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Special Features - The Ten Most Engrossing Movie Soundtracks
21 May 2012 6:25 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Simon Moore presents the ten most engrossing movie soundtracks...
Let me put you on the spot for a moment. Think of a great film. Right now. An uncompromisingly fantastic piece of cinema you’d be proud to shout your love for at the top of your voice in a crowded elevator. I’ll give you a minute to think of one. Hell, take two minutes, so you can cheat and sneak a peek at the IMDb.
Now that you’ve thought of a great film, ask yourself this – would it be anywhere near half as great without its musical soundtrack? Imagine The Godfather without that trumpet theme. Half the story of Star Wars is in John Williams’ breathtaking score. But consider this too – even the crummiest, the cheesiest, the most head-mashingly daft films can be potentially saved by their soundtrack. Ennio Morricone spent almost all of the sixties saving B-movie »
- flickeringmyth
Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Dario Argento's "Phenomena"
11 May 2012 9:16 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Dario Argento is no stranger to vivid soundtracks (an old co-worker had to turn off Suspiria because it was, in his words, "too loud!"), but former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman and his long-time musical collaborator Terry Taylor delivered one of the most effective cues for any Argento film with their track "Valley", composed for 1985's oft-overlooked grim fairy tale, Phenomena (a.k.a. Creepers). That's a pretty high honor when you're in the company of a soundtrack catalog that includes compositions by progressive rock fiends Goblin and the maestro of Italian film music himself, Ennio Morricone...even more impressive for a subdued cue that leads off a soundtrack dominated by heavy metal tracks.
During the film's opening scene, "Valley" wastes no time establishing the mood and the doom of Phenomena's introductory victim as its cascading lead synth "horn" evokes a chilling alpine loneliness amidst great spaces and a melancholy, »
The Forgotten: Stain-Resistant
2 May 2012 6:08 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi deserves attention. His chic revenger's tragedy 'Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971) is one possible way in: you get Charlotte Rampling, an Ennio Morricone score that's just a Jacobean riff on his spaghetti western stylings, lashings of sex and gore, and a design sensibility which pays some kind of lip service to period while being deliriously seventies at all times, so that it would not be too surprising if Oliver Tobias donned a set of sixteenth century tinted shades, or a tie-dyed doublet.
An alternative entry point is Identikit (1974), Aka The Driver's Seat, from the novel of that name by Muriel Spark. It's the tale of a mysterious woman wandering through a nameless city, hoping to rendezvous with "a friend" whom she's apparently never met. In a parallel plot thread, apparently taking place a day or two later, the police are interrogating everyone she's come into contact with. »
Review: Penumbra
1 May 2012 8:43 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Penumbra is a paranoid thriller in the mode of Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion, with a decidedly darkly comic streak that manages to unsettle and frustrate in equal measure. The film is an Argentinean film from the Bogliano brothers, recently released in a small number of theaters and now available on VOD.
Marga (Cristina Brondo) is a workaholic who has taken time from her increasingly busy job to show an apartment she owns in hopes of renting it. When the man she has agreed to show the apartment to offers her four times the worth of the place, she reluctantly agrees on the spot, with only one caveat: they must wait for this mysterious tenant to show up to look at it. After shuffling around an appointment to secure the rental, strange things begin to happen around her. Is it due to the impending eclipse she keeps hearing about? Who »
- Derek Botelho
5 Unmade Movies From Spaghetti Western Maestro Sergio Leone
30 April 2012 9:58 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
For someone who's considered one of the greatest filmmakers in history, Sergio Leone was not especially prolific. While he worked extensively as an assistant director (with credits including "Bicycle Thieves," "Quo Vadis" and "Ben Hur"), he was only credited on seven films across his thirty-year career (with uncredited direction work on three others -- "The Last Days Of Pompeii," "My Name Is Nobody" and "A Genius, Two Partners and A Dupe").
But given that those films include some of the greatest Westerns -- the Man With No Name trilogy, and "Once Upon A Time In The West" -- and a wonderful crime epic, "Once Upon A Time In America," it's hard not to mourn that we didn't get more films from the director, who passed away 23 years ago today, on April 30th, 1989. But it wasn't for a lack of trying, as there were a number of other projects that Leone considered, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
This Week in Soundtracks – April 17, 2012, includes ‘Treme, Season 2′
20 April 2012 12:12 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
A review of soundtracks and scores released the week of April 17, 2012.
Marley – Original Soundtrack by Bob Marley & the Wailers
Marley is a new documentary that chronicles the life of the man who brought Reggae to the world, Bob Marley. This two-disc soundtrack is a companion piece to the film. It is essentially a greatest hits album that includes a combination of studio and live recordings by Bob Marley and his band The Wailers. The soundtrack provides a gateway into Bob Marley’s music for the casual fan or those who are curious about his work. A fanatic won’t find much need in purchasing the album, already owning most of his music. They should however purchase the previously unreleased version of “Jammin’” found only on this soundtrack. It was recorded at the One Love Peace Concert in 1978 where Marley famously brought two Jamaican political rivals together to shake hands in an act of peace. »
- Christopher Laplante
The Wait Grows Shorter For 'Twelve Years a Slave' As Steve McQueen Project Negotiates Final Financier
10 April 2012 8:42 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Two distinguished directors have both been hard at work putting together their Louisiana-based period films about slavery, and now the one least likely to have an Ennio Morricone sample, Steve McQueen's “Twelve Years a Slave,” appears to finally be ready to roll.
Deadline reports that New Regency, through its distribution deal with 20th Century Fox, is in final talks to become the latest co-financier on the project, an adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup. The company will join Summit Entertainment, River Road's Bill Pohlad, and Brad Pitt's label Plan B as producers, and complete the financial puzzle on the $20 million film.
As previously reported, Pitt is a key player to McQueen's project, coming on not only as producer but star as well, in a smaller role. He joins Chiwetel Ejiofor and (who else) Michael Fassbender, all of whom have been circling the project since the release of “Shame” last year. »
- Charlie Schmidlin
Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess Take ‘Best Offer’ From ‘Cinema Paradiso’ Director; Ennio Morricone Scoring
5 April 2012 6:30 AM, PDT | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Some international casting news comes in from Variety, who report that Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess have been cast in The Best Offer, a drama set in the high-stakes world of art auctions; there’s something we don’t see onscreen too often. Giuseppe Tornatore (Cinema Paradiso) is helming, with production kicking off in Vienna and the Alps at the end of this month.
Nothing else exists in the realm of plot, though it could be said plot takes something of a backseat when you learn Ennio Morricone — a man who requires no introduction — will be working on the score. No matter how The Best Offer comes across in terms of screenplay, performances, direction, cinematography, etc., there’s a strong chance it’ll sound terrific. But, still: a classy, Europe-set film that a) is directed by Tornatore and b) stars Rush and Sturgess can’t be all bad. It could even be quite good. »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
Exclusive Interview: Composer Lucas Vidal
5 April 2012 5:00 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Lucas Vidal may not be a name that you’re familiar with at the moment but I’d put money on the fact that it’s a name you’re going to hear a lot more from in the coming years.
Lucas Vidal is a 28 year old Spanish composer whose recent work includes Hollywood movies The Raven and The Cold Light of Day which stars the latest Superman, Henry Cavill and movie legend Bruce Willis (and is out tomorrow 6th April in the UK).
I got to sit down with Lucas yesterday to chat through how he got into making music for the movies, where his influences come from and what he wants to do next. It was an absolute pleasure chatting with him as we talked at length about the many of the challenges that he has faced with his music and with his health which he has overcome »
- David Sztypuljak
Casting Net: Taylor Lautner to get his funny on in 'Grown Ups 2.' Plus: Liam Neeson, Olivia Wilde, Alexander Skarsgard
4 April 2012 5:42 PM, PDT | EW - Inside Movies | See recent EW.com - Inside Movies news »
• Taylor Lautner is aiming to sign onto Grown Ups 2, in which he will reportedly go “toe-to-toe” with Adam Sandler. Probably better than going ab-to-ab. Kevin James, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Salma Hayek, David Spade, and director Dennis Dugan are all returning. [THR]
• Liam Neeson and Olivia Wilde are set for Third Person, an ensemble drama spanning New York, Paris, and Rome, from Crash writer-director Paul Haggis — who certainly knows from sprawling, intersecting storylines. [Vulture]
• Looks like Alexander Skarsgard won’t have much time to work on his tan during his True Blood hiatus. The actor is in talks to headline the horror flick Hidden, »
- Adam B. Vary
Geoffrey Rush & Jim Sturgess Get 'The Best Offer' With Giuseppe Tornatore, Ennio Morricone To Score Film
4 April 2012 10:55 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Celebrated Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore doesn't exactly crank them out, and while he made waves on American shores in the late '80s and '90s with "Cinema Paradiso," "The Star Maker," "The Legend Of 1900" and "Malena," it has been over a decade since the latter and the subsequent movies -- "The Unknown Woman" and "Baaria" -- have made the same splash. But his next effort is gearing up, and drawing upon two well-known names, it could see him once again back in American arthouses in bigger form.
Geoffrey Rush and Jim Sturgess are set to star in "The Best Offer." Details are pretty scarce, but the film is said to be an "art auction world drama" set in Vienna and the Alps that will start shooting at the end of the month. But adding a bit of excitement to the news is the mentoin that 83-year-old master composer »
- Kevin Jagernauth
Review: The Stendhal Syndrome (Blu-ray)
3 April 2012 8:04 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
One of the most polarizing films amongst his fans, The Stendhal Syndrome is Dario Argento’s first film shot in Italy after his foray in the United States with Trauma and Two Evil Eyes. Argento loosely adapts Graziella Magherini’s novel of the same name into a psychological thriller that is unlike anything else in his canon.
Asia Argento stars as Anna Manni, a police officer in Rome who is sent to Florence to investigate a series of rape/murders that have baffled the authorities. Following a tip, she goes to the Uffizi gallery in Florence where she succumbs to the titular syndrome, and hallucinates herself into a painting before passing out and hitting her head.
“The Stendhal Syndrome” is an actual medical condition named for the French writer Stendhal where people are afflicted with headaches, dizziness, hallucinations and fainting spells after being exposed to great works of art. After recovering from this episode, »
- Derek Botelho
Review: The Girl in Room 2A (DVD)
26 March 2012 8:35 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Originally titled La Casa Della Paura/The House of Fear, The Girl in Room 2A is American director William Rose’s 1974 giallo. Produced by Dick Randall, the man behind the infamous Pieces and Don’t Open‘Til Christmas, it’s his entry into the Italian thriller boom of the 1970’s that was spearheaded by Dario Argento with The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.
Beautiful Margaret Bradley (Daniela Giordano) has just been released from jail on a trumped-up drug charge and is sent to live at a boarding house run by a mysterious woman named Mrs. Grant (Giovanna Galetti). Mrs. Grant has a middle-aged son, Frank (Angelo Infanti) who has taken a shine to the new boarder. Settling into her new life, it isn’t long before this peaceful new home becomes a nightmare of hallucinations and nefarious goings on.
In one genuinely creepy scene, Margaret imagines being back in jail »
- Derek Botelho
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr interview: directing The Thing, and practical versus CG effects
20 March 2012 6:56 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
As icy sci-fi horror prequel The Thing gets its home release, we speak to director Matthijs van Heijningen Jr about its writing, shooting and effects…
Following John Carpenter’s out-and-out classic The Thing would be a daunting task for any director. Since its release in 1982, the film’s gained a revered status, with its sublime mixture of Dean Cundey’s cinematography, Ennio Morricone’s murmuring bassline and Rob Bottin’s special effects still standing up remarkably well even 30 years later.
When Universal sought to continue the legacy of The Thing as a potential franchise, thawing out a property that has, like the shape-shifting beast of the title, lain dormant for some time, it’s to the studio’s credit that it didn’t attempt to make some sort of PG-13 blockbuster to win over the multiplex crowd.
Instead, producers Marc Abraham and Eric Newman were given the latitude to pursue the same downbeat, »
Lost Sounds and Soundtracks. Andrzej Żuławski's "Possession"
6 March 2012 8:17 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
This Wednesday is an exciting day for New York-based cinephiles, as it marks the beginning of BAMcinématek's retrospective—the first in the U.S.—on Polish master Andrzej Żuławski for the series Hysterical Excess: Discovering Andrzej Zulawski. The series, under a different name, is also playing in Los Angeles at The Cine Family.
For those not in New York or L.A. (and even those who are), we were tipped to a special treat for fans of Żuławski, his regular composer Andrzej Korzynski, and their maddening marital horror film, Possession. The fantastic crate-digging curators of the brilliant Finders Keepers label have released a limited edition version (in green cassette tape!) of Korzynski's score for Żuławski's 1981 masterpiece. Like Morricone's score for Pasolini's Arabian Nights, a great deal of music was composed for Possession but only some of the full score made it into the final film. While this »
L'Automobile
2 March 2012 8:30 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »
L’Automobile has an impeccable Italian cinematic pedigree: it stars the gorgeous Anna Magnani (Oscar winner for 1955’s The Rose Tattoo and “she-wolf” of Italian neorealism), is written and directed by Alfredo Giannetti (the scribe behind the classic Divorce Italian Style), and has an amazing musical score by the incomparable Ennio Morricone. The film does not add up to a sum as great as each of those individual parts; however, it is still worth taking for a spin.
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- Lee Jutton
Greer Garson, Joan Crawford: Deceased Honorary Oscar-less
17 February 2012 4:01 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Walter Pidgeon, Greer Garson in William Wyler's Mrs. Miniver Honorary Oscars and Women Pt.2: Doris Day, Danielle Darrieux, Joan Fontaine, Maureen O'Hara On the list of film industry women who have yet to receive an Honorary Award, I did not include Olivia de Havilland, Elizabeth Taylor, Maggie Smith, Glenda Jackson, Luise Rainer, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, Sally Field, Jodie Foster, and Jessica Lange because each of them has already won two acting awards. Barbara Kopple, Thelma Schoonmaker, and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, for their part, have each already won two Oscars for, respectively, documentary feature, film editing, and screenwriting. Barbra Streisand, I should note, has also won two Oscars; the second one, however, was as co-composer (with Paul Williams) of the song "Evergreen" from A Star Is Born. Only someone like Elia Kazan — i.e., with friends in high Academy places — can have two Academy Award wins in a »
- Andre Soares
Gay Kiss Montage
14 February 2012 4:38 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Kevin Kline, Tom Selleck kiss, In & Out Following my Valentine's Day post featuring lots of male-female kisses and embraces (and a few shapely legs, bare breasts, and sensuous lips, courtesy of, respectively, Silvana Mangano, Clara Calamai, and Jane Russell), here's the gay/lesbian version. This Gay Kiss Montage post was originally published in June 2007, when Turner Classic Movies ran a couple of dozen films featuring gay/lesbian/bi/etc. characters as part of their Screened Out series. Created in late 2006 by Robert Eldredge, the video was inspired by the finale of Giuseppe Tornatore's Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award winner Cinema Paradiso, in which Jacques Perrin watches clips — kisses, hugs, embraces, nudity, sensuality, expressions of human desire — that, decades earlier, had been cut from the films screened at his Italian village's old movie house. The local Catholic priest had found those bits of celluloid harmful to the town's morals and family values. »
- Andre Soares
Blu-ray, DVD Release: 1900
14 February 2012 9:40 AM, PST | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: April 24, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Olive Films
Bernardo Bertolucci’s (The Last Emperor) monumental 1977 film 1900 is both an epic history of 20th century Italy and an intimate portrait of two friends, both born on Jan. 1, 1900.
Set in Bertolucci’s ancestral region of Emilia in Northern Italy, 1900 zeroes in on same-day birthday boys Olmo Dalcò (Gerard Depardieu, Potiche), the son a socialist peasant farmer and Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro, Stone), the son of the fascist landowner. The two youths grow into men (and ultimately old men!) and pass through the upheavals of the modern world, their personal conflicts becoming an allegory of the political turmoil of their ever-changing country.
1900‘s international cast includes Burt Lancaster (Sweet Smell of Success), Donald Sutherland (The Eagle), Sterling Hayden (The Killing), Dominique Sanda (Damnation Alley), Alida Valli (Senso) and Stefania Sandrelli (The Conformist). It’s superlative production credits include cinematography »
- Laurence
This week's new film events
10 February 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Valentine's Day, Nationwide
It's the date date-movies were made for – but your choice could be the difference between heart-make or heartbreak. The safest option, therefore, is an old classic in a new setting, and luckily, there are plenty of those around this year. Like Brief Encounter, as unimpeachably swooning yet hilariously stiff a romance as you could desire. The Secret Cinema team are mounting simultaneous showings of the film in various cities around the country on Tuesday to launch their pop-up Other Cinema initiative, spearheaded by four 1940s-themed nights at London's Troxy, with usherettes and a live organist (dress code: black tie, with a flower). In a similar vein, dead certainties such as Casablanca and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet play in Hackney's Round Chapel (Tue to Fri). Or for a cheap date, there's a free outdoor screening of It Happened One Night, outside the National Theatre; snuggle under a »
- Steve Rose
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