Tag: Maurice Jarre

Reassessing The Only Game in Town (1970) +The Staircase (1969)

August 14, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Reassessing The Only Game in Town (1970) +The Staircase (1969)

Instead of filming Frank Gilroy’s play in its natural setting of Las Vegas, Vegas was rebuilt in Paris at a cost of $11 for Fox’ The Only Game in Town, so Liz could be closer to husband Richard Burton as filming of Staircase was winding down. As I often do at KQEK.com, I try and pair the available with the should-be-available, so alongside a review of Twilight Time’s Only Game Blu-ray is a review of Staircase.

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John Debney’s The Call + Thriller Soundtrack Reviews

March 23, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
John Debney’s The Call + Thriller Soundtrack Reviews

Just uploaded is a podcast with composer John Debney, wherein we discuss his latest score for director Brad Anderson, The Call. In addition to a review of Lakeshore’s soundtrack album, I’ve added related reviews of Debney’s Dream House (Varese), La-La Land’s Jennifer 8 featuring Christopher Young’s score + Maurice Jarre’s rejected score, and an expanded review of Dana Kaproff’s When a Stranger Calls (Krizterland), which I previously covered in an issue of Rue Morgue magazine.

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Enemy Mine comes to Blu

December 10, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Enemy Mine comes to Blu

Review of Wolfgang Petersen’s Enemy Mine, that flawed 1985 sci-fi drama newly minted on Blu-ray from Twlight Time, and an Editor’s Blog on the issues with creating an alternate version.

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A Watery Apocalypse + Soundtrack News & Reviews

June 2, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
A Watery Apocalypse + Soundtrack News & Reviews

Toronto’s Union Station floods because we’re not eating enough hard-boiled eggs; soundtrack news from Intrada, Kritzerland, and La-La Land; Rue Morgue CD reviews; plus CD reviews here of Ernest Gold’s The McCullochs (Monstrous Movie Music) and Pressure Point (Kritzerland), Maurice Jarre’s expanded A Walk in the Clouds (La-La Land), and the new 2-CD edition of Burt Bacharach’s Casino Royale (Quartet Records).

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