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Interview with composer Cliff Martinez who discusses scoring Steven Soderbergh's Contagion (2011) and Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive (2011)... [read full interview] |
A review of The Art of Time Ensemble's live theatre production of Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds, plus an interview with director Andrew Burashko... [read full interview] |
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Between 1983-2001, Royal S. Brown wrote a meaty column on film music for the classical-oriented Fanfare magazine, and he remains part of a select group of film music journalists & critics who were able to write about film music in a commercial publication. In the pre-MFTM era (yes, such a time once existed), fan-based magazines like Soundtrack! and CinemaScore were more precise in addressing the needs of fans, collectors, and genre enthusiasts, but Brown... [read full interview] |
Published in 1997, Album Cover Art of Soundtracks is an 11"x11" book showcasing some of the fine work by the largely ignored graphic designers that worked for various labels as staff or freelancers. Written and compiled by disc jockey Frank Jastfelder and graphic designer Stefan Kassel, the book could easily have run much longer, but the dilemma in crafting a quality publication for a reasonable SRP means keeping the page counts fairly low. [read full interview] |
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Originally titled Night Crew: The Final Checkout and rebranded Intruder, the film was executive produced by Charles Band, but after Empire Pictures underwent grievous financial problems (er, it was dying), the film was released by... |
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In The House of the Devil (2009), Ti West crafted a deliberate homage to the early eighties slasher films, and in that instant classic he nailed the music, fashions, and ‘scope cinematography of vintage slashers, but he also found a balance between his keen interest in character banter... | |
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| Poor Ones, The / Zavallilar (1975) |
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In The House of the Devil (2009), Ti West crafted a deliberate homage to the early eighties slasher films, and in that instant classic he nailed the music, fashions, and ‘scope cinematography of vintage slashers, but he also found a balance between his keen interest in... |
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Uneven but extremely well-cast drama captures the still-relevant topic of the frictions between changing regimes in a post-colonial country, and the responsibility / culpability of western powers in supporting despotic and propped-up puppet regimes. TV screenwriter... | ||||
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Before being imported to America by studio Twentieth Century-Fox, British director John Guillermin had already built up a solid C.V. of feature films, spanning every kind of genre in various studio and exotic locations, including Tarzan’s Greatest... |
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Nominated for an Oscar, Ted Allan’s semi-autobiographical film is structured like a child’s dream, as young David Herman recalls his formative years with Grandfather Zaida, his mentor and best friend, during the family’s hard years in Montreal’s Jewish quarter in the 1920s... | |
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From a filmmaking stance, Yol is pretty gripping in the way Yilmaz Güney integrates his docu-drama camera with the roughly hewn actors, and the use of massive jump cuts to expertly condense whole events into tight montages. The opening sequences in prison leading up to each... |
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Perhaps the strangest aspect of Frank Henenlotter’s career is how he made a splash with the exploitation classic Basket Case in 1982, produced a handful of like-minded oddities, and then stepped away from filmmaking in 1992, re-emerging years later... | ||||
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Apollo 18 (2011) --- Attack the Block (2011) ---Batman: Year One (2011) --- Bereavement (2010) --- Carnage (2011) --- Delusion (1991) --- Embryo (1976) --- Erotic Escape / Fuga / Fuga scabrosamente pericolosa (1985) --- Exotic Malice / Sesson Nero (1980) --- 55 Days at Peking (1963) --- Final Destination 5 (2011) --- Fright Night (1985) --- Gathering, The (1977) --- I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) --- Man for All Seasons, A (1988) --- Maniac Cop (1988) --- Maniac Cop 2 (1990) --- Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1993) --- Mortal Kombat: Legacy (2011) --- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) --- Mysteries of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010) --- Rake: Season 1 (2010) --- South of Heaven (2009) --- Super 8 (2011) --- Treasure Island (1990) --- Wages of Fear, The / Le salaire de la peur (1953) --- We Can't Go Home Again (1976) |
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Jeff Grace’s latest score for director Ti West is a more melodic work, insofar as most cues are tied to the simple, haunting 3-note theme that immediately signals danger for the characters; or the... |
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In Howard Shore’s latest distinguished collaboration with David Cronenberg, the composer manages to capture the emotionally restrictive tone of Freud’s turn-of-the-century era, and... |
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For his second feature film as director, Chris Gorak carries over his taste for electronic textures and has Tyler Bates craft one of his least aggressive scores in years. Like Gorak’s debut, Right at... |
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Steven Spielberg tends to bring out the inner schmaltz in composers, and while War Horse is anchored around a big sweeping, folk theme bursting with warmth, a sense of freedom, and nobility fir its titular... |
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Not quite a box office success when it While Charles K. Feldman’s ‘comedic’ spin of the Bond franchise is regarded by series purists as an abomination, Burt Bacharach’s music... |
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Craig Richey’s score for Answers to Nothing is also available from Lakeshore Records, and perhaps realizing an albums of short instrumental cues isn’t enough for a separate CD release, the... |
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Not quite a box office success when it emerged in 1988, Richard Donner’s spin on the classic Christmas Carol tale has aged into a fascinating time capsule of period humour and pop... |
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After scoring a series of short films, composer Ludovic Bource’s feature film debut was launched with two of Michel Hazanavicius’ OSS 117 films, and the pair’s third collaboration, The Artist, is filled with... |
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Cape, The (2011) --- Certain Smile, A (1958) --- Commando (1985) --- Contagion (2011) --- Copernicus' Star (2009) --- DC Showcase: Superman / Shazam! - The Black Adam --- Descendants, The (2011) --- Devil's Double, The (2011) --- Drive (2011) --- 55 Days at Peking (1963) --- Forever Young (1992) --- Gears of War 3 (2011) --- Golden Child, The (1986) --- It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) --- Lincoln Lawyer (2011) --- Music from the Transformers Trilogy (2011) --- Music of James Horner (2011) --- Music of Michel Legrand, The (2011) --- Puss in Boots (2011) --- Sleeping with the Enemy (1991) --- Trading Places (1983) --- Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (2011) --- Warhammer 40,000: Spacemarine (2011) |
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