Return to: Home / Exclusive Interviews & Profiles / Music Producers . Since his first compilation albums from the 1950s – Backgrounds for Brando and Love Scenesfor Dot Records, in 1958 – Elmer Bernstein unofficially (and perhaps unconsciously) began preserving the fine work of his peers and idols. During the 1960s, he started to re-record […]
Back in 1997, film music magazine Film Score Monthly (FSM) had launched the first volume in what became their only entry in the branded Film Composer Interview Series, and the roughly 50 min. doc provides a rare homey snapshot of Basil Poledouris
Rating: Excellent Label: Film Score Monthly/ Released: March, 1999 Tracks & Album Length: 31 tracks / (76:33) Special Notes: 16-page colour booklet with liner notes by Doug Adams and Lukas Kendall / Limited to 3000 copies. Composer: Jerry Goldsmith Review: Although Jerry Goldsmith had already scored several prominent westerns, it’s this […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / S . Rating: Very Good Label: La-La Land Records / Released: LLLCD-1215 Tracks & Album Length: 20 tracks / (53:28) . Special Notes: 20-page colour booklet with liner notes by film historian Julie Kirgo / Limited to 2000 copies. . Composer: Jerry Goldsmith . . Review: Julie Kirgo’s CD liner notes […]
Return to: Home / Soundtrack Reviews / S . Rating: Very Good Label: Sony Classical/ Released: November 6, 2012 Tracks & Album Length: 30 tracks / (77:33) . Special Notes: 16-page colour booklet. . Composer: Thomas Newman . . Review: The producers of the Bond franchise have periodically experimented with a new composer, but with the exception of […]
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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