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Aisle Seat 12-5: Kino Lorber Rundown Plus T.R. BASKIN & TREMORS 2
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Posted By
Andy Dursin
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12/4/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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Filmmaker Fred Dekker has been involved in a number of genre favorites over the years, from penning the original story for Steve Miner’s haunted house chiller “House” to writing and directing the cult fave 1986 homage “Night of the Creeps.” Regrettably, the window of opportunity for some directors can open and close in a heartbeat, and as Dekker himself has noted, he “killed” his own career twice — first with the failure of the 1987 kid-fantasy THE MONSTER SQUAD (82 mins., 1987, PG-13; Kino Lorber) and later with the well-intentioned “Robocop 3,” which sat on the shelf for several years while Orion Pictures went bankrupt and the audience for the series went elsewhere. |
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Film Score Friday 11/24/23
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Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/23/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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I am currently on vacation, so if any breaking news happened since I left you can probably learn about it on our Message Board.
La-La Land was expected to announce their latest batch of end-of-year Black Friday releases today.
Dragon's Domain and Buysoundtrax have announced three new releases - Ken Thorne's score for the offbeat, Japan-set ghost story THE HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS, starring Edward Albert, Susan George and Doug McClure; and CD-Rs of THE DANIEL LICHT COLLECTION VOL. 2 (his music for Beneath the Dark and the 1998 TV version of Brave New World) and THE JOE HARNELL COLLECTION VOL. 3 (various TV projects).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Divinity - DJ Muggs, Dean Hurley - Sacred Bones
IN THEATERS TODAY
Fallen Leaves - no original score
Leave the World Behind - Mac Quayle
Maestro - Leonard Bernstein - Score CD on Deutsche Grammophon
Napoleon - Martin Phipps
Wish - Dave Metzger (score), Julia Michaels, Benajmin Rice (songs) - Song CD on Disney |
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11-21: Holiday Gift Guide Part 1! Police Academy, Martial Arts Mayhem & More
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Posted By
Andy Dursin
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11/20/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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It was one of the biggest comedy hits of the 1980s, returning close to $200 million when adjusted for inflation. Spawning six sequels, an animated TV series and recurrent talk of a big-screen resurrection, POLICE ACADEMY may not have received widespread critical acclaim – or in the case of its follow-ups, even a small amount of positive critical response – but it remains a viewer favorite, both for its wacky gags as well as its appealing assortment of rag-tag underdogs who triumph against all odds. If you're a fan, "Academy" addicts will be excited to learn that Shout! Factory has at last brought the series to Blu-Ray this month in a five-disc POLICE ACADEMY COLLECTION “Shout Select” box-set. |
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Aisle Seat 11-14: 4K Thrills (And One Misfire!)
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Posted By
Andy Dursin
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11/13/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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One of the great sports movies ever made, RUDY (114/127 mins., 1993, PG; Sony) reunited the production team from another genre classic – “Hoosiers” – in telling the real-life story of a young man who wants desperately to play football for Notre Dame, and makes up in heart and determination what he lacks in talent and academic prowess. Debuting this month on 4K, Sony’s “Rudy” not only looks spectacular, easily surpassing its previous Blu-Ray, but premieres on UHD a never-before-seen Director’s Cut restoring some 13 minutes of excised scenes the filmmakers had to remove in order to fulfill Tri-Star’s two-hour running time mandate. |
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Film Score Friday 11/10/23
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Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/9/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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La-La Land has announced two new releases ready to order this week - the third volume of the label's new series STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES - THE 1701 COLLECTION, this edition featuring Fred Steiner's scores for the episodes "Who Mourns for Adonais?," "Mirror, Mirror," 'By Any Other Name," "The Omega Glory," "Spock's Brain" and "Elaan of Troyius"; and a "Suites and Themes" edition of Lorne Balfe's score for this summer's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE, featuring over an hour of musical material that Balfe developed for the film before recording the final score (which was itself released by La-La Land earlier this year on a two-disc set).
The label is currently planning to release at least five titles on November 24th, aka "Black Friday."
The latest releases from Music Box are an expanded version of Philippe Sarde's gorgeous, Oscar-nominated score for Roman Polanski's TESS; a remastered edition of Ennio Morricone's score for LE CASSE (The Burglars); two Claude Bolling scores for two TV miniseries from the late 1980s - LE CLAN and RENSEIGNEMENTS GENERAUX; and the scores for the gangster dramas LE GRAND PARDON (Serge Franklin) and LE GRAND PARDON II (Romano Musumarra).
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Laurence Rosenthal: Music for Film and Television - Laurence Rosenthal - Silva
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One Suites and Themes - Lorne Balfe - La-La Land
Rosenstrasse - Loek Dikker - Caldera
Sleepaway Camp - Frankie Vinci - 1984 Publishing
Solo: A Star Wars Story - John Powell, John Williams - Intrada
Star Trek: The Original Series - The 1701 Collection Vol. 3 - Fred Steiner - La-La Land
Zombie Town - Ryan Shore - MovieScore Media |
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Film Score Friday 11/3/23
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Posted By
Scott Bettencourt
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11/2/2023 - 10:00 PM |
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The latest release from Intrada, expected to begin shipping next week but available to order now, is a two-disc Deluxe Edition of the score to the 2018 prequel SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, featuring a greatly expanded version of the score by John Powell, incorporating themes by John Williams including his new "The Adventures of Han."
The latest releases from Dragon's Domain include THE ERNEST GOLD COLLECTION VOLUME 2, which includes two of the final scores from the Oscar-winning composer, the Western biopic Tom Horn and the TV minseries Gore Vidal's Lincoln; the score for the Japanese live-action feature G-SAVIOUR, composed by John Debney and Louis Febre; and CD-R releases of THE JOE HARNELL COLLECTION VOL. 2, featuring Senior Trip and Scared Silly; FAIRYTOPIA by Eric Colvin; RAGE by Louis Febre; and SAVATE by Kevin Kiner.
CDS AVAILABLE THIS WEEK
Good Omens 2 - David Arnold - Silva
La Ternura - Fernando Velazquez - Quartet
Lo scopone scientifico - Piero Piccioni - Quartet
Tre fratelli - Piero Piccioni - Quartet
IN THEATERS TODAY
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Sasha Gordon, Victor Magro
At the Gates - Julia Newman
Beyond Utopia - Adam Taylor, Taylor Page
Four Daughters - Amin Bouhafa
Helen's Dead - Adam Westbrook
The Lady Bird Diaries - Paul Brill
The Marsh King's Daughter - Adam Janota Bzowski
Open - Clifton Hyde
Radical - Pascual Reyes Llanas, Juan Pablo Villa
Rustin - Branford Marsalis
What Happens Later - David Boman |
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Today in Film Score History: March 29 |
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Alan Menken wins his fifth and sixth Oscars, for the Aladdin score and its song "A Whole New World” (1993) |
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Alan Silvestri begins recording his score for Back to the Future Part III (1990) |
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Dave Grusin wins his first Oscar, for The Milagro Beanfield War score (1989) |
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Franz Waxman wins his first of two consecutive score Oscars, for Sunset Blvd. (1951) |
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James Horner begins recording his score for In Country (1989) |
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Jay Chattaway records his score for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Strange Bedfellows” (1999) |
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Jerry Goldsmith wins his only Oscar, for The Omen score; the film music community presumably exclaims “Finally!” (1977) |
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John Williams wins his second Oscar and his first for Original Score, for Jaws (1976) |
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John Williams wins his third Oscar, for the Star Wars score (1978) |
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Krzysztof Penderecki died (2020) |
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Maurice Jarre died (2009) |
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Richard Rodney Bennett born (1936) |
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Sam Spence born (1927) |
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Tito Arevalo born (1911) |
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Ulpio Minucci died (2007) |
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Vangelis born (1943) |
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Vangelis wins his first Oscar, for the Chariots of Fire score (1981) |
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William Walton born (1902) |
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