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| Film Score Friday 9/13/19
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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9/12/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced a historic upcoming CD release -- the original score tracks from one of the most important and influential film scores of all time, Franz Waxman's groundbreaking BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. It will first go on sale at a screening of the film on October 13 at the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival in Tarrytown, NY, which will include a Q&A featuring the composer's son, John Waxman, and soundtrack producer/restorer Mike Matessino. The disc will be available from the label's website at a later date.
This week the label has two new releases -- an expanded, two-disc release of Danny Elfman's thrilling score for Brian DePalma's 1996 franchise-starter MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, featuring the original soundtrack release sequencing on Disc One and the score as heard in the film on Disc Two (plus alternates); and Harry Manfredini's score for what is arguably the best of the Jason Voorhees franchise, FRIDAY THE 13TH PART VI: JASON LIVES (featuring the same cues as on the label's Friday the 13th boxed set).
The latest re-recording from Tadlow, due in late October, features the complete scores for two groundbreaking horror films from England's Hammer Film Productions, THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and HORROR OF DRACULA, with Nic Raine conducting the music of Oscar winner* James Bernard.
*(yes, I know, Bernard won his Oscar for co-writing the story to Seven Days to Noon, not for his music. Still, that's one more Oscar than you or I have, bub). |
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| Aisle Seat 9-10: 22nd Anniversary Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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9/9/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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| Boasting an all-new “Final Cut” as well as director Francis Ford Coppola’s prior theatrical and “Redux” versions, Lionsgate’s truly spectacular 4K UHD/Blu-Ray edition of APOCALYPSE NOW (***½, 147/183/202 mins., 1979, R) is unquestionably the year’s most impressive home video catalog release to date. Coppola’s troubled yet intermittently brilliant, surreal film has never looked or sounded as dazzling as it does here, thanks to a UHD format release that marks another technological upgrade for Coppola and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro’s sumptuous widescreen images. |
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| Film Score Friday 8/30/19
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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8/29/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest soundtrack CD from Intrada presents the first-ever release of the score for DOWNHILL RACER, the 1969 skiing drama starring Robert Redford and Gene Hackman that marked the feature directing debut of Michael Ritchie (The Candidate, Smile, The Bad News Bears, The Fantasticks). The film was the last feature to have a score composed by Kenyon Hopkins (Baby Doll, 12 Angry Men, The Hustler), and the CD includes the score in stereo as well as additional tracks in mono.
The latest release from La-La Land, which is expected to begin shipping in early September, presents the score for director Mary Lambert's 1992 PET SEMATIARY II, the sequel to her own 1989 horror hit based on the Stephen King novel. The music is by composer Mark Governor, whose eclectic resume includes a stage musical based on The Scarlet Letter, and the CD features his 53-minute score as well as 22 minutes of alternates. This is the first commerical release of this score, though one track was featured on the composer's CD A Whore's Diary.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Downhill Racer - Kenyon Hopkins - Intrada Special Collection
The Durrells - Ruth Barrett, Jon Wygens - Abkco
The Farewell - Alex Weston - Milan
It: Chapter Two - Benjamin Wallfisch - WaterTower [CD-R]
Valhalla - Ron Goodwin - PlantSounds |
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| August Issue of FSMO Is Live!
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| Posted By
Tim Curran
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8/29/2019 - 3:00 AM |
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| The August edition of FSM ONLINE is live! This month’s cover story is the first part of Erik Heine’s Emerging Composers of the 2000s, featuring CHRISTOPHER GORDON, BEAR McCREARY, CLIFF MARTINEZ and more. Also in this issue, GRAHAM REYNOLDS discusses his score to Richard Linklater’s WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE; JOHN DEBNEY and GERMAINE FRANCO discover DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD; ANNA DRUBICH details her collaboration with MARCO BELTRAMI on SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK; Cary Wong gives his regards to the best of BROADWAY; JACOB YOFFEE and ROAHN HYLTON team up for the Amazon Prime docuseries FREE MEEK; GOLD RUSH commemorates the moon landing; a concert review of the L.A. PHIL at Tynecastle; lots of album reviews, including AFTER THE WEDDING, THE FAREWELL and VITA & VIRGINIA; a new COMPOSER’S CORNER reviews SWING! MORE; embedded audio clips, and more. Enjoy!
Subscribers, you’ll get notification by email shortly. Or, just go here to log in. For those who want to join FSM ONLINE, go here, click on the “Subscribe” link and follow the instructions. And email us if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Your Friends at FSM ONLINE |
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| Aisle Seat 8-27: Labor Day Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/26/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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| There are fewer cinematic eras more fascinating than the late ‘60s. Iconoclast filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick unleashed classics like “2001” while previously reliable genres like the movie musical nearly drowned several major studios. 20th Century Fox’s “Star!”, Paramount’s “Darling Lili” and Universal’s SWEET CHARITY (145/151 mins., 1968, G) proved to be big-budget disappointments from a genre that once reliably drew audiences – a sign of shifting times and attitudes, and also, perhaps, the respective source material involved in each instance. In the case of the latter, Bob Fosse’s adaptation of his Broadway hit proves to be a weird, highly watchable and yet ultimately unsatisfying fusion of a “mod” downer with old-fashioned musical-comedy sensibilities, as strange as the teaming of Fosse with writer Neil Simon sounds on paper. |
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| Aisle Seat 8-13: August Assault Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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8/12/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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| Now the biggest global hit of all-time (not counting inflation), AVENGERS: ENDGAME (181 mins., 2019, PG-13; Disney) wraps up Marvel’s two-film behemoth and also puts a lid on over a decade of some 21 prior movies featuring the comic book company-turned-Disney brand’s super-heroes. It’s not particularly witty or artfully executed, but as far as fan-service films go, this overlong but entertaining picture gets the job done, and wisely focuses on the original core of Avengers members for much of its running time instead of the “Marvel All-Star Rally” featured in its exhausting predecessor. |
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Today in Film Score History:
October 21 |
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| Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for Predator 2 (1990) |
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| Brian Banks born (1955) |
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| David Newman begins recording his score for Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1987) |
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| David Shire begins recording his score for Rear Window (1998) |
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| Gianni Ferrio died (2013) |
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| Gregory Smith records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “The Assignment” (1996) |
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| Jerry Goldsmith records his replacement score for Seven Days in May (1963) |
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| John W. Morgan born (1946) |
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| Joseph Mullendore born (1914) |
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| Lyle Workman born (1957) |
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| Malcolm Arnold born (1921) |
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