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| Aisle Seat 9-14: 24th Anniversary Edition!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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9/13/2021 - 10:00 PM |
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| As we kick off the Aisle Seat’s 25th season, September is shaping up to be one of the most exciting – and priciest – months for Blu-Ray/UHD owners in recent memory. And, frankly, we’ve earned it: the horrific last 18 months have been a nightmare in more ways than one, especially where movies and the art of the theatrical experience are concerned. With more and more audiences staying home – because of COVID, or content, or for some of us, both – studios seem to be seizing the moment, remastering classics and cult favorites for both high definition formats in brand new transfers that let them shine in new and exciting ways. |
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| Film Score Friday 9/10/21
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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9/9/2021 - 10:00 PM |
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IN THEATERS TODAY
The Card Counter - Robert Levon Been, Giancarlo Vulcano
Dating & New York - Grant Fonda
Everybody's Talking About Jamie - Dan Gillespie Sells, Anne Dudley - Song CD due Oct. 1 on Republic
The Jenkins Family Christmas - Mark Leggett
Kate - Nathan Barr
Language Lessons - Gaby Moreno
Malignant - Joseph Bishara
Mogul Mowgli - Paul Corley
Queenpins - Siddhartha Khosla
Small Engine Repair - Kathryn Kluge, Kim Allen Kluge |
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| Film Score Friday 9/3/21
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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9/2/2021 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced two new releases for the week of September 14 - an expanded, two-disc edition of one of James Horner's finest scores, for director Edward Zwick's 1989 Civil War epic GLORY, starring Matthew Broderick, Morgan Freeman, Cary Elwes, Andre Braugher, and an Oscar-winning Denzel Washington; and an expanded and remastered version of one of Elmer Bernstein's great comedy scores, for the Bill Murray vehicle STRIPES.
Varese Sarabande has announced two new Deluxe Edition score releases from their CD Club: Jerry Goldsmith's score for the 1992 period drama LOVE FIELD, which earned Michelle Pfeiffer a Best Actress nomination, featuring an expanded version of Goldsmith's score (previously released on CD by Varese) as well as the additional music by Bill Payne that replaced several of Goldsmith's cues in the final film; and a two-disc edition of the soundtrack for DANTE'S PEAK, the 1997 volcano thriller (not to be confused with the competing Volcano), featuring the score by John Frizzell which includes two themes composed for the film by James Newton Howard (who had originally signed on as the film's composer until a scheduling conflict intervened) as well as cues co-written with Jeff Atmajian, Brad Dechter, Steve Porcaro and John Van Tongeren.
The latest release from Caldera features Zbigniew Preisner's score for the brand-new religious biopic MAN OF GOD (definitely not to be confused with the just-released Ted Bundy movie No Man of God).
Dragon's Domain has announced their latest batch of new releases - WEBS AND OTHER WONDERS, a collection of music for nature documentaries composed by John Scott; THE DAVID SPEAR COLLECTION VOL. 2, featuring two scores composed by the veteran composer-orchstrator, Mortuary Academy (1988) and Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981); and a re-release of the score for MEETINGS WITH REMARKABLE MEN, with Laurence Rosenthal adapting the music of Thomas De Hartmann. |
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| Aisle Seat 8-24: Kino Lorber August Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/23/2021 - 10:00 PM |
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| There is something so profoundly creepy about watching WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT FEELING GOOD? (94 mins., 1968) – so much that our current predicament of COVID-era masking policies and general public health measures had to have been one reason why this long-forgotten 1968 Universal comedy with George Peppard and Mary Tyler Moore was dusted off specially for Blu-Ray this month from Kino Lorber. In this George Seaton-directed farce, an epidemic hops off a boat, passed on by a toucan that rages through late ’60s New York City, requiring the use of masks made readily available by a government that freely hands the cloth coverings out to one and all – except here, it’s not COVID, but rather a virus that causes those who get “sick” to free themselves and become uninhibited and blissful. |
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| Film Score Friday 8/20/21
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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8/19/2021 - 10:00 PM |
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CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Hummie Mann Collection Vol. 1 - Hummie Mann - Dragon's Domain
The Printing/Beyond the Night - Dwight Gustafson - Caldera
Prison - Richard Band, Christopher L. Stone - Dragon's Domain
Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins - Martin Todsharow - La-La Land
Sorceress - Chuck Cirino - Dragon's Domain
Space: 1999 - Barry Gray, Derek Wadsworth - Silva
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - James Horner - La-La Land
The Time Tunnel: Vol. 2 - Robert Drasnin, George Duning, Joseph Mullendore, Paul Sawtell, Leith Stevens, John Williams - La-La Land
Women Warriors: The Voices of Change - Nathalie Bonin, Miriam Cutler, Anne-Kathrin Dern, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Starr Parodi, Lolita Ritmanis - La-La Land
IN THEATERS TODAY
Confetti - Christopher Tin
Cryptozoo - John Caroll Kirby
Demonic - Ola Strandh
Flag Day - Joseph Vitarelli
Ma Belle, My Beauty - Mahmoud Chouki
Missing in Brooks County - Ted Reichman
The Night House - Ben Lovett
Paw Patrol: The Movie - Heitor Pereira
The Protege - Photek
Rare Beasts - Johnny Lloyd, Nathan Coen
Reminiscence - Ramin Djawadi |
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| Aisle Seat 8-17: Criterion's Choice COMPANY
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/16/2021 - 10:00 PM |
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| This week Criterion debuts on disc ORIGINAL CAST ALBUM: COMPANY (53 mins., 1970; Criterion), the legendary Broadway documentary from D.A. Pennebaker, who captures the late night Columbia recording of Stephen Sondheim’s 1970 hit “Company.” Intended to be utilized as a (failed) pilot for a prospective series circling around how Broadway albums were made, this is a sensational, fly-on-the-wall work that takes you behind the scenes of Sondheim’s groundbreaking musical: Pennebaker’s camera showcases the indelible work of the cast (including Elaine Stritch and Dean Jones, who would leave the show shortly after it opened) while Columbia producer Thomas Z. Shepard interjects quite a few suggestions related to how the songs are miked and, occasionally, performed. |
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Today in Film Score History:
September 19 |
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| Alfred Newman begins recording his score for How Green Was My Valley (1941) |
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| Arthur Benjamin born (1893) |
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| Daniel Lanois born (1951) |
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| Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Search - Part 1” (1994) |
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| Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Powder (1995) |
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| Joel McNeely wins the Emmy for The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode “Young Indiana Jones and the Scandal of 1920;” Dennis McCarthy wins for his Star Trek: Deep Space Nine main title theme (1993) |
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| Johann Johannsson born (1969) |
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| Johnny Harris begins recording his score for the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “Planet of the Slave Girls” (1979) |
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| Nile Rodgers born (1952) |
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| Paul Williams born (1940) |
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| Vladimir Horunzhy born (1949) |
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| Willie Hutch died (2005) |
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