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British label 101 Films has officially announced that it will release a Collector's Edition of Willard Huyck's film Howard The Duck (1986), starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, and Chip Zien. The release will be available for purchase on April 22, 2019.

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Director Emily Maltby and Actress Caitlin Cohn talk about "Lolita, My Love" and their new vision of the story and character for the NY Premiere. Performances are February 23rd-March 3rd.

The York Theatre Company - A Conversation about Lolita, My Love …

George Abud, Caitlin Cohn, and More Will Lead York Theatre Company's LOLITA, MY LOVE

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Article in The New York Times

February 11, 2019
1.33:1 / Colour, Mono / English, Subtitles None, Region 2 / PAL, 317 mins

The legendary Orson Welles hosts thirteen mysterious tales from this much sought-after anthology series.

Showcasing a haunting theme by John Barry, these macabre – often supernatural – dramas feature an astonishing array of talent, including Rupert Davies, Eli Wallach, Michael Kitchen, Patrick Magee, Donald Pleasence, Peter Cushing, Susannah York, Michael Gambon, Julie Dawn Cole, Kenneth Haigh, Harry Andrews, Dinsdale Landen, Christopher Lee, Jane Seymour and Ian Holm.

The episodes featured on this set – including classic tales from Wilkie Collins, W.W. Jacobs, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens and Arthur Conan Doyle – are:

A Terribly Strange Bed
Compliments of the Season
The Ingenious Reporter
The Monkey's Paw
Captain Rogers
For Sale - Silence
La Grande Breteche
An Affair of Honour
In the Confessional
The Furnished Room
Under Suspicion
The Leather Funnel
Trial for Murder

The York's Acclaimed Musicals in Mufti Series Returns January 26th Celebrating the Centennial of Legendary Librettist/Lyricist ALAN JAY LERNER (Brigadoon, Camelot, Love Life, My Fair Lady).

LOLITA, MY LOVE
FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 3, 2019
Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER
Music by JOHN BARRY
Edited by Erik Haagensen
Directed by EMILY MALTBY
Based on the Novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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Based on the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, My Love, which originally closed in Boston in 1971, closely follows the legendary novel: A college professor named Humbert Humbert becomes fascinated by and starts to seduce his landlady's young daughter, Dolores 'Lolita' Haze. The fascination quickly turns into obsession, and soon a whirlwind race across the US begins. For this Mufti presentation, Erik Haagensen (Darling of the Day and The Day Before Spring in Mufti) has edited together a new script from Lerner's assorted drafts, each vastly different from the others. Haagensen said, “Now audiences will have a chance to hear Lolita, My Love on stage and decide for themselves what they think of this unquestionably daring musical that begins as a black comedy and ends in tragedy.” Vladimir Nabokov himself said, “Mr. Lerner is most talented and an excellent classicist. If you have to make a musical of 'Lolita', he is the man to do it.”

11 PERFORMANCES ONLY!
Saturday at 2:30 and 8 p.m. • Sunday, at 2:30 and 7 p.m. (first weekend of each Mufti only) • Wednesday at 7 p.m. • Thursday at 2:30 & 7 p.m. • Friday at 8 p.m.

The Quiller Memorandum (1966) will be released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time on March 19, 2019.

This will be a limited edition of 3000 copies. This will be from a new 4K transfer.

A three CD box set released in association with Geoff Leonard, biographer and world authority on the life and work of the great British film composer, John Barry.

“If you think in terms of the sixties as a revolution in England, it was music-led. The Beatles led the rock ‘n’ roll and John Barry led the movie music.” MICHAEL CAINE

“John’s got this facility of writing a tune, a very simple tune and that’s the most difficult one to write of all. The one that you think you must have heard somewhere before but you haven’t and he’s got the gift. It’s quite hard to write a simple tune. It’s quite easy to write a complicated one.” GEORGE MARTIN

A three CD box set released in association with Geoff Leonard, biographer and world authority on the life and work of the great British film composer, John Barry.

The edition includes every single John Barry Seven A & B side published between 1957 and 1962 in true mono housed together under one roof for the very first time. A unique opportunity to listen to these seminal recordings as they were originally heard.

The first bona fide CD appearance of the “Stringbeat” LP in mono, together with various singles also making their mono debuts on CD.

A chronological audio history of the group combined with authoritative booklet notes and rare period photos/images.

The inclusion of impossible rarities, including the debut CD release of the original version of ‘Three Little Fishes’ plus many sought-after Chappell Music Library recordings.

A fascinating insight into John Barry’s early work as a film composer, comprising as it does The James Bond Theme and his scores for Beat Girl, Never Let Go and The Amorous Prawn.

DISC ONE:
THE PARLOPHONE YEARS PLUS
1. ZIP ZIP
2. THREE LITTLE FISHES (ORIGINAL VERSION)
3. LET’S HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME (LIVE)
4. ROCK-A-BILLY BOOGIE (LIVE)
5. EVERY WHICH WAY (LIVE)
6. YOU’VE GOTTA WAY
7. THREE LITTLE FISHES (US VERSION)
8. EVERY WHICH WAY
9. BIG GUITAR
10. RODEO
11. PANCHO
12. HIDEAWAY
13. FARRAGO
14. BEE’S KNEES
15. WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN (LIVE)
16. PANCHO (LIVE)
17. LONG JOHN
18. SNAP ‘N’ WHISTLE
19. LITTLE JOHN
20. FOR PETE’S SAKE
21. BEES KNEES (LIVE)
22. LITTLE JOHN (LIVE)
23. REBEL ROUSER (LIVE)
24. MAD MAB (LIVE)
25. TWELFTH STREET RAG
26. CHRISTELLA
27. MOOD ONE
28. MOOD TWO
29. MOOD THREE
30. MOOD FOUR
31. SMOKY BLUES

DISC TWO:
THE COLUMBIA YEARS PLUS
1. HIT AND MISS
2. ROCKIN’ ALREADY
3. BEAT FOR BEATNIKS
4. BIG FELLA
5. BLUEBERRY HILL
6. NEVER LET GO
7. WALK DON’T RUN
8. I’M MOVIN’ ON
9. SATURDAY’S CHILD
10. BLACK STOCKINGS
11. GET LOST JACK FROST
12. MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
13. SKID ROW
14. A MATTER OF WHO
15. THE MENACE
16. SPINNEREE
17. ROCCO’S THEME
18. WATCH YOUR STEP
19. TWIST IT
20. CUTTY SARK
21. LOST PATROL
22. TEARS
23. THEME FROM ‘THE ROMAN
SPRING OF MRS STONE’
24. THE JAMES BOND THEME
25. TIT WILLOW TWIST
26. THE BLACKSMITH BLUES
27. THE LOLLY THEME
28. MARCH OF THE MANDARINS

DISC THREE:
BEAT GIRL / STRINGBEAT
BEAT GIRL
1. BEAT GIRL
2. THE OFF BEAT
3. I DID WHAT YOU TOLD ME – Adam Faith
4. LONDON HOME ROCK
5. TIME OUT
6. THE SHARK
7. THE BEAT GIRL SONG – Adam Faith
8. THE CITY 2000 A.D
9. THE STRIPPER
10. THE CAVE/BEAT GIRL/KIDS STUFF
11. MADE YOU – Adam Faith
12. CAR CHASE/NIGHT CHASE
13. CHICKEN
14. BLUES FOR BEATNIKS
15. IT’S LEGAL – Shirley Anne Field
16. THE IMMEDIATE PLEASURE
17. BLONDIE’S STRIP
18. END SHOT/ SLAUGHTER IN SOHO/MAIN TITLE – BEAT GIRL

STRINGBEAT
19. IT DOESN’T MATTER ANYMORE
20. SWEET TALK
21. MOODY RIVER
22. THERE’S LIFE IN THE OLD BOY YET
23. A HANDFUL OF SONGS
24. LIKE WALTZ
25. RODEO
26. DONNA’S THEME
27. STARFIRE
28. BAUBLES BANGLES & BEADS
29. ZAPATA
30. RUM-DEE-DUM-DEE-DAH
31. SPANISH HARLEM
32. MAN FROM MADRID
33. THE CHALLENGE

"After years of exhaustive searches for session masters proved unsuccessful, Intrada worked with ITV and current soundtrack license holder UMG to finally premiere the rare 1981 album in CD format, working from pristine copies of the album itself (even these masters remain AWOL) and utilizing state-of-the-art NoNoise technology that addressed all surface noise without sacrificing any vivid dynamics of the original score, which was recorded in France under Barry’s direction.

Though the album is admittedly brief, it remains a sensational listening experience! Flipper-style booklet cover features original MCA album artwork plus alternate campaign with liner notes by John Barry authority, Jon Burlingame. CD produced by Douglass Fake, Roger Feigelson performs executive producer chores. Dan Wallin records and mixes, John Barry composes and conducts. Intrada Special Collection CD available while quantities and interest remain!"

01. The Man In The Mask (Main Title)* (1:34) 02. The Legend Begins** (1:35) 03. John And Amy Meet (1:48) 04. The Valley Chase (1:56) 05. Brothers (2:05) 06. The Cavendish Gang Strikes (2:06) 07. The Man In The Mask (Instrumental) (1:32) 08. The Breaking Of Silver** (1:35) 09. Ambush (3:11) 10. Dynamite (2:06) 11. The Final Attack (2:02) 12. William Tell Overture (Public Domani) (3:28) 13. The Man In The Mask (End Title) (1:12)

Total Time: 26:50

 Aled Jones and Russell Watson have released the official video for their single ‘Where Have All The Flowers Gone/Here’s To The Heroes’

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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment are to release Robin and Marian on Blu-ray on 20 Nov 2018
107 min.
SpecialFeatures: Theatrical Trailer,
AspectRatio: 16 X 9, ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 1.85:1
Region A
No subtitles

The Scarlet Letter is to be released on Blu-Ray on 2 Jan 2019.

KL Studio Classics, 2.35:1, 135 mins, Region A (Anamorphic, NTSC).

£22.50

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In a few days time, our book "Hit and Miss: The Story of The John Barry Seven" will be published and available.

"Quartet Records and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer present a remastered, remixed, slightly expanded edition of this masterful John Barry noir score for the thriller Masquerade. The 1988 film was directed by Bob Swaim and starred Rob Lowe, Meg Tilly, Kim Cattrall and Doug Davant."

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Book and Lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER
Music by JOHN BARRY
Based on the book "Lolita" Vladimir Nabokov
FEBRUARY 23 - MARCH 3, 2019

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Based on the 1955 novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita, My Love, which originally closed in Boston in 1971, closely follows the legendary novel: a college professor named Humbert Humbert becomes fascinated by and starts to seduce his landlady's young daughter, Dolores "Lolita" Haze. The fascination quickly turns into obsession, and soon a whirlwind race across the US begins.  ”For this Mufti presentation, Erik Haagensen (Darling of the Day and The Day Before Spring in Mufti) has created a new script, edited together from Lerner’s assorted drafts, each vastly different from the others. Haagensen has stated that “Now audiences will have a chance to hear [Lolita] on stage and decide for themselves what they think of this unquestionably daring musical that begins as a black comedy and ends in tragedy.” Nabokov himself has said “Mr. Lerner is most talented and an excellent classicist. If you have to make a musical of ‘Lolita,’ he is the man to do it”.

For many years John Barry fans had been misled into thinking he had composed the theme that accompanied the Black Magic series of commercials - ‘Who Knows the Secret of the Black Magic Box’. These had a theme, which most people remember – maybe because it ran the longest or because it was possibly the last specially composed theme for these commercials - shown when people actually watched them rather than fast-forwarded or muted them!

Read the article here...

19 Nov 2018

Limited Blu-ray Edition (World Blu-ray premiere) See Blu-Ray page...

Columbia S BPG 62402
Format: 1LP 180g 33rpm / standard sleeve
Manufacturer: Speakers Corner
Original label: Columbia
Release Date: 2018-06-15
Status: New release, in stock

Royal Albert Hall
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Starts: 7:30pm

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Presented by Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace). Over fifty years of timeless James Bond themes from all your favourite 007 films.

Hits from Goldfinger, Licence to Kill, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, Spectre, From Russia with Love to name just a few, all sung by outstanding vocalists Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gareth Hudson Conductor
Alison Jiear Vocalist
Matthew Ford Vocalist

Buxton Opera House
Water street,
Buxton, Derbyshire, sk17 6xn

Sun 12 Aug
7:30pm

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The popular Q The Music Show brings its James Bond Concert Spectacular to Buxton Opera House.

The 13-piece band will be bringing the fabulous and iconic music of James Bond to you in a stunning concert. This show has been a huge success all around the world with its energetic and exciting performance by some of the UK’s leading musicians.

Featuring all the songs from the 007 movies, you can hear the greats like Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, Skyfall, Thunderball, Live And Let Die, Goldeneye and Licence To Kill amongst all the others. With top musicians and an informative and highly amusing compere, this show has everything you could want for a fabulous night out – and one that you will be talking about for years to come. Formed in 2004, Q The Music Show have established a worldwide reputation for their authentic covers, orchestral sound and fabulous hair-raising vocalists. The show has been popular abroad at events in Monte Carlo, Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Guernsey, Prague and many others.

The Quiller Memorandum is showing at NFT2 at BFI SouthBank.....
21st July 2040
30th July 1820

On the BFI Website
02079283232

UK-USA 1966
Dir Michael Anderson
With George Segal, Senta Berger, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow
102min
Digital
Certificate PG

An excellent George Segal plays Quiller, a secret agent dispatched to Berlin to uncover a neo-Nazi movement. Based on a thriller by Adam Hall (aka Elleston Trevor), Pinter’s screenplay transforms the hero from a Bond-like superman to an obdurate professional, and heightens the political resonance of a story about a man caught between the insidious banality of the neo-Nazis and the manipulative coldness of British spymasters.

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Erik is an organist who plays The James Bond Theme, Goldfinger, Diamonds Are Forever, A View To A Kill and other James Bond Songs (From Russia With Love, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Licence To Kill, GoldenEye [his favourite title], Tomorrow Never Dies, Writings On The Wall, plus Casino Royale [Herb Alpert] as encore) on church organs.

His programme is called “georgelt, not geruehrt” (= organ-ed, not stirred)

These versions sound at least a little bit unconversant in the beginning but after some time the songs sound quite complex.

A James Bond quiz takes place in the intermission of his programme. Prize for every right answer: a voucher for a Wodka Martini redeemable after the concert.

Mike's Murder (1984)
starring Debra Winger,
directed by James Bridges,
music by John Barry.

Showing at BFI South Bank , 4th May 2045, 11th May

1815.

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It has come to our notice that a collector of film memorabilia has acquired a reel-to-reel tape recording of the 1972 Filmharmonic concert; which featured music by Miklós Rózsa and John Barry, performed by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the composers themselves.

Details are sparse at this early stage, but we understand the original owner was in the habit of travelling the world, armed with a portable tape-recorder, and may have recorded this concert himself from his seat in the Royal Albert Hall – however difficult or unlikely that might appear to us all now.

It’s also possible that he acquired a copy of the recording made for Sir Sydney Samuelson, who produced the concert. Obviously without hearing the recording it’s impossible to comment on the quality, but hopefully the current owner will investigate the possibility of a digital transfer.

Naturally, fans of both composers will be keen to learn about the possibility of the music getting a commercial release, and although this would be an intriguing prospect, it’s likely there will be major obstacles.

Firstly, since the members of the RPO would only have been paid for their original performance, not for a live recording, a re-use fee would be payable in the event of a commercial release. Bearing in mind the size of the orchestra, and in excess of 90 minutes of music, the re-use cost is certain to run into thousands of pounds; making a release by any of the dedicated soundtrack labels extremely unlikely.

Secondly, will be the recording turn out to be of sufficient quality that the RPO management would be happy to approve such a release?

Having said this, in the event of the quality being OK, there still might be a way of getting a commercially legal release. The RPO management might be prepared to release it themselves, and turn over any profits to their orchestra benevolent fund – assuming there is such a thing – and tracking down those who played during the 1972 concert proves impossible.

If and when we receive more information we will update this story, but in the meantime the phrase “never say never” comes to mind once again!

By Raymond Benson.

"... It shows off John Barry’s Oscar-winning score (play it loud!)..."

Read the review here...

Talking Pictures will be screening The Last Valley in May -- a very rare TV screening in the UK.

The Party's Over is also being repeated at some stage that month.

Never Let Go, Beat Girl & Mix Me a Person are all on during April.

James Bond fans are in for a treat in January 2019, as renowned Band, the popular Q The Music Show, are putting on a special concert - performing all the music from Moonraker on

26th January 2019

at the

Wycombe Swan Concert Hall,
High Wycombe,
Berkshire
United Kingdom.

You can back the project and buy tickets here

They are drafting in professional musicians from London to create a 100-piece Orchestra and Choir to recreate all of John Barry’s iconic cues from the 1979 film. As there is only around 50 minutes of music in the film, they will perform the best of the James Bond songs in the second half in true Q The Music style, but with full orchestra.

Because of the nature of this concert, and the huge costs involved, they are crowd funding it, so tickets have to be purchased by 6th May this year for the concert to go ahead on Saturday 26th January 2019.

Q The Music Show are popular with James Bond fans all around the World thanks to their dedicated and authentic versions of the music and were chosen to perform at Sir Roger Moore’s Memorial Event at Pinewood Studios in October last year. The concert will be compered by Bond girls Madeline Smith and Caroline Munro, who have been working with Q The Music this year on their theatre tour of the UK.

The concert will not be available to buy on recording after the show, and the Moonraker score has never been performed live, so this is a unique opportunity for fans to see it. If the project is a success, Q The Music plan to go on a do a different Barry/Bond score each year.

You can back the project and buy tickets here

^{*Please note, this is a music only performance – no images or footage from the film will be shown, and Q The Music are not associated with EON, Danjaq LLC, or the James Bond Films in any way.}

Warren Ringham
Q The Music Show - James Bond Tribute Band
The London Showband - Party & Covers Band

South Bank Centre
Part of Classical Season 2017/18
7:30 pm
Fri 23 Mar 2018

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Celebrate the UK’s most famous secret service agent as this musical tribute to James Bond returns – an exciting concert with an explosive 28 piece orchestra.

Hear all the iconic music and songs from over 50 years, plus a tribute to other spies and detectives from around the world.

Performers
London Concert Orchestra
John Rigby conductor
Louise Dearman guest singer
Oliver Tompsett guest singer

Repertoire
Programme includes: -
-: From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Diamonds are Forever, Live and Let Die, For Your Eyes Only, Nobody Does It Better, You Only Live Twice, Skyfall, All Time High, The World is Not Enough, Thunderball, Another Way to Die, Writings on the Wall

Royal Albert Hall
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Starts: 7:30pm

Website

Presented by Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace). Over fifty years of timeless James Bond themes from all your favourite 007 films.

Hits from Goldfinger, Licence to Kill, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, Spectre, From Russia with Love to name just a few, all sung by outstanding vocalists Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gareth Hudson Conductor
Alison Jiear Vocalist
Matthew Ford Vocalist

"A timid schoolteacher (Michael Crawford) tries to join the 60s sexual revolution in this Woodfall comedy."

BFI

Thursday 05 April 2018 20:55
NFT3
Thursday 12 April 2018 18:20
NFT2

Royal Albert Hall
Wednesday 19 September 2018
Starts: 7:30pm

Website

Presented by Gemma Arterton (Quantum of Solace). Over fifty years of timeless James Bond themes from all your favourite 007 films.

Hits from Goldfinger, Licence to Kill, Casino Royale, Skyfall, Diamonds Are Forever, Live and Let Die, Spectre, From Russia with Love to name just a few, all sung by outstanding vocalists Alison Jiear and Matthew Ford.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Gareth Hudson Conductor
Alison Jiear Vocalist
Matthew Ford Vocalist

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We have received sheet music transcriptions of Chaplin and Who Will Buy My Yesterdays (OHMSS). Our thanks for this.

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Staggering to hear this song after 36 years -- many thanks to Peter Greenhill and Andrew John.

Almost Love – Music by John Barry, Lyrics by Dean Pitchford
Recorded by Catherine Howe on Breeze BI 113 (1981)
Arranged by Bobby Patrick. Side B – Inside Moves Theme (Bobby Patrick Band)

Lyrics through our Lyrics page...