Coming soon: Miklós Rózsa's score to Time After Time.

Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Music Friday of the upcoming release by buysoundtrax of famed Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa's score for Time After Time (1979, cowrit. and dir. Nicholas Meyer). For more information and to hear some sample tracks, go here. 

Upcoming tribute to Rod Serling.

Rod Serling, from a 1959
Mike Wallace interview

The Yellow Springs Film Festival (Ohio) plans a tribute to Rod Serling on October 2, featuring his author daughter Anne Serling (As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling) and writer-critic Mark Dawidziak (who has written a book on the Twilight Zone), a performance of the ca. 1948 Serling-Bill Rega radio play "The Air Is Free" (focusing on two endangered coal miners), a screening of the Twilight Zone episode "The Obsolete Man," and a panel discussion. 

McFarland's true crime sale.

In honor of CrimeCon, McFarland is running a sale on its true crime books. Use coupon code CRIMECON25 to save 20 percent through the end of September.

 

New release, Gerald Fried's crime drama music.

As Scott Bettencourt notes in Film Score Friday, there's a new release from Dragon's Domain records, Gerald Fried: The Crime Dramas, which features Fried's music for two Roger Corman films: The Cry Baby Killer (1958, with Jack Nicholson) and Machine Gun Kelly (1958, with Charles Bronson). Go here for more information and some sample tracks. 

Fried composed for TV series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Star Trek, and Roots.