Francis Ford Coppola designed Apocalypse Now as a completely subjective experience. He wanted to immerse the audience into his mythic journey through the eyes and ears of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), and to that end he created some of the most awe-inspiring imagery and broke new ground in sound design. His maniacal attention to detail and (at ( Read more... )

GEEK SNOBBERY OR MOVIE BUFF SNOBBERY?


• The big news is that Star Wars is going Blu next year, but as I expected, only the Special Edition versions will be represented in the new format. George Lucas has confirmed this, saying that it would just cost too much money to restore the original versions. That's fine, I can save MY money and stick with my ( Read more... )

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MEANWHILE, AT THE HALL OF JUSTICE:

• I woke up this morning to find an E-mail from La La Land explaining that on Tuesday they will be releasing an expanded remaster of Shirley Walker's Batman: Mask of the Phantasm score!!! Awesome news! FSM Board Announcement.
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I had originally put together a Batman feature compilation, Gotham Avenger: Screen Tales of the Dark Knight in October of 2005, and it incorporated music from Batman Begins. As with Man of Steel: Screen Tales of the Last Son of Krypton, it had a built-in obsolescence both in terms of incorporating music from the current state of the franchise and ( Read more... )

One of the projects that I had planned to dismantle was my Gotham Avenger: Screen Tales of the Dark Knight compilation. I worked on this project extensively yesterday; the relationship between that mix and the new one is roughly the same as that between Man of Steel: Screen Tales of the Last Son of Krypton and You'll Believe A Man Can Fly (down to ( Read more... )

The problem with having made so many mixes by now is that eventually you come to a point where you exhaust all the obvious ideas. Every once in a great while either some form of inspiration strikes from an unexpected quarter ( Excelsior! was a project that took me by surprise) but most of what I'm planning on in one form or another right now are ( Read more... )

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While I had indeed made my Silver Screen Star Trek and Man of Steel albums on the new computer, due to odd timing and equipment issues, I hadn't really gotten around to working on it since my grandfather died. A mix idea had been tossing about in my head, a piece that was inspired somewhat by the turmoil of the past few months. Today, I put all ( Read more... )