Released this week by Fox on DVD and Blu-ray is Ang Lee’s film version of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, so I’ve uplaoded a film review, a CD review of Mychael Danna’s Oscar-winning score, and a podcast interview with Danna’s assistant and collaborator, up-and-coming composer Rob Simonsen
A quartet of western soundtrack reviews featuring Jerry Goldsmith’s Stagecoach (1966) and Rio Lobo (La-La Land), Lalo Schifrin’s Coogan’s Bluff (Intrada), and Luis Bacalov’s A Man Called Noon and The Grand Duel (Quartet Records), the latter of which was a major sonic element in Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Vol. 1. Also: some Peter Collinson news + details of Olive’s DVD-only edition of Cecil B. DeMille’s Samson and Delilah (1949).
Just uploaded is a review of Mark Cousins’ 15-hour monster documentary on the history of film outside of Hollywood, originally broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4, and recently released by Alliance on DVD.
Just uploaded is a review of Mark Cousins’ 15-hour monster documentary on the history of film outside of Hollywood, originally broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4, and recently released by Alliance on DVD.
Weird news, plus a quartet of space-themed soundtrack reviews are up – Ennio Morricone’s Fat Man and Little Boy and Brian Satterwhite & John Constant’s Man on a Mission (both from La-La Land), Herschel Burke Gilbert’s Project Moon Base and Ferde Grofe’s Rocketship X-M (both Monstrous Movie Music) – plus a Mobile Edition of The Fantastic Film Music of Albert Glasser, Vol. 1 (Starlog Records) and a review of the B-movie classic Project Moon Base (Corinth / Image).
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