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| Film Score Friday 5/9/25
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Scott Bettencourt
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5/8/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest CD from Intrada is a remastered, two-disc re-release of Jerry Goldsmith's thrilling score for the very first Rambo film, better known as FIRST BLOOD (whose director, Ted Kotcheff, just passed away). It features both the full film score as well as the original LP sequencing (which was most of the score), and corrects audio issues from the previous releases.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Class - Elmer Bernstein - Quartet
First Blood - Jerry Goldsmith - Intrada Special Collection
Gladiator - Hans Zimmer, Lisa Gerrard - La-La Land
A Little Princess: The Deluxe Edition - Patrick Doyle - Varese Sarabande CD Club
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare - Chris Benstead - Filmtrax
A Quiet Place in the Country - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
Stand By for Action! 2: Tunes of Danger - various - Silva
The Thorn Birds: The Deluxe Encore Edition - Henry Mancini - Varese Sarabande CD Club
The Working Class Go to Heaven - Ennio Morricone - Quartet
IN THEATERS TODAY
The Art of Nothing - Casimir Liberski
Clown in a Cornfield - Brandon Roberts, Marcus Trumpp
Fight or Flight - Paul Saunderson
Friendship - Keegan DeWitt
Juliet & Romeo - Evan Kidd Bogart, Justin Gray
Lilly - Ariel Marx
Nonnas - Marcelo Zarvos
Pavements - Keegan DeWitt, Dabney Morris
Shadow Force - Craig DeLeon
Watch the Skies - Gustaf Spetz, Oskar Sollenberg |
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| Film Score Friday 5/2/25
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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5/1/2025 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest CD from Quartet is the first-ever release of Elmer Bernstein's score for CLASS, the 1983 college sex comedy which starred Jacqueline Bisset and Rob Lowe as mother and son and introduced Andrew McCarthy, and which reunited Bernstein with his Great Santini director, Lewis John Carlino.
Caldera is releasing the score for the 1980 film version of Agatha Christie's THE MIRROR CRACK'D, directed by Guy Hamilton (Goldfinger). From the producers of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, this Christie adaptation starred Angela Lansbury as Miss Marple, with a supporting cast of Golden Age greats including Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, Tony Curtis and Kim Novak, plus James Fox and Geraldine Chaplin. The score was composed by Touch of Class Oscar nominee John Cameron, and the mystery is based on a real-life tragedy that befell a Golden Age star. (I've wanted the scores for Class and The Mirror Crack'd for over 40 years, so for me this is a great week to be a soundtrack collector).
The latest release from La-La Land is an expanded edition of Hans Zimmer's score for director Ridley Scott's 1991 surprise hit THELMA & LOUISE, starring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. The CD is expected to ship in late May.
Music Box has announced two new releases for French comedies directed by Philippe Clair -- Alan Silvestri's score for 1984's PAR OU T’ES RENTRE… ON T’A PAS VU SORTIR, (aka How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave), starring Jerry Lewis and Connie Neilsen; and Armando Trovajoli's score for 1982's PLUS BEAU QUE MOI TU MEURS.
Having released Benjamin Wallfisch's score for ALIEN: ROMULUS on vinyl, the Mutant label has just announced a CD release of the score, currently expected in late June. They will also be releasing score and song CDs and LPs for Ryan Coogler's just released horror musical blockbuster SINNERS, scored by two-time Oscar winner Ludwig Goransson.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Of Mice and Men [ballet] - Thomas Newman - Sony Classical
Once Within a Time - Philip Glass, Susan Deyhim - Orange Mountain |
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| Aisle Seat 4-29: Kino Lorber, Warner 4K Remasters
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| Posted By
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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Today in Film Score History:
June 14 |
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| Carlos D’Alessio died (1992) |
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| Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson born (1932) |
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| Craig Safan begins recording his score, adapted from Tchaikovsky, for The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training (1977) |
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| Cy Coleman born (1929) |
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| David Newman records his score for Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991) |
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| Doug Timm born (1960) |
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| Harold Wheeler born (1943) |
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| Henry Mancini died (1994) |
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| James Horner begins recording his score for Clear and Present Danger (1994) |
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| Jerry Goldsmith begins recording his score for Islands in the Stream (1976) |
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| John Addison begins recording his score for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) |
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| John Williams begins recording his replacement score for The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973) |
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| Marcus Miller born (1959) |
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| Stanley Black born (1913) |
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