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Film Score Friday 9/1/23
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 8/31/2023 - 10:00 PM
The latest releases from Dragon's Domain are a CD featuring two scores by Man from Snowy River composer Bruce Rowland -- the American release of the 1996 adventure film NORTH STAR (John Scott composed the score for the original European release) and the 1995 Disney TV movie THE GREAT ELEPHANT ESCAPE, from his Snowy River director George Miler; and the score for the 1990 sci-fi comedy SPACED INVADERS, composed by David Russo (Angus, Evil Alien Conquerors)
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Et la montagne fleurrira...
 - Cyrille Aufort - MovieScore Media [CD-R]  
Ibiza Blue
 - Mark Timon - MovieScore Media [CD-R] 
97 Minutes
 - Ian Livingstone - MovieScore Media [CD-R] 
Oppenheimer - Ludwig Goransson - Mondo
Wonderwell
 - William Ross, Angelo Badalamenti - MovieScore Media [CD-R]
Y todos arderan
 - Joan Vila - MovieScore Media [CD-R] 
IN THEATERS TODAY

Before, Now and Then - Ricky Lionardi
The Equalizer 3 - Marcelo Zarvos
Ernest & Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia - Vincent Courtois
Fremont - Mahmood Schricker
Goldfish - Tapas Relia
The Good Mother - Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Eric Slick 
Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose - Bill Prokopow
Never Give Up - Rob Pottorf
Our Father, the Devil - Gavin Brivik 
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Aisle Seat 8-29: Kino Lorber, Imprint End of Summer Bash
Posted By Andy Dursin 8/28/2023 - 10:00 PM
If you, like me, grew up in the ‘80s, you can be forgiven for thinking that Sidney J. Furie was little more than a journeyman director. His attachment to slick but rather anonymous commercial projects like the “Top Gun” rip-off “Iron Eagle” and “Superman IV: The Quest For Peace” weren’t indicative of the kinds of personal projects that informed his earlier work – movies that made an indelible impression on his devotees and offered evocative widescreen visuals to match their often rich human dimensions. Imprint’s latest retrospective Blu-Ray box-set, DIRECTED BY SIDNEY J. FURIE, offers five of Furie’s superior works from the 1970s including the release of two pictures making their home video debuts in any format.
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Film Score Friday 8/25/23
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 8/24/2023 - 10:00 PM
The latest release from Intrada is a three-disc set featuring Richard Band's scores for the "Axis of Evil" films in the long-running PUPPET MASTER horror franchise - Axis of Evil (2010), Axis Rising (2012) and Axis Termination (2017).


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

The Last of Us: Season 1 - Gustavo Santaolalla, David Fleming - Sony
Le as de la jungle 2 - Operation Tour Du Monde
 - Olivier Cussac- Music Box  
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil Trilogy - Richard Band - Intrada Special Collection


IN THEATERS TODAY

Bottoms - Charlie XCX, Leo Birenberg
Golda - Dascha Dauenhauer
Gran Turismo - Lorne Balfe, Andrew Kawczynski 
The Hill - Geoff Zanelli
Into the Spotlight - Sam Marshall
Love Life - Olivier Goinard
Mutt - James William Blades, Taul Katz 
Retribution - Harry Gregson-Williams
Slotherhouse - Sam Ewing 
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Aisle Seat 8-22: 4K Summer Sizzlers
Posted By Andy Dursin 8/21/2023 - 10:00 PM
Bruce Lee fans have a major reason to celebrate this month with the release of Arrow’s UK “Bruce Lee at Golden Harvest” UHD box-set, which preserves all of the legendary star’s big-screen features in new 4K transfers with one exception: the set only includes a Blu-Ray of Lee’s biggest – and certainly best – cinematic vehicle, ENTER THE DRAGON (99/102 mins., 1973, R), which not coincidentally finds its way to 4K UHD worldwide from Warner this week. This is a smashing UHD restoration of one of the biggest box-office phenoms of the 1970s, released just a month after its star’s untimely passing.
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Film Score Friday 8/18/23
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 8/17/2023 - 10:00 PM
The latest release from Caldera presents David Shire's music for the 1974 TV movie KILLER BEES, co-starring screen legend Gloria Swanson and directed by thriller specialist Curtis Harrington (What's the Matter with Helen?). The disc also includes music Shire composed for two other '70s TV movies - Harpy (1971), and Isn't It Shocking? (1973), a dark comedy-thriller which was an early project from Shire's Yale buddy, director John Badham, who would reunite with Shire for Saturday Night Fever and Short Circuit.


IN THEATERS TODAY

The Adults - Alex Weston
Aurora's Sunrise - Christine Aufderhaar 
Back on the Strip - Dontae Winslow
Birth/Rebirth - Ariel Marx
Blue Beetle - Bobby Krlic
Dead Shot - Max de Wardener
Downwind - Jayna Chou, Douglas Brian Miller
The Eternal Memory - José Miguel Tobar, Miguel Miranda 
Landscape with Invisible Hand - Michael Abels
Madeleine Collins - Romaine Trouillet
Simone: Woman of the Century - Olvon Yacob
Strays - Dara Taylor
You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah - Este Haim, Amanda Yamate 

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Aisle Seat 8-15: August Catalog Wrap
Posted By Andy Dursin 8/14/2023 - 10:00 PM
Action, adventure, and Cinemascope splendor are ingredients that Hollywood studios attempted to inject into the box-office of the mid 1950s, with Warner Bros. offering a pair of often maligned epics now beautifully restored on Blu-Ray. Leading the charge from Warner Archive is LAND OF THE PHARAOHS (104 mins., 1955), a spectacular restoration of director Howard Hawks’ widescreen box-office disappointment. Less interested in adhering to the “Biblical Epic” formula of its time than some of its peers, this Cinemascope affair – co-penned by William Faulkner – is instead a fascinating portrait of Jack Hawkins’ Pharaoh wanting to construct a great pyramid and doing so with the assistance of an architect (James Robertson Justice) now a slave among his people.
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Film Score Friday 8/11/23
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 8/10/2023 - 10:00 PM
The latest release from Intrada is a greatly expanded, three-disc edition of James Horner's score for WINDTALKERS, director John Woo's World War II adventure drama from 2002 starring Nicolas Cage and Adam Beach, featuring Horner's lengthy original score, a handful of extras, plus the original CD sequencing.


Varese Sarabande has announced their latest Limited Edition expanded CD Club releases - Carter Burwell's very first film score, for the Coen Brothers' feature filmmaking debut BLOOD SIMPLE; and Charles Bernstein's score for the 1986 horror comedy APRIL FOOL'S DAY.


The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles has announced their third screening series showcasing film scores. Following a 2021 series of films scored by women composers and a 2022/2023 series of Family Matinees and Oscar Sundays spotlighting the Oscar nominated music of John Williams, the Academy Museum is presenting ENNIO MORRICONE: ESSENTIAL SCORES FROM A MOVIE MAESTRO, including several films in their Oscar Sundays series. Here is the list of Morricone-related screenings: 

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August FSMO Is Live!
Posted By Jon Kaplan 8/7/2023 - 4:00 AM

The August edition of FSM ONLINE is now live for your reading and listening pleasure. This month’s cover story is coverage of the phenomenon known as BARBENHEIMER; orchestrator MATT DUNKLEY takes us through the underscore for Greta Gerwig’s uber-blockbuster, while Jon Brown and Sean Wilson check in with LUDWIG GORANSSON about Christopher Nolan&rsq

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Film Score Friday 8/4/23
Posted By Scott Bettencourt 8/3/2023 - 10:00 PM
La-La Land has announced two new releases due next week: an expanded two-disc edition of John Williams' score for Steven Spielberg's 1997 sequel THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK; and a two-disc edition of James Horner's lively score for the Russia-set 1983 mystery GORKY PARK, based on the bestseller by Martin Cruz Smith.


Varese Sarabande is expected to announce two new limited edition CD Club releases today.


The latest releases from Dragon's Domain are: LEE HOLDRIDGE DOCUMENTARIES: VOLUME 1, featuring the composer's music for The Sharks (1982), The Great Whales and Gold (both 1978); a disc pairing the music for two early Chuck Norris vehicles, GOOD GUYS WEAR BLACK, scored by Craig Safan, and the sci-fi/horror-tinged SILENT RAGE, music by Peter Bernstein and Mark Goldenberg; and THE DANIEL LICHT COLLECTION VOLUME 1, featuring the composer's scores for Acting on Impulse (1993) and Cabin by the Lake (2000).

Buysoundtrax is releasing THE BRUCE ROWLAND COLLECTION: VOLUME ONE, featuring cues from the composer's scores such as The Man from Snowy River, Andre, and Zeus and Roxanne.


CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK

Brutes and Savages
 - Riz Ortolani - Quartet 
The David Michael Frank Collection Vol. 2: Cinematic Noir
 - David Michael Frank - Dragon's Domain 
Le Secret
 - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Phar Lap
 - Bruce Rowland - Buysoundtrax
Stridulum (The Visitor) 
- Franco Micalizzi - Quartet 

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Aisle Seat 8-1: Summer Cavalcade Part 1 - Kino & OCN Wrap!
Posted By Andy Dursin 7/31/2023 - 10:00 PM
Movies based on Stephen King novels, so prevalent on the big screen throughout the 1980s, were boosted in terms of critical acclaim and box-office by Castle Rock’s adaptation of “Misery” in 1990. The production company would go back to the well for numerous other King projects over the course of the next decade, starting off with NEEDFUL THINGS (120/188 mins., 1993, R), an uneven picture that nevertheless offers one of the strongest acting ensembles to be found in any film based on one of the author’s works.
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Gerald Fried records his score for the Lost in Space episode "Collision of Planets" (1967)
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