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  1. Not sure if this has been covered yet: JW being interviewed about War Horse. Apologies if it's old news ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vj6tIVxfao&feature=relmfu
  2. Oh he didn't win the Washington DC WAFCA awards. Boo.
  3. John Williams nominated for Best Score in Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association, winners to be announced 8am tomorrow morning: http://en.wikipedia....and_nominations http://www.wafca.com/awards/
  4. The most important bit though is that his Q&A session is going to be streamed live on MSN on the web so we can all watch it. Yay! http://www.facebook....322528461097972 "Tune in to MSN.com on Sunday, November 27th at 4:30pm EST for a live, world-wide Q&A event with Steven Spielberg! Watch Steven Spielberg interact with fans around the world and submit your own question for Spielberg during the event via a live chat function or tweet your questions using the hashtag #WarHorsemovie. Stay tuned for event details."
  5. Some nice obsevrations in it: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118045838/
  6. If any of you are Veterans in Canada, there are seven special screenings next Wednesday (16 November). Details here: http://www.brandonsun.com/entertainment/breaking-news/veterans-invited-to-advance-screening-of-steven-spielbergs-war-horse-133611338.html?thx=y
  7. If any of you are Veterans in Canada, there are seven special screenings next Wednesday (16 November). Details here: http://www.brandonsun.com/entertainment/breaking-news/veterans-invited-to-advance-screening-of-steven-spielbergs-war-horse-133611338.html?thx=y
  8. Great review, Incanus. It really helps my understanding of the music. I'm one of the detrators of the Celtic stylings ("And then there are the somewhat maligned Celtic music influences, the detractors indignant that such musical ideas should be present in music that should depict Englishness, since Celtic music apparently shares very few commonalities with English music but in the score, to the layman’s ears, this Celtic sound enhances the time and place quite strongly, lending the music further lyricism and warmth.") and I still hold that his use of it was a HUGE mis-step. It doesn't help set time and place in my opinion. Sense of place is such an important thing, and it just jars, really, REALLY badly, to hear the twiddly-diddly-di-doh themes which immediately bring to mind heather mountains in Scotland or peat bogs in Ireland, not the rough moors of Devon. It's like using mariachi music for action set in Washington DC - just doesn't fit. It's lazy. I didn't mention before because I didn't want to seem too much of a nay-sayer, but I found the obvious Americana of some of the themse odd too - bringing to mind sudden images of Monument Valley and wide open cowboy country. I realise it's hard judging the score alone when it has been composed specifically to fit to the film images, and that I will probably have a different reaction when seeing the film and hearing the music together. However, when he gets it right he soars (I adore the Vaughan Williams-ness of some parts, just divine and bang on for setting time and place); that's what makes the mis-steps so hard to take.
  9. Another review here: http://www.examiner.com/ny-in-new-york/war-horse-music-by-john-williams-review
  10. According to Awards Daily, AMPAS have announced the long list of 18 animated films up for the Oscar nominations - and Tintin is there, no surprise. http://www.awardsdaily.com/2011/11/18-animated-films-to-compete-for-oscar/
  11. Another review here: http://theflickcast....y-john-williams 4.5/5 Again, beware of spoilers in the review (as it discusses spoilers...)
  12. Thanks Ted. I'm very envious - we don't get to see it til January, so I'm looking forward to your longer review (the one above seemed pretty long to me, as it was!)
  13. Detailed review here, but beware, it has spoilers: http://movievu.info/?p=699 and some reviews in the comments section here: http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2011/11/lotta_horse_lov.php
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