Category: INTERVIEWS
Mysterious Island (1961), Twilight Time’s Nick Redman, and readjusting the concept of MODs
Just uploaded is a lengthy interview with Twilight Time co-founder Nick Redman, and related reviews of Twilight Time’s swanky Blu-ray of Ray Harryhausen’s Mysterious Island (1961), plus a review of Bernard Herrmann’s original soundtrack recording. Also packed into the Editor’s Blog – a lengthy editorial on the illusion of value that’s being sold with existing MOD programs.
Cliff Martinez
Interview with composer Cliff Martinez, and reviews of his latest scores: Contagion (WaterTower Music) for director Steven Soderbergh, and Drive (Lakeshore Records) for director Nicolas Winding Refn.
The Sights & Sounds of Driving Angry
Review of Drive Angry (2011) plus an interview with the film’s composer, Michael Wandmacher …
Jeff Grace: Aspects of Fright
A previously unpublished interview with composer Jeff Grace, plus soundtrack reviews of Grace’s I Sell the Dead, and House of the Devil / I Can See You (all from MovieScore Media), plus a DVD review of I Can See You (Kino)…
Targeting the 80s Action Genre
The late, great Michael Kamen scored two iconic action films of the eighties – Lethal Weapon (1987), and Die Hard (1988) – and they were the genre’s definitive films, in fact, because they provided the template for filmmakers to imitate and composers to emulate for around a decade. Screenwriters tended to use ‘Die Hard on a plane/train/boat/chuck wagon/wobbly tricycle’ when pitching ideas to agents, and journalists liked to use the same phrases to describe what story, treatment or script the latest overpriced scribe had managed to sell for $1.5, $2.5, and $4.0 million to a sucker studio…
Soundtrack producer interviews & other news
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…
Suburban Tales I: Durham County
Interviews with Durham County series writer/producer Janis Lundman, writer/producer/director Adrienne Mitchell, and Seasons 2 and 3 composer Peter Chapman…
An Autopsy of the Dead Films, Part 2
In Part 2 of this series, we offer up interviews with director Jeff Carney and Jim Cirronella, filmmakers of the latest Night of the Living Dead documentary, Autopsy of the Dead (Zero day Releasing)…
Soap Music II
An interview with Days of Our Lives composer D. Brent Nelson, goosed with unreleased cues from the series, plus a bit of Editorial blather…
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