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| Film Score Friday 9/1/23
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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8/31/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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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
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/28/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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8/24/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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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
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/21/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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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| Aisle Seat 8-15: August Catalog Wrap
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/14/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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 8/4/23
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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8/3/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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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!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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7/31/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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| 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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Today in Film Score History:
October 3 |
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| Arnold Bax died (1953) |
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| Bernard Herrmann begins recording his score for Tender Is the Night (1961) |
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| Dennis McCarthy begins recording his score for Star Trek: Generations (1994) |
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| Gerald Fried records his score for the Lost in Space episode "Collision of Planets" (1967) |
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| Harry Sukman begins recording his score for Salem’s Lot (1979) |
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| Jeff Alexander begins recording his unused score to Saddle the Wind (1957) |
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| Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for The Reincarnation of Peter Proud (1974) |
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| Johnny Mandel begins recording his unused score to The Seven-Ups (1973) |
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| Nick Glennie-Smith born (1951) |
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| Richard Bellis records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The House of Quark” (1994) |
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| Robert Drasnin records his score for the Lost in Space episode "The Thief from Outer Space" (1966) |
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| Roy Webb born (1888) |
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| Shirley Walker begins recording her score for Turbulence (1996) |
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| Stu Phillips begins recording his score for the two-part Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode “The Plot to Kill a City” (1979) |
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