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    Do you think John Williams' symphony will ever be released?

    in JOHN WILLIAMS

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    I've read the score.

    Really?

    That's impressive. I had no idea it was available for viewing anywhere. I always assumed it was locked away in one of Williams' cabinets or something.

    If the score sheets are out there, then maybe we'll see a recording of it after all.....some day.

    I'm sure I had written it somehwere here, but i can't find it.

    The Symphony is availbale here for rental:

    https://www.eamdc.com/composers/john-williams/works/symphony-no-1-7/

    I tried to get it, but it was way too expensive for someone in Europe!

    What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)

    in General Discussion

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    I just saw for the first time "Field of Dreams"!

    I found it very weird but I kind of liked it. Don't know why and I am not sure that i got it all!

    It's interesting that you express it that way. I had the same experience the first time I saw it. I liked it—a lot, actually—but I couldn't put my finger on why I liked it. That made for something of a bizarre movie experience.

    I later came to realize that this film is nothing more or less than a direct glimpse into someone's wishful thinking . . . unfiltered, unapologetic, unplugged, just as it is. It's a little harder to understand the first time around if you don't share this person's precise dreams. (If you do, of course, then it likely struck home right away.) Once you begin to see it for what it is, you find it's an exhilarating experience to step so completely into someone's imagination and see through their eyes. That's supposedly what cinema's all about, but it rarely happens on this level, and almost never in this fashion. They oughta try it more often.

    Joe's right, though. This is not just the best baseball movie ever, it's the best movie of its kind (dream-come-true) ever.

    - Uni

    well the thing that touched me more is that I have a big dream too, and I was wondering what it would be like not to fulfil it, and what would it be like to fulfil it.

    (of course my dream is not baseball! hehe! I have seen so many films about baseball and still can't understand how it is played! :biglaugh: )

    I couldn't relate though to the father-son relationship.

    on a sidenote:

    Yesteday I saw Quiz Show for the first time!

    An excellent film too!!

    (i also checked the original Quiz Show in youtube with the Marty question. I wasn't sure - before I saw the film - that all this was a real story)

    I think John Torturo should have been nominated for an Oscar (although I don't remember who the nominees were that year. Maybe they were better indeed..

    The Official La-La Land Records Thread

    in General Discussion

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    I don't understand why people want an expanded born on the Fourth of July. Williams, like he did for JFK, wrote a few long pieces and Stone reused them throughout the film if i understand correctly.

    hmmmm.... no, it's not that way.

    I can't wait for the Arnold, Elfman, Horner, and Kamen titles... whatever they are!

    I would be interested in a complete Legends of the Fall and Willow.

    From Elfman, I'd be interested in complete Sommersby or Dick Tracy (if the albums are not complete. I am not sure)

    Before Sunrise (1995)/Before Sunset (2004) - Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Today is the premiere in Greece with the stars of the movie here!

    Live coverage of the red carpet premiere event in Athens, starts at 8.30 pm local time. The premiere will take place at “Cine Thisio” located at the foot of the Acropolis Hill, an open-air cinema rated 1st among the “10 of the world’s most enjoyable movie theaters”, according to CNN.

    http://printamesanyxta.gr/premiere

    *8.30 pm local time = 6.30 pm GMT

    Lea Michele - An outstanding voice!!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    She doesn't sound like Striesland. Too nasal and thin in tone quality - all head, no chest. Not enough vibrato.

    Personally I don't like vibrato.

    (that's why I don't like opera very much)

    by the way, i didn't mean that she sounds like Streisand (unless you're refering to Alexcremers).

    What I did mean is that she is almost as good (to me) as Streisand. (in a different way)

    Lea Michele - An outstanding voice!!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    (I guess this topic is addressed more to the musical lovers)

    Well, I wanted to start this thread about this star of Glee, who has amazed me with her exceptional voice!! (I rarely get impressed by singers)

    So much that I would say it reaches the standards of Barbra Streisand!!

    Unfortunately, she was born in this era, which is not kind to such kind of songs and voices.

    I can't imagine what would have happened if she had been born back then. A huge star!

    (from Hallelujah, Baby!)

    (from Funny Girl)

    The Death Of Film Music!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I know my younger sister seems to like "old fashioned" all right. (From Jurassic Park to Ratatouille).

    I just think you might underestimate nerdyness and the way teens today have access to stuff. In my early teens I liked stuff that wasn't strictly contemporary to me. I grew up seeing Star Wars anyway because it was "cool". The Star Wars I saw was recorded from TV. Today, I would have had access to almost anything on the Internet, and I would have developed an interest in film scores faster.

    yeah, but then (I don't know how old are you), probably there weren't so much of this new type of film music. We all were accustomed to the symphonic type in adventure,fantasy films etc.

    As there were no so much of CGI too, so we could appreciate older films too.

    Now that there is so much CGI, if you make a teenager watch an old film with puppetry, constructed sets etc, probably he'll think it's kind of lame!

    I see it all the time in youtube comments , especially in films that are remakes and people compare the old one with the new one.

    something crossed my mind lately and I think this is the appropriate thread to share it.

    now, it's a bit morbid thought but:

    if we (i mean generally film music fans of over 25 years old) - who appreciate good symphonic film music- die, won't film music of this kind die completely?

    i mean kids of today are getting used to the "new" sound, so as they grow up they will never demand of anything of higher quality. (it's already done in a way. Most teenagers hate symphonic film scores)

    So, we are the last ones! Isn't that dreadful?

    The Symphonic Film Music niche was never that big anyways. It always was a small group of people who started loving this kind of music in their adolescence. This trend continues to exist today.

    Well, I disagree in that..

    Otherwise, the prevailing film music trend nowadays wouldn't be the "sound-design", minimalistic and electronic scores..

    (always I refer mostly to big blockbuster films in the adventure/fantasy/sci-fi genre).

    Producers give people what they want so as to gain profit, so it seems the symphonic type of scoring isn't what people ask for.

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