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| Film Score Friday 10/4/24
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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10/3/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced two new releases for this month: a 60th anniversary edition of what is arguably John Barry's most popular 007 score, GOLDFINGER, remastered and re-sequenced in film order; and the seventh volume of their STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - THE 1701 COLLECTION series, this edition featuring some of the series' most memorable scores - Alexander Courage's music for the two pilots, "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Sol Kaplan's "The Doomsday Machine," and Gerald Fried's "Amok Time," which introduced both Spock's theme and the fight music that is probably the most widely recognized incidental music from the original series.
The latest release from Caldera features the score from the 2024 thriller IN THE LAND OF SAINTS AND SINNERS, starring Oscar nominees Liam Neeson, Kerry Condon and Ciaran Hinds, with music by Diego Baldenweg with Nora Baldenweg and Lionel Baldenweg. (It's become alarming how rare it is to have a score from the current year show up on CD; ostensibly Lakeshore is releasing Thomas Newman's White Bird today, but I won't truly believe it until I have a copy literally in my hands.) (And I just checked Amazon, and it no longer lists CD as an option for the White Bird score)
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Other - Jerry Goldsmith - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Sudden Death: The Deluxe Edition - John Debney - Varese Sarabande CD Club
IN THEATERS TODAY
Blink - Tamar-kali
Daaaaaali! - Thomas Bangalter
Joker: Folie a Deux - Hildur Guonadottir - Song CD on Warner/Interscope
Lovely Jackson - Jacques Brautbar
Monster Summer - Frederik Wiedmann
The Outrun - John Gurtler, Jan Miserre - Score CD due Jan. 10 from Decca
The Problem with People - Steven Argila
Sam and Colby: The Legends of the Paranormal - Nate Hardy
Scarygirl - Ack Kinmoth
Things Will Be Different - Jimmy LaValle, Michael J. Muller
White Bird - Thomas Newman |
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| Aisle Seat 10-1: Super Friends Fly onto Blu-Ray
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Andy Dursin
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9/30/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| If you grew up watching cartoons in the ‘70s or ‘80s, there was no way of not running into SUPER FRIENDS (Warner), the Hanna-Barbera adaptation of DC Comics heroes which became one of the era’s biggest Saturday morning ratings grabbers for ABC. Running in various formats from 1973 through 1985 (and for years thereafter in syndication), “Super Friends” brought young kids colorful action and the adventures of Superman, Batman and Robin, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and other Justice League of America members, usually fighting crime and battling alien menaces that didn’t have a whole lot to do with the actual DC Comics they were based on. |
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| Aisle Seat 9-24: Fall Arrival Edition!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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9/23/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| Whatever happened to Richard Franklin? The Australian auteur became a hot commodity for a while in the ’80s thanks to genre films like “Psycho II” and the kid fantasy “Cloak and Dagger,” but he saw his career fizzle out after misfires like the barely released 1986 ape thriller LINK (103 mins., R; Kino Lorber). Produced for Thorn EMI before their film division went belly-up and was sold to Cannon, “Link” stars Terence Stamp as a daffy college professor whose work with intelligent simians results in one of those predictable “don’t mess with nature” plots, forcing grad student Elisabeth Shue to battle a chimp gone wild in Stamp’s isolated British manor. |
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| Aisle Seat 9-17: Season 28 Premiere! 4K Debuts & New Release Wrap!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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9/16/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| It’s unfathomably hard to believe I wrote the first Aisle Seat column for the internet way back when I was graduating from college in 1997 – since then we’ve been through more movies, home video releases, and format changes than you can count! Yet throughout it all, I’ve had a blast covering an industry that’s shifted from small “boutique labels” (in the earliest days of DVD) to major studios (the heyday of that format and Blu-Ray) and now back again to a lot of indie labels and distributors keeping physical media alive across Blu and 4K UHD (and DVD too for that matter – the format that simply will not die). We’ll still be here as the marketplace shifts, changes and adjusts to post-COVID viewing habits and a theatrical marketplace that has never recovered from “the pandemic” – and invite all of you to join me on our message boards for always-lively discussion about movies both new and (especially) vintage in nature. |
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| Film Score Friday 9/13/24
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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9/12/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| This year's Creative Emmys were awarded, including the following Music categories:
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A LIMITED OR ANTHOLOGY SERIES, MOVIE OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY: Book Of Calvin– Carlos Rafael Rivera
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A SERIES (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING: Sitzprobe – Siddhartha Khosla
OUTSTANDING MUSIC COMPOSITION FOR A DOCUMENTARY SERIES OR SPECIAL (ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE)
JIM HENSON IDEA MAN - David Fleming
OUTSTANDING MAIN TITLE THEME MUSIC
PALM ROYALE – Jeff Toyne
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL MUSIC AND LYRICS
ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING: Sitzprobe – “Which Of The Pickwick Triplets Did It?" – Music and Lyrics by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Marc Shaiman, Scott Wittman
OUTSTANDING MUSIC DIRECTION
THE OSCARS – Rickey Minor
OUTSTANDING MUSIC SUPERVISION
FALLOUT: The End - Trygge Toven
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Golden Age of Science Fiction Vol. 6 - Malcolm Lockyer, Ruby Raksin - Dragon's Domain
Industry: Season 2 - Nathan Micay - LuckyMe
The Paul Chihara Collection Vol. 5 - Paul Chihara - Dragon's Domain [CD-R]
Pentathlon - David Spear - Dragon's Domain
The Talented Mr. Ripley - Gabriel Yared - Music Box |
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| Film Score Friday 9/6/24
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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9/5/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced two new releases due next week -- Lorne Balfe's score for Netflix's recent sequel BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F, which incorporates Harold Faltermeyer's classic theme from the original 1984 film; and an "ultimate cut" edition of Harry Manfredini's score for FRIDAY THE 13TH PART V: A NEW BEGINNING.
The latest release from Music Box is a two-disc, expanded edition of Gabriel Yared's Oscar-nominated score for THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, the 1999 remake of Patricia Highsmith's classic first novel in her "Ripley" series (previously filmed as Purple Noon, and recently remade as the mini-series Ripley). Ripley was the second of four theatrical features Yared scored for writer-director Anthony Minghella, and starred Matt Damon as Ripley with a remarkable supporting cast - Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman and an Oscar-nominated Jude Law. Disc One features the full film score, while Disc Two features alternates and demo cues.
The latest release from Caldera presents the score to HAUNTED HEART, a new romantic thriller from director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque, Chico & Rita), with music by Zbigniew Preisner (The Double Life of Veronique, Damage).
IN THEATERS TODAY
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Danny Elfman
The Cowboy and the Queen - Craig Richey
Don't Say It - Michele Josia
El Candidato Honesto - Dan Zlotnik
The Front Room - Marcelo Zarvos
His Three Daughters - Rodrigo Amarante
I'll Be Right There - James Righton
Paradise Is Burning - Giorgio Giampa
Red Rooms - Dominique Plante
Seeking Mavis Beacon - Fatima Al Qadiri |
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Today in Film Score History:
October 5 |
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| Alex Wurman born (1966) |
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| Alfred Newman begins recording his score for Leave Her to Heaven (1945) |
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| David G. Russell born (1968) |
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| Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Timeless” (1998) |
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| Harold Faltermeyer born (1952) |
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| Jerry Fielding's score for the Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles" is recorded (1967) |
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| Malcolm Lockyer born (1923) |
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