{"id":1770,"date":"2010-12-03T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=1324"},"modified":"2010-12-03T11:23:50","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:23:50","slug":"soundtrack-producer-interviews-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=1770","title":{"rendered":"Soundtrack producer interviews & other news"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Christmas is anything but a drag, Bubby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The common trend around the holidays is to re-watch classic seasonal films on video or TV, but Cineplex is somewhat bucking the trend by offering digital screenings of Frank Capra\u2019s It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/strong> across Canada on the big screen, Dec. 8 and 12.<\/p>\n

The 1946 film is a perennial favourite and never missed an appearance on the idiot box each December. Although it\u2019s been released a number of times on DVD \u2013 initially as a public domain title, and for the past 3 years via Paramount in fancy-schmancy special editions \u2013 families should get a kick out of seeing Capra\u2019s classic in theatres for $5 single admission \u2013 just don\u2019t bring the living room chatter into the theatre. You know who those people are. We all wish them coal for Xmas. Lots of it.<\/p>\n

And if you\u2019re in Texas Dec. 9th, the Alamo Drafthouse is offering 35mm print screenings of Silent Night, Deadly Night<\/a><\/strong> (1984) at 8pm<\/a>, and a 35mm print of Black Christmas<\/a><\/strong> (1974) at 10:30pm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

AND in Toronto, The Bloor Cinema is showing Die Hard<\/strong> (1988) Tues. Dec. 14 and Wed. Dec. 15<\/a>. There is no other Xmas film. Period<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Just uploaded at Rue Morgue is my latest blog<\/a> regarding the recent screening of Stanley Kubrick\u2019s The Shining<\/strong> (1980) at The Revue Cinema, in the second of the Canadian Society of Cinematographers and the cinema\u2019s series Great Cinematographers in Revue.<\/p>\n

My blogetorial blather was supposed to be followed by audio clips from the screening\u2019s Q&A with Steadicam inventor Garrett Brown, but the recorded audio wasn\u2019t good, so unless I find a cleansing solution better than Sound Forge, I\u2019ll have a transcript posted next week.<\/p>\n

Lastly, I\u2019ve uploaded a pair of interviews regarding horror score releases. Kritzerland continues to bring out rare material within the horror realm, and I\u2019ve an interview with label bigwig\/soundtrack producer Bruce Kimmel<\/a> regarding composer Albert Glasser (Earth vs. the Spider<\/strong>, The Boy and the Pirates<\/a><\/strong>, Attack of the Puppet People<\/strong><\/a>), as well as a short segment on Hugo Friedhofer\u2019s One-Eyed Jacks<\/strong> (1961), recently released as a 2-disc for which I\u2019ll have film + CD reviews this weekend.<\/p>\n

The second interview is with George Fox<\/a>, co-owner of 2M1 Records. Coming this month on CD is Andy Garfield\u2019s score for Adam Green\u2019s Frozen<\/a><\/strong>, one of the best horror films of the year. That release will be followed by a double-bill of Garfield\u2019s Hatchet I<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>and II<\/strong> scores (also on CD). I wonder if Green will produce a what-the-hell-happened-to-my-movie featurette when the latter film hits DVD and Blu-ray, given it was unceremoniously pulled from Canadian and U.S. cinemas within days of its theatrical debut. Truly one of the weirdest moments in film exhibition this year.<\/p>\n

And lest I forget, this Sunday Dec. 5, the TIFF Bell Lightbox is screening Phillip Borsos\u2019 The Grey Fox<\/strong>, with a Q&A session after the screening this Sunday<\/a>, starting at 3:30pm.<\/p>\n

Wed. Dec. 8 at 7pm<\/a> has visual effects whiz Douglas Trumbull giving a 2 hour lecture at the Lightbox on Kubrick\u2019s 2001: A Space Odyssey<\/strong>, and on\u00a0Thurs. Dec. 9 at 8pm<\/a>,\u00a0he\u2019ll talk for another 2 hours\u00a0about Blade Runner<\/strong>, after which you can devote another 2.5 hours of your life to the film + Chris Marker\u2019s La Jetee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

See? There’s more to December than cookies, shopping, and fat men in white beards chuckling aloud to streetwalkers.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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Just uploaded are interviews with soundtrack producers Bruce Kimmell (Kritzerland Records) and George Fox (2M1 Records), a link to my Rue Morgue blog on The Revue Cinema’s recent screening of The Shining, and sundry heads-up of important screenings this coming week, including The Grey Fox, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner, and Die Hard…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,184,189,190,4212],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-sy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770"}],"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=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}