Kenneth Wannberg, composer and Emmy-winning music editor who worked on nearly half of all John Williams’ films dating back to the late 1960s, died Jan. 27 at his home in Florence, Oregon. He was 91.
Wannberg was best known as Williams’ music editor, working closely with the composer on more than 50 of his films. He assisted Williams throughout the scoring process, from providing detailed descriptions of sequences to be scored to more technical aspects such as trimming or modifying music during the last stages of post-production.
He music-edited the first six “Star Wars” films, the first three “Indiana Jones” films and such other landmark Williams scores as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Jurassic Park,” “Schindler’s List” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
During his 50-year career in films, Wannberg worked with many other composers including Bernard Herrmann (“Journey to the Center of the Earth”), Jerry Goldsmith (“The Mephisto Waltz”), Michael Convertino...
Wannberg was best known as Williams’ music editor, working closely with the composer on more than 50 of his films. He assisted Williams throughout the scoring process, from providing detailed descriptions of sequences to be scored to more technical aspects such as trimming or modifying music during the last stages of post-production.
He music-edited the first six “Star Wars” films, the first three “Indiana Jones” films and such other landmark Williams scores as “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Jurassic Park,” “Schindler’s List” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.”
During his 50-year career in films, Wannberg worked with many other composers including Bernard Herrmann (“Journey to the Center of the Earth”), Jerry Goldsmith (“The Mephisto Waltz”), Michael Convertino...
- 2/3/2022
- by Jon Burlingame
- Variety Film + TV
William Hurt, Christine Lahti and Elizabeth Perkins do excellent work in this superior drama which delivers an important, unforced life lesson. An emotionless hotshot surgeon gets a dose of his own medicine when he’s hit by a cancerous tumor, and is put through the same wringer that so humiliates his patients. What might be a cynical critique becomes a curiously uplifting drama about the need to include some humanity in one’s profession. Asserting the importance of kindness and empathy to people in need, director Randa Haines’ show is more uplifting than a faith-based film.
The Doctor
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1991 / Color / widescreen / 122 min. / Street Date March 5, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 19.95
Starring: William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo, Wendy Crewson, Bill Macy, J.E. Freeman, Ed Rosenbaum.
Cinematography: John Seale
Film Editor: Lisa Fruchtman, Bruce Green
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Original Music: Michael Convertino...
The Doctor
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1991 / Color / widescreen / 122 min. / Street Date March 5, 2019 / available through Kino Lorber / 19.95
Starring: William Hurt, Christine Lahti, Elizabeth Perkins, Mandy Patinkin, Adam Arkin, Charlie Korsmo, Wendy Crewson, Bill Macy, J.E. Freeman, Ed Rosenbaum.
Cinematography: John Seale
Film Editor: Lisa Fruchtman, Bruce Green
Production Designer: Ken Adam
Original Music: Michael Convertino...
- 3/5/2019
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
The Hidden
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1987 / Color /1.78:1 / Street Date October 4, 2017
Starring Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri
Cinematography by Jacques Haitkin
Written by Jim Kouf
Produced by Stephen Diener, Dennis Harris, Jeffrey Klein
Directed by Jack Sholder
After a demanding evening spent bumping and grinding at The Harem Room, a weary young dancer packs up her gear and exits the club to a chorus of catcalls. She responds by whipping out a state-of-the-art shotgun and laying waste to not only to the would-be lotharios but a good section of Hollywood Boulevard. Is this the continuing story of Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45? No, it’s Jack Sholder’s The Hidden, one of the wittiest B movies of the eighties.
That stripper’s gun-happy rampage is just the latest in a series of increasingly bizarre crimes catapulting the baffled police into a futile game of whack-a-mole; as soon as the cops eliminate one gunman,...
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1987 / Color /1.78:1 / Street Date October 4, 2017
Starring Kyle MacLachlan and Michael Nouri
Cinematography by Jacques Haitkin
Written by Jim Kouf
Produced by Stephen Diener, Dennis Harris, Jeffrey Klein
Directed by Jack Sholder
After a demanding evening spent bumping and grinding at The Harem Room, a weary young dancer packs up her gear and exits the club to a chorus of catcalls. She responds by whipping out a state-of-the-art shotgun and laying waste to not only to the would-be lotharios but a good section of Hollywood Boulevard. Is this the continuing story of Abel Ferrara’s Ms. 45? No, it’s Jack Sholder’s The Hidden, one of the wittiest B movies of the eighties.
That stripper’s gun-happy rampage is just the latest in a series of increasingly bizarre crimes catapulting the baffled police into a futile game of whack-a-mole; as soon as the cops eliminate one gunman,...
- 10/10/2017
- by Charlie Largent
- Trailers from Hell
Cultures collide in this savvy Tim Allen starrer about a hyperactive commodities trader and the 13-year-old son he discovers he has fathered in the Amazon. Look for some decided improvement on the boxoffice for this Buena Vista family pleaser.
Enhancing this prospect's chances are the attractive comedic cast members, including Lolita Davidovich, JoBeth Williams and Martin Short.
Even by a big-time broker's standards, Michael's (Allen) life is complicated: He's engaged to Charlotte (Davidovich), while attempting to finalize his divorce with his ex (Williams), who, naturally, lives in the Amazon. Michael is surprised by the fact he has a child there, the winsome Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington), whose tribal bents are a befuddlement to his surprise dad. Laying their yarn with a cultural anthropologist's insight and juicing it with slapstick, screenwriters Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon have concocted a pleasing delight. There is plenty of squirrely humor in the scenario, and the characters are very sympathetic, particularly Allen's, whose decent hyperactivity is a visual highlight.
Special praise also to Short for his performance as Michael's antic partner. Similarly, Davidovich is aptly alluring as Michael's fiancee, while Williams is properly independent as Michael's heady ex-wife. Huntington will likely lure young female appeal for his perky performance as the jungle boy.
Director John Pasquin infuses the hilarity with an apt mix of tenderness and wackiness. The technical contributions are well-suited all across the board, particularly cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts' glowing hues and costume designer Carol Ramsey's wacky duds. Similar kudos for composer Michael Convertino's spirited, splashy score.
JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE
Buena Vista
Walt Disney Pictures
and TFI International present
Producer Brian Reilly
Director John Pasquin
Screenwriters Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
Based on "Un Indien Dans La Ville" by
Herve Palud, Thierry Lhermitte, Igor Aptekman, Philippe Bruneau de la Salle
Executive producers Rick Baker, Rick Messina, Brad Krevoy
Co-producer William W. Wilson III
Associate producers Thierry Lhermitte,
Louis Becker
Director of photography Tony Pierce-Roberts
Production designer Stuart Wurtzel
Editor Michael A. Stevenson
Costume designer Carol Ramsey
Music Michael Convertino
Casting Renee Rousselot
Associate producers Kimberly Brent,
Bruce Economou
Sound mixer Allan Byer
Color/stereo
Cast:
Michael Tim Allen
Mimi-Siku Sam Huntington
Patricia JoBeth Williams
Charlotte Lolita Davidovich
Richard Martin Short
Jan Valerie Mahaffey
Karen LeeLee Sobiesky
Andrew Franki Galasso
Running time -- 111 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Enhancing this prospect's chances are the attractive comedic cast members, including Lolita Davidovich, JoBeth Williams and Martin Short.
Even by a big-time broker's standards, Michael's (Allen) life is complicated: He's engaged to Charlotte (Davidovich), while attempting to finalize his divorce with his ex (Williams), who, naturally, lives in the Amazon. Michael is surprised by the fact he has a child there, the winsome Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington), whose tribal bents are a befuddlement to his surprise dad. Laying their yarn with a cultural anthropologist's insight and juicing it with slapstick, screenwriters Bruce A. Evans and Raynold Gideon have concocted a pleasing delight. There is plenty of squirrely humor in the scenario, and the characters are very sympathetic, particularly Allen's, whose decent hyperactivity is a visual highlight.
Special praise also to Short for his performance as Michael's antic partner. Similarly, Davidovich is aptly alluring as Michael's fiancee, while Williams is properly independent as Michael's heady ex-wife. Huntington will likely lure young female appeal for his perky performance as the jungle boy.
Director John Pasquin infuses the hilarity with an apt mix of tenderness and wackiness. The technical contributions are well-suited all across the board, particularly cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts' glowing hues and costume designer Carol Ramsey's wacky duds. Similar kudos for composer Michael Convertino's spirited, splashy score.
JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE
Buena Vista
Walt Disney Pictures
and TFI International present
Producer Brian Reilly
Director John Pasquin
Screenwriters Bruce A. Evans, Raynold Gideon
Based on "Un Indien Dans La Ville" by
Herve Palud, Thierry Lhermitte, Igor Aptekman, Philippe Bruneau de la Salle
Executive producers Rick Baker, Rick Messina, Brad Krevoy
Co-producer William W. Wilson III
Associate producers Thierry Lhermitte,
Louis Becker
Director of photography Tony Pierce-Roberts
Production designer Stuart Wurtzel
Editor Michael A. Stevenson
Costume designer Carol Ramsey
Music Michael Convertino
Casting Renee Rousselot
Associate producers Kimberly Brent,
Bruce Economou
Sound mixer Allan Byer
Color/stereo
Cast:
Michael Tim Allen
Mimi-Siku Sam Huntington
Patricia JoBeth Williams
Charlotte Lolita Davidovich
Richard Martin Short
Jan Valerie Mahaffey
Karen LeeLee Sobiesky
Andrew Franki Galasso
Running time -- 111 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
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