{"id":11385,"date":"2015-05-14T15:43:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11385"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:43:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:43:58","slug":"soundtrack-reviews-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=11385","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"FilmMusicReviews_square_pic\"<\/a>Just uploaded is a pair of soundtrack reviews for period-styled films featuring very striking and memorable scores \u2013 Rob Simonsen\u2019s ethereal Age of Adaline<\/a><\/strong> (Lakeshore Records), and Jeff Beal\u2019s epic score for The Dovekeepers<\/a><\/strong> (Varese Sarabande), spanning 2 packed CDs.<\/p>\n

Simonsen\u2019s take on the cursed \/ never aging genre is really, really<\/em> good \u2013 I don\u2019t know how many specifics were requested by the director or whether it was a classic case of great inspiration, but it\u2019s easily one of my favourite scores of the year.<\/p>\n

In Dovekeepers<\/strong>,\u00a0Beal’s use of period-styled instruments takes an epic tale set in Masada<\/a> and distills the drama into something much more intimate.\u00a0Composing under the shadow of Jerry Goldsmith, who scored the beloved 1981 mini-series, \u00a0isn\u2019t easy, but Dovekeepers<\/strong> sounds like a more intimate version of characters under siege atop a mountain fortress while the Romans taunt, tease, and wait out the Jewish inhabitants. The TV mini-series seems to have gotten mixed reviews, but it\u2019s nice to see Quebec-born Yves Simoneau still directing. (Now if only his taut 1986 thriller Pourvoir intime<\/strong>\u00a0would get a release. You know, another clever Canadian film that\u2019s been completely abandoned by whomever owns it in its home and native land.)<\/p>\n

Coming shortly are reviews of Yasuharu Hasebe\u2019s Massacre Gun <\/strong>(1967) from Arrow Films, and Black Tight Killers <\/strong>(1966), his feature film debut.<\/p>\n

Also coming are reviews of Ray Harryhausen\u2019s film of H.G. Wells\u2019 First Men in the Moon <\/strong>(1964) via a sparkling Blu-ray special edition from Twilight Time + a related film, Byron Haskin\u2019s flawed version of Jules Verne\u2019s From the Earth to the Moon <\/strong>(1958), courtesy of an old budget-priced VHS tape.<\/p>\n

The above reviews were put on pause this past weekend whilst I upgraded a 2009 iMac with RAM and a new hard drive so it could function as an editing machine. Those who are PC users will undoubtedly think, \u2018Okay, so what?\u2019 but those who have iMacs may think \u2018You did what?!?\u2019 given the swapping maneuver mandated cracking open the computer, which wasn’t an easy endeavor.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve posted details of the \u2018operation\u2019 at Big Head Amusements<\/a> as it relates more to filmmaking than film writing, but do check it out for a process that could be described as challenging, or just plain insane. Like, I had to go to Canadian Tire’s auto department and buy a giant suction cup.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
\nKQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Soundtrack reviews of Rob Simonsen’s dreamy Age of Adaline (Lakeshore) and Jeff Beal’s epic The Dovekeepers (Varese).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[3643,2562,2563,3641,1919,3642],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/FilmMusicReviews_630x300.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2XD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11385"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11396,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11385\/revisions\/11396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}