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Dirty Harry, Magnum Force and Sudden Impact -Schifrin
Something about Schifrin's sound for the first two DH movies- as much a character as Harry himself.
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Peter Tork from the Monkees, aged 77.
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Downfall made me a fan of his work -quite like his turn in Baader-Meinhof Complex. The American Friend is superb also.
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RIP to a fine actor. I'm a great fan of his performance as Churchill in The Gathering Storm.
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Besides, a few dozen re-listens of Star Trek II and III, not much of note but I went through a phase of listening to Elmer Bernstein's McQ. Something about the Dirty Laundry track -hint of menace, purpose and, er, coolness. I'm sure it's not high on Bernstein's list but one of my favourites of his.
But this week revisiting two David Shire scores -Big Bus and Taking of Pelham 1-2-3. The former, can never get enough of the main title -like Airplane it's a serious (if a track of its era) sounding piece. Personally, fits in and around the Airport sequels. With respect to John Cacavas.
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In amidst a smattering of films, revisiting Deep Space Nine. I only have Seasons 4-7 (at the time I believed the series to really kick on from Way of the Warrior but I'm aiming to revisit 1-3 soon). Smashed my way into Season 5, aside from the likes of The Muse, it's a heck of a ride. I still find myself wishing there was some sort of eighth season as post-war stories would have been interesting (had DS9 been done by a different network and other factors?). Worf was my favourite on TNG and it's still great to see him here, if only Jadzia had lasted to the end of the series. My appreciation for Avery Brooks has increased but also the characters in the show. How the likes of Dukat changed over seven seasons or Garak or Martok (can never get enough of JG Hertzler). I still marvel at how O'Brien grew. From that unnamed conn officer in Encounter at Farpoint all the way to What You Leave Behind.
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1. Battle of the Heroes
2. Rey's Theme
3. The Great Jedi Purge/Anakin's Betrayal
4. Across the Stars
5. Shmi's Funeral
guess I've not listened to much non-SW stuff this side of 2001.
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3 minutes ago, Richard said:
Ah, yes. H.M.S. Troutbridge.
"Port. Er...starboard. Oh. Er. Left hand down a bit".
Jon Pertwee as The Master? Now there's a twist.
It was a delightfully camp character. The head of this top secret criminal organisation that stalked Troutbridge in later years (Pertwee's tenure of Dr Who was probably the same time -Navy Lark lasted so long he started and finished Dr Who whilst still doing the radio show).
Pertwee's best was Admiral Burwasher. All much missed.
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listened to huge swathes in the past couple of months but chiefly Force Awakens and Last Jedi. The former -I couldn't get enough of Rey's theme wherever it cropped up, especially during The Adbuction. The latter is growing on me but though not a bad score is probably tempered by feelings towards the film itself.
Then onto Raiders of the Lost Ark and Temple of Doom. I watched both yesterday and Parade of the Slave Children (or Slave Children's Crusade) is still an old JW favourite. The start of the piece coinciding with that shot of Indy standing there.
Listened to Charles Gerhadt's Empire Strikes Back, more of Solo (quite fond of Flying with Chewie, the music accompanying the arrival at the planet in particular), It's a Wonderful Life (Tiomkin), Miracle on 34th Street (both the '47 and '94 versions, Case Dismissed in the latter is a definite favourite) and a few others inbetween.
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She also had a little turn in one of my favourite if not favourite radio comedies, the Navy Lark as 'The Mistress' (Jon Pertwee did a dastardly turn as The Master alongside CPO Pertwee et al). Sad loss. Of the Carry On gang there's perhaps a couple, Leslie Philips, Jim Dale, left.
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Listened to John Williams' War of the Worlds via YouTube and then Sleepers (a cheap copy I found from a charity shop along with LA Confidential)
but this week with my writing project listened a few times to Jerry Goldsmith's Players again and more I listen the more I like it. Maybe not a top 10 Goldsmith but the theme and sound of it overall chimes pleasingly.
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Got round to listening to Legends of the Fall (Horner) and the first Harry Potter. So tired, the latter put me in mind of Hook and some of the prequels (Quidditch Match shades of Zam Chase from Attack of the Clones) and the former, in "Off to War" made me think of Barry's John Dunbar Theme. Legends of the Fall on the quiet is a beautiful score. First score I listened to fresh of Horner that didn't immediately summon other scores to mind.
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watched The Eagle Has Landed last night, the extended version. Great little film -the first Schifrin score I brought/listened to. Love Duvall in this film as well as Caine, Sutherland and Hagman.
This is Mallory...I got the truck with a bazooka.
Truck? For crissakes! what does he want, a Silver Star?
Rewatching The Black Hole. Darkest Disney movie? I guess it's a certain point of view. Great score though. Yvetette Mimieux seemed to have a habit of needing rescuing in films and sometimes to a memorable score (i.e Time Machine).
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John Williams' Lincoln. Something about this score that pleases in a quiet sort of way. Personally, my favourite of his recent non-Star Wars works.
And though not the whole score, revisiting parts of Time Machine.
Mister Filby, do you think he'll ever return?
One cannot choose but wonder. You see, he has all the time in the world.
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I fear I like him solely for Final Countdown. We had a bunch of films recorded onto VHS tapes in the 90s and Final Countdown was one we always seemed to watch (right down to the late 80s commercial breaks just about cut out of the recording). Nothing like that main theme or the music accompanying the Tomcats 'playing' with the Zeroes and then destroying them or the Laurel & Owen theme and finally, the music for when the squadron returns to the Nimitz after the storm.
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Jerry Goldsmith's The Sum of All Fears -couple of listens and can't quite get into it. Most of it seems to pass by -somewhere between Air Force One and his later Star Trek's. Feels sacrilegious to dislike a score but doesn't have much of an effect yet.
John Williams' Black Sunday. Not bad, certainly parts of the score lasted in the memory long after listening during my shift. Always partial to this era of Williams' scores -in, around and before Star Wars.
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Checked out Magnificent Seven (1960), Fierce Creatures and the Birds over the weekend thence onto Crimson Tide tonight.
Above anything, just love Gene Hackman.
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Much prefer the score to the movie. From a young age I've been interested in Kennedy and his presidency, to me the main theme suits as a theme to the man himself. I am always stirred by "Arlington" and the portion of "The Motorcade" where the theme starts to kick in. The remainder of the score is okay, not a top 10 Williams OST overall.
3/5 for the score
2/5 for the film.
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1 hour ago, Nick Parker said:
Even ahead of Joe Gideon?
at the moment yes, I've not seen All That Jazz yet.
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Jaws on Blu-ray, for the first time. Like seeing the film for the first time. Only trouble is I've rewatched 2 & 3 this year so it sort of taints the original. Amazed at the quality, personally. Little things still impress such as how on the beach, every time someone walks in front of Brody, the camera angle zooms in or the first sighting of the shark past the Orca and Williams' music.
Watched the docu- "The Shark Is Still Working" after. Made me, if anything, realise just how big the fandom is and also what a loss Scheider was. He'll always be Frank Murphy ahead of any other role.
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I fear I gave up on Star Trek ages ago. Probably around the time I saw Into Darkness at the cinema.
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I managed to buy Star Trek Beyond the day I eventually read of the Deluxe's release on this here forum. I had been waiting and waiting, figured long enough I'll make do until the intevitable release of the expanded but didn't figure it'd be the same day. Otherwise I've never brought OST's after the expanded came out- OST's like Red October, Clear and Present Danger, most of the Star Trek's (up until reboots) I had ages before the expanded's came out.
R.I.P. Andre Previn - dies at 89
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He played all the right notes, and sometimes in the right order.
A sad loss.