The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James Cameron films, two 'Star Trek' movies and classics like 'A Beautiful Mind,' 'Field of Dreams' and 'Apollo 13.'
James Horner, the consummate film composer known for his heart-tugging scores for Field of Dreams, Braveheart and Titanic, for which he won two Academy Awards, died Monday in a plane crash near Santa Barbara. He was 61.
His death was confirmed by Sylvia Patrycja, who is identified on Horner's film music page as his assistant.
"We have lost an amazing person with a huge heart and unbelievable talent," Patrycja wrote on Facebook on Monday. "He died doing what he loved. Thank you for all your support and love and see you down the road."
Horner was piloting the small aircraft when it crashed into a remote area about 60 miles north of Santa Barbara, officials said. An earlier report noted that the plane, which was registered to the composer, had gone down, but the pilot had not been identified.
For his work on the 1997 best picture winner Titanic, directed by James Cameron, Horner captured the Oscar for original dramatic score, and he nabbed another Academy Award for original song (shared with lyricist Will Jennings) for “My Heart Will Go On,” performed by Celine Dion.
“My job — and it’s something I discuss with Jim all the time — is to make sure at every turn of the film it’s something the audience can feel with their heart,” Horner said in a 2009 interview with the Los Angeles Times. “When we lose a character, when somebody wins, when somebody loses, when someone disappears — at all times I’m keeping track, constantly, of what the heart is supposed to be feeling. That is my primary role.”
His score for Titanic sold a whopping 27 million copies worldwide.
His fruitful partnership with Cameron also netted him Oscar noms for original score for the blockbusters Aliens (1986) and Avatar (2009). The pair reportedly were also at work on Avatar sequels.
The Los Angeles native earned 10 Oscar noms in all, also being recognized for his work on two other best picture winners: Braveheart (1995) and A Beautiful Mind (2001). He also received noms for An American Tail (1986), Field of Dreams (1989), Apollo 13 (1995) and House of Sand and Fog (2003).
Always busy, Horner has three films coming out soon: Southpaw, the boxing drama that stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rachel McAdams and is due in theaters in July; Jean-Jacques Annaud’s Wolf Totem, out in September; and The 33, a drama based on the 2010 mining disaster in Chile that’s set for November.
His lengthy film résumé includes The Lady in Red (1979), Wolfen (1981), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1983), Red Heat (1988), Glory (1989), The Rocketeer (1991), Patriot Games (1992), Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), Jumanji (1995), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Troy (2004) and The Amazing Spider-Man (2012).
His father was two-time Oscar-winning art director/set designer Harry Horner (The Heiress, The Hustler).
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
On 23rd June Lumière will release the Ozu-classic TOKYO STORY
Director:Yasujirô Ozu
Writers:Kôgo Noda (scenario), Yasujirô Ozu (scenario)
Stars:Chishû Ryû, Chieko Higashiyama, Sô Yamamura
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality
DVD release
TOKYO STORY op 23 juni 2015
Het meesterwerk van Yasujiro Ozu, al decennialang beschouwd als een van de beste films aller tijden.
Nu de digitaal gerestaureerde versie beschikbaar op DVD.
Naast de bekende klassieker TOKYO STORY werden ook vier van Ozu's zes kleurenfilms, EQUINOX FLOWER, GOOD MORNING, LATE AUTUMN en AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON gerestaureerd. Dit als onderdeel van een grootschalig digitaal restauratieproject door de befaamde Japanse studio Shochiku ter ere van Ozu’s 110e geboortejaar en vijftigste sterfjaar in 2013. Momenteel wordt ook de restauratie van LATE SPRING (Banshun) afgewerkt.
Lumière plant in de komende maanden ook nog de DVD releases van bovenvermelde titels.
EYE Filmmuseum Amsterdam heeft naar aanleiding van deze recente digitale restauratie de klassieker TOKYO STORY met succes opnieuw uitgebracht in de theaters. Ook de vier gerestaureerde kleurenfilms van de meesterfilmer zijn te zien in EYE en in een select aantal bioscopen in Nederland.
Met de programmatie van de Ozu-films loopt EYE vooruit op het grote overzicht dat het filmmuseum vanaf 24 september 2015 zal wijden aan de Japanse cinema.
Een diep ontroerend familieportret, waarin het veranderende familieleven in naoorlogs Japan centraal staat.
Het oude echtpaar Shukishi en Tomi woont samen met hun ongehuwde dochter op het Japanse platteland. Als ze besluiten hun andere kinderen in Tokyo op te zoeken, draait het bezoek uit op een teleurstelling. Ze blijken zo druk met zichzelf en hun levens dat ze geen tijd voor hun ouders hebben. Ontgoocheld reist het echtpaar terug naar huis. Als Tomi onderweg ziek wordt, is het de beurt aan de kinderen om de lange reis af te leggen.
Yasujiro Ozu (Tokio, 1903 - 1963, Tokio) is wel ‘de meest Japanse van alle Japanse filmers’ genoemd, niet in het minst vanwege zijn voorkeur voor een spaarzame, uitgewogen filmstijl. In vrijwel al zijn films, meestal over de levens van de Japanse middenklasse, is de cameravoering statisch. Lang aangehouden opnamen, waarbij de camera 360 graden rondcirkelt vanuit een laag standpunt – 90 cm boven de grond, de ooghoogte van een zittende Japanse volwassene – waren Ozu’s favoriet.
THE END OF SUMMER (1961) draaide in de Gouden Beer-competitie van het Filmfestival van Berlijn, waardoor zijn bekendheid bij het westerse publiek toenam. De Japanse filmmaker geldt als een van de grote cineasten van de 20ste eeuw en is vaak als inspirator genoemd door Europese filmers, onder wie namen als Jean-Pierre Melville, Wim Wenders en Jim Jarmusch.
Ozu filmde overwegend in zwart-wit, maar koos eind jaren vijftig en begin jaren zestig ook voor kleur. Van de zes kleurenfilms zijn er nu vier gerestaureerd, als onderdeel van een grootschalig digitaal restauratieproject door de befaamde Japanse studio Shochiku, ter ere van Ozu’s 110e geboortejaar en vijftigste sterfjaar in 2013. De vijf geselecteerde films zijn de afgelopen jaren op verschillende belangrijke festivals te zien geweest, waaronder die van Venetië en Berlijn en worden later dit jaar op dvd uitgebracht door Lumière.
Technische specificaties DVD:
Japan 1953 | Duur: 136 min. | Taal: Japans | Ondertiteling: Nederlands of Frans | Formaat: 4/3 - zwart/wit | Audio: Dolby Digital 1.0
Italian actress Laura Antonelli has died at her home in the seaside town of Ladispoli, near Rome. She was 74. Her cleaning lady found her body on the floor and gave the alarm calling for help.
Born Laura Antonaz in 1941 in Pola (now Croatia), Laura Antonelli appeared in over 40 films in between the 1960s and early 1990s, winning popularity first in erotic movies and then in auteur pictures as Italian erotic icon of the 1970s.
She modeled in Italian Coke advertisements and made her film debut in 1965. The sexy comedic fantasy-drama Malicious (1973) by Salvatore Samperi was a box office hit and became soon a cult movie.
She starred in acclaimed flicks as Claude Chabrol's Docteur Popaul (1972), Dino Risi's How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973), Luigi Comencini's Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974), Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's The Divine Nymph (1975), Luchino Visconti's The Innocent (1976), Mauro Bolognini's Gran bollito (1977), and Ettore Scola's Passion on Love (1981).
Her career ended in 1991 when she was convicted on drugs charges before eventually clearing her name after a long legal battle. She rarely socialized after a plastic surgery operation went wrong at the start of this decade and she felt depressed.
Source: Play4movie
To celebrate the release of ALTERED STATES, the Roach / Schulte collaboration RITUAL GROUND is now available on Bandcamp.
Twenty-five years ago, Solitaire appeared on the German e-music scene with Altered States. Projekt makes this album available for the first time digitally.
Altered States was the 1990 debut CD-release from SOLITAIRE. Founded by the duo Elmar Schulte and Rüdiger Gleisberg in 1989, they performed their first concert in Berlin, two days after the fall of the wall. Several CD productions followed Altered States including Ritual Ground (Elmar Schulte and Steve Roach), Fearless and Nocturnes (Elmar Schulte and Rüdiger Gleisberg). Solitaire created their own style somewhere between electronic, ambient and psychedelic. Solitaire’s music has been used in Hollywood films such as “Heat” and “Blade”.
projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/altered-states-25th-anniversary-edition
We’re delighted to announce that Saint Etienne‘s Sarah Cracknell releases a solo album, Red Kite, on 15th June. The album was recorded with co-producers Carwyn Ellis (Colorama) and Seb Lewsley (Edwyn Collins/The Cribs) in a makeshift studio in the heart of Oxfordshire during the winter of 2014/2015. It includes vocal contributions from Nicky Wire and The Rails (James Walbourne, Kami Thompson).
Red Kite marks Sarah’s first solo release since 1997’s Lipslide and is accompanied by a new single, ‘Nothing Left To Talk About’, which is a duet with Nicky Wire from the Manic Street Preachers.
This album is also available as a Limited Edition 12″ LP
Track List:
1 On The Swings
2 Nothing Left To Talk About (ft. Nicky Wire)
3 In The Dark
4 Ragdoll
5 Underneath The Stars
6 Hearts Are For Breaking
7 Take The Silver (ft. The Rails)
8 The Mutineer
9 I Close My Eyes
10 It’s Never Too Late
11 I Am Not Your Enemy
12 Favourite Chair
