Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová’s ballad "Falling Slowly," from John Carney’s Irish-made romantic musical Once, remains in the running in the Best Original Song category of the 2008 Academy Awards.
Several days ago, questions had arisen about the song’s eligibility because before Once came out different versions of "Falling Slowly" had been featured in two music [...]
In The Vast Picture Show, the [Dublin] Sunday Tribune’s film critic Paul Lynch reports that "Falling Slowly," from the Irish romantic musical Once, may be ineligible for the best original song Oscar. The Academy has been apparently investigating the issue.
Lynch quotes a piece by the Sunday Tribune’s music critic Una Mullally:
"The Sunday Tribune understands that [...]
Bruce Broughton, Mark Isham, Mychael Danna, Rolfe Kent. Photo: Greg Harbaugh/© A.M.P.A.S.
The above photo is from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ second installment of "The Music Soundtrack: A Composers’ Forum of Contemporary Scoring Technique," a discussion on the art and craft of motion picture music scoring held at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ three-evening series "The Music Soundtrack: A Composers’ Forum of Contemporary Scoring Technique," will focus on the creation of music scores for motion pictures." Sessions will be held on September 20, September 27, and October 4 from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Academy’s Linwood Dunn Theater in [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a weekend-long centennial salute to 17-time Oscar-nominated Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa beginning on Friday, August 17, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The opening evening will be hosted by music critic and historian Jon Burlingame, and will feature an overview of [...]
WNYC, New York Public Radio and the largest public radio station in the United States, has interviews with Oscar-nominated actors and directors, commentaries on the nominated films, discussions on the state of film soundtracks, and a weeklong Film Score Orgy streaming on their website.
Go to www.wnyc.org/arts/articles/73966 to listen to:
Film Score Orgy: 24/7 streaming audio [...]
Over his 45-year career, prolific composer-conductor Ennio Morricone has composed more than 500 scores for both films and television — including this blogger’s all-time favorite movie score, the C’era una volta il West / Once Upon a Time in the West ballad.
Morricone will finally be given his Oscar due February 25, 2007, when he’ll [...]
"As you may have guessed by now, Scarlet Seas is a lost film — a double loss really, as it not only seems to have been an absolute corker of a film that would boast the best of both worlds of silent and sound cinema, but it’s also probably a film that [Richard] Barthelmess would [...]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that 56 songs will be considered in the Original Song category for the 2006 Academy Awards.
On Tuesday, January 16, the Academy will screen clips featuring each song, in random order, for Music Branch voting members in both Beverly Hills and New York City.
According to [...]
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February 2007 will be Talmadge month at New York City’s Donnell Library Center Auditorium. As part of the "Meet the Music Makers" series, which explores the artistic symbiosis between the silent screen and live musical accompaniment, three Constance Talmadge vehicles and one Norma Talmadge comedy will be screened on four consecutive Wednesdays, beginning [...]
At Vitaphone Varieties, Jeff Cohen discusses early talking pictures with a South Seas setting in the article "Melody Native."
A brief quote:
"The Pagan, an MGM feature released in April of 1929, hit the mark with escapist minded audiences and devout fans of it’s [sic] star, Ramon Novarro, alike. Although a silent film with a synchronized music, [...]
Malcolm Arnold, reportedly the first British composer to win an Academy Award, died Saturday, Sept. 23, at a hospital in Norfolk county, eastern England, after suffering from a chest infection. Arnold was 84.
He won his only Academy Award for scoring the mammoth 1957 Anglo-American David Lean production The Bridge on the River Kwai, which won [...]
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Press Release:
New York, NY — The rarely seen silent version of Welcome Danger, Harold Lloyd’s final silent film, will screen for "Monday Nights with Oscar®" audiences on Monday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Academy Theater at Lighthouse International in New York City.
The program will feature a new print made from original [...]
Press Release:
Beverly Hills, CA — In celebration of Oscar®-winning composer Franz Waxman’s centennial, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen the 1941 films Suspicion and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, both featuring Academy Award®-nominated scores composed by Waxman, on Thursday, October 19, at 7 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly [...]
At London’s Barbican Centre: Jean Epstein, best known for his Gothic silent classic The Fall of the House of Usher (1928), was also responsible for the naturalistic semi-documentary Finis Terrae (1929), which will be screened at the Barbican’s Cinema 1 at 3 p.m. on Sept. 17.
Shot on the coast of Brittany, Finis Terrae portrays the [...]
Legendary Broadway producer Cy Feuer, 95, died this morning at his home in Manhattan. In addition to producing a number of award-winning Broadway musicals during his fifty-plus year career, Feuer also worked as a director, composer, musician, and was a longtime president of The League of American Theatres and Producers.
His feature film credits include [...]
Press release:
Beverly Hills, CA — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that 42 original songs from eligible feature-length motion pictures are being considered for the 78th Academy Awards®.
The original songs, along with the motion picture, are listed below in alphabetical order:
"Along the River" from "End of the Spear"
"Angels Talk" from "Angels [...]
Using as an example the recent demolition of George and Ira Gershwin’s old Beverly Hills home, a Harold Meyerson article in this week’s edition of the LA Weekly chastises the city of Beverly Hills for its lack of interest in the preservation of its cultural and architectural history.
