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Time dilation is a hell of a thing. I once lost a bet due to it. Good news, though, the dude I lost it to had been dead for 80 years.

Let Johnny have his privacy. We are lucky he is even doing this at his age. Also we are living in a difficult time with covid, and he is 89 years old....

I assume this is PWB's stunt double, hence the dots on her face (digital face replacement?) Pretty sure it's the stunt double behind Indy here (how great does he look in the costume in this setting??) This sequence looks hilarious, Indy behind the wheel of a newlywed's car: How good are real locations?

This is gonna be like the Endgame Portals scene for Indiana Jones fans

Late to the conversation, but Pagemaster is a very nice fantasy Horner score (though the expansion only adds like 5 minutes).

I wonder whether The Crow's digital release was easier to sort than most, given how quickly it appeared in relation to the CD? I massively appreciate that Varese does digital versions for most of their DEs, but there always seems to be a delay of roughly a batch, i.e. when the next two titles come out on CD, the last batch's digital release is around that time. Is this due to more complex licensing for digital releases which takes time to sort, or a period to focus just on CD sales? I fully appreciate that possibly no one here knows the answer... I'm pondering out loud. I bought Dreamcatcher after hearing the entire score on Spotify. An ideal world (which again, is not always possible) would see new DEs on Spotify at the same time to temporarily satisfy shipping waits, and allow potential buyers a chance to listen first.

May the Force be with him!

Blu-ray/DVD films, due to the framerate being 23.976fps whereas the native film framerate is 24fps, results in the film's audio typically being too fast. Although I suppose how the tapes were transferred in '77 could've resulted in the audio a bit too slow in this case perhaps. I'm sure someone else would be able to explain it in better detail. Basically in essence no film audio is at the proper speed due to NTSC/PAL standards.

Really cool to see Ford in costume having fun with fans. Can you tell he likes this role more than Han Solo?

I love the classic Ealing Studios films, although I've only seen the more famous one's, but the lack of any real/definitive release of scores for any of them is baffling. I was wondering if there's anyone else that enjoys these films and their scores?

I’ve got Bond on the brain of late (looking forward to seeing NTTD tomorrow:) Ive been going back and listening to all the David Arnold scores. Man. What an immense talent. Overall, he captured the perfect synthesis of the classic and modern take on Bond. Arnold wrote some flat-out whoppers when it came to action set pieces for these films. “White Knight” from Tomorrow Never Dies “Miami International” from Casino Royal and my personal favorite ”Come in 007 Your Time is Up” There are a TON more. But what would you say is your all time favorite Bond action set piece by Arnold?

Yeah! Licence to Kill is a close second to FYEO for me.

My favourite is HELICOPTER RIDE. I love the ethnic instruments, coupled with the powerful percussion, culminating in that very "Play Dead"-esque coda.

Reports of my leaving have been greatly exaggerated! 😁

Right.

From 20 until 23 October, Film Fest Ghent again organizes a series of talks with many of the composers and other music guests at the festival and at the World Soundtrack Awards. Highlights are the extensive composer talks with Austin Wintory, Natalie Holt, Daniel Pemberton, Nainita Desai and Max Richter! Panel talks will also feature Eleni Karaindrou, Evanthia Reboutsika, Gavin Brivik, Florencia Di Concilio, Benji Merrison, Anthony Willis, Emile Mosseri and Carlos Rafael Rivera, among others. Check out the whole programme here: https://www.worldsoundtrackawards.com/programme/wsa-industry-days

I’m looking forward to more Djawadi music in this universe, and I’m also glad he’s composing it because that makes him less likely to be hired for LOTR!

Re. Crocodile Dundee, I'm sure I saw the film many moons ago, and Spotify has this - credited to Silva Screen, although the original LP/CD are Varese. Opening Titles vaguely ring a bell, as do the odd other cue, but not something I'd buy. With regards to the rest of that mini wishlist above, it reminds that there are a ton of mid-late 90s action scores yet to see the expanded light of day, which doesn't make the labels' job any easier. I was pleasantly surprised by Hard Rain earlier this year, which has (compared to more 90s action) very little missing music, but perhaps was just not very difficult to do and therefore made the cut sooner?

I'm having a lot of fun playing Dread, although I'm currently stuck at a boss (died 4 times now trying to defeat it). It reminds me of A Link Between Worlds in one important respect: as soon as I started playing it just felt so good to control the main character.

And everything looks fake thanks to the hideous stylised filters Kaminski slathered on his photography.

Ana de Armas was also my favourite. Wish there was more of her. Shame the entire sequence is sort of superfluous in context of the whole film. I suppose it was the most Phoebe Waller-Bridge addition since it feels like her other work. Karol

Last Night In Soho - Edgar Wright's latest is part time-travel fantasy, part psychological horror. Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), a modern-day young girl from Cornwall with a Sixties obsession, a strange 'sixth sense' and a passion for fashion design moves to London to study the latter. She soon moves out of her student accomodation (due to her awful roommate and her bitchy clique) and into a bedsit flat whose landlady is Miss Collins (Diana Rigg in her last screen role). She soon finds herself travelling back to Soho during her favourite decade (while there she is in the body of nightclub singer Sandie (Anna Taylor-Joy) ). At first she naturally enjoys all this, but things soon turn very dark indeed ... Also starring Terence Stamp, Matt Smith, Pauline McLynn, Rita Tushingham and Margaret Nolan (the second 'Bond Girl' making her last screen appearance in this film). I really enjoyed this ... Wright's inspirations were the likes of Don't Look Now and Repulsion, and it shows. And as you'd imagine, it has a great soundtrack.

It is taken from the concert recording, just not the same take used in the album.

Star Wars was spotted in early January 77... recorded in early March 77. Empire was spotted in early November 79... recorded in late December 79/early January 80. Jedi was spotted in November 82 ... Recorded in January /February 83. Phantom Menace was spotted October 98 ... recorded February 99 Attack of the Clones was spotted October 01.... recorded January 02 Revenge of the Sith was spotted October 04.... recorded February 05 Clearly, the first two scores were composed in a shorter time period, just under two months. It's also fun to notice that there were things that hadn't been shot yet when Williams started recording the music, and therefore needed some editing. I think using the London Symphony was both an asset and a problem though, since the recording sessions had to be conducted way too early (which mostly affected the prequels, but the OT also suffered a bit) I think you're wrong about the copyists though.... I assume copyists could start working while Williams was still composing the later cues. I don't think he finishes composing until right before recording sessions begin. Consider that recording sessions are spread over a couple of weeks, so I guess the cues that were composed right before the first session are recorded towards the end, giving enough time to the copyists.

It's merely a mediocre score anyway.

Literally made me laugh out loud!

Saw it yesterday, well it's quite a confusing movie. I didn't felt that it was too long, it strangely have a nice flow but at this end I was wondering what the hell the threat was about. There is simply too much characaters that have unlinked purposes and who disappear from one scene to another without real repercussions. The villain is sadly uninterresting so are his second handmen and the family story didn't do much for me. About Bond's death well it was no surprise so didn't do anything for me either. Billie Eilish song has a great instrumentation, nice lyrics but damn I can't stand her wispering Two really good points though: HZ music is quite nice although it doesn't sound original at all (lot of old JB themes reprises, plus some Dark Knight) Ana de Armas () best character of the movie who bring the best sequence of the movie and one of the best Craig's sequence

I watched a lot of the George Formby and Will Hay films with my Dad when I was little, so I have an affection for many of the Ealing films. They are quintessentially British and a reminder of a bygone age. Many of the best scores from the Ealing films are actually quite well represented in rerecordings, especially in the Chandos Movies series. Their discs of Georges Auric and Alan Rawsthorne are two of my favourites and feature a healthy selection of scores from Ealing Studios films. The Georges Auric CD includes such classics as Dead of Night, Hue and Cry, The Titfield Thunderbolt, The Lavender Hill Mob and others, while the Rawsthorne CD includes The Captive Heart, The Cruel Sea, Saraband for Dead Lovers and more. For me, this is the best way to hear this music without the constraints of 1930s-1950s monaural recording technology. There are also complete recordings of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Scott of the Antarctic and John Ireland's The Overlanders available on the Dutton Vocalion label, both of which I highly recommend. Incidentally, I was lucky enough to hear The Cruel Sea performed at one of the BBC Proms concerts at the Royal Albert Hall just last month.

I'm still gutted he fell ill last time he came to London. That was my first concert.

Its also feasible that the music in the film has altered speed to match the picture in a final edit after the scoring sessions

It is a fan dressed as connery, the other indys are fans too.

MV be like Varese in perp maybe (at least the first one)?

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/sir-lenny-henry-on-being-a-black-hobbit-in-the-lord-of-the-rings/ I hasten to add we have a lot of information about this show, but this doesn't seem to jive with any of it. I think he's pranking us, referencing TORn's (idiotic) rumour-mongering.

You could’ve copied and pasted your explanation you gave me yesterday😂😂😂

I agree. For a composer who is generally uninterested in scoring action films I think Newman wrote some pretty engaging action music. The opening chase in Skyfall is brilliantly scored IMO.

I still think Thomas Newman did an okay job with the action music for Skyfall, though he does reuse a lot of it in both movies.

all the Motel One hotels are a good choice. I wouldn't say that there are unsafe areas in Berlin. it feels safer here than Paris or London. of course, that's subjective. really safe and nice area is around Kollwitzplatz in Prenzlauer Berg.

I think there are many interested. I was in Düsseldorf a couple of years ago when McCartney was driven from his hotel to the sound check. There were hundreds of people in front of the hotel and waiting.

Basingstoke?

I'm currently at intermission in a concert randomly called Zimmer vs Williams. And they were introducing Batman, and the conductor said, "Christopher Nolan had to choose a composer for the job, and the only man for the job was Hans Zimmer. As a JNH fanboy to the ultimate heights, things like that make me explode internally lol. I was sat there saying to myself, "well he LITERALLY WASN'T the only man for the job, because fu**ing JNH did it too!" Haha. And then to rub it in even more, they played a piece from Batman Begins that was clearly by JNH lol. I love nothing more than Film score concerts, but damn they test my patience sometimes when my know-it-all side comes out and I can't help but judge anyone with inaccurate information or lack of knowledge.

@Jay Thanks for the update. I've bought quite a few Japanese score albums - largely from anime series and one thing I love about them is that there's a lot more attention paid to packaging than our western counterparts, which makes sense that these are physical items. I love the addition of obi strips and other packaging ephemera.

There it is.

Spending your income to see John Williams live is worth it. Every time.

I still can’t believe this. It’s beyond anything I could have ever dreamed of. John Williams conducting his music in the city where I’m born and where I live, in one of the temples of classical music. Utterly amazing.

Cuba Chase is amazing!!!! My favorite cue. Also probably my favorite sequence in the film

It was very bloated and tonally confusing. I was entertained for the most part though. Perhaps because they simply made an "everything" Bond movie. In parts gritty, in parts goofy, personal and over the top, funny and sad. It was Moore meeting Craig meeting Broznan meeting Lazenby meeting Dalton meeting John Wick meeting Bourne meeting Nolan....It was quite a mess. I mean, suppose it makes sense to do these things, given how Craig's movies "tie together", but it was quite hilarious too. No idea how to rate this. 😂 One thing for sure: I wasn't bored. As for killing Bond, I don't think it will mean we'll see Bond-less movies after this. It feels more like a self-contained continuity. It starts from him becoming 007 and then dying at the end. Very Nolan thing to do. They'll probably start from scratch next time. Didn't expect to hear Vesper's theme. Karol

Dimitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten.

0:00 to 0:08, tk.19 0:08 to 0:43, tk.18 0:43 to 1:31, tk.20 1:31 to 1:43, tk.18 1:43 to end, tk.20