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| Film Score Friday 3/15/24
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Scott Bettencourt
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3/14/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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This year's winners for the music Oscars, to no one's great surprise, were Ludwig Goransson for his original OPPENHEIMER score, and the sibling team of Billie Eilish and Finneas O'Connell for BARBIE's original song "What Was I Made For?" Each of this year's music winners were actually winning for the second time, and the Barbie songwriters are now both the youngest two-time Oscar winners.
Composer Kris Bowers, who had been shortlisted for his incidental music for The Color Purple, won the Documentary Short Subject Oscar (with Ben Proudfoot) for THE LAST REPAIR SHOP. Bowers, whose other scores include Green Book, Haunted Mansion, Origin, and the currently-in-theaters Bob Marley: One Love, had previously been nominated in the category with Proudfoot for 2020's A Concerto is a Conversation.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Hellboy II: The Golden Army - Danny Elfman - Varese Sarabande CD Club
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - John Powell - Varese Sarabande CD Club
Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?/Come rubammo la bomba atomica - Lallo Gori - Beat
Top Gun - Harold Faltermeyer - La-La Land
IN THEATERS TODAY
The American Society of Magical Negroes - Michael Abels
The Animal Kingdom - Andrea Laszlo De Simone
Arthur the King - Kevin Matley
High & Low - John Galliano - Tom Hodge
Irish Wish - Nathan Lanier
Knox Goes Away - Alex Heffes
The Neon Highway - Arturo Sandoval
One Life - Volker Bertelmann
The Prank - Deron Johnson
Shirley - Tamar-kali
Snack Shack - Keegan DeWitt
The Throwback - Dylan Glatthorn
Uproar - Karl Solve Steven |
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| Aisle Seat 3-12: Shatner’s Hysterical IMPULSE Restored
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/11/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| The early ‘70s were a lean time for William Shatner. While “Star Trek” was still omnipresent in pop culture via syndicated reruns, Shatner found lead roles sometimes hard to come by as he appeared in a bevy of TV movies and some sketchy independent features that were sometimes funnier than they were frightening. One of the “best” – or is the worst? — of the lot was IMPULSE (87 mins., 1974, PG; Grindhouse), a wacky, Florida-lensed thriller that finds Shatner in “Evil Captain Kirk” mode right from the opening credits as a suave con man/psycho who preys upon wealthy women. Fully embracing the maniacal tendencies of his character, Shatner goes full “Shat” in this at-times uproarious William Grefe-directed feature, supported by none other than former 007 nemesis Harold Sakata (“Oddjob” from “Goldfinger”) for good measure. |
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| Film Score Friday 3/8/24
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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3/7/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from La-La Land - available to pre-order and expected to begin shipping next week - is a two-disc release of the soundtrack to one of the most iconic films of the 1980s, TOP GUN, featuring the first full release of the original Harold Faltermeyer score plus the songs from the original soundtrack CD.
The latest releases from Buysoundtrax and their associated labels include GOLIATH AWAITS, George Duning's* score for the 1981 two-part TV movie about the discovery of survivors living in an ocean liner decades after its sinking, starring Mark Harmon and Christopher Lee; THE DAVID MICHAEL FRANK COLLECTION VOL. 3, featuring the composer's scores for the TV movies A Will of Their Own and About Sarah (both from 1998); and Paul Gilreath's score for the 1985 action movie NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER, co-starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.
*Not Morton Stevens' score - I only noticed this correction in the Message Board nine days later. As a wise man once said, d'oh!
Just a reminder, the 96th Academy Awards are this Sunday at 4pm Pacific Time. Music Oscars will be given - probably to Ludwig Goransson and possibly to Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas (that's my guess, anyway). My predictions are at the bottom of this column.* Please feel free to revel in my inevitable wrongness (I'm always much better at predicting nominations).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Cliffhangers - Joe Harnell - Five Jays [CD-R]
The Joe Kraemer Collection Vol. 1 - Joe Kraemer - Dragon's Domain [CD-R] |
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| Aisle Seat 3-5: From Arnie to LEVIATHAN, Kino Lorber Winter Wrap
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/4/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| The writers of “Blade Runner” and “The Fugitive.” The director of “Rambo: First Blood Part II.” A cast comprised of Peter Weller, Richard Crenna and Hector Elizondo. Music by Jerry Goldsmith. Cinematography from Oscar-nominee Alex Thomson. Creature design by Stan Winston. Add it all up and what do you get? The water-logged 1989 MGM release LEVIATHAN (98 mins., R), which surfaces from the depths from Kino Lorber in a great looking new 4K UHD remaster. |
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| Aisle Seat 2-27: Imprint’s Brando Box, MGM Wrap
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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2/26/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| Finally restored in 2016 after falling into the public domain, Marlon Brando’s troubled western ONE-EYED JACKS (141 mins., 1961) headlines Imprint’s lovely new FILM FOCUS: MARLON BRANDO VOLUME 1 six-film Blu-Ray retrospective. The most revelatory component to the movie’s resurrection is that, unlike, say, Michael Cimino’s gorgeous but flaccid “Heaven’s Gate,” “One-Eyed Jacks” is a compulsively watchable film, gorgeously shot and intriguing from start to finish. |
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| Aisle Seat 2-20: Monsters, Darkman, 4K & Catalog Wrap
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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2/19/2024 - 10:00 PM |
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| No series in horror cinema has endured as long as the Universal Monster classics of the 1930s and ’40s – a time marked by the Great Depression, the rise of Hitler’s Germany and America’s eventual involvement in WWII. At the outset, the Universal films were hugely successful with audiences seeking an escape, but by the time the U.S. became embroiled in the conflict, the popularity of the studio’s trademark monsters became less inviting to viewers, who turned their attention to war-time enemies as the cinematic nemesis of choice. Before that happened, however, Universal established a litany of Monster Classics that would inspire long-running franchises and become favorites of viewers for generations to come. |
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Today in Film Score History:
April 23 |
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| Alain Jomy born (1941) |
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| Andre Previn begins recording his score for The Fastest Gun Alive (1956) |
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| Arthur B. Rubinstein died (2018) |
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| Bernard Herrmann begins recording his North by Northwest score (1959) |
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| Christopher Komeda died (1969) |
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| Harold Arlen died (1986) |
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| Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson born (1958) |
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| James Horner begins recording his score for House of Cards (1992) |
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| Jay Gruska born (1952) |
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| Jonsi born (1975) |
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| Kenji Kawai born (1957) |
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| Louis Barron born (1920) |
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| Patrick Williams born (1939) |
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| Robert Farnon died (2005) |
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| Satyajit Ray died (1992) |
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| Sergei Prokofiev born (1891) |
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