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Taking an appreciative drink of JOHN CARPENTER’S VAMPIRES on 4K
A big thanks to Daniel Griffith’s Ballyhoo Motion Pictures and down under label Imprint for letting me sink my appreciative teeth again into a filmmaking maestro’s work with the featurette “Stake & Burn: Scoring ‘John Carpenter’s Vampires.’” It’s part of a goon busting arsenal packed 4K edition, now on sale via Imprint HERE or your…
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CARTER BURWELL opens a beautifully ironic soundtrack to THE CELLULOID CLOSET
CARTER BURWELL (Fargo, Twilight) opens a sumptuous, classically styled Hollywood score for an ironic examination of the LGBQ stereotypes that lie within THE CELLULOID CLOSET. Read my liner notes featuring new interviews with Burwell and co-directors ROB EPSTEIN and JEFFREY FRIEDMAN (Common Threads) as they talk about Tinsel Town’s treatment of this gay characters from…
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ROBERT FOLK’s Americana score for MILES FROM HOME finds its place on CD!
Miles From Home features a powerful, emotionally evocative Americana score by ROBERT FOLK (Toy Soldiers, Rock-a-Doodle) about two brothers driven to crime by the farming crisis, with my booklet featuring new interviews with Folk, director Gary Sinise (Of Mice and Men), and writer Chris Gerolmo and producer Frederick Zollo (Mississippi Burning). Previously released on a…
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Looking at how CARTER BURWELL casts a haunted spell in WATERLAND’s long awaited score release
WATERLAND features a beautifully haunting, dream-like score from CARTER BURWELL (Fargo, The Celluloid Closet) as a teacher reminisces on his turbulent past. My liner notes for this long-requested release on Quartet Records features new interviews with the composer and director Stephen Gyllenhaal (Twin Peaks, Paris Trout) on a collaboration that casts an ethereal, yet turbulent…
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JOHAN LENOX makes a nightmarish vocal splash with THE PLAGUE
Both the definition of a brilliantly WTF score and a beyond triggering movie if you had the ruthlessly bullied educational upbringing that I did, “The Plague” is a full-on submersion into peer pressure body and mental horror that honors the angst tradition of “Welcome to the Dollhouse” while making the peer pressure of “Eighth Grade”…
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SIMON FRANGLEN plunges into AVATAR FIRE AND ASH on a new Film Music Live videocast!
Take a deep dive into the musical world of the blockbuster AVATAR FIRE AND ASH as composer SIMON FRANGLEN talks about a scoring exploration unlike any other on a new Film Music Live videocast. Watch as Franglen reflects on a collaboration with James Horner that’s now led to his own adventure as a thematic way…
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Looking at the first BOUND ties for Don Davis and The Wachowskis
I know where the musical money is in the apartment when it comes to BOUND, the Wachowskis’ classic sapphic noir thriller featuring their first collaboration with composer Don Davis. Read my liner notes on La La Land Records, featuring new interviews with Davis and Oscar winning editor Zach S. Staenberg (The Matrix) on crafting a…
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Thunder and Lightning strikes when SCOTT BOMAR scores and executive music produces the iconic Neil Diamond SONG SUNG blues
“Impersonators” and “tribute acts” have mostly been on the stage of condescension from major Hollywood films, and mostly relegated to Elvises at that. But the arrival of “Song Sung Blue” promises to truly shake up that perception, as well as likely introducing a whole new generation to the magic that is the music, songwriting and…
