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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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Film Score Friday 4/11/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 4/10/2025 - 10:00 PM
The laest release from Intrada is Hans Zimmer's score for director Penny Marshall's hit 1992 women's baseball comedy A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, starring Geena Davis, Tom Hanks and Madonna. The original soundtrack release featured mostly songs plus a suite of Zimmer's music, while Intrada's League includes nearly an hour of Zimmer music (though not, not surprisingly, Madonna's song "This Used To Be My Playground.")


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Atragon
- Akira Ifukube - Cinema-Kan
A League of Their Own - Hans Zimmer - Intrada Special Collection
Sarah, Plain and Tall/Skylark
 - David Shire - Caldera 


IN THEATERS TODAY

The Amateur - Volker Bertelmann
Drop - Bear McCreary
The King of Kings - Tae Seong Kim 
Marshmallow - Nicholas Elert
Sacramento - Peter Erskine
That They May Face the Rising Sun - Irene Buckley, Linda Buckley
Warfare - no original score
When Fall Is Coming - Sacha & Evgueni Galperine 

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April FSMO Is Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 4/4/2025 - 3:00 AM

The enormous April edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is an interview with JUNG JAE-IL about his eclectic score for Bong Joon-ho’s PARASITE follow-up, MICKEY 17. Also this issue are an interview with ALAN SILVESTRI and DENNIS SANDS about their long-running collaboration and their mos

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Film Score Friday 4/4/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 4/3/2025 - 10:00 PM
The newest release from La-La Land, expected to ship later this month, is a three-disc greatly expanded 25th anniversary edition of the Oscar-nominated score from 2000's Best Picture winner GLADIATOR, with music by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. The edition will feature the full score from the film plus alternates and cues from Zimmer's musical "sketchbook" for the film.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Delitto a posillipo
 - Angelo Francesco Lavagnino - Alhambra 
Do You Like Hitchcock? [remastered re-issue] 
- Pino Donaggio - Quartet 
The Knack 
- John Barry - Quartet 
Slipstream
 - Elmer Bernstein - Dragon's Domain 
Star Trek: A Symphonic Celebration George Duning, Jerry Fielding, Gerald Fried, Sol Kaplan, Samuel Matlovsky and Joseph Mullendore - Dragon's Domain
Starship Invasions
 - Gil Melle - Dragon's Domain 


IN THEATERS TODAY

Eric LaRue - Jonathan Mastro
Freaky Tales - Raphael Saadiq
The Friend - Jay Wadley, Trevor Gureckis
Holy Cow - Charlie Courvoisier, Linda Courvoisier 
The Luckiest Man in America - John Carroll Kirby
A Minecraft Movie - Mark Mothersbaugh
A Nice Indian Boy - Raashi Kulkarni
William Tell - Steven Price 

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Aisle Seat 4-1: April (No Foolin') Arrival Edition!
Posted By Andy Dursin 3/31/2025 - 10:00 PM
Among the glut of ‘80s teen comedies, THE JOY OF SEX (90 mins., 1984, R; Cinematographe) was one of the few that became notoriously difficult to track down over the years. Despite being a Paramount Summer of ‘84 comedy that found director Martha Coolidge working in between her memorable hits “Valley Girl” (1983) and “Real Genius” (1985), this infamously troubled picture only wound its way onto VHS before essentially being banished into home video purgatory for decades. Now remastered in Cinematographe’s limited-edition Blu-Ray set, curious viewers can finally get an understanding of what happened with this teen comedy that was being pulled apart by the disparate intentions of its filmmakers and studio executives.
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Film Score Friday 3/28/25
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 3/27/2025 - 10:00 PM
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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Aisle Seat 3-25: Criterion 4K Reviews
Posted By Andy Dursin 3/24/2025 - 10:00 PM
In Michael Mann’s dazzling THIEF (124 mins., 1981, R; Criterion), jewel thief Frank (James Caan) moonlights as a Chicago car dealer by day and cool, by-the-book safecracker at night. Having served time, Frank is weary of the criminal world he engages in, keeping his dealings on a simple, plain level that changes when he meets crime boss Leo (Robert Prosky), who subsequently provides Frank with assorted jobs, enables him to buy a new home and even helps him and girlfriend Jessie (Tuesday Weld) adopt a child. With their new dealings, though, comes a price that Frank is ultimately unwilling to pay…
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April 28
Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for Judge Dredd (1995)
Billy Goldenberg records his score for High Risk (1976)
Blake Neely born (1969)
Christopher Young born (1957)
Christopher Young records orchestral passages for his Invaders from Mars score (1986)
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Emil Stern born (1913)
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