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Film Score Friday 2/14/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 2/13/2025 - 10:00 PM
Intrada is releasing a remastered edition of Basil Poledouris' complete score for the 1990 Australia-set Western QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER, directed by Simon Wincer (Lonesome Dove) and starring Tom Selleck, Laura San Giacomo and Alan Rickman.


Quartet is releasing re-mastered editions of two Ennio Morricone scores - VERUSCHKA (aka Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman), from 1971, and CUORE DI MAMMA (Mother's Heart) from 1969.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Quigley Down Unde
r - Basil Poledouris - Intrada Special Collection


IN THEATERS TODAY

Captain America: Brave New World - Laura Karpman, Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum
Marcello Mio - Alex Beaupain
Paddington in Peru - Dario Marianelli
Universal Language - Amir Amiri, Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux 
The Vortex - Asdru Sierra 
You, Me & Her - Juan Carlos Enriquez  

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Film Score Friday 2/7/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 2/6/2025 - 10:00 PM
La-La Land is releasing a remastered and expanded edition of the score that put Hans Zimmer on the map in Hollywood, the 1988 drama RAIN MAN, which earned the composer his first Oscar nomination. Scoring Driving Miss Daisy the following year made Zimmer the first composer to score two consecutive Best Picture winners (and he has since scored two more, Gladiator and 12 Years a Slave).


Mutant is releasing a two-CD set of Mick Giacchino's music for THE PENGUIN, the limited series spinoff of 2022's The Batman. They will also be releasing the score on vinyl; other recently announced vinyl score releases from the label include Companion, Deadpool & Wolverine, Hit Man, The Imaginary and Wolf Man. (Rule of thumb seems to be that Mutant releases CDs of Warners/New Line productions, such as Dune: Part Two, Furiosa, Wonka, Twisters, and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, though so far that's not been the case with Companion.)


This year's Grammy winners in the film music-related categories are:

BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA (INCLUDES FILM AND TELEVISION)
DUNE: PART TWO - Hans Zimmer
 
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VIDEO GAMES AND OTHER INTERACTIVE MEDIA
WIZARDRY: PROVING GROUNDS OF THE MAD OVERLORD - Winifred Phillips
 
BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
"IT NEVER WENT AWAY" from American Symphony - Jon Batiste, Dan Wilson
 
BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
MAESTRO: MUSIC BY LEONARD BERNSTEIN 
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Film Score Friday 1/31/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 1/30/2025 - 10:00 PM
France's Cesar Award nominations have been announced, including their Best Original Soundtrack category:

Beating Hearts (L'amour ouf) - Jon Brion
The Count of Monte-Cristo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) - Jerome Rebotier
Emilia Perez - Clement Ducol, Camille
Holy Cow (Vingt Dieux) - Linda Courvoisier, Charlie Courvoisier
The Most Precious of Cargoes (La plus précieuse des marchandises) - Alexandre Desplat

Three of these scores have actually been commercially released on CD, and there is an awards promo set of Emilia Perez circulating. In comparison, only four of the 15 scores shortlisted for the Oscar nomination have been commercially released on CD (Challengers, Gladiator II, Nosferatu, The Room Next Door), though five others have received vinyl releases (Alien: Romulus, Conclave, Inside Out II, Sing Sing, The Wild Robot), and I would not be surprised if at least Babygirl and especially The Brutalist show up on vinyl.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Bruce Broughton Collection Vol. 1 - Bruce Broughton - Dragon's Domain 
Gold of the Amazon Women - Gil Melle - Dragon's Domain
The Golden Age of Science-Fiction Vol. 7
 - 
Les Baxter, Ib Glindemann, Sven Gyldmark, Richard LaSalle, Ronald Stein - Dragon's Domain 
The World of Hans Zimmer Part II: A New Dimension - Hans Zimmer - Sony 


IN THEATERS TODAY

Companion - Hrishikesh Hirway - Score LP due from Mutant
Dog Man - Tom Howe
Love Me - David Longstreth
2121 - Cihan Guclu 
Valiant One - Benjamin Backus 

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Film Score Friday 1/24/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 1/23/2025 - 10:00 PM
The latest release from Intrada is a three-disc expanded version of John Williams' Oscar-nominated score for director Roland Emmerich's 2000 Revolutionary War drama THE PATRIOT, starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger, featuring the full 107-minute score plus alternates, source music, and the 72-minute sequencing of the original soundtrack CD.


The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominations for the 97th Oscars, including the music categories:

MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
 
THE BRUTALIST - Daniel Blumberg
CONCLAVE - Volker Bertelmann
EMILIA PÉREZ - Clément Ducol and Camille
WICKED - John Powell and Stephen Schwartz
THE WILD ROBOT - Kris Bowers
 
MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
 
EL MAL - from Emilia Pérez; Music by Clément Ducol and Camille; Lyric by Clément Ducol, Camille and Jacques Audiard
THE JOURNEY - from The Six Triple Eight; Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
LIKE A BIRD - from Sing Sing; Music and Lyric by Abraham Alexander and Adrian Quesada
MI CAMINO - from Emilia Pérez; Music and Lyric by Camille and Clément Ducol
NEVER TOO LATE - from Elton John: Never Too Late; Music and Lyric by Elton John, Brandi Carlile, Andrew Watt and Bernie Taupin 

Daniel Blumberg, Clément Ducol and Camille are first-time nominees. Volker Bertelmann was previously nominated for Lion (with Dustin O'Halloran) and won for All Quiet on the Western Front. John Powell's only previous nomination was for How to Train Your Dragon, whlie Kris Bowers had been nominated twice before but not for music, only for Documentary Short, winning at the most recent ceremony for The Last Repair Shop. This is the ninth nomination for Stephen Schwartz, already a three-time winner. Diane Warren has been nominated 15 times previously and has an honorary Oscar. Elton John has four previous nominations and two Oscars, one of which he shared with Bernie Taupin.

None of the nominated scores has received a commercial CD release. Conclave and The Wild Robot are available on vinyl, and since A24 has its own vinyl label, I suspect they will release The Brutalist at some point. A physical release of the Powell/Schwartz incidental music for Wicked seems unlikely, but not impossible.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Beverly Hills Cop III
 - Nile Rodgers - La-La Land
The Dark Crystal
 - Trevor Jones - La-La land
John Barry: The Polydor Years
 - John Barry - Quartet  
Licence to Kill - Michael Kamen - La-La Land 
The Patriot - John Williams - Intrada Special Collection 

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Oscar Predictions and Other End Of 2024 Lists
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 1/18/2025 - 10:00 PM
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.

The actual nominations will be announced this Thursday morning around 5:30 am (Pacific Time). I would have finished this list earlier, but things have been rather distracting in Los Angeles County for the last week or two. You may have seen some pictures in the news.


PICTURE
 
ANORA
THE BRUTALIST
CHALLENGERS
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN
CONCLAVE
DUNE: PART TWO
EMILIA PEREZ
NICKEL BOYS
SING SING
WICKED
 
ANORA
THE BRUTALIST
DIDI
A DIFFERENT MAN
FLOW
FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA
GOOD ONE
NICKEL BOYS
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
SEPTEMBER 5 
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Film Score Friday 1/17/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 1/16/2025 - 10:00 PM
La-La Land has announced three new CDs, which are expected to begin shipping next week: an expanded, two-disc edition of the score for Timothy Dalton's final film as James Bond 007, LICENCE TO KILL, featuring the full score by two-time Oscar nominee Michael Kamen (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon) plus source cues and the sequencing from the original 1989 CD release; a 3-disc edition of Trevor Jones' sweeping symphonic score for the lavish Jim Henson/Frank Oz fantasy THE DARK CRYSTAL, featuring the full score Jones composed for the original, longer, unreleased cut of the film, as well as the sequencing from the 1982 LP; and the first-ever release of the score for BEVERLY HILLS COP III, the "Die Hard at Disneyland" sequel directed by John Landis and scored by legendary record producer Nile Rodgers (Coming to America).


The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and its associated labels are THE BRUCE BROUGHTON COLLECTION VOL. 1, featuring two TV-movie mystery scores by the Oscar-nominated and multi-Emmy-winning composer, One Shoe Makes It Murder (1981) and his Emmy-nominated score for Killjoy (1981); the score for the 1979 TV movie GOLD OF THE AMAZON WOMEN, composed by Gil Melle (The Andromeda Strain); and THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE FICTION VOL. 7, featuring cues from Journey to the Seventh Planet (Ib Glindemann, Ronald Stein), Reptilicus (Sven Gyldmark, Les Baxter) and The Time Travellers (Richard LaSalle). 


IN THEATERS TODAY

One of Them Days - Chanda Dancy
Wolf Man - Benjamin Wallfisch 

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Film Score Friday 1/10/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 1/9/2025 - 10:00 PM
Kronos has announced two new CD releases - Ronald Stein's score for the 1956 sci-fi horror flim THE SHE CREATURE, and Bert Shefter's score for the 1953 noir NO ESCAPE.


The latest release from Caldera is HARD TRUTHS AND OTHER MUSIC FOR THE WORKS OF MIKE LEIGH, featuring Gary Yerson's score for Leigh's just-released Hard Truths, his previous feature Peterloo, and two of his plays, Grief and Two Thousand Years.


This year's Golden Globe winners in the music categories were the CHALLENGERS score by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, and the song "El Mal" from EMILIA PEREZ. Since I never did get around to listing this year's nominees in a Friday column, they can be found at the bottom of this page.

And for all who follow the Academy Awards, due to the catastrophic fire situation in the Los Angeles area, the announcement of this year's Oscar nominations has been postponed from next Friday, January 17 to Sunday, January 19. (As I update this column at home on Wednesday evening, there are fires in the hills above where I live, and I'm waiting to see if the evacuation zone is extended to my neighborhood. Welcome to L.A.! Honestly, as I listen to local news updates about the fire, these columns are pretty much the only thing I'm able to concentrate on.) (They were able to contain the "Sunset Fire" - an especially misleading name, since the evacuation area didn't even reach Sunset, while Sunset Blvd in the Palisades acutually burned - by Thursday morning, but this was the first time I've ever had to have a "go bag" ready to leave my home at a minute's notice).


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Isobel Waller-Bridge - Sony (import)
The Outrun - John Gurtler, Jan Miserre - Decca (import)   

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Film Score Friday 1/3/25
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 1/2/2025 - 10:00 PM
The latest release from Quartet, JOHN BARRY: THE POLYDOR YEARS, is a three-disc set featuring three albums the composer recorded for the Polydor label in the 1970s: The Concert John Barry, Play It Again, and Americans.


IN THEATERS TODAY

The Damned - Stephen McKeon
Vermiglio - Matteo Franceschini 


COMING SOON

January 10 
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Isobel Waller-Bridge - Sony (import)
The Outrun - John Gurtler, Jan Miserre - Decca (import) 
January 31
The World of Hans Zimmer Part II: A New Dimension - Hans Zimmer - Sony
March 7 
The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - Stephen Gallagher - Mutant
Coming Soon
John Barry: The Polydor Years - John Barry - Quartet 

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CD Checklist 2024
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 12/30/2024 - 10:00 PM
ADDISON, JOHN
 
TORN CURTAIN [La-La Land]

AIGUI, ALEXEI
 
FILM MUSIC COLLECTION [Music Box]
LE TABLEAU VOLE [Music Box]

ALESSANDRINI, RAYMOND
 
LES B.O. INTROUVABLES VOL. 8 (DAMES GALANTES/PRIEZ POUR NOUS) [Music Box]

ASTLEY, EDWIN

THE GOLDEN AGE OF SCIENCE-FICTION VOL. 3 (DEVIL GIRL FROM MARS) [Dragon’s Domain]


AUFORT, CYRILLE

BUGARACH [MovieScore Media - CD-R]


AYRES, MARK

DOCTOR WHO: THE DALEKS IN COLOUR [Silva]
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Film Score Friday 12/27/24
Posted By: Scott Bettencourt 12/26/2024 - 10:00 PM
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Asia - Jacob Shea, Laurentia Editha - Silva
Darling Lili
 - Henry Mancini - Quartet
The Jinx
 - West Dylan Thordson, Mondo Boys - Caldera 
The Molly Maguires
 - Henry Mancini, Charles Strouse - Quartet
The Pink Panther
 - Henry Mancini - Quartet
What Have I Done to Deserve This?
 - Bernardo Bonezzi - Quartet 


IN THEATERS TODAY

Babygirl - Cristobal Tapia de Veer
Better Man - Batu Sener - Song CD due Jan. 17 on Arista
A Complete Unknown - Executive Music Producer: Nick Baxter - Song CD due Feb. 28 on Columbia
The Fire Inside - Tamar-kali
Nosferatu - Robin Carolan - 2-disc score CD on Sacred Bones
2073 - Antonio Pinto 

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