Clement Ducol and Camille, with lyric co-written by the film's director, Jacques Audiard (who didn't get a chance to speak as Camille kept singing).
The In Memoriam montage featured Jan A.P. Kaczmarek and Quincy Jones, and Jones - who was the receipient of an ultimately posthumous Honorary Award - recieved a musical tribute featuring a performance of "Ease on Down the Road" from The Wiz (Jones did not write the song, but he was nominated for his score adaptation for the film). Another Honorary Award was given to 007 producers (and siblings) Barbara Broccoli and Michael G. Wilson, and the show included a song-and-dance tribute which includes "James Bond Theme," "Live and Let Die," "Diamonds Are Forever" (I was starting to worry they wouldn't include any John Barry melodies) and "Skyfall."
The latest release from La-La Land is an expanded, two-disc edition of John Williams' first Oscar-nominated original score, THE REIVERS, the 1969 film version of the William Faulkner novel, directed by Mark Rydell (Williams replaced Rydell's nominated The Fox composer Lalo Schifrin, and would go on to score The Cowboys, Cinderella Liberty and The River for the director). The set features the full score, the original LP sequencing, and the concert suite Williams adapted from his score (narrated by the film's narrator, Burgess Meredith), plus extras.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Cape Fear - Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein - Quartet
A Fistful of Dollars - Ennio Morricone - Beat
L'Esorciccio/Paolo il Freddo - Franco Godi - Beat
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - Stephen Gallagher - Mutant
Pandemonio (Switch) - Guido & Maurizio De Angelis - Beat |
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Today in Film Score History:
April 30 |
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| David Bell records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Homestead” (2001) |
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| Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Host” (1991) |
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| Thomas Newman begins recording his score for The Man with One Red Shoe (1985) |
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| Velton Ray Bunch records his score for the Enterprise episode “Desert Crossing” (2002) |
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