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Saw film tongiht.
 
Zimmer's score is so different - think Interstellar's Imperfect Lock but a whole score like that  (can't imagine what it'll be like on the album as it very much works best in context, like Johannsson's Arrival score but not as bad thinking about outside context) but absolutely excellent.
 
rest of thoughts on film https://letterboxd.com/antovolk/film/dunkirk-2017/1/

Reactions:
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/article/dunkirk-buzz-see-the-first-reactions-to-christopher-nolans-new-war-movie/
 
Best I've read - INCEPTION meets THE LONGEST DAY

Let's get the thread going for this.
 
http://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-Articles/1703-Summer-2017/WWII-Dunkirk.aspx
 

It appears with Whedon finishing the film for Snyder, Junkie XL is out
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justice-league-danny-elfman-compose-score-1013319

And if that wasn't enough - here's the Korean trailer with the epic track from the final trailer
 

They also released the 'Rogue Mix' - a custom version that was used in the trailer
 
 

There's all this talk of isolating trailer music and such but no one posted the original track:
 
 

Film of the year for me. Some more thoughts at http://letterboxd.com/antovolk/film/arrival-2016/

The new R1 trailer was done by these guys: http://www.superhuman.co.uk

Digital release Monday. FINALLY they label the score as the Original Soundtrack instead of having a pop song album.
track list (spoilers)

Allow me to interrupt your regularly scheduled horse manure with....
THE SPECTRE GUNBARREL! Albeit it doesn't have the build up that we get over the studio logos but this is as good as it gets, and in 24-bit FLAC. Thank the folks at Sony for using it in the new short featurette that came out this morning.

FLAC/MP3 320 download:

Allow me to interrupt your regularly scheduled horse manure with....
THE SPECTRE GUNBARREL! Albeit it doesn't have the build up that we get over the studio logos but this is as good as it gets, and in 24-bit FLAC. Thank the folks at Sony for using it in the new short featurette that came out this morning.

FLAC/MP3 320 download:

Full tracklist:
http://www.amazon.com/Spectre-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/tracks/B015EZU1QS/

And the two tracks premiered by Classic FM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWLotiRBDQU

Okay here we go...my review.



INTERSTELLAR LIVE

So the evening began surprisingly with a red carpet, which after a bit I left and just went in lol, as I was gonna see everyone inside anyway. Turns out I missed Chastain but oh well.



So the evening began...with a really nice and short intro from Stephen Hawking himself, who introduced everyone on stage! Extended applause all around. Then the pre-show talk, which was really quite nice. Some things we've known before such as that 'Day One' story were brought up, and Kip had a couple of slides explaining the Tesseract and how the black hole came to be and how Nolan decided to eschew scientific accuracy for a couple of thing such as the Doppler shift...you'll probably see that first bit online or somewhere (that April 7, I believe, special showing thing across the US?) soon, as it was filmed and all.



Now for the main bit, after the intro from Caine and Nolan and Zimmer...yup it began. It was damn good. Really really fantastic hearing it live as the film plays, and it doesn't need describing, you can imagine the feeling.... But the real kickers came in the second half...the whole Coward/Imperfect Lock/No Time For Caution sequence was chilling and really awesome, but NOTHING, not even, what I feel is a bit overhyped tbh, NTFC (of course the film version with organs and all, and of course applause at the end)...came close to Detach. WOW. WOW. WOW. Jaw hit the floor immediately when the organ kicked in, the sheer power, well I guess the extreme bass isn't just from post production huh. It hits you right there. And the Wagnerian organ/strings/wind combo at the end was just the icing wow. I was probably shaken and overwhelmed with joy/feels/epic and exhaustion at the end of that, which is something I have never quite felt ever during a live performance. And also another bit I loved was the slight variations in orchestrations in such in the bits you heard over and over...especially Day One/Who's They. Everything was just beautifully performed, I got extreme chills at the end credits, where it was really nice seeing different parts of the audience applauding even people like Paul Franklin, David Gyasi and so on...and of course the big cheer (which I kicked off) when "A Christopher Nolan Film/INTERSTELLAR" came up.



Overall....probably an even better way to experience the movie than 70mm IMAX. Unless you can fit a 60-piece orchestra and a giant fuck-off organ in a 70mm IMAX....but it wouldn't match Albert Hall acoustics though TBH. And while I really hope they do a tour of this like Giacchino did with Star Trek/Into Darkness as you all HAVE to experience this...it will never be quite the same performed by most if not all of the same performers from the recording sessions, Zimmer himself, and of course the giant 9,999-pipe fuck-off organ in question.






10/10 (as if this even needs a score, it transcends that Thank you Hans, Roger, Gavin, all the performers, RAH and Orchid for actually organising this (hope this gets them to do even more recent movies with excellent scores too) and of course Nolan.

(that one's for you, Grey )

To be quite honest, the score sounded so good that I thought they were using playback. Veeery close to film version.
Karol

Yes. World tour required.