In 1983 I was working as an art director for the studio which did the special effects for THE RIGHT STUFF. Though I was not personally involved in the effects, my knowledge of film music was well known around the studio and director Phil Kaufman, who was frequently coming in for meetings, asked me who…
Craig Anderson’s letter In CinemaScore #15 (p.30)* raises once again that tired old question: just how original is an Original Soundtrack? I was initially dubious at Craig’s suggestion that John Williams had “lifted almost intact” his score for E.T. from Howard Hanson’s Romantic Symphony (it couldn’t be the other way around, as Craig allowed: the…
Christopher Young and the Invaders from Cannon Composer Christopher Young is, in the opinion of many, one of the most exciting young composers on the Hollywood scene. At the age of 28, Young has scored no less than 13 feature films, among them THE POWER, DEF-CON 4, HIGHPOINT (replacing a score by John Addison), WHEELS…
The animated films of Walt Disney can be divided into two major periods of development and culmination: the initial phase extending from his first efforts in the medium in the mid/late 1920s through the release of BAMBI in 1942, and the second lasting from 1942 to 1959 and the release of SLEEPING BEAUTY, Disney’s last…
The following article was originally written to accompany the Label X [Southern Cross] Records release of Alex North’s DRAGONSLAYER soundtrack, now out of print. After the planned booklet did not materialize, this material was subsequently made available to CinemaScore by Mr. Rosar. While the article concerns specifically the musical cues appearing on the Label X…
Carry On Eric Englishman Eric Rogers was born in 1921 and gained an appreciation for music at an early age. At thirteen years old, as a churchgoer, he was tutored in and played the church organ. During the Second World War, whilst in the RAF, Rogers played the piano, his ‘payment’ consisting of free beer…
RoboBackground As often happens with successful films, in terms of box office receipts (particularly those of the science fiction and action variety), ROBOCOP returned to duty for a sequel in 1990. The title refers both to its status as a follow-up and the name of the second law enforcement cyborg in the film and it…
John Wayne was in Mexico when he decided to produce and direct THE ALAMO. The ‘forties were coming to a close and for Wayne it was a period of professional immersion in celluloid Americana, a time in which history and mythology and Wayne’s own peculiar personification of the 19th Century American frontiersman had mingled to…
One of the most remarkable and original films released in America in 1985 was THE COMPANY OF WOLVES, a British picture filmed at Shepperton Studios with dense, storybookish sets that made it look like a movie Hammer Films would have made if they had the money and ambition. But THE COMPANY OF WOLVES is by…
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