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| Film Score Friday 11/22/19
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/21/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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| The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences has announced the latest batch of Grammy nominations, including the following film-music related categories:
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA
THE BALLAD OF THE LONESOME COWBOY – Toy Story 4 – Randy Newman
GIRL IN THE MOVIES – Dumplin’ – Dolly Parton, Linda Perry
I'LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN – A Star is Born - Natalie Hemby, Lady Gaga, Hillary Lindsey, Aaron Raitiere,
SPIRIT – The Lion King – Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, Timothy McKenzie, Ilya Salmanzadeh
BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA
THE LION KING: THE SONGS
SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE
John Williams received two nominations – Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Symphonic Suite for Best Instrumental Composition, and Hedwig’s Theme from the Across the Stars album for Best Arrangement, Instrumental or A Cappella. |
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| Aisle Seat 11-19: Cops, Robbers & Christmas, Too!
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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11/18/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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| Two of Don Siegel’s contemporary crime thrillers, a long-forgotten Italian production featuring Roger Moore on a 007 hiatus, and a film with one of the all-time strangest back stories highlight Kino Lorber’s November Blu-Ray release slate – one that seems especially suited for ‘70s movie buffs. |
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| Film Score Friday 11/15/19
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/14/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has just released Tom Holkenborg's* score for the latest Terminator sequel TERMINATOR: DARK FATE, which returns Linda Hamilton and writer-producer James Cameron to the franchise. The label is also making available Lolita Ritmanis' score for the Latvian war drama DVESELU PUTENIS, known in English as Blizzard of Souls. (*when this column originally posted, I had stupidly attributed the Dark Fate score to Lorne Balfe, who actually scored the previous Terminator sequel; thanks to Bob DiMucci for the correction).
Kritzerland has just announced a CD of the music of concert and film composer GAIL KUBIK, featuring three concert pieces composed and conducted by Kubik -- Scenes for Orchestra (based on his unused score for I Thank a Fool), Scenario for Orchestra (based on his largely unused score for The Desperate Hours, the surviving tracks of which were featured on Intrada's Double Indemnity/Paramount noir set), and Stewball: Four Variations for Band.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
The Crown: Season Three - Martin Phipps - Sony
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, vol. 1 - Daniel Pemberton - Varese Sarabande
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, vol. 2 - Daniel Pemberton, Samuel Sim - Varese Sarabande
Dveselu Putenis (Blizzard of Souls) - Lolita Ritmanis - Marlo/La-La Land
La Chiave - Ennio Morricone - Beat
Terminator: Dark Fate - Tom Holkenborg - La-La Land |
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| The November Issue of FSM ONLINE Is Live!
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| Posted By
Tim Curran
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11/6/2019 - 3:00 AM |
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| The November edition of FSM ONLINE is live! This month’s cover story is an array of awards hopefuls: MARCO BELTRAMI and BUCK SANDERS for FORD V FERRARI, TERENCE BLANCHARD for HARRIET, and ALBERTO IGLESIAS for PAIN AND GLORY. Also in this issue are the first half of Erik Heine’s Emerging Composers of the 2010s, including ROQUE BAÑOS and RAMIN DJAWADI; GORDY HAAB and STEPHEN BARTON fight the Dark Side with the EA video game STAR WARS JEDI: FALLEN ORDER; Cary Wong’s annual MEMO TO THE ACADEMY MUSIC BRANCH, earlier this year than ever; ALEX HEFFES scores the Apple TV+ nature doc THE ELEPHANT QUEEN; DAVID WINGO digs up the dark secrets of Scott Z. Burns' THE REPORT; CARL THIEL seeks balance with Netflix’s SEIS MANOS; a new EAR OF THE MONTH CONTEST; lots of album reviews, including JUDY, JOKER and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN; a new COMPOSER’S CORNER reviews Audio Imperia’s NUCLEUS (THE ORCHESTRAL CORE); more embedded audio clips, and more. Enjoy!
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Sincerely,
Your Friends at FSM ONLINE
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| Film Score Friday 11/1/19
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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10/31/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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The trailer for THE SONG OF NAMES, the new film from director Francois Girard (Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin, Silk, Boychoir), has an extremely unusual title card. Near the end of the trailer, after we get the expected title "FROM THE ACCLAIMED DIRECTOR OF THE RED VIOLIN," we get another title card:
ORIGINAL MUSIC BY
THE ACADEMY AWARD WINNING COMPOSER OF
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY
I presume that the fact that Song of Names is a music-oriented film is a big factor, but I can't remember seeing a contemporary trailer in which a score composer (at least, one who wasn't an otherwise already famous popular music figure) was used as such a prominent selling point, so good for Howard Shore.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Abominable - Rupert Gregson-Williams - Backlot
Doctor Sleep - The Newton Brothers - WaterTower [CD-R]
Ganja & Hess - Sam Waymon - Howlin' Wolf
Gemini Man - Lorne Balfe - La-La Land
Harriet - Terence Blanchard - Backlot |
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| Aisle Seat 10-29: Omens, Blobs & The Final Halloween Wrap
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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10/28/2019 - 10:00 PM |
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| This Halloween has already provided a dynamic roster of releases for horror buffs, as evidenced by my past two columns that have featured the likes of Warner’s spectacular 4K UHD edition of “The Shining” and a fascinating slate of genre curios from Kino Lorber. This week brings two major releases in Arrow’s “An American Werewolf in London” and Shout’s five-disc THE OMEN COLLECTION: DELUXE EDITION, a superior Limited Edition package apparently concocted before Disney completed their sale of Fox’s entertainment assets and locked up their back catalog from further licensing (for now anyway). |
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Today in Film Score History:
January 28 |
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| Burkhard Dallwitz born (1959) |
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| Giancarlo Bigazzi died (2012) |
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| John Cacavas died (2014) |
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| John Tavener born (1944) |
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| Karl Hajos born (1889) |
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| Lalo Schifrin records his score for Once a Thief (1965) |
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| Lalo Schifrin records his score for the Mission: Impossible pilot (1966) |
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| Paul Misraki born (1908) |
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