Instead of filming Frank Gilroy’s play in its natural setting of Las Vegas, Vegas was rebuilt in Paris at a cost of $11 for Fox’ The Only Game in Town, so Liz could be closer to husband Richard Burton as filming of Staircase was winding down. As I often do at KQEK.com, I try and pair the available with the should-be-available, so alongside a review of Twilight Time’s Only Game Blu-ray is a review of Staircase.
Yup, they’re finally up – a film review of Antiviral (Alliance / EOne) and soundtrack review (Lakeshore Records) – plus some editorial thoughts on assorted projects present, future, and in the works.
Podcast with composer E.C. Woodley regarding his entry into film scoring, and the aesthetics of composing the music to Brandon Cronenberg’s bio-thriller Antiviral (2012). Oh yeah: and a potential workaround to a bug in Sound Forge 10.
Just uploaded – a quick review of Hans Zimmer’s Man of Steel, released by Water Tower Music on CD, LP, and as a downloadable DTS Headphones: X version.
Reviewed are Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films’ latest crop of Nikkatsu Roman Porno entries – Female Teacher: Hunting / Onna kyôshi-gari + Female Teacher: In Front of the Students / Onna kyôshi: Seito no me no maede (both from 1982) – and for some contextual reference for all this period smut, I’ve added a review of Sadistic and Masochistic (2000), Hideo Nakata’s 2000 documentary on Nikkatsu’s prolific house director Masaru Konuma.
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