Volume 10, Number 2 Original Music Soundtracks for Movies and Television SINFUL! pg. 16 Major Changes Major Dundee rides again to the beat of a different drummer Max Steiner Danny Elfman Alexandre Desplat ...and more composers speak 25 Years Ago A great time for soundtracks 50 CDs & DVDs Reviewed and previewed in our80% 1.5 new, BWR PD expanded format! M/A � � � � � � � � � � � � � � $7.95 U.S. • $8.95 Canada contents FILM SCORE MAGAZINE 3 MARCH/APRIL 2005 contents March/April 2005 DEPARTMENTS COVER STORY 4 Editorial 28 Major Changes Film Score Magazine. Sam Peckinpah’s 1965 Civil War/western epic Major Dundee undergoes a major facelift, including a complete replacement of 6 News Daniele Amfitheatrof’s original score by relative unknown Mancini Plays it Cool. composer Christopher Caliendo. 7 Record Label By Jeff Bond Round-up What’s on the way. 9 Upcoming Film 32 Who is Daniele Amfitheatrof... 22 A visit with someone old... Assignments And why are people saying bad things about his music? Who’s writing what for whom. 10 Now Playing FEATURES Scores in current release. 10 Concerts Film music played live. 16 Triplets of Sin Genre fans unite, as Frank Miller’s Sin City comes to the big 11 Mail Bag screen, with music by John Debney, Graeme Revell and director Blessed Art Thou, Cartoons! Robert Rodriguez. By John Allina 12 Downbeat Alexandre Desplat and Nathan Larson. 19 Music for a Darkened Hall Danny Elfman recently premiered his first piece of concert music 43 Score at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and one of our own was lucky 12 Some notes on someone new... Elektra and 15 more enough to take it all in. recent releases. By Luke Goljan 49 Pocket Reviews 22 Max Memories, Part 2 58 Laserphile In this second and final installment, we continue our 1967 archi- Steppin’ Into the val interview with Golden Age legend Max Steiner. Twilight Zone. By Myrl A. Schreibman 62 Retrograde Feeling Fancy Free. 34 1980: A Very Good Year Where have all the good times gone, you ask? Well, for many film 53 FSM Marketplace music fans, the “good ol’ days” are the 1980s. A quarter-century later, take a look back at the year that started it all. By Scott Bettencourt 16 A peek at something blue. Film Score Magazine (ISSN 1077-4289) is published six times a year 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 Magazine, 8503 Washington Blvd, Culver City, CA 90232 FILM SCORE MAGAZINE 3 MARCH/APRIL 2005 EDITORIAL Film Score Magazine Volume 10 • Number 2 Or as Carlos Beltran might say: The New FSM. EDITORIAL STAFF t is my honor to welcome you to the first Pick of the Months,” singling out the must-have issue of the new and improved 64-page CD release from each issue. Or how about Scott Publisher Film Score Monthly—now known as Film Bettencourt’s brilliantly detailed analysis of LUKAS KENDALL Score Magazine, otherwise known as FSM. every important score released in 1980? You’re Executive Editor IThe good news is, our CDs are still monthly, so not impressed? Well believe me, there’s a hell of JONATHAN Z. KAPLAN we don’t mind if you continue to call us Film a lot more to come. Managing Editor Score Monthly if you really want to. On that Another substantial change around here TIM CURRAN note, the reader response to our revised edito- will be in the subscription renewal process, an Creative Director rial schedule has been positive so far, and your important clerical procedure that many read- JOE SIKORYAK understanding is much appreciated. While we ers unfortunately know little to nothing about. Editor-at-Large would have loved to be able to continue the The routine, which is actually quite interesting, JEFF BOND monthly format we maintained for almost 15 normally involves the application of hundreds Contributing Writers years, we are even more thrilled by the reality of address labels; hand-stuffing hundreds of JOHN ALLINA that this magazine still exists. Feel free to read envelopes; sealing those same envelopes; placing STEPHEN B. ARMSTRONG between that line. hundreds of stamps; and mailing the envelopes. SCOTT BETTENCOURT Anyway, as a result, everyone here at FSM is This process will now occur only six times MATTHIAS BUDINGER attacking the film music scene with renewed per year (as opposed to 10), but will naturally DAVID COSCINA vigor, hunting for the best writers, and hunger- involve several hundred more envelopes each ANDY DURSIN ing after the most interesting stories, no matter time. I bring this up not just because it is so LUKE GOLJAN how hard they are to track down. Sure there are interesting, but because for year after year, every ANDREW GRANADE still certain composers that will seldom speak single time I’m in the middle of doing subscrip- MARK GRIFFIN with us, but thanks to Jeff Bond’s Hollywood tion renewals, I say to myself in all sincerity: STEVEN A. KENNEDY Reporter connection, a devastating death or two, “FSM is not worth this. F-ck this. I quit.” That’s DARREN MACDONALD and our willingness to gut some critical writing how great they are. But I have to tell you, I’m so MYRL A. SCHREIBMAN from the pages of FSM, we are reaching a higher excited with the new state of the magazine that JOHN TAKIS percentage of big names than ever. Even John I don’t even mind doing subscription renewals IAN D. THOMAS Williams will talk to us on occasion. anymore! But if Jeff or Tim doesn’t help me JASON VERHAGEN For the many of you who were confused by from now on, I quit. CARY WONG last month’s editorial and thought that Vol. 10, Another thing: We’re committed to finally Copyeditor No. 1 was the new format, you’re in for an even getting the magazine back on schedule. We’ve DEBBIE NOTKIN bigger treat now. Vol. 10, No. 2 abounds with been chronically behind (a month or two) for changes, both drastic and subtle. You may notice years and have never been able to make that BUSINESS STAFF an intriguing new typeface, along with more time up. Right now we’re working overtime breathing room for graphics and text layout. You to put together these larger issues in an even Editorial & Subscriptions may also find that despite the expanded page shorter amount of time than our original edi- 8503 Washington Blvd. count, there are no extra advertisements filling torial schedule. One day...one day this year, our Culver City, CA 90232 the space. 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