Andy

Joe Dante, Killer of Dreams. That so and so had to fight to keep that in iirc.

Yeah the 6 Disc Set. I’d like to pick it up. Or I’d like to see Écoutez Le Cinéma! do a new one like their Morricone and Williams set.

As much as I love Williams, I’m usually not in a hurry for more expansions. Don’t get me wrong, I love them and get them all. But there’s so much film music I’ve yet to sample, and returning to JW after a stretch makes me appreciate him even more as the GOAT. I never have a shortage of titles to buy.

Nice selection there. I enjoyed LALD much more than I’d expected.

I’m not interested in the SACDs but I do want the Blu Ray. Where’s the cheapest place to order the Blu Ray for the US? Or is it better to wait for Amazon and other retailers?

For topics as vast with as many discussions as the Alien franchise, there’s no way I’m going back to check if something was posted once. I just don’t have the time. But I genuinely appreciate bragging rights for being first to post something years ago. If it’s good enough to be reposted, I figure no harm. It was new to me, so I figured it was new to others too.

Hey Delerue! I can play too! Rich in Love, his final score. Lovely and light, without much melancholy. He ended on a high note. The Delerue über fans say his best work is for his non American films. The box set is OOP but can anyone suggest any of the compilations or complete scores from Delerue for earlier career highlights and/or non-Hollywood films?

It’s a gangster’s POV fist hitting Indy in the face, who then in sheer confusion decks the cigarette lady.

It was sorta shot from the side and backlit. Not a knock on your taste, but the score didn’t really impress me. It sounded more or less like, well exactly what you’d think… a softcore adult film. But after your recent recommendations I gave a bunch of those scores a try. E1 and E2, Story of O, Donaggio’s Cosi Fan Tutti, and Bilitis. None of them were really for me. Bilitis was close, very New Age like Vangellis. They were all pleasant enough with a few high points. But I don’t know that I’d want to listen to it again. Emmanuelle’s score seems dominated by a couple source cues, awkward rock music for the “rough” scenes, and the admittedly catchy earworm theme song with vocals.

Hmmm you don’t say!? Emmanuelle (1974) I wanted to see what the fuss was all about, and I’m probably one of maybe a dozen people on the planet who enjoyed the Director’s The Perils of Gwendoline. By any standards, this movie is freakin weird. I wrongly assumed the point of an erotic film is to turn on your audience with sensuality and somewhat tasteful softcore. I don’t think this has aged well at all. The character goes on a sexual journey that eventually leads to her being raped and in a threesome before she can shed her innocence and achieve some kind of bulkshit enlightenment. Yeccch. Kind of a downer, but I imagine with the right crowd, you could have a good laugh at it, especially the scene of the nude dancer smoking a cigarette with her lady parts. You can’t make this shit up. Oh well. It is photographed really well. 5/10

I have the vintage 1985 Temple of Doom calendar. Every month is Ford. No other characters. He really did look his best in that film. Women love him, men want to be him.

Oh WOW I love this. I may have the shell out. its Heartbeeps that does it. And Wild Bill Kelso. Indy looks like he’s really trying his best. Bruce the Shark is eating our Maestro!

The action in these scenes… it is filmed like a Musical. The staging, framing, camerawork, timing. It’s all so precise, and theatrical. Like a dance, really. Where every move leads to the next so logically. So masterfully blocked out and edited. This shot is absolutely stunning. The timing of the tripwire that gets the first guard, but not the subsequent ones. Jones enters the shot to handle them. But then Willie follows to dominate getting the keys. This is cinematic brilliance. This could easily have lyrics. Look at the choreography telling the story here. So many wonderful cause and effect sequences. It plays almost like a Rube Goldberg machine set to music. As I said, it feels like a musical, which is kinda cool since the film starts with Anything Goes!

That Blood of Kali probably tasted offensive.

Contrary to popular belief, Corman did make great movies! His Poe adaptations as director were terrific juicy gothic potboilers. Although low budget, it’s all there on the screen, in lurid colorful macabre beauty. Crimson Peak wishes it were so pure. Asa producer, yeah that’s where his reputation stems from. But the notion that he was incapable or a hack is a fallacy. He also had one of the most robust, soothing voices and was more articulate than his reputation would suggest. I could meditate to his audio commentaries. He also gave us B Movie actress Candice Rialson. Meowww. Rest in Peace to one cool cat.