Thor

Continuing my journey through my father's vinyl gifts, I found this one too! Again, not as good as 52ND STREET, but still wonderful! I know many people have this as their fav. I had no idea my dad liked Billy Joel so much, but kudos to him!

Mary Ann?!? That may very well be, yes! If so, a second 60s item. Cool!

TWO HOURS! "It's a MADHOUSE!". Oh well, I expected it to be one of those excessive things, but I feel confident it's possible to whittle this down to a solid 40 minutes or so. In addition to the hunt music (which wasn't verbatim the Goldsmith, but close), there was also some of that Goldsmith search music approximated.

Maybe, but her hair is slightly different in that film.

Wild guess -- Geena Davis in THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST? Wild guess -- the kid who played the Dalai Lama in SEVEN YEARS IN TIBET? I also think the piccolo woman must be Julia Ormond from SABRINA, as Mr. Hooper said. Shame that only the LOST IN SPACE robot made it as far as his 60s output is concerned, but more would be too obscure, I guess. Either way, great - albeit busy - piece of artwork. Congrats on getting an actual copy on your wall, Taikamochi.

Spurred by Konstantinos to play some of my Illarramendis again, this is a nice 1997 collection of various scores for the producer Elias Querejeta, including one of the first-ever scores I owned by him, EL ALIENTO DEL DIABLO. That one was on a fan-made 2CD-R set of Spanish film music, for which Jim Titus later designed a cover. Illarramendi is fantastic when he's wistful, less so when he does suspense, which is often a bit static and intense (again much like Delerue). But it's all gold.

Just another Wednesday at Boston Symphony Hall.

I played this a lot when it came out in 2016. Came in 8th that year. But the novelty value of the vocal variations eventually wore off a bit, so I haven't played it in a long time now. But it's still good stuff, and of course, the 1-minute JURASSIC PARK variation was icing on the cake.

I like it, but it's not as ethereal and gorgeous as some of his other work in a similar idiom. It's a little "stark" and detached somehow.

Only 19 minutes, but one of my favourite scores from 2011. Love the religioso/pastoral/Delerue-ian bits as well as those 70s/Pink Floyd-esque organ bits. Haven't found another Hewitt score yet that reaches these heights.

Now THAT'S a link....

When you find a pic on, say, Google Pictures, do you remember to open the image in a new window before you download from there? If you don't, I've often found that the image downsizes. You need to download from the root directory.

Yeah. Performances & make-up (esp. Roth, Bonham Carter and Giamatti), fantastic production design and cinematography and one of Elfman's best scores post-millennium. So what if Wahlberg has the charisma & acting chops of a soft ice, and the story has a few twist and turns and holes. It's not enough to make me dislike it, or even say it's a bad film!

Yeah, it's a pretty decent sequel. Furthermore, I'm one of the three people on the planet (of the apes) who also think Burton's film has a lot going for it.

It's disconcerting to think that he was four years YOUNGER than me at that point. I hate these reminders. For example that Dr. Grant in JURASSIC PARK is the same age as I am now.