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Look what I found in the christmas tree What a beautiful release, from the gorgeous Jim Titus art to the perfect assembly from Mike, this is truly the expansion of the year for me. I've only listened once to the main program and I already know this is a score I'll revisit often. Can't wait to discover the additional music and the great liner notes!

Santa was good to me this year.

The Big Mother load of Soundtracks are here.Thank you #QuartetRecords #Lalalandrecords #Intrada 🤗🤗🤩🥰

Not the original soundtrack recording. But apart from various suites there are two re-recordings of the full score. One conducted by Bernard Herrmann on the Unicorn Kanchana Label released in 1975 and the other being conducted by Joel McNeely with RSNO on the Varese Sarabande label. The best performance re-recorded to date has to be the Steve Bartek - Danny Elfman produced version for the verbatim 1998 remake. The OST recording is abbreviated (slightly altered performance) but highly recommended. All of these are easily available on Ebay.

Attachment is not necessarily a global term. Perhaps you see it as false Buddhism because you do not understand the Buddhist take on attachment. As the very first Google result for Buddhism and attachment states: ”The Buddhist concept of non-attachment is a constructive way to approach relationships. Here, attachment refers to an attempt to control things that you can't control.” As Yoda is trying to say, you can not control death. Palpatine lures him with the idea that he can, in fact, cheat death.

I can't decide which treatment of that theme I like the most - Meeting Of The Minds, Tale of the Lion's Tooth, Cinque's Legal Mind, or Cinque's Memories of Home. All great, all different! Oh wow, yes, that Going To School cue does have some similarities, doesn't it? Damn, I long for a complete edition of that score. I kind of stopped listening to any Williams scores that hadn't been expanded yet to make the eventual expansion all the more special one day, but since we have no idea when the stupid AFM rules will change, I should really just learn this score properly, shouldn't I

And passionate inspired production design and great editing and fantastic music.

What even is this thread at this point? It seems to be JWFan Vs Mattris, The Thread: Part 2

Our Christmas Movies were Top Gun: Maverick (which doesn't fit this category) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl. PotC is just about a perfect movie. Like Raiders of the Lost Ark perfect. And I don't think there's a bad performance in the film. (OK, there probably aren't many bad performances in the series. Acting talent has never been a problem.)

January is just around the corner!

Classic Planet of the Apes collection

Now we only need a CD & DVD pack of the Milan concert with a 40 min documentary plus rehearsal footage.

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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":

Better get it from a proper store. https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLK4642 https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9414405--john-williams-star-wars-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/poprock/detail/-/art/national-philharmonic-orchestra-star-wars-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/hnum/11129694 https://imusic.no/music/0765387464226/national-philharmonic-orchestra-charles-gerhardt-2023-star-wars-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-cd

Yeah, it's a concise presentation. I wouldn't want it to be longer.

And SA-CDs from Japan!

Seems to be shot on Naboo.

Elf - amiably daft and sweet seasonal fun. The Will Ferrell movie for people who don't like Will Ferrell. Skyfall - the 'Not exactly Christmas, is it?' line felt like reason enough. Craig's best, an excellent blend of new and old-school Bond.

Either you haven't seen the interviews I have or your definitions of "intellectual" and "insightful" defer from mine. Or perhaps it's that you haven't listened closely enough to what he said or from the right point of view. Duplicitous? At times, perhaps. This devious tactic helped him succeed in getting his audience to fall hook-and-sinker for his trap... including you. You stopped responding to my substantive/longer posts some time ago - no doubt because you have no substantive responses, just dismissive ones (and laughter) along the lines of 'What you're theorizing/suggesting can't possibly be true because it runs contrary to my assessment of George Lucas and Star Wars.' You may have a higher than average vocabulary, Chen. But your intellect caps out with a pride-infused brick wall when confronted by my facts, logic, and canon excerpts that, all told, suggest something else is going on with Star Wars. Don't worry. I won't be posting any more 800-word Star Wars writings on this forum. I've already posted more than enough to prove my worth, including quite a few in response to your babble.

Apparently the drums in Setting the trap are from the Roland R-8

Apparently, Jason Bourne originally was just going to be Buckley only before JP got involved fairly late (which would explain why it doesn't feel particularly inspired). In any case, it's either been speculated or confirmed that the passing of his wife might've been what contributed to him making the shift he did. I guess one can question if he's had a recent change with that, as DWD definitely tackles the more damaging aspects of relationships, but I suppose he saw it more in a psychological sense than specifically being about the violence. Either way, he probably won't be touching any big productions that aren't animation anytime soon, unless he states his intentions to go back to how he was pre the mid-2010s.

Just repeating what I believe Powell has said himself: that recently he prefers to avoid scoring films where the protagonist solves all their problems with violence. Note the most recent Bourne was credited to Buckley and Powell instead of Powell only Anyway, got my copy today

Put this together... if only!

Look, I gave up trying to convince people of the depth and nuance present in these films years ago, because these are usually the responses I get. You do you. I don’t think it’s pseudo Zen, but actual Zen. Jedi are supermen who could, if motivated enough by greed and attachment, burn the Galaxy to the ground. This is, of course, what we see happen. I don’t know if George is an intellectual or not, but I do think he’s a genius. As a professor of mine once said, “an A student come back to work for a university. A C student comes back to donate a million dollars to a university.”

It also sounds a ton like Quaritch Down from the first score, but I guess that was just cribbing Aliens anyways

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.

Found my copy underneath the tree this morning!

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

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

Does anyone have this set or have any thoughts on it? I assume it’s Herrmann’s original recordings?

"Ooh! So, that's what I am: rude, and not ginger". Is it me, or is Penelope Wilton kinda sexy? It's that the one set on Androzani Major? He's pointless.

I listened to all the albums again over the past few days and everytime I'm impressed with how good this is. The thought and hard work that went into this is heard in every note and I feel every note is there for a reason. This is 100% my score of the year. And @Monoverantusthanks for your video, been awaiting it and it was try a joy to watch!

I will start by saying I absolutely disagree with you (please read on after my opinion though). Here's my opinion: HOWEVER... Like I said - the only way to mitigate this issue whether purposefully malicious or not would be to require the film be entirely complete before starting the marketing process. It does happen - don't films get bought by studios/distributors from festivals all the time in a complete or nearly complete form? I know sometimes the distributors request changes (like a new ending being added to the U.S. version of What If? (aka The F Word)) Personally, I wouldn't mind this necessarily. I think the entire film industry needs to slow the heck down and quit pumping so much crap out as fast as they can. I know they do it to maximize how much money they make in a year, but it would be far more beneficial to the filmmakers and the crew to take their time. They can still have a deadline - but it can be private and more related to when the marketing needs to start. Plus, if VFX need more time then they can continue to improve as the marketing begins (I feel like this would've helped out Cats as far as VFX touch ups are concerned. But no amount of amazing VFX could save that film entirely.) as long as, of course the film doesn't change substantially. Despite whatever analytics and research they rely on - you don't have to release Avatar 2 on December 16th in 2022, for example. But good luck getting Hollywood to change what they think works - It's clearly better to overwork film crews, rush out final products before they're realistically ready, and open as many films as possible in any given year. I'm aware that filmmaking is a business, but it should be a bit more of a balance between business and art, in my opinion, and it's primarily business these days. *Gets down off soapbox*

The only fault of Tintin is not having the two planned sequels.

Enjoying this right now. My order arrived today just in time for Christmas!

It's great!

Chronological order 01. Songcord Opening 02. Happiness Is Simple 03. A New Star 04. Train Attack 05. Masks Off 06. Converging Paths 07. Rescue and Loss 08. Family Is Our Fortress 09. Sanctuary 10. Into the Water 11. Training Montage 12. The Way of Water 13. Where the Men Hunt 14. Payakan 15. Mighty Eywa 16. Friends 17. Cove of the Ancestors 18. The Tulkun Return 19. The Hunt 20. Kids in Peril 21. Na’vi Attack 22. A Farewell to Arm 23. Eclipse 24. Bad Parents 25. Knife Fight 26. World Upside Down 27. From Darkness to Light 28. Family 29. Songcord Chapter 30. The Spirit Tree 31. Nothing is Lost - The Weeknd 32. Leaving Home 33. The Songcord – Zoë Saldana Note: I contacted S Franglen a few hours ago: "Leaving Home is the full version of Sanctuary first half used in the end credits. It was an important cue to Jim and me."

Here we go, at long last:

How many steps from that to this?

I listened to it today in the car. Excellent sound. i love how arnold treated this score as it should be when a composer steps in the franchise created by another composer. He uses the james bond theme as if it where his own, he changes it, deconstructs it, uses its rythms, melds it with his own themes, play full renditions…. Not with the usual, “im afraid to step into the shoes of this composer so i subtly hint the original themes or use note by note transcriptions when i want to put the ONLY full rendition of the theme in the film”…. and the love theme and surrender song could have been in a barry film

First listen to the main program with no booklet, samples or anything. This score is just fantastic!

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 🙂

Since this thread is about transcriptions I thought I'd share this video here too ! Instant goosebumps when I first heard glimpses of that theme in the very first cue...it's just gorgeous

Big delivery from Intrada. Karol

Some of the best scores in the last sixty years have been written for animated films. I wish Mr. Arnold every success Now...let's have him back, for Bond 26.

Williams, Beethoven, and the organically grown glasses plus a still for those who enjoy staring at the uncanny valley Courtesy of @Borodin

Zimmer knows a thing or two about defending two note ostinatos.