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I think people here will appreciate these. I stumbled upon some archives on the KillerMoviesForums that had some Hyperspace posts archived from 2005 that I had thought were lost forever. These were blogposts written by Pablo Hidalgo during the making of Revenge of the Sith and were posted on the paywalled Hyperspace service on starwars.com which no longer exists. I'm very happy to see that these aren't lost forever, there's a lot of valuable information in them I'll paste the John Williams relevant ones here: 2/3/2005 "The Score Begins": 2/4/2005 "Recording Revenge": 2/8/2005 "Con Anima": 2/9/2005 "An Energetic Start": 2/10/2005 "Finale":

The Aliens reference at 0:33! This piece is the best action piece of the score, I think. It's just pure Horner. The whole thing is a beautiful mix of Horner's action style in Aliens and Titanic with those scraping strings and metalic percussion, and then it's expertly driven with Franglen's great Family Theme throughout.

Nathan Johnson - Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) FYC Promo vs. OST Both releases feature cues not present on the other. Here is a list in chronological order. There is around 14 min. of unreleased score that isn't taken into consideration here. .tg {border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0;} .tg td{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;} .tg th{font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;padding:10px 5px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;overflow:hidden;word-break:normal;} FYC OST TITLE ----- OST02 The Puzzle Box FYC01 OST01A The Invitation ----- OST03A Andi's Theme FYC02 OST01B/27B Main Title FYC03 OST03B Andi's Entrance FYC04 ----- Banksy Dock ----- OST03C Untitled FYC05 OST04A A Quick Word FYC06 OST04B I Didn't Invite You FYC07 OST06A Birdie Remembers FYC08 OST07 The Infraction Point FYC09 ----- Miles Brons Golden Titties ----- OST06C Ms. Birdie Jay ----- OST09B (This Is Not A Game) FYC10 OST05 Murder Mystery Rules FYC11 OST08 Blanc Runs The Table ----- OST09A (This Is Not A Game) ----- OST09C (This Is Not A Game) FYC12 OST10 Duke Hits The Deck ----- OST11A Trapped FYC13 OST11B That's Your Glass Miles FYC14 OST12 Lights Out! FYC15 OST13 Time To Finish This FYC16 OST14 Buttress FYC17 OST18B Perjury ----- OST15 Snoop FYC18 OST16B Think Of The Crime ----- OST16A Motive & Opportunity ----- OST17 Something's Off ----- OST18A Untitled FYC19 OST19A Ransacking ----- OST19B Untitled FYC20 OST19C+20 When The Bullet Hits The Book ----- OST21A The Center Of The Onion FYC21 OST21B Unravelling The Murder ----- OST22 Peeled Back FYC22 OST23 Breaking Glass FYC23 OST24 Breaking Glass B String Quartet FYC24 OST25 We Didn't Start The Fire FYC25 OST26A The End ----- OST26B Unused FYC26 OST27A Ready To Go Home

It's absolutely essential. It's a rare case of an expansion where an unused alternate is actually one of the very best cues from the entire score:

Just saw the film - the score is great! The film was great too, but the score really stood out and was both interesting and effective. Can't wait to listen to the album now, but I am pretty sure already it's one of my favorites of the year

12 Monkeys? The Terminator? Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban?

I've heard he's great, but I'm still ripping this box set and haven't listened to any of it yet. I've been meaning to check his symphonies out for years, but this newer box includes tons of other stuff - the piano concertos, violin concerto, Fidelio, Missa solemnis, and a couple of rarities (including chamber arrangements of the 2nd symphony and 4th piano concerto). I'll probably post some comments over in the classical thread once I've gone through the box. Correction: It's not Fidelio, it's in fact Leonore - which I find even more interesting, as I already have the Bernstein/Janowitz recording of Fidelio, but have yet to hear the original version.

Extensive Christmas haul: That now makes about 40 new, unlistened-to CDs in my pipeline.

Guy, guys. Give the constitution a rest, okay? It's Christmas.

It's pretty great. I did a comparison between the OST and FYC (the one that's not identical to the OST) and posted a chronological list here.

Well this is unexpected, sneaky 60th anniversary trailer drop coming tomorrow?

"It'll be another 25 years before we do this again," jokes Williams.

Ironically enough, that's a cue that still hasn't been approved for release.

I bet this is that part in one of the docs on the DVD where you can hear Lucas singing along @Manakin Skywalker

Yes, he also did the one from the OST.

Na-uh! I'm not responding to some 800-word, Mattris-penned, Star Wars-quoting babble. No sir. Had enough. For a lifetime.

Domestic: 279.8m International: 601.7m (including about 100m in China) Worldwide: 881.3m It's decent, but so far not exactly the monster Disney and Cameron hoped it would be. Apparently, the weather in the US has been terrible and that worked against the movie there. However, the movie is performing great in other countries in Europe, as well as Korea and Brazil.

An intellectual is what Lucas claims he is: someone who was well on his way to becoming an anthropology professor, but instead went to film school and then proceeded to pour his well-honed understanding of the human psyche, reared on dense, 4000-pages' worth of Frazer's Golden Bough, Joseph Campbell and Bruno Bettelheim, in order to distill all mythologies down into the "formula" for Star Wars. Facts are, dude went to a small community college, took a Sociology class and got a B for his pains.... I read the post that was linked: it seems to me that rather than more nuanced, Lucas' interpertation is if anything more full of holes and steeped in the most superficial, pseudo-Zen nonesense I've ever read. For instance, I - like Filoni - don't read the Jedi as intentionally flawed: that's not the impression I get from watching those films. When, say, Yoda tells Anakin to "let go" and not miss "those around you" who die, my reading of the situation is George Lucas is sitting there penning the lines thinking this is the coolest, best ersatz-Zen demeanour he can possibly conjure up for the Jedi - its not meant to be read as flawed, its meant to be read as cool. The issue is it plays to audiences like Yoda is just being an arse.

What about the sequel: DENTS DE LA MERDE?

You mean your finger was on the 'Alert Jay' button? The Alert Jay button

Looking forward to this. Includes live music by the BBC Concert Orchestra too. Should be good.

Original version of the composition, not original performance*! Although as I understand, the version presented here is in fact the second version from 1806 (though still much closer in time to the original original from 1805 than the well-known final revision from 1814). *) Although I've been to the opera house where the premiere of the original version took place.

For anyone interested, there is a drama on BBC Radio 3, this evening, called "Benny And Hitch". You can probably guess what it's about. It's today, at 19:30hrs., GMT.

Jew here; no Christmas.

Original recordings? Apart from Obsession (which has been effectively supplanted by a complete release) I believe these are all Herrmann re-recording film music (his own and others). Here’s a good example with him conducting some great Shostakovich film music: Yavar

They made a fake Zillow listing for the Glass Onion, some fun easter eggs in the listing https://www.zillow.com/house/glassonion/ Nailed it

I love what Arnold did with this series, but I'm ok with it if he's done. He had a great run. I'd love to hear John Powell's take on it.

Giacchino's epic score fits really well on DC's chaotic situation: incriveis.mp4

For me, it's the opposite: I really liked the new family/songchord theme, but I was more mixed about the action music. There's some really impressive moments in those cues (particularly from 3:43 to the end on Na'vi attack), but they're surrounded by some rather generic combos of string ostinatos and epic trailerized versions of Horner's material.

Agree. And how cool would it be if Arnold came back for the next Bond film!?! Just the thought makes me very very happy.

I'm revisiting this score today, and it is fantastic. David Arnold's approach to Bond is just sooo good. The perfect evolution of John Barry's style with a feel all of his own. The tension, the swagger, the fantastic themes, and amazing action scoring.

I'm getting a class action together, 'cause there's a lot of people who were pissed that that leaf didn't appear, in JURASSIC PARK.

Christmas Vacation Noticed some set decoration I had never noticed before thanks to seeing it on a larger TV than I had ever seen it on before: Audrey's room has a big poster that is a close up of a cat's face, while Rusty's room has a poster of a turtle banging another turtle The fridge in their shed has a huge picture of a burger, fries, and a soda that takes up the entire side of it Clark's office at work is full of crazy stuff. There's a bowl full of huge wooden pears by the window, a glass case on his desk with some kind of deconstructed apple in it, etc. His boss's office has hourglasses of various sizes on his desk (which is more of a table than a desk...) At Christmas Eve dinner they have some weird asparagus thing on the dinner table, it's super tall and has pearl onions stuck to it!? The Griswold's attic has no insulation at all, and that circular vent/window that's just open to the outside! They'd be infested with rodents and bats, and all the heat in the house would just be directly lost through the attic! In Wal Mart, Clark puts some light bulbs down and Eddie immediately crushes them with more dog food

Much appreciated, Geratewohl. Someone like Jeff Eldridge knows far more than I about this subject, but he’s kinda protective of information, I’ve found. Also, we’ve been waiting for a long time now for him to finish his website with the tv entries, so I wanted to go ahead with this project. Looking forward to sharing the next episode with you, which will include everything Williams wrote for Kraft Suspense Theater, among other things. Spent many weeks during the summer ripping audio from these, and there’s some high quality music in it.

I could try and paraphrase all of this, but this guy did all the work finding the quotes. Interesting stuff, kinda long read. https://at.tumblr.com/david-talks-sw/what-lucas-says-what-filoni-says/rb6gb225naze

Glass Onion This film is absolutely incredible. I had high hopes, because I love the first one, but this was just insane. I really don't know how Johnson did it. The script is so brilliant, it's hard to explain. The mystery at the centre of the story is so brilliant and has so many twists and turns that I didn't see coming. I kept guessing what was going on but the film really surprised me. The reveal is also great and executed in a way that it's hidden enough but you understand right away what happened. In-cre-di-ble! The acting across the board is superb, standouts being Monae, Craig, Norton & Hudson. (Oh and keep a watchful eye, they are surpises in the cast😉) Everything from costumes, production, cinematography, editing, writing, sound deserves to be included in this years awards. Nathan Johnson's score is also superb. I stayed away from the album on purpose until I saw the film, so it was a joy to hear it. Big orchestra, themes, a bit of harpsichord. Loved it!! I highly recommend that everybody watch this. Brilliant!!

Not only is TRON LEGACY my favourite Daft Punk record, it is my favourite soundtrack of the noughties.

Good thing. Saying trailers are "artistic expression" and not literal ads for movies is cringe. Studios don't put out trailers for "artistic expression", they want to lure people into spending cash, nothing else. This isn't about making a movie look better than it actually is, it's about them putting stuff in a trailer that they know won't be in the film, for the purpose of luring people into buying something they know they can't give them.

Wish we could sue over shitty epic trailer music though.

Black Widow (Lorne Balfe) source: sessions BLB 1m00 Marvel Studios Fanfare BLB 1m01v6.05 Upside Down BLB 1m01v6.05ALT Upside Down BLB 1m04v2.06 Adventure Day BLB 1m05s American Pie BLB 1m06v11.00 Narrow Escape BLB 1m07c2.00 Russian Exchange BLB 1m07c2.01ALT Russian Exchange BLB 1m08s Smells Like Teen Spirit BLB 2m09-10v1.04 Nat Reflects/Bus Station BLB 2m11v1.04 Yelena Defects BLB 2m12v1.02 Supply Run BLB 2m15v2.01 Mason Identities BLB 2m16s Bond Fights Snake BLB 2m17s Cheap Thrills BLB 2m18v2.03ALT Tit for Tat BLB 2m19v3.00 Natasha Shortline BLB 3m21v1.11 Apartment Fight BLB 3m22v8.14 Rooftop Escape BLB 3m23v6.03 Budapest Bike BLB 3m24Av5.09 Car Chase Pt1 BLB 3m24Bv3.09 Car Chase Pt2 BLB 2m25-26v1.08 Flip and Slide/Sisters BLB 4m27s Atshan ya Zeina BLB 4m28v4.05 Family's Past BLB 4m29v6.04 Need a Jet? BLB 4m30v1.03 Cookie Time BLB 5m31Av6.10 Gulag BLB 5m31Bv6.05 Gulag End BLB 5m32v3.00 Melina Lives BLB 5m34v4.03 Homecoming BLB 5m35v3.00 Remembering Home BLB 6m36v2.01 Let's Drink BLB 6m38v1.00 Farmhouse Banter BLB 6m39v6.00 Nat's Story BLB 6m41v3.06 Farmhouse Attack BLB 7m43v8.03 Dreykov's Den BLB 7m44v3.00 This is It! BLB 7m45v1.02 Romanoff Reveal BLB 7m46v2.07 Vostokof Face-Off BLB 7m47v2.00 No Earpiece BLB 7m48v3.03 What Was Her Name? BLB 7m50v2.08 Control Room Search BLB 8m51v6.06 No More BS BLB 8m52v1.00 TM Alexei Battle BLB 8m53v4.02 Widow Fight BLB 8m53v4.05ALT Widow Fight BLB 8m54v2.00 De-Subjugated BLB 8m55Av8.00 Descent Pt1 BLB 8m55Av8.03ALT Descent Pt1 BLB 8m55Bv9.01 Descent Pt2 BLB 9m56v1.08 Ground Below BLB 9m57-58v1.01 Apologies BLB 9m59v2.05 Widows Return BLB 9m60v9.05 QuinJet BLB 9m61v2.00 Graveyard BLB 9m62v3.03 Natasha's Journey Epic BLB 9m63Av1.00 Sisters BLB 9m63Bv2.03 Assassins BLB 9m64v2.01 Yelena's Theme BLB 9m65v1.00 Barton Tag BLB Action1 v5.01 BLB Action2 v5.01 BLB Action3 v3.00 BLB Dreykov Theme v1.02 BLB Natasha's Journey (w choir) v4.00 BLB Natasha's Journey Varation401 v1.03 BLB Natasha's Journey Variation402 v2.00 BLB Natasha Variation Light101 v1.00 BLB Yelena's Theme Emotional v1.02

There's some great stuff featured in this podcast. Great work, Thor! And here's hoping for a big box set of the scores someday.

Actually, they're shooting a cameo with Yavar dressed up as Short Round.

I suspect it's as simple as this. Maybe Williams mispoke and meant "write" instead of "shoot." Or someone told him he'd get a revised ending to score (simply a new edit) and he joined the dots himself. He also said all 3 Indy pieces in Milan were from Indy 5... sometimes we just say the wrong words. Williams is remarkably sharp for a 90 year old, but let's just keep that in mind.

Yummy, tourists on the menu.

I think I have listened to the Avatar score once, and didn't impress me much. What cues would you say are the highlights of the sessions? I'd like to listen to them again for a "first" listen before listening to the whole thing again...

All three movies basically don't exist for me any more.

I’ve no idea who @mattris is but thanks for the compliment Yes Jurassic it was a very interesting and challenging job, Basically about 30 of us determined about 90% of what the country saw in the U.K. cinemas . Sometimes if we didn’t think the film was commercially viable it would go straight to vid and, if it was ,we could make suggestions to the film distributor on its release date . We we’re in the unique position of seeing the film before the censor or film critics . Also for the benefit of the uneducated I personally knew the owners of National Screen Service in Perivale West London who supplied and made the film trailers and marketing materials for all the films ( NSS was also right next to Rank Film Distribution who supplied every film to every cinema in the U.K. and I know to this day the Operations Manager of that film service); and I had the privilege of watching trailers being made and how the music was put on and from where . I take it Jurassic that Mahler3 has contacted you and confirmed my credentials then?

He can retire from composing so that he can work full time on approving all the remaining expansions and premieres of his scores - including Indy and Star Wars 🙂

The score is magnificent. Just saw the film. It truly shines. The middle eastern sounding main theme in killer. This score has genuine sweep and scope and narrative storytelling. Very very good work! One of the best of the year.