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| Aisle Seat 4-29: Kino Lorber, Warner 4K Remasters
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Andy Dursin
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4/28/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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 4/18/25
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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4/17/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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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
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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4/14/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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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| Aisle Seat 4-1: April (No Foolin') Arrival Edition!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/31/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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3/27/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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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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Today in Film Score History:
April 29 |
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| Chris Boardman born (1954) |
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| Craig Armstrong born (1959) |
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| Dennis McCarthy and Kevin Kiner record their score for the final Star Trek: Enterprise episode, “These Are the Voyages…” (2005) |
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| Dennis McCarthy records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Conspiracy” (1988) |
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| Duke Ellington born (1889) |
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| Herbert Stothart begins recording his score to Random Harvest (1942) |
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| James Horner begins recording his score for The Rocketeer (1991) |
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| Jan A.P. Kaczmarek born (1953) |
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| Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “If Wishes Were Horses” (1993) |
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| Joel Goldsmith died (2012) |
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| Lawrence Shragge born (1954) |
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| Rod McKuen born (1933) |
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| Toots Thielemans born (1922) |
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| Waldemar Kazanecki born (1929) |
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