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| Aisle Seat 3-8: Video Vault Special, March New Releases
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| Posted By
Andy Dursin
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3/7/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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| Never did I think a movie could make Christian Bale’s Batman look like Adam West’s, but director Matt Reeves’ strenuously boring THE BATMAN (PG-13) manages to be the singular most humorless super-hero movie in cinema history. It’s also one of the dullest — a three-hour grind wrapped up in mystery that’s never involving, a group of characters that are never appealing, and an emotional flat-line that stays parked in neutral for its entire duration. |
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| Film Score Friday 3/4/22
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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3/3/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced their March schedule of releases.
Next week they will release a two-disc edition of Maurice Jarre's straight-faced parody score for the 1984 cult favorite TOP SECRET!, featuring the score as heard in the film, the LP re-recording (originally released by Varese), the songs from the film as well as bonus cues. That day they will also release a new edition of Mark Isham's score for the alien abduction thriller FIRE IN THE SKY.
On March 29 they will release the soundtrack for the brand new Romancing the Stone-esque comedy adventure THE LOST CITY, starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and a cameo by a huge movie star whose appearance has already been revealed by the trailer, with a score by Pinar Toprak (Captain Marvel). They will also re-release their out-of-print, two-disc expanded edition of James Horner's BRAVEHEART.
The latest release from Quartet features George Fenton's score for THE DUKE, the true-crime comedy-caper released (briefly) last year, starring Oscar winners Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren, which was the final fiction feature from director Roger Michell (Notting Hill, Changing Lanes, Venus).
Dragon's Domain has announced three new upcoming CD releases - THE ERNEST GOLD COLLECTION VOL. 1, featuring cues from a variety of films scored by the Oscar-winning (Exodus) composer, including his final feature score, Safari 2000; Lee Holdridge's score for the 1999 TV miniseries ATOMIC TRAIN; and David Spear's score for the 1984 sequel EXTERMINATOR 2. |
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| Oscar Nominations 2021
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| Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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3/2/2022 - 10:00 PM |
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BEST MOTION PICTURE OF THE YEAR
BELFAST - Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik, Tamar Thomas
CODA - Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi, Patrick Wachsberger
DON'T LOOK UP - Adam McKay, Kevin Messick
DRIVE MY CAR - Teruhisa Yamamoto
DUNE - Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve, Cale Boyter
KING RICHARD - Tim White, Trevor White, Will Smith
LICORICE PIZZA - Sean Muraphy, Adam Sommer, Paul Thomas Anderson
NIGHTMARE ALLEY - Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale, Bradley Cooper
THE POWER OF THE DOG - Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning, Roger Frappier
WEST SIDE STORY - Steven Spielberg, Kristie Macoscko Krieger
Because of the L.A. theaters closing down due to the pandemic in 2020 (and my unwillingness to watch brand new movies on the small screen), I had only seen two nominated films by the time last year's nominations rolled around - Emma and Onward - but this year, having been to theaters pretty much non-stop since May 1, 2021, I managed to see most of the nominated films and I should be able to catch up with the others in the next week or two. |
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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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