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  1. Yo I found it! Nowhere near in depth as the Empire Strikes Back documentary, as you might imagine (it even cribs from that one!). This is more of a news profile, but here's a brief little glimpse.
    5 points
  2. 4 points
  3. I remember when we would just answer idle conundrums like these with "the Force". That used to be enough to affectionately satiate any plot quandary, until the internet came along. Simpler times.
    4 points
  4. Seriously? No. Not if you have two toddlers around you, long office hours, business travels and a gym routine. You tend to pile up your newest acquisitions until you find the right time to open up your cds as well as occasionally revisit other cds from your collection. Don't make presumptuous. It's tough when you have little time and a blazing passion for your music and a Life.
    4 points
  5. Ugh another dump of redundant filler tracks.
    3 points
  6. The Force was the equivalent to "He's Batman" explanation by fantrolls to explain away the plotholes in Nolan's Batman movies.
    3 points
  7. Interesting new interview with Anne-Sophie: https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/articles/2824--interview-anne-sophie-mutter-on-john-williams She also reveals why the Devil’s Dance isn’t on the album.
    2 points
  8. I did see Williams from far after the rehearsals today! I was close to his car and had a talk with the security. They moved the car so I couldn’t come close. Then he came out and stept in the car. I was the only fan there but no chance to get a autograph! 😔
    2 points
  9. Just started listening to this. It's certainly an experience! Not everything in Rey's theme is played perfectly, but it's quite special to hear it all. If this level of music is kept up, I'm buying the deluxe. I'll do one half today and then continue with Boston Film Night.
    2 points
  10. Got my VPN set to New Zealand and now listening to the album. Wow, Donnybrook Fair is superb! That’s the first one that jumped out at me that I hadn’t heard previously. Can’t wait for the deluxe edition!
    2 points
  11. WTF! I have a bad feeling about this & sense a great disturbance with this force!
    2 points
  12. I dunno, it was pretty amazing that Luke could suddenly fly an x-wing and blow up the Death Star. Or a young 10 year old could pilot a ship and destroy a trade federation vessel. TFA was just following the trend Lucas established.
    2 points
  13. Asked about which classical composer he will play, in an upcoming biopic, Arnold Schwarzenegger replied: "I'll be Bach".
    2 points
  14. I just put Rey's ability down to the idea that she's this untapped near elemental level of power without ever realising it. Prior to that, she'd had a survivor's attitude and little option but to quickly learn how to look after herself. The "accelerated learning" thing never dawned on me as being an issue, until I picked up on it online. But then I just passed that off as the usual nerdy nitpicking you see whenever these movies so much as fart in the wrong direction.
    2 points
  15. Like always with Junkie's scores, you get the feeling someone's just learning the rudimentary ropes of music-making along the way. Unsuccessfully.
    2 points
  16. Arpy

    Jeremy Soule

    Perhaps I should've prefaced that comment by saying there are advances made by both men and women that are truly forms of harassment and abuse - I know people who are personally affected by this in the workplace and encounter this often, however there are people who, for whatever reason, really believe you can be raped through perceived micro-agressions. Those people are who my post refers to, those who are deluded into thinking someone who looks at another person, or gives a simple greeting is the equivalent of rape. It muddies the water of real victims who suffer from rape. But yeah, ban me.
    2 points
  17. I could mystically dance to this moment on repeat for 90 years.
    1 point
  18. Return to Oz is a great choice. The expanded version is still good, but oddly slapped together on the Intrada release. The original album is one of the best recordings I've ever heard. The expanded version is sonically a downgrade. I will agree with that one. It's a perfect album and superior to the deluxe version.
    1 point
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  20. The Fury, Honey I Blew Up the Kid, E.T, Jaws 2, The Omen, Return to Oz, The Rocketeer...
    1 point
  21. Or just plain uninterested, as far as adults go. These books as leisure reading are primarily for kids and teenagers. Even working people who are genuinely into the lore surely struggle to find the time to read the damn things.
    1 point
  22. Forbes article. Nothing really new, but this collaboration is sure getting some publicity. More than any other Williams album I think.
    1 point
  23. It's the 5 tracks not in the version just released now.
    1 point
  24. Only 4 tracks in but this album is stunning! The additional material for Hedwig's Theme isn't the lush orchestral presentation I expected, but something far darker and twisted. Suited to the more violent aspects of the Potter series post-Williams; I had to keep reminding myself this was a theme from film one because this arrangement for violin has great echoes of Azkaban far more than either Columbus score. Across the Stars is a revised version of the arrangement we heard last year. The tweaks are subtle in places, more obvious in others, but they're still interesting! Haven't done a direct comparison with the last performance yet, but just so taken aback by the clarity of this gorgeous recording. Again, a far darker and more melancholic interpretation of this piece than originally envisioned for AOTC. This version has an extended violin solo towards the end I don't recall hearing in the previous revision. This makes me yearn for more exploration of this theme, beyond the customary cameos we got in ROTS. This arrangement is far less a love theme, far more an elegy.
    1 point
  25. Chen G.

    FILM: The Last Jedi (2017)

    Return of the Jedi isn't an awfully good movie. I wouldn't use it as an example for anything, really.
    1 point
  26. Flesh+Blood by Basil Poledouris Damien: Omen II by Jerry Goldsmith Sleepers by John Williams Hard Rain by Christopher Young
    1 point
  27. Yeah, that shot of him playing with the T-16 Skyhopper was in there too to suggest he had an interest in flying. Rey also has that Rebel helmet!
    1 point
  28. Like I said, it sounds to me to be one of the buildup phrases in Forest Battle, somewhere either halfway or in the end. I _know_ I've heard it in the score somewhere.
    1 point
  29. Makes us look more American.
    1 point
  30. Koray Savas

    Jeremy Soule

    Kotaku’s investigation into the matter.
    1 point
  31. Makes it look more cinematic.
    1 point
  32. You know that you could be missing one cd or have duplicated CDs...and you never know...just in a few years when you decide to open the cd...
    1 point
  33. Oh Mark, you are such a nationalist d*ckhead. I'm glad how JW stop him
    1 point
  34. Arpy

    Jeremy Soule

    @Nick Parker I don't have sufficient evidence to say that's happening here, my initial comment was a jibe at the fools trivializing rape.
    1 point
  35. 3:16-3:20 of Making the List - Schindler's List
    1 point
  36. II think it is the modern culture of 'subversion'. There positively absolutely has to be atleast some twist, otherwise the audience will feel it was too basic. We have become conditioned to expect something different, something offkilter. And modern marketing also plays into that. Straight old-fashioned good storytelling doesn't cut it any more these days.
    1 point
  37. In 2004 the music branch split off into its own company. They are no longer connected in any way.
    1 point
  38. Braveheart - James Horner Most likely the greatest score in film history. Certainly Horner's Magnus Opes. Like the film it is both uncompromising and delicate. Horner's music for the courtship of Wallace and Murron speaks volumes of love as the LSO's gorgeous string section weaves through the material with detail and poise. (The strings of the LSO have never sounded better). The music for Wallace revenge is primal and single minded, like Wallace himself i guess. Horner eschews the fanfaric heroism of his earlier epics and goes for a strongly rhythmic, percussive sound. The music for Scotland and its revolution feel both deliberately contained and highly uplifting. In the film Wallace's death is an uplifting, triumphant scene. Horner's penchant for "ethnic" flavouring reach his zenith here. The Ullean pipes feeling almost inseparable from the LSO at times. All the "world music" parts are very well done actually. And the synth is used very effectively. It must be the greatest score in the world! Right @Chen G.?
    1 point
  39. Yes, hopefully that's what he means. Of course, there are examples of that type of music prior to KING KONG, post-JAZZ SINGER, even in the US, although far more marginal. I just get my "knickers in a twist" every time someone sorta says originally composed film music began with that film or that year. Those statements mostly come from Americans.
    1 point
  40. True, but original film music had existed for three decades prior.
    1 point
  41. If you like violins arrangements, go for these two albums of Angèle Dubeau and La Pietà. No fireworks and not too much vibrato. Well, that's for you if you can hear the difference between a boldly hyper-virtuosic, ultra-inflected interpretation and a more subtile one.
    1 point
  42. I happened to see this photo from the Library of Congress, with a handwritten cover page (by Williams himself, it seems), showing the very first, 5-movement version of the Star Wars suite. Note the December 5, 1977 date:
    1 point
  43. For the SW and IJ scores with the money of Disney behind them, Mike would be able to do whatever he wants and not have to worry about the things he has to when making a product funding by a boutique label with limited budget. And also for these scores the same entity owns the film music and the mechanical rights so that issue doesn't exist either
    1 point
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