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| Aisle Seat 4-19: April Rundown Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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4/18/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| A trio of new 4K UHD releases highlight Kino Lorber’s latest format forays, including a Dolby Vision presentation of David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises,” the Sidney Poitier-Rod Steiger classic “In the Heat of the Night” and Billy Wilder’s Oscar winner THE APARTMENT (125 mins., 1960), the brilliantly performed 1960 Best Picture winner that’s much more a drama with comedic overtones than a comedy with dramatic passages. Proving equally adept at drama as well as comedy in the film is Jack Lemmon, never better as a clog in the corporate machine who’s loaning out his humble Manhattan abode to philandering executives at his workplace – including new boss Fred MacMurray. |
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| Film Score Friday 4/8/22
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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4/7/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced three new releases this week: Tom Holkenborg's score for the just-released SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2; the first commercial release of Hans Zimmer's score for the the 2005 comedy-drama THE WEATHER MAN, starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Caine, written by Steve Conrad (Patriot, The Pursuit of Happyness) and directed by Gore Verbinski; and a four-disc set titled STAR TREK COLLECTION: THE FINAL FRONTIER, featuring previously unreleased Trek music including unused cues from Jerry Goldsmith's Star Trek -- The Motion Picture score (re-recorded by composer Joe Kraemer) as well as unreleased epsiode score cues from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Enterprise, composed by the usual suspects - Dennis McCarthy, Jay Chattaway, Paul Baillargeon, David Bell, Velton Ray Bunch and Kevin Kiner.
In the week of April 18th, Intrada plans to announce two new releases, including a two-disc set featuring the final score by one of film music's all-time masters.
The Grammy for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media was a tie between the Emmy-winning score for THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT (Carlos Rafael Rivera) and the Oscar-winning score for SOUL (Jon Batiste, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross). Batiste won four additional Grammys for a his non-film-score work. Bo Burnham's "All Eyes On Me" from his TV special INSIDE won for Best Song Written for Visual Media, and THE UNITED STATES VS. BILLIE HOLIDAY (Salaam Remi, Lynn Fainchtein) won for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media. Also, H.E.R.'s rendition of "Fight For You," her JUDAS AND THE BLACK MESSIAH song which won the 2020 Original Song Oscar, won for Best Traditional R&B Performance.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Boy Who Could Fly - Bruce Broughton - Dragon's Domain
The Joel Goldsmith Collection: Vol. 2 - Joel Goldsmith - Dragon's Domain
No Name & Dynamite - Chuck Cirino - Dragon's Domain
The Outfit - Alexandre Desplat - Backlot
Sonic the Hedgehog 2 - Tom Holkenborg - La-La Land
Spencer - Jonny Greenwood - Mercury
Star Trek Collection: The Final Frontier - various - La La Land
Uncharted - Ramin Djawadi - Sony (import)
The Weather Man - Hans Zimmer - La-La Land |
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| Aisle Seat 4-5: April Arrival Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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4/4/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| John Landis’ wild ‘n wacky horror favorite AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (91 mins., 1981, R), his offbeat 1981 box-office hit, debuts on 4K UHD this month from Arrow boasting a new, Dolby Vision HDR graded 4K transfer working off color grading Landis himself approved in a 2018 HD master. The movie’s disappointingly flat ending aside, Landis’ revisionist genre exercise remains a blast of enthusiastic, then risk-taking filmmaking from a director coming off a smash success (“National Lampoon’s Animal House”). Though often imitated, Landis’ mix of horror and comedy was groundbreaking at the time of its release, as was its outstanding, Oscar-winning Rick Baker make-up effects. |
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| Aisle Seat 3-22: March Madness Edition
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/21/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| One of the most eagerly awaited 4K UHD releases of the last few years – Paramount’s fully remastered, 50th Anniversary presentation of Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER TRILOGY – debuts this week. Is it the “offer you can’t refuse” for 4K owners? Absolutely, as the five-disc package contains all three “Godfather” films plus a bonus disc of supplements, along with no less than three – count ’em, three – cuts of Coppola’s much maligned, though sometimes unfairly scrutinized, “The Godfather Part III.” |
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Today in Film Score History:
May 24 |
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| Bob Dylan born (1941) |
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| David Ferguson born (1953) |
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| Duke Ellington died (1974) |
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| Franz Waxman begins recording his score for Sorry, Wrong Number (1948) |
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| Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “In Theory” (1991) |
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| Leith Stevens records his score for the Land of the Giants episode “Underground” (1968) |
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| Pierre van Dormael born (1952) |
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| Recording sessions begin for Graeme Revell’s score to Child’s Play 2 (1990) |
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| Sadao Bekku born (1922) |
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| Waddy Wachtel born (1947) |
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