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| Film Score Friday 1/27/23
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/26/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest CD from Intrada is the first commercial release of John Beal's orchestral horror score for director Tobe Hooper's 1981 thriller THE FUNHOUSE.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for the 95th Oscars, including the following music categories:
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT - Volker Bertelmann
BABYLON - Justin Hurwitz
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN - Carter Burwell
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE - Son Lux
THE FABELMANS - John Williams
This is the first nomination for Son Lux, the second for Volker Bertelmann, the third for Carter Burwell, the fourth for Justin Hurwitz, and the fifty-third (!!!) for John Williams.
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
“Applause” - TELL IT LIKE A WOMAN - Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
“Naatu Naatu” - RRR - Music by M.M. Keeravaani; Lyric by Chandrabose
“This Is A Life” - EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE - Music by Ryan Lott, David Byrne and Mitski; Lyric by Ryan Lott and David Byrne
At some point I hope to have time to my write my usual column discussing all of the nominations at length, but until then here are a few thoughts, at the bottom of this page* |
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| Film Score Friday 1/20/23
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/19/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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Music Box has just announced the sixth release in their limited edition series of rare and unreleased scores, LES B.O. INTROUVABLES, this time featuring Asphalte (1981) by Laurent Petitgirard; Balles Perdues (1983) by Michel Portal; Papa est parti, maman aussi (1989) and Mademoiselle Fifi ou Histoire de rire (1990), by Jean-Marie Senia; Les fauves (1984) by Philippe Servain; and Bleu comme l'enfer by Pierre Porte.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Halloween Ends - John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel E. Davies
Les B.O. Introuvables Vol. 6 - Laurent Petitgirard, Michel Portal, Jean-Marie Senia, Philippe Servain, Pierre Porte - Music Box
Pattie e la colere de Poseidon - Olivier Cussac - Music Box
Thief of Hearts - Harold Faltermeyer - Quartet
IN THEATERS TODAY
Chess Story - Ingo Frenzel
In from the Side - Matt Carter
Missing - Julian Scherle
When You Finish Saving the World - Emile Mosseri
You People - Bekon |
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| Oscar Predictions and Other End Of 2022 Lists
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/13/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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| Predictions are in boldface, followed by those which I personally would nominate in italics. As with previous years' lists, for several categories I have NOT provided my own nominations, since frankly I know jack about costumes, sound and so forth, though more and more I try to pay attention to sound in particular. Films that I have listed as my own personal nominations yet which will definitely not be nominated -- either because they are ultimately ineligible in those categories or simply not shortlisted -- are marked with an asterisk.
BEST PICTURE
BABYLON
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
DECISION TO LEAVE
ELVIS
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
THE FABELMANS
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
TAR
TOP GUN: MAVERICK
THE WOMAN KING
ARMAGEDDON TIME
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
BONES AND ALL
DECISION TO LEAVE
EMILY THE CRIMINAL
EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE
GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY
THE MENU
NITRAM
TAR |
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| CD Checklist 2022
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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1/3/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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ABELS, MICHAEL
NOPE [Waxwork]
ADAMO, RICCARDO
NATI MORTI [Digitmovies]
AKERFELDT, MIKAEL
CLARK [Inside Out]
AKINOLA, SEGUN
DOCTOR WHO SERIES 13: FLUX/REVOLUTION OF THE DALEKS [Silva]
ALESSANDRINI, RAYMOND
LE ROI DE PATAGONIE/FABIEL DE LA DROME [Music Box]
LES B.O. INTROUVABLES VOL. 4 [Music Box]
ALLERSTORFTER, CHRISTOPH
THE JACK IN THE BOX : AWAKENING [Howlin’ Wolf]
ARNOLD, DAVID
TOMORROW NEVER DIES [La-La Land]
ARUJ, MAX
THE ICE ROAD [Rambling]
AUFORT, CYRILLE
LE CHENE ET SES HABITANTS [Music Box] |
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| Film Score Friday 12/16/22
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| Posted By:
Scott Bettencourt
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12/15/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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Quartet has announced four new end-of-year CDs, including one truly historic release.
FRENZY was the penultimate film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, his first film to shoot in England since Stage Fright 22 years earlier, and was his best-reviewed film in the years after The Birds. With a witty script by Anthony Shaffer and a top-flight cast of British actors including Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Vivien Merchant, Anne Massey, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Barry Foster and Billie Whitelaw (the latter two imported from the Hitchcockian, Herrmann-scored Twisted Nerve), the film was originally intended to feature a score by the legendary Henry Mancini, but when Hitchcock heard the score the maestro recorded he allegedly remarked "If I wanted Herrmann I would have hired Herrmann" and threw out Mancini's score, the only time this happened to the four-time Oscar winner. Hitchcock ultimately hired Ron Goodwin (Where Eagles Dare, Village of the Damned) to write a replacement score, and until now, re-recordings of Goodman's "London theme" and Mancini's unused main theme have been the only cues released from either score. Quartet's release features both scores for the first time, and all one can say about this release is "Lovely! Lovely!"
Elmer Bernstein's score for the original Magnificent Seven is one of his most popular including one of his most instantly recognizable themes, and Quartet is releasing a four-disc boxed-set, THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN COLLECTION, featuring all four of the scores from the series. The Magnificent Seven features the original score plus bonus tracks; Return of the Seven features the tracks from the LP re-recording, as the original score tracks are currently lost; Guns of the Magnificent Seven features the same tracks as the previous Film Score Monthly release; The Magnificent Seven Ride is the first release of the final score for the series, with Bernstein conducting and his orchestrators Leo Shuken and Jack Hayes adapting his themes. The second disc also features the music Bernstein recorded for the Philip Morris promotional album, Music for the Marlboro Country (Bernstein's Magnificent Seven theme was also later well known as the Marlboro theme).
John Barry received his fourth Oscar nomination for 1971's MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, starring Vanessa Redgrave, Glenda Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Timothy Dalton, Trevor Howard and Ian Holm (not to be confused with the recent retelling of the same historical events, starring Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie), and Quartet's features the original LP sequencing plus the full mono score tracks. (This film and Chaplin were the only occasions in which Barry was nominated but did not win - five out of seven is pretty impressive).
Their final new release is an expanded edition of Ennio Morricone's score for the 1969 French gangster film, THE SICILIAN CLAN. |
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Today in Film Score History:
February 1 |
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| Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for The Perez Family (1995) |
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| Alexander Courage records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Cave of the Wizards" (1967) |
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| Barry Gray begins recording his score for Thunderbird 6 (1968) |
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| Bruce Broughton begins recording his score for Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996) |
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| Herbert Stothart died (1949) |
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| Howard Shore begins recording his score for The Score (2001) |
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| Karl Hajos died (1950) |
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| Lyn Murray begins recording his score for To Catch a Thief (1955) |
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| Miklos Rozsa records his score for The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
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| Rick Wilkins born (1937) |
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