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Film Score Friday 5/16/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 5/15/2025 - 10:00 PM
Intrada's Kickstarter campaign for a new recording of Jerry Goldsmith's thrilling score for the 1969 spy thriller THE CHAIRMAN has met its goals including its "stretch goal" of new recordings of previously unavailable cues from Lilies of the Field, Not Without My Daughter, Rambo: First Blood Part II and Under Fire. Recording sessions may begin later this summer.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Mirror Crack'd - John Cameron - Caldera
Par ou t'es rentre...on t'a pas vu sortir
 - Alan Silvestri - Music Box
Plus beau que moi, tu meurs
 - Armando Trovajoli - Music Box  
Thelma & Louise
 - Hans Zimmer - La-La Land   


IN THEATERS TODAY

Black Tea - Armand Amar
Caught by the Tides - Giong Lim
Final Destination: Bloodlines - Tim Wynn
Hurry Up Tomorrow - Abel Tesfaye, Daniel Lopatin
The Kiss - Henrik Skram
Things Like This - Charles Humenry 
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Aisle Seat 5-13: May Mayhem at The Aisle Seat
Posted By Andy Dursin 5/12/2025 - 10:00 PM
One of my favorite sci-fi thrillers from the ‘70s, Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (131 mins., 1971, G; Arrow) is a cool and effective – and now on 4K UHD – tale of a virus that wipes out nearly the entire population of a small New Mexico town…threatening the entire world unless a group of scientists can stop the contagion before it’s too late.
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Film Score Friday 5/9/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 5/8/2025 - 10:00 PM
The latest CD from Intrada is a remastered, two-disc re-release of Jerry Goldsmith's thrilling score for the very first Rambo film, better known as FIRST BLOOD (whose director, Ted Kotcheff, just passed away). It features both the full film score as well as the original LP sequencing (which was most of the score), and corrects audio issues from the previous releases.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Class - Elmer Bernstein - Quartet 
First Blood 
- Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada Special Collection
Gladiator
 - Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard - La-La Land 
A Little Princess: The Deluxe Edition
- Patrick Doyle - Varese Sarabande CD Club
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Chris Benstead - Filmtrax 
A Quiet Place in the Country
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet 
Stand By for Action! 2: Tunes of Danger
 - various - Silva 
The Thorn Birds: The Deluxe Encore Edition - Henry Mancini - Varese Sarabande CD Club
The Working Class Go to Heaven
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet 


IN THEATERS TODAY

The Art of Nothing - Casimir Liberski
Clown in a Cornfield - Brandon Roberts, Marcus Trumpp
Fight or Flight - Paul Saunderson
Friendship - Keegan DeWitt
Juliet & Romeo - Evan Kidd Bogart, Justin Gray
Lilly - Ariel Marx
Nonnas - Marcelo Zarvos
Pavements - Keegan DeWitt, Dabney Morris
Shadow Force - Craig DeLeon
Watch the Skies - Gustaf Spetz, Oskar Sollenberg 

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May FSMO Is Now Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 5/5/2025 - 3:00 AM

The May edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is an interview with LUDWIG GORANSSON about his eclectic score for Ryan Coogler’s horror blockbuster SINNERS. Also this issue are an interview with SON LUX about their MCU debut, THUNDERBOLTS*; MARK ORTON rides on from Alexander Payne to Dan

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Film Score Friday 5/2/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 5/1/2025 - 10:00 PM
The latest CD from Quartet is the first-ever release of Elmer Bernstein's score for CLASS, the 1983 college sex comedy which starred Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe as mother and son and introduced Andrew McCarthy, and which reunited Bernstein with his Great Santini director, Lewis John Carlino.


Caldera is releasing the score for the 1980 film version of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D, directed by Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger). From the producers of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, this Christie adaptation starred Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, with a supporting cast of Golden Age greats including Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Kim Novak, plus James Fox and Geraldine Chaplin. The score was composed by Touch of Class Oscar nominee John Cameron, and the mystery is based on a real-life tragedy that befell a Golden Age star. (I've wanted the scores for Class and The Mirror Crack'd for over 40 years, so for me this is a great week to be a soundtrack collector).


The latest release from La-La Land is an expanded edition of Hans Zimmer's score for director Ridley Scott's 1991 surprise hit THELMA & LOUISE, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. The CD is expected to ship in late May.


Music Box has announced two new releases for French comedies directed by Philippe Clair -- Alan Silvestri's score for 1984's PAR OU T’ES RENTRE… ON T’A PAS VU SORTIR, (aka How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave), starring Jerry Lewis and Connie Neilsen; and Armando Trovajoli's score for 1982's PLUS BEAU QUE MOI TU MEURS.


Having released Benjamin Wallfisch's score for ALIEN: ROMULUS on vinyl, the Mutant label has just announced a CD release of the score, currently expected in late June. They will also be releasing score and song CDs and LPs for Ryan Coogler's just released horror musical blockbuster SINNERS, scored by two-time Oscar winner Ludwig Goransson.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Of Mice and Men [ballet] - Thomas Newman - Sony Classical 
Once Within a Time - Philip Glass, Susan Deyhim - Orange Mountain  

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Aisle Seat 4-29: Kino Lorber, Warner 4K Remasters
Posted By Andy Dursin 4/28/2025 - 10:00 PM
John Wayne and director John Ford produced over a dozen movies together, concluding their collaboration with a picture that, while being deemed a lark by most involved, nevertheless became a beloved outing for its fans: DONOVAN’S REEF (116 mins., 1963; Kino Lorber)A South Seas comedy that takes the more lighthearted elements of Ford and Wayne’s works – as evidenced by the “roughhousing” here between Wayne and co-star Lee Marvin – and mixes them together with a rather poignant family drama, “Donovan’s Reef” wasn’t the Old West sendoff that some western fans wanted – but on its own terms, it’s a disarming little movie with beautiful Hawaiian locales and the stars having great fun on-screen.
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Film Score Friday 4/25/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 4/24/2025 - 10:00 PM
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Gerald Fried: Disasters!
 - Gerald Fried - Dragon's Domain 
The Golden Age of Science Fiction, Vol. 8
 - Michael Anderson, Paul Dunlap, Richard LaSalle, Marlin Skiles - Dragon's Domain 
The Inquirer: The Film Music of Bernard Herrmann
 - Bernard Herrmann - Dragon's Domain 


IN THEATERS TODAY

The Accountant 2 - Bryce Dessner
Blue Sun Palace - Sami Jano
Cheech & Chong's Last Movie - Dave Palmer
A Normal Family - Sung-woo Jo 
On Swift Horses - Mark Orton
The Trouble with Jessica - Matt Cooper, Matt Winn
Until Dawn - Benjamin Wallfisch 

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Aisle Seat 4-22: Criterion’s Masterful Pagnol-Berri Double Feature
Posted By Andy Dursin 4/21/2025 - 10:00 PM
Not just one of the great French imports of the 1980s but a glistening cinematic accomplishment that possesses a timeless quality, director Claude Berri’s adaptations of author Marcel Pagnol’s JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING (123 mins./113 mins., 1986, PG) have arrived on UHD and remastered Blu-Ray from Criterion, both utilizing Pathe’s 2015 4K restorations, premiering here in a U.S. release for the first time.
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Film Score Friday 4/18/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 4/17/2025 - 10:00 PM
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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Aisle Seat 4-15: Arrow, Warner Archive Rundown
Posted By Andy Dursin 4/14/2025 - 10:00 PM
Director Renny Harlin’s ill-fated pirate sojourn with then-wife Geena Davis, “Cutthroat Island,” became an immediate box-office bomb upon its release in 1995 – making it a good thing their next collaboration, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (120 mins., 1996, R; Arrow), was already in production. A movie that brought its screenwriter, Shane “Lethal Weapon” Black, an enormous sum before a frame was shot (a then-record $4 million), “The Long Kiss Goodnight” one-upped Harlin’s seafaring adventure yet still underwhelmed with a disappointing $32 million domestic gross for New Line.
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Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for Back to the Future (1985)
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