Original Music Soundtracks for Motion Pictures and TV V OLUME 5 , N UMBER 9 / 1 0 Art-house Action page 45 09 > ALAN SILVESTRI: CAST AWAY PLUS: BACK TO THE FUTURE 7 252 74 9 3 7 0 4 2 $4.95 U.S. • $5.95 Canada HOWARD SHORE: THE CELL Two new scores by the legendary composer of The Mission and A Fistful Of Dollars. GAUMONT AND LEGenDE enTrePriSES PReSENT Also Available: The Mission Film Music Vol. I Film Music Vol. II MUSicic BYBY ENNIO MORRICONE a ROLAND JOFFÉ film IN STORES FEBRUARY 13 ©2001 Virgin Records America, Inc. v CONTENTS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2000 cover story departments 26 101 Great Film Scores on CD 2 Editorial Here at the end of the year, century, millennium, Counting the Votes. whatever—FSM sticks out its collective neck and selects the ultimate list of influential, significant 4 News and enjoyable soundtracks released on CD. Hoyt Curtin, 1922-2000; By Joe Sikoryak, with John Bender, Jeff Bond, Winter Awards Winners. Jason Comerford, Tim Curran, Jeff Eldridge, 5 Record Label Jonathan Z. Kaplan, Lukas Kendall Round-up & Chris Stavrakis What’s on the way. 6 Now Playing 33 21 Should’a Been Contenders Movies and CDs in release. Go back to Back to the Future for 41 Missing in Action 8 Concerts ’round-the-clock analysis. Live performances page 16 around the world. f e a t u r e s 9 Upcoming Assignments 14 To Score or Not To Score? Who’s writing what Composer Alan Silvestri found his music for whom. struggling for survival in the post-production of Cast Away. 11 Mail Bag By Jeff Bond Brucing up the Place. 16 Future Past Present 49 Score Sometimes pop classics yield good soundtracks; The latest CD reviews, come back to Back to the Future to analyze what including: The Phantom works so well. Menace: Ultimate By Jon and Al Kaplan Edition, Jaws and Sound and Vision. Now on DVD, The Cell offers a 45 Crouching Composer, cerebral sound experience. Hidden Cellist page 22 Composer Tan Dun and cellist Yo-Yo Ma discuss 62 Pocket Reviews scoring the atypical art-house action flick. Attention Deficit By Jeff Bond Disc Honors. 64 Retrograde i n t e r v i e w Tuning up for Prime Time. 22 Set Free in THE CELL Howard Shore returns to the serial killer genre 52 Marketplace with a twist. By Doug Adams 12 Reader Ads Leap into the music for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. page 45 ON THE COVER: EIGHT OUT OF 101 Ain’T BAD Film Score Monthly (ISSN 1077-4289) is published monthly 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 F il M S C O R E M O N T hl Y 1 N O V em B er /D E C em B er 2 0 0 0 EDITOR I AL V O L U M E 5 NUMBER 9/10 2 0 0 0 Counting the Votes editorial staff OR, WHY IT TOOK US TEN YEARS TO COMPILE A LIST OF 101 GREAT FILM SCORES EDITOR & PUBLISHER Lukas Kendall SENIOR EDITOR est of” lists are tempting. It’s This last matter is especially important. Jeff Bond an irresistible notion, to try In the last 10 years the state of film music MANAGING EDITOR “Band come up with the definitive on CD has gone from largely unavailable Tim Curran list of our favorite music. It’s easy enough with a few good albums to largely available DepaRTmenTS EDITOR to start: Gone With the Wind, Ben-Hur, with fewer and fewer important works still Jonathan Z. Kaplan Psycho, The Empire Strikes Back, the big unrepresented. In 1990 collecting film music DESIGN DIRECTOR stuff. Those roll off the tongue. So do the on CD was about hungering for those favor- Joe Sikoryak next dozen or two. Then it gets much more ite scores beyond our reach, gobbling them CONTRIBUTING WRITERS difficult... Bullitt or Dirty Harry? Laura up one by one as they came out; today the Doug Adams or The Bad and the Beautiful? Eventually new collector is surrounded by hundreds if John Bender it becomes a maddening, almost arbitrary not thousands of titles. Whereas our buying A.K. Benjamin effort demanding a sort of overall macro pattern used to be dictated by the order in Jason Comerford justice that smoothes over the endless micro which the material trickled out, today it’s up Martin Dougherty inequities: trade you that extra Herrmann to us to shop for the good stuff. This maga- Jeff Eldridge for a Friedhofer. zine, therefore, must expand from mere rabid Steven A. Kennedy NO RECOUNTS: At All of this explains why I never tried to reporting of new CDs to thoughtful coverage Chris Stavrakis least we didn’t do it! In 10 years of publishing Film Score of everything out there. I don’t know if any- have any chads, Monthly I have considered the notion of one has or would want to have all of our 101 COPYEDITOR dimples or a “best scores ever” article but never had greats in the same collection. The material Steve Gilmartin butterflies to the wherewithal to follow through and crosses generations and shares in common THANKS TO contend with. make the tough choices. I wish I could only the fact that it accompanies movies. B.A. Vimtrup say “until now,” but the fact is, I still It is natural that each fan would gravitate don’t have the wherewithal! The list of toward a certain era or style and home in business staff 101 Great Film Scores on CD in this issue on that particular world, be it Golden Age, is the brainchild of our talented art director, Silver Age, contemporary, foreign, electronic ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER Joe Sikoryak, who came to us four years ago or otherwise. But this list is an important Chelo Avila offering his services for a movie music fan overview of all those worlds and how they EDITORIAL & SUBSCRIPTIONS magazine solely out of his love for the mate- mesh to form a unified pantheon of great 8503 Washington Blvd rial. Since 1997 the look of the magazine has works. I thank Joe and our staff for putting Culver City, CA 90232 been Joe’s doing, and today more of the feel of it together and letting me enjoy it the same PH. 310-253-9595 it is his as well. Joe was the one who pushed way as you, the readers—it’s fascinating FAX 310-253-9588 for doing the 101 greats and then did the reading and I can’t wait to argue against E-MAIL [email protected] brutal, inescapable work to make it happen: those choices I don’t like! brainstorming entries, soliciting knowledge- SALES & MARKETING MANAGER able contributors, rounding up reviews—and One last thing: despite the awesome pro- Bob Hebert making the tough choices. In the end he ful- fessional appearance of this magazine we ADVERTISING filled the vision I would have always had for are still a small company trying to make do. such a list had I done it myself: To get back on schedule we are calling this 8503 Washington Blvd issue No. 9 and 10—a double issue counting Culver City, CA 90232 1 That it is a fair sampling of accepted clas- for two editions for subscribers. We hope the PH. 323-962-6077 sics reflecting good taste and informed extra pages and the ambitious cover story FAX 310-253-9588 popular opinion; make up for this amendment to our publica- 2 That it bridge different genres and eras tion schedule. Please keep in mind that back SUpeRVISIng MAIL ORDER HanDLER with appropriate reverence to each, tak- when I was doing this out of my dorm room Mailman Al ing care to represent notable compos- I had to this pull kind of stunt. In fact, FSM ers; has always put out 9 or 10 issues a year and OUR WEBSITE 3 That it hedge its bets with reasonable not 12 as the title “Monthly” might imply. I Is updated five times weekly! guidelines to limit the potential entries picked that title when I was 18 so we’re kind Point your browser at: (see the article, page 26); of stuck with it! WWW.FILMSCOREMONTHLY.COM 4 That it serve as a useful and accurate © 2000 Vineyard Haven LLC. overview of suggested film scores for our PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. CD-buying readers. Lukas Kendall NO vem B E R/ Decem B E R 2 0 0 0 2 FIL M Sc OR E M O N THLY WILD COLONIALS ★ REEL LIFE VOL. #1 MUSIC FROM HOLLYWOOD A COLLECTION OF WILD COLONIALS FILM MUSIC SINCE THEIR DEBUT ALBUM IN ‘94 THE WILD COLONIALS HAVE HAD THEIR MUSIC FEATURED IN OVER 24 DIFFERENT MOVIES! 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