The Empire Strikes Back Reductions
A YouTube user named leibniz154 has been posting piano reductions of film cues, including a great many from the Star Wars films. I love...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 30, 2021
- 3 min
1990 John Barry Interview
Here’s a 1990 interview with John Barry about Dances With Wolves for, I presume, a press junket, by a longtime entertainment journalist,...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 29, 2021
- 3 min
The Retro Euro Cult Film Score Society
I want to give a shout-out today to one of my favorite people, John(ny) Bender, and one of my favorite Facebook groups, The Retro Euro...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 28, 2021
- 3 min
Being the Ricardos = Missing?
I watched Being the Ricardos on Amazon and liked it. I always watch and enjoy Aaron Sorkin’s work. He operates at such a high level, it’s...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
Jean-Marc Vallée
I just woke up to the awful news that Jean-Marc Vallée has died. See Deadline. I thought Big Little Lies (the first season) and Sharp...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 26, 2021
- 2 min
Do You Know How Christm—ACKKKK!
Here’s a good topic for your post-Christmas hangover: “Do You Know How Christmas Trees Are Grown?”—the John Barry–Hal David Xmas song...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 25, 2021
- 1 min
Merry Christmas!
Hope everybody has a great Christmas! For Jewish people, this is the ultimate day off. Nobody’s working, nobody’s calling, nobody expects...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 24, 2021
- 3 min
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
We were going to visit my wife’s parents in Chicago over the holidays. Omicron put an end to that plan. It would have been our first trip...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 23, 2021
- 6 min
Matrix 4, Audience 2
You know who is a smart man? Harrison Ford is a smart man. One of the many pleasures of the original Blade Runner is the ambiguity as to...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 22, 2021
- 1 min
Straw Dogs Article
Just a short note today to refer people to this terrific new article on Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs in Quillette. I think I found it...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 21, 2021
- 2 min
Catching Up With Quartet Records
I got my new CD player for the computer so I am happily catching up with Quartet Records’ latest releases. So great! Piero Piccioni...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 20, 2021
- 2 min
Matto, caldo, soldi, morto...girotondo
I got a huge package of CDs from Quartet Records and I am so excited to listen to them! But I am waiting on a new CD player to hook up to...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 19, 2021
- 1 min
Love Boat Insanity
So much bad news in the air, not least of which is the omicron variant of Covid. So today I’d like to give a shout-out to one of my...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
The Most Illuminating Video on James Horner
UPDATE 3/8/22: Wow, was I grouchy when I wrote the below! So many negative ways to express things. Sorry!!! But for posterity’s sake,...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 17, 2021
- 3 min
James Horner/Star Trek Music Theory
I’d like to do a little music theory today. Maybe somebody smarter than I am will read this and offer some wisdom? I love James Horner’s...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
What I’m Trying to Do Here...
My daughter (7) drew the above as part of a school assignment. It thought it was hilarious. I would like to produce movies and...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 15, 2021
- 1 min
Belling the Slayer—the Capricorn One Ballet
If you’re like me, you love Jerry Goldsmith’s score to Capricorn One. But did you love it enough to choreograph and produce a ballet...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
25 Years of Mars Attacks!
I’m glad people enjoyed the Leonard Rosenman memories yesterday. Today’s post is way more stupid. I can’t believe it’s been 25 years...
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 13, 2021
- 11 min
Remembering Leonard Rosenman
I’ve wanted to write this piece for some time, but have put it off because it’s a little complicated—and, also, personal and emotional....
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Lukas Kendall
- Dec 12, 2021
- 5 min
The Expanse Is Back
The Expanse is back on Amazon Prime (because space freak Jeff Bezos loved it, and rescued it from cancelation) for its sixth and final...
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