Lukas Kendall
Hollywood Confessional Podcast: Film Score Ghostwriting
Hollywood Confessional is a podcast with anonymous film industry workers telling their stories about terrible treatment and bad...
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Lukas Kendall
- 3 days ago
- 2 min
My Top 5 Film Composers
I have a “scratch file” of ideas for blog columns that I’ve been relying upon to put up these daily thoughts. I had one on there, “My Top...
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Lukas Kendall
- Sep 23
- 1 min
David Carbonara’s Back to One
Just a quick plug today for composer David Carbonara’s new jazz album, Back to One. Check it out!
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Lukas Kendall
- Sep 16
- 3 min
Black Belt Jones
I have a confession to make. All those blaxploitation movies—and all those kung fu movies—and, especially, all those blaxploitation +...
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Lukas Kendall
- Sep 6
- 1 min
Indiana Jones 5 Score Preview
Well, this was cool! I haven’t been to the Hollywood Bowl in years—I hate the parking! But John Williams conducted his annual...
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Lukas Kendall
- Sep 4
- 2 min
Sure, Meet Your Heroes
Here’s a stupid picture of me with Quincy Jones circa 2012. It was some film music gathering, I remember where it was (on the Sunset...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 30
- 1 min
The Stone Killer Playlist
There’s a Roy Budd crime score I’ve always loved, The Stone Killer, a 1973 Charles Bronson film. It was directed by Michael Winner, who...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 29
- 1 min
Intrada Unreleased Cue Guessing Game
My friend Roger Feigelson at Intrada has been posting a fun game on the Intrada message board. I only recently discovered it when he...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 25
- 3 min
5455 Wilshire
Earlier this week I drove through Culver City, for the first time in years. The Film Score Monthly office was located at 8503 Washington...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 14
- 1 min
Illustrated Man Music Timing Notes
Did it ever feel like Jerry Goldsmith’s scores were so good, and sometimes the movies were so bad, that it was as if he was scoring a...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 13
- 2 min
Hot Potato John Barry Homage
I only recently discovered a 2012 Guy Farley score to a 1960s-era caper comedy, The Hot Potato. I was listening to it cold (long story)...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 6
- 1 min
Farewell to Mike Lang
Above: Mike Lang, photographed by Dan Goldwasser. I was so sorry to hear of the passing of Mike Lang (1941–2022), one of the all-time...
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Lukas Kendall
- Aug 4
- 1 min
Ennio Morricone’s Belinda May
I just want everybody out there to know that I have been closely involved with film music for over 30 years. And it was not until this...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jul 26
- 1 min
Anonymous Content Address
Here’s something I find mildly hilarious. Anonymous Content is one of the most prestigious management/production companies in Hollywood...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jul 24
- 1 min
Sunday With a Random Lalo
This blog is not planned out. I have a “scratch list” of ideas which I sometimes draw from, sometimes not. I like doing a combination of...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jul 23
- 10 min
The Basil Poledouris Concert
There are some things that you imagine would be cool to do—but you never think you’ll do them. Fly a fighter jet or win an Oscar, things...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jul 21
- 1 min
Raised by Westworld
Last week I wrote about recent shows that are so weird and withholding in their story elements, I often find them laborious to watch. I...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jul 15
- 1 min
Night Sky—Interstellar?
First off, thank you to everybody who sent me birthday wishes yesterday, I appreciate it! I am watching Night Sky on Amazon. I’m halfway...
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Lukas Kendall
- Jul 12
- 2 min
Monty Norman R.I.P.
British composer Monty Norman has died at the age of 94. There are obituaries all over the place but I would rely on Jon Burlingame’s at...
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