FILM SCORE MONTHLY Vol. 9, Number 8

Cover Story
Blast From the Past -- Rising composer Ed Shearmur (Reign of Fire, Johnny English) takes on his biggest challenge yet with Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. by Jeff Bond

Feature Articles
Remembering Raksin -- David Raksin worked in Hollywood from the Golden Age to the Silver Age -- and lived to tell the tale. We offer an affectionate tribute to one of the most outspoken practitioners of film scoring. by Roger Hall
The Final Conflict -- It began in 1999, but now must come an ending...to the Jerry Goldsmith Buyers' Guide. In part seven of our compendium, we list the last scores recorded by Goldsmith and the latest releases of his older works. by Jeff Bond

Working for The Man -- Arthur Morton worked in Hollywood for 60 years -- but perhaps never more memorably than in collaboration with Jerry Goldsmith. In this never-before-published interview, Morton talks shop with the music director of Intrada. by Douglass Fake

The Triumph of Troy -- How much is there to say about a rejected score? When it's as high-profile -- and as high-quality -- as Gabriel Yared's composition, there's more to discuss than you might think. by David Coscina

Brion of All Trades -- The beyond-classifiable composer of Punch-Drunk Love and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind talks about his latest work, I Heart Huckabees. by Jeff Bond


Monthly Departments
Downbeat -- Jeff Danna on Resident Evil: Apocalypse. by Jeff Bond
Score: CD Reviews -- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Vanity Fair, A Home at the End of the World, King Arthur, The Chronicles of Riddick, Narrow Margin, Battle of Britain, Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius, Caroline, or Change, L'Enfant des Loups, Last Tango in Paris, Il Giardino Delle Delizie/L'Uomo Poriettile, Quartiere, Spider-Man (1967 re-arrangements), Lewis and Clark: A Film by Ken Burns, Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip, Summer Holiday. DVD Review: Ennio Morricone: A Man and His Music.

The Laserphile -- Andy Dursin on Halloween DVD releases.

Plus Mailbag, the FSM Marketplace and more.