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It's more difficult surely for traditional orchestral sounding composers. Write a sound-designy score nowadays with expensive equipment, and you might end up getting an Oscar!

A related film, again based on a Kazantakis novel, is the 1957 film, He who must die. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050237/

Hmmmmm... I should watch that one too. I have it watched once many years ago and I don't remember anything. Easter is coming here in Greece in one week or so, and I have started watching biblical and other related films.

A sanitized Hollywood version of the story of Christ. Spectacular, but I personally think it relied much on unwanted scenes like the two battles with Barabbas, the Roman centurion etc.. I think I prefer The Greatest Story ever told, and certainly Jesus of Nazareth. And of course, above all, I love The Passion of Christ, for the depiction of Christ's last hours. I couldn't understand in the other versions the degree of his martyrdom.

Ah. Got you. I didn't get it the first time.

Not to mention also the 2 tracks of the Hymn to Fallen.

You've got a pm.

What version of The Abyss would you prefer? https://imgsli.com/MjU2MjM3 the grainy one or the DNRed one?

Do you mean the score? Do you think it's a masterpiece?

Curious how Young ended up scoring this little film. Anyway, the music is quite ethnic and I'm curious also how the composer wrote such music. I mean did he study the music of the country or is he based on traditional melodies? There are many vocal tracks, and I wouldn't ever think that a Hollywood composer wrote these, if I didn't know.. I had listened to this fairly recently, and I can't udnerstand what people find in it. The Silence of the Lambs on the other hand, that's a masterpiece.

No, to all three questions. If I admitted that SPR is a masterpiece of a score, then it wouldn't be fair for true masterpieces in my book like E.T., Hook or Schinldler's List. As for the film, I vastly prefer The Thin Red line, which was released the same year.

I guess orchestras always play The Duel from Tintin because it's available from Hal Leonard, but it's hardly my favorite piece from that score. Tinker-Tin is much more original and fun for me...

I listened to Magdalene yesterday, and I found it a great score, although there are a couple of obvious "influences" from Mozart's Requiem. Check it out if you haven't yet. Pity that he has disappeared from the film music world! (Although to tell you the truth, I've only listened to 3 scores in total by him)

How on earth Paltrow won the Oscar over Blanchett's performance, I will never understand...

Just listening. It's quite good, yeah, but I don't hear any "Americana". Although to be fair, I have connected the term with Copland and Williams.

I don't know, I haven't warmed up to it at all..

Have you tried cleaning the disc with a cloth or even washing it? I hear in other forums this helps a lot with your problem.. Now, that you mention it, I also have Close Encounters, and I wonder if it has gone bad...

See here, Excised final chapter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picnic_at_Hanging_Rock_(novel)

I see the (US) blu-ray of that one is also OOP and is going high at ebay!

Just purchased a used Nixon blu-ray (Kino edition - includes both theatrical and director's cut) for 118 euros from ebay!! (It's OOP, that's why the price is steep)

Very good theme for a religious TV film, by Frisina, and overall a quite good score.

Oh, sorry, I didn't think about it. I will edit my post ASAP!

4 tracks? Wow! I dislike long tracks...

What the thread's title says. If you can post youtube links starting with the theme, even better. (I know it's a bit of a hassle, but it's not mandatory) Main theme from A Single Man Catwoman theme from Batman Returns Love theme from Dracula Wedding theme from Braveheart Main theme from The Piano Esther/Love theme from Ben-Hur Main theme from Princess Mononoke Main theme from Jesus of Nazareth Main theme from The Last of the Mohicans Main theme from Star Trek

Well, I like the slow romantic theme, but the rest from what I remember is sound design-y and some upbeat techno stuff and such.. That's why I said it was an unusual choice. I thought you liked mainly orchestral music.