filmmusic

It's more difficult surely for traditional orchestral sounding composers.
Write a sound-designy score nowadays with expensive equipment, and you might end up getting an Oscar! 

Curious how Young ended up scoring this little film.
Anyway, the music is quite ethnic and I'm curious also how the composer wrote such music.
I mean did he study the music of the country or is he based on traditional melodies?
There are many vocal tracks, and I wouldn't ever think that a Hollywood composer wrote these, if I didn't know..
I had listened to this fairly recently, and I can't udnerstand what people find in it.
The Silence of the Lambs on the other hand, that's a masterpiece.

How on earth Paltrow won the Oscar over Blanchett's performance, I will never understand...

Grainy one. Every time. I don’t like my movies looking like generative AI made them. 

You don't seem to understand.  Curated means taking a long thing and presenting a shorter version of it.  That's now what this is.

This is taking a complete score and repeating two different parts of it to make a longer album.
 
There is no cue recorded for the picture that isn't here; Every single cue recorded for the picture, is on the OST album.
 
In fact, there's only 50 seconds of music recorded that isn't on the OST album.  Instead of those 50 seconds, he repeated about 13 minutes worth of music.
 
Do you understand now?

You've got a pm.

I listened to Magdalene yesterday, and I found it a great score, although there are a couple of obvious "influences" from Mozart's Requiem.
Check it out if you haven't yet.
 

 
Pity that he has disappeared from the film music world!
(Although to tell you the truth, I've only listened to 3 scores in total by him)

I listened to Magdalene yesterday, and I found it a great score, although there are a couple of obvious "influences" from Mozart's Requiem.
Check it out if you haven't yet.
 

 
Pity that he has disappeared from the film music world!
(Although to tell you the truth, I've only listened to 3 scores in total by him)

Honestly I think I’d prefer to hear Williams’ take on a murder mystery than another alien movie.  But I think Columbus’ days of pulling someone of Williams’ caliber have passed by two decades or so.

Cleopatra. Fantastic score, among North's best. Very rich and always interesting. The three principal themes are to die for.
 
Karol

I don't know, I haven't warmed up to it at all..

JW'S E.T. INFLUENCE EXPOSED!
 
 
Do you hear it?

Just purchased a used Nixon blu-ray (Kino edition - includes both theatrical and director's cut) for 118 euros from ebay!! 
(It's OOP, that's why the price is steep)
 

Oh believe me, I've read all the wikipedia pages and I'm still confused!
 
 

Frisina is very uneven, IMO. I like some of his biblical output, but other things are too on-the-nose with little dynamic range. But he does know how to churn out a good theme or two.

Oh, sorry, I didn't think about it. I will edit my post ASAP!

It’s my favorite as well! Probably due to when I saw it and the score.  That Amstel art is gorgeous too. 

I just won this in an ebay auction for €64.36 (incl. shipping and VAT).

 
It's my favorite of the Mad Max films. I didn't like the first one, and I cannot remember the second. Maybe I should watch it again?

Is there a top 10 overall favorite film music themes thread?
Or I should start one?
Although, again, I'd like it to be a non-Williams thread, because I'm sure for most of us Williams would dominate our lists.

Nah... you didn't convince me... 

A 1957 film with Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, Gone with the wind like.
 

 
It's included  in the 100 essential film scores of the 20th century.
https://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/100filmscores.htm
 
 
It holds a special place in my heart because it was the first soundtrack I've ever heard (I mean as an album, apart from the picture) and the reason I'm now a film music lover.
I also think the Love theme is my favorite love theme ever! (more even than any of Williams's love themes)

To add to your surprise, he's never listened to the soundtrack of The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.

A 1957 film with Elizabeth Taylor, and Montgomery Clift, Gone with the wind like.
 

 
It's included  in the 100 essential film scores of the 20th century.
https://www.americanmusicpreservation.com/100filmscores.htm
 
 
It holds a special place in my heart because it was the first soundtrack I've ever heard (I mean as an album, apart from the picture) and the reason I'm now a film music lover.
I also think the Love theme is my favorite love theme ever! (more even than any of Williams's love themes)

Nope.
Favorite John Williams theme I guess is Schindler's List. (although favorite score overall is E.T.)
(I'm a sentimental and sensitive kind of guy! )