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2009 | 2008 | 2004
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La-La Land releases Goldsmith’s ‘Innerspace’
27 November 2009 2:11 PM, PST | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »
La-La Land Records today announced a limited edition of Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the 1987 sci-fi adventure Innerspace, directed by Joe Dante. A selection of the score was included on the original soundtrack from Geffen Records, but this new CD features more than 50 minutes of previously unreleased music. Innerspace was Goldsmith’s third project with Joe Dante after Twilight Zone: The Movie (where Dante directed one of the segments and »
- Mikael Carlsson
Robert Towne: The Hollywood Interview
4 November 2009 12:49 PM, PST | The Hollywood Interview | See recent The Hollywood Interview news »
Screenwriter and filmmaker Robert Towne.
Forget It Bob, It’S Chinatown
Robert Towne looks back on Chinatown’s 35th anniversary
By
The haunting trumpet wailing plaintively over the closing credits. The bandage covering star Jack Nicholson’s nose. The best last line of a movie, ever: “Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown"; all elements of a film now regarded by scholars, critics and cinefiles alike as one of the greatest pieces of American celluloid ever made. Chinatown was a collaboration between a who’s-who of ‘70s film icons. Directed by Roman Polanski, produced by Robert Evans, written by Robert Towne, starring Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, shot by John Alonso, and scored by Jerry Goldsmith, Chinatown was nominated for 11 Academy Awards in 1974, but brought home only one: for its writer. Robert Towne was barely 40, and Chinatown his first produced original screenplay, his previous efforts having been literary adaptations, such as 1973’s The Last Detail. »
- The Hollywood Interview.com
A-List Film Composer Habits for Any-List Film Schedules
4 November 2009 10:21 AM, PST | SCOREcastOnline.com | See recent SCOREcastOnline.com news »
The Creative Process. It's a tough thing to talk about for me because my creative process (Cp) is in such a constant state of flux all of the time. From project to project, my Cp changes up drastically. And then sometimes, what worked on one project also works great on the next.
What I will offer today is a sneak peek into the creative habits of some of the composers that I've worked with over the few years that I've been assisting. From these great composers, I've gleaned many secrets, tricks, templates, skills, and techniques - some that I use in my own work, and others that I don't, but might someday. The thing that I've always noticed about each composer though, no matter who they were or what they were working on, is that these tricks and secrets were really "habitual" in their work flows. These are things that »
- noreply@blogger.com (Jai Meghan)
Tortured Overtures: Horror Film Score Themes of the 1970s
3 November 2009 12:12 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Undertones: Volume 7 It's the time of the year again where folks' minds turn to the macabre and the ghoulish; where death is celebrated rather than feared and of course, when dusty copies of horror films are taken off the shelf to terrify and amuse. So, in honor of the Halloween season it would seem only right that this installment of Undertones concern itself with the scores of horror films or, more specifically, those that emerged during a particularly groundbreaking and ultra-violent decade of cinema - the 1970s. Many of the horror films of the 1970s did not involve supernatural beings such as vampires, werewolves and swamp things, but the terrors of home and society at large. The menacing figures of films such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1974) and Halloween (Carpenter, 1978) may have worn crazy masks and looked decidedly 'un-human' but the messages these films posited concerned themselves with that of »
- Ricky
Sirius Xm Lists Top 101 “Halloween Horror Score Chop Down”
30 October 2009 4:16 PM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Quick, what’s the scariest horror film score out there? I’m sure a couple of no-brainers came to mind, and a few of you probably thought of something wholly original. Thanks to the Cinemagic channel on Sirius Xm, we have an official list to choose from. There are a few shocking inclusions, and a couple of omissions, one that I, myself, deem glaring.
See for yourself:
The Shining Wendy Carlos/Assorted 3
Omen, The Jerry Goldsmith 6
Bride of Frankenstein Franz Waxman 7
Thing, The Ennio Morricone 8
Exorcist, The Pendereki 9
Fog, The John Carpenter 10
Rosemary’s Baby Christopher Komeda 11
Hellraiser Christopher Young 12
Friday the 13th Harry Manfredini 13
A Nightmare on Elm Street Charles Bernstein 14
Suspira Goblin 15
Poltergeist Jerry Goldsmith 16
Changeling, The Rick Williams 17
Dawn of the Dead Assorted 18
Haunted Palace, The Ronald Stein 19
Amityville Horror, The Lalo Schifrin 20
Creepshow John »
- Kirk
Here's the Top 101 Scariest Film Scores!
30 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
This month, Shock readers were asked to participate in Sirius Xm Radio's "Halloween Horror Score Chopdown" on Cinemagic. After gathering submissions, the show's team started rolling them out on Sirius Monday. If you haven't been tuning in, here's the complete list of soundtracks that made the cut. What do you think? Halloween John Carpenter 1 Psycho Bernard Herrmann 2 The Shining Wendy Carlos/Assorted 3 Jaws John Williams 4 Alien Jerry Goldsmith 5 Omen, The Jerry Goldsmith 6 Bride of Frankenstein Franz Waxman 7 Thing, The Ennio Morricone 8 Exorcist, The Pendereki 9 Fog, The John Carpenter 10 Rosemary's Baby Christopher Komeda 11 Hellraiser Christopher Young 12 Friday the 13th Harry Manfredini 13 A Nightmare on Elm Street Charles Bernstein 14 »
Lakeshore to release Marvin’s ‘Surrogates’
22 October 2009 3:36 AM, PDT | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »
Rick Marvin’s big orchestral score for the Bruce Willis sci-fi thriller Surrogates will be released on CD and as a download by Lakeshore Records next month. This is an unusual case where Walt Disney Pictures (or rather Touchstone Pictures) has licenced the soundtrack rights to an external company. Rick Marvin’s score for the film is an energetic and exciting action score influenced by Hollywood legends such as Jerry Goldsmith and »
- Mikael Carlsson
Discuss: Creepiest Movie Soundtracks
7 October 2009 3:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »
"Listen to this!" A friend pressed the ringer on his BlackBerry, and it played the theme to The Omen, "Ave Satani" by Jerry Goldsmith, which he'd assigned to a particularly heinous client of his. Another friend had, for a time, assigned a relative the unforgettable score from Halloween as composed by writer/director John Carpenter himself. And I'm sure somewhere there is someone with the theme from The Exorcist, which was written by Mike Oldfield.
Ringtones aside, there's no denying that a deft soundtrack or score can ratchet up the tension in any movie, especially one that uses droning noises and other disturbing, almost subliminal effects that can slip past the viewer and straight into our brain. Some of my favorite spooky soundtracks sure to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end include the above, naturally, but there are a few that need some love as well. »
- Jenni Miller
La-La Land releases Goldsmith double
7 October 2009 8:06 AM, PDT | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »
Two scores by Jerry Goldsmith licenced from Paramount Pictures – the 1966 sci-fi thriller Seconds and the 1994 comedy I.Q. – is being put out on a new CD from La-La Land Records, limited to 3000 copies. The CD begins shipping on October 16 and features nearly 70 minutes of music, 38 minutes from I.Q. and 31 minutes from Seconds. The last-mentioned is presented in mono only since no stereo »
- moviescore
‘Star Wars’ voted best sci-fi movie soundtrack
24 September 2009 8:15 AM, PDT | MovieScore Magazine | See recent MovieScore Magazine news »
Total Sci-Fi Online has revealed the results of a poll where the site wanted to find out the best science fiction movie soundtrack of all time. Not surprisingly, John Williams’ original 1977 Star Wars score won the competition, followed by James Horner’s breakthrough score for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (interestingly, this one got more votes than Jerry Goldsmith’s score for the first Star Trek film, which came »
- moviescore
Budgets: Putting Your Money Where Your Mock-Up Is
21 September 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | SCOREcastOnline.com | See recent SCOREcastOnline.com news »
"How much money will I make as a film composer?"
That's the six million dollar question, isn't it? I get this question from aspiring composers more than any other, and I never know what to say. As much as I try to come up with a cool, suave answer to their query, all I can usually muster is something like "Whatever you can!"
Lame and disappointing? Yes. Honest and truthful? Absolutely.
The bigger question — and the one I want to tackle here — is "How much money do live players eat up during a film score's production and how do you plan for the bloodshed?" The answer to that questions is... "I wish there was an answer." The fact is that it really depends on a load of different variables, but I'll try to define some of them here for you to help get you thinking about how you should budget »
- noreply@blogger.com (Deane Ogden)
Journey Through The Music Of 'Star Trek'
30 August 2009 2:10 AM, PDT | AirlockAlpha.com | See recent Airlock Alpha news »
James Horner and the late Jerry Goldsmith may both be considered among the most acclaimed composers in cinema, but the two men share another thing in common. They.ve both written music for the Star Trek franchise. In fact, between the two of them, they have composed the scores for six films in the series. Including the work of Horner and Goldsmith, .The Music of Star Trek. features 16 selections from the franchise, one for each .Star Trek. film and television series. Performed by the City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, the album is essentially a musical journey through more than 40 years of one of popular culture.s most iconic mainstays. What makes the album such an enjoyable listen is the variety of material included. Unlike the Star Wars series -. which relied solely on music by »
Shoot 'Em Up director takes aim at Outland remake
19 August 2009 9:42 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »
I'm fuzzy on the rules, but are you allowed to criticize a remake of a remake? Either way, going to the effort of a full on geek rant starts to loose some of its luster the third time around and I'm not sure I have it in me this morning anyway. What I will say is that attaching Michael Davis, the director of arguably one of the silliest movies in recent memory, doesn't sit too well with me. Peter Hyam's Outland (and High Noon for that matter) was a brilliant exercise in slow-burning suspense, not Ott bullet opera. But hey, perhaps Davis will surprise us all with his versatility.
Synopsis:
"The story takes place in an orbiting city around the moon, where a cop uncovers a murderous conspiracy endangering the entire city. With a week before his retirement back to Earth, our hero has to choose between walking away with his wife, »
Outland is headed to remake land
19 August 2009 1:16 AM, PDT | Corona's Coming Attractions | See recent Corona's Coming Attractions news »
If you know your science fiction films then chances are good if I ask you to name a movie where it's like High Noon but in space the answer I'll get back is Outland. Back in 1981 Sean Connery played a marshal stationed on a mining base on Jupiter's moon Io. A string of mining deaths ruled accidental or suicides led Connery's cop to uncover a conspiracy involving narcotics. When he takes a stand against the base's corrupt manager he finds that no one will side with him except a cranky medical officer. Connery then runs around inside and outside the station being chased by/hunting down two assassins that just arrived on the shuttle to kill him. It's not the best that Connery has done but Outland has it moments plus it did a decent job of showing people pop when exposed to zero atmosphere.
You know that the reason »
- Patrick Sauriol
T.V. Then And Now
4 August 2009 7:00 AM, PDT | SCOREcastOnline.com | See recent SCOREcastOnline.com news »
We were scoring a film on Newman Scoring Stage last Friday. At take 282 Rick Marvin, our composer, wondered how many takes we would accumulate by the time we finished our fifth session on the day this article posts. Vinny “Smart Water” Cirilli, our Protools Recordist, and software virtuoso of CueChronicle said, “I wonder how many takes "The Simpsons" are up to?” We found out that “The Simpsons”, which had scored mostly at Fox, was at the take thirty thousand mark.
Funny thing is, up until a couple of months ago I had no idea most T.V. shows were scored in the box - that’s how long it’s been since I worked in TV. In my day everything was scored with an orchestra of about thirty players. I started in T.V. and we scored five shows a week, every week. I’m aware of what a composer »
- noreply@blogger.com (Scott Stambler)
In Case You Missed It: ‘Papillon’ (1973)
3 August 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
Before there was The Shawshank Redemption, there was Papillon, in my opinion, the finest example of a prison drama followed closely by The Shawshank Redemption. Papillon is based on the memoir written by Henri Charriere, who was convicted of murder and spent his sentence as an inmate in the island prison of French Guiana. The film recounts many of the author’s experiences, but deviates some the from the book. While Papillon is said to be based on a true story, much of it’s authenticity has been disputed. Regardless, Papillon is a remarkable motion picture worthy of praise.
The opening of a great film can tell the viewer a lot, often by saying very little but doing so with a creative efficiency that says so much. Papillon opens with a close-up shot of the warden and his guards briskly marching towards the head of a new batch of prisoners, »
- Travis
The Death of the Theme: A Rant
21 July 2009 1:00 PM, PDT | SCOREcastOnline.com | See recent SCOREcastOnline.com news »
Five years ago today, one of the greatest melodists to ever pick up the baton left us.
Jerry Goldsmith was not only a master interpreter of film, but also one of the greatest creators of film music to ever grace the medium. Goldsmith's music, whether by accident or pure purpose, was a major influence on many of us in our decisions to take on this career and try to reach even a fraction of the height that he was able to during his time at the podium.
I am of the opinion that when Jerry Goldsmith passed, so did something else... theJerry Goldsmith via last.fm
matic writing. It will surely be argued that John Williams is perhaps the last "living legend" in film music. However, I felt that once Jerry was gone, even Williams began to rest on his laurels a little, and with the latest Indiana Jones film, »
- noreply@blogger.com (Jai Meghan)
Star Trek Next Generation Films Coming to Blu-ray
20 July 2009 10:18 PM, PDT | TheHDRoom | See recent TheHDRoom news »
Paramount Home Entertainment has unveiled plans to bring the Star Trek films with Next Generation cast to Blu-ray Disc this fall, confirming months of rumors suggesting they were on the way. On September 29, Paramount will release the Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection on Blu-ray and DVD which includes Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek Nemesis, and a bonus disc. The set totals 5 discs and will offer the films in 1080p video and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD audio. Star Trek: First Contact, a fan favorite, will be the only Next Generation film offered separately from the box set on the same date. Also debuting individually for the first time on Blu-ray are the "even" numbered films: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek: The Voyage Home, and Star Trek: Undiscovered Country. Complete details for the Next Generation set are as follows. »
3 New Star Trek DVD Sets to Hit the DVD and Blu-ray Shelves on September 22nd
20 July 2009 2:51 PM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
In anticipation of the home entertainment debut of J.J. Abrams' thrilling reinvention of the Star Trek franchise, Paramount Home Entertainment will give audiences the chance to revisit where it all began with a galaxy full of new DVD and Blu-ray releases. Docking on September 22, 2009 are the Star Trek: Original Motion Picture Collection on DVD, which includes the first six "Star Trek" films and loads of special features; the Star Trek: The Next Generation Film Collection on DVD and for the first time on Blu-ray, featuring the four "Star Trek" films starring the Next Generation crew with new special features, plus a bonus disc with over an hour of additional content; Star Trek: The Original Series Season Two on Blu-ray in high definition for the first time ever; plus Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and »
Treknobabble #71: A Reappraisal of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
13 July 2009 1:11 PM, PDT | FilmJunk | See recent FilmJunk news »
Treknobabble [1] is a continuing series of columns written by uber-Trekkie Reed Farrington about Star Trek and how it has influenced his life. When I first watched Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Sttmp) in a theatre in 1979, I must admit that I thought that Gene Roddenberry could do no wrong. I was one of those Trekkies who were eager for new adventures after years of watching reruns. I think I watched the theatre screen with rapt attention even with the interminable fly-throughs of the V’Ger spacecraft. I must admit that I didn’t clue in to the twist even when the crew approached the Voyager type spacecraft. I remember being disappointed by the simple resolution of the threat. And I did miss the fun factor even though I had thought most of the humor in the television series was hammy. Visually, I liked the monochromatic design with the gray and muted colors. »
- Reed
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