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Volume 9, Number 8 Original Music Soundtracks for Movies and Television It’s Mutiny! PG. 4 Score Captain ED SHEARMUR’S WORLD OF TOMORROW Goldsmith Guide THE FINAL INSTALLMENT Huckabees’ Brion EXISTENTIAL COMPOSER PLUS: RAKSIN REMEMBERED TROY RECOUNTED MORTON RECORDED 08 > 7 252 74 93704 2 $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada Project2 10/14/04 4:12 PM Page 1 contents SEPTEMBER 2004 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 2 Editorial 13 Blast From the Past Dream Fulfillment. Rising composer Ed Shearmur (Reign of Fire, Johnny English) takes on his biggest challenge yet with Sky Captain and the 4 News World of Tomorrow. Emmys and the WSAs.. By Jeff Bond 5 Record Label Round-up FEATURES What’s on the way. 5 Now Playing 11 Brion of All Trades Movies and CDs in The beyond-classifiable composer of Punch-Drunk Love and 16 Forever Raksin. release. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind talks about his latest work, 6 Concerts I Huckabees. Film music performed By S. Mark Rhodes around the globe. 7 Upcoming Film 16 Remembering Raksin Assignments David Raksin worked in Hollywood from the Golden Age Who’s writing what to the Silver Age—and lived to tell his tale. We offer an for whom. affectionate tribute to one of the most outspoken practitioners of film scoring. 9 Mail Bag By Roger Hall Many Thanks, Maestro! 20 The Final Conflict 10 Downbeat It began in 1999, but now must come an ending...to the Return of the Evil. Jerry Goldsmith Buyers’ Guide. In part seven of our com- pendium, we list the last scores recorded by Goldsmith and 30 Score the latest releases of his older works. 24 My dinner with Arthur. Lots of CD reviews, By Jeff Bond including Sky Captain, King Arthur, Narrow 24 Working for The Man Margin, and a DVD fea- Arthur Morton worked in Hollywood for 60 years—but turing Ennio Morricone. perhaps never more memorably than in collaboration with Jerry Goldsmith. In this never-before-published interview, 45 The Laserphile Morton talks shop with the music director of Intrada. Frightfully Good! By Douglass Fake 28 The Triumph of Troy 36 FSM Marketplace How much is there to say about a rejected score? When it’s as high-profile—and as high-quality—as Gabriel Yared’s com- position, there’s more to discuss than you might think. By David Coscina 28 The legend grows. Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published ten times a year (with double issues in May/June and November/December) for $36.95 per year by Vineyard Haven LLC., 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232. Periodicals postage paid at Culver City, CA and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Film Score Monthly, 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 FILM SCORE MONTHLY 1 SEPTEMBER 2004 EDITORIAL Dream Fulfillment Volume 9 • Number 8 Or, I’m a record producer, not a shipping clerk, dammit. EDITORIAL STAFF his month we announce our 99th and 100th CDs. 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Playthings” (song: “I Want My Hands by Art Phillips, President, Back”)—music and lyrics by Ken Keeler T Australian Guild of Screen Recent assignments Sesame Street Presents “The Street We Composers: • Bruce Rowland is scoring Live On” (song: “The Street I Live On”)— the horror film Jasper Morello, music by Mike Renzi, lyrics by Lou Berger The Australian Institute a silhouette animation drama.