filmmusic

So, I've listened to the La La Land score album.
Yes, it' quite good. No relation to Babylon that I could not finish.
Truly the best of all 5 Oscar nominations that year.

I have bad news for whoever bought or was planning to buy the new 4k Superman box.
According to bluray.com forum, the new disc for the first movie doesn't include the 5.1 original 70mm mix.
Now everyone is trying to track down a copy of the old 2018 disc, that included it.

I'm trying to follow this edition with the Omni publication.
I see many bars that are written in the Omni, aren't in the LLL edition.
Does that mean they were not recorded?
example:
1m4R Flashback
LLL has only bars 10-21 (1-9, 21-end are omitted)
 

I have bad news for whoever bought or was planning to buy the new 4k Superman box.
According to bluray.com forum, the new disc for the first movie doesn't include the 5.1 original 70mm mix.
Now everyone is trying to track down a copy of the old 2018 disc, that included it.

I have bad news for whoever bought or was planning to buy the new 4k Superman box.
According to bluray.com forum, the new disc for the first movie doesn't include the 5.1 original 70mm mix.
Now everyone is trying to track down a copy of the old 2018 disc, that included it.

There is a main theme that is stated a couple of times.
from 0.23''-1.46''
 

That is the Hymn to the Fallen theme.  Through out the film, you don't really hear the theme till the credits. You only hear snap shots.  
 

Personally, I think it's "just OK", but you might be interested in Nils' review of the score on Celluloid Tunes, here as run through Google Translate. 
 
By the way, the best score of 2015 was THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY by Cat's Eyes.
 
 
He, he. No, but that's a damn fine set. Even includes bits from the Oslo gig, which was one of my first major concert experiences, and the only time I've seen Pink Floyd as Pink Floyd (I also saw Waters solo in 2007).

This is one of those scores that definitely needs to be experienced within the movie it accompanies, because outside of it it's mostly just that, a bucn of pulsating rhythms that slowly increase the tension, but in the movie it's quite effective in how it greatly enhances Villeneuve's mood and atmosphere, and it's quite essential to it.
 
I don't know if it's one of the best five scores of that year (I don't remember what other great scores were released that year), but it works really well within the movie, and that's why they probably nominated, but it's true that it's not the most rewarding listening experience.

That's an odd time of year to watch this film.
I personally can't watch holiday-ish films at another time...

I have stayed away from this, mainly because I didn't like the film.
Now that I've heard it, well, I'd say it's quite good, although static at most times.. I liked the use of the organ though.
Having listened to all the Oscar nominated scores of that year (and the winner of course), I think I'd prefer this over the others.
(I have to re-listen to Mr. Turner to remember it though. The thing I remember is that it was a highly sophisticated score).
 

 
An Oscar winner really?
Morricone has written hundreds of scores, some magnificent ones, and you give the Oscar to this?
Well, I'd say it felt more of a whole-career-Oscar than for the specific score. 
 

 
The main theme is like listening to Philip Glass.
 

 
I think Thomas Newman is best when he remains to his distinctive style. This deviated a bit in my opinion.

PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES, is, rather like HOME ALONE, and LOVE ACTUALLY, a seasonal film that I can watch any time of the year.

Surprised this wasn't nominated for any Oscar back in 1995.
A portrait of the painter Dora Carrington, and mainly her relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey in early 20th century.
Also, a masterful score by Michael Nyman.
 

While I love TD, it was a replacement score.
Jerry's is far more suited to the film.

Watch both. Tangerine Dream's is on the same level as Goldsmith's; just different in style.

Yo Yo Ma has a 90-CD box set
 
https://www.amazon.com/Yo-Yo-Ma-Years-Outside-Box/dp/B002IC10Y8

Silly, campy, trashy but fun!
Just watched my newly purchased 4k disc in a gorgeous looking steelbook.

That's the one

Have you bought this German release?
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Killers-4K-Blu-ray/280883/
Because this is the only 4K one globally.

I can’t watch the dubbed versions. Way too distracting.  
 
Original language+subs is almost always the way to go, IMO.

A top 10 for ya. I've stricken out the ones you're familiar with, and added some alternatives at the end.
 
1. ANNA AND THE KING
2. White Palace
3. Dangeous Liaisons
4. Shadowlands
5. Cry Freedom
6. The Madness of King George (a lot of Händel in it, though)
7. Dangerous Beauty
8. China Moon
9. Memphis Belle
10. High Spirits
 
Alternatives to the three stricken: We're No Angels, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, The Blue Planet.
 
You can also listen to the aforementioned interview to get a nice career overview (funny to hear this early interview again, btw, where I was doing my best to pronounce in proper British English, but at the same time very stilted -- these days, I'm more informal, but also less proper in the pronounciation. Funny.).

Don’t laugh.  But I used to love the old cartoon. Never saw the movie. 

I know where you guys are coming from.
A good friend of mine thinks that THE REMAINS OF THE DAY is two people bickering about a ceramic statue of a Chinaman.
The poor fool.

Silly, campy, trashy but fun!
Just watched my newly purchased 4k disc in a gorgeous looking steelbook.

Silly, campy, trashy but fun!
Just watched my newly purchased 4k disc in a gorgeous looking steelbook.