Sir Hilary Bray

a few Goldsmith's -Escape from Planet of the Apes, First Blood, Air Force One, The Blue Max and The Swarm.
 
Horner- 48 Hours, Star Trek's II and III and Cocoon. 

 
The Kardashians

Star Trek peaked with Deep Space Nine. Everything that followed was inferior. 

I also have a soft spot for RED HEAT.
CLEANHEAD BUST is my favourite track.

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Haha, very true, just saw 'Victim', the first english attempt to thematize a gay subject matter in a blackmail thriller. Remarkably free of the laboured pussyfooting often found in Hollywood movies trying to deal with (then) hot button issues and a brave performance by Dirk Bogarde. Basil Dearden is a very good director who only occasionally stumbled. Most of his movies are immensely watchable.
 

Gene Hackman is great in it.

end of last week watched The Poseidon Adventure. Tend to do so at some point every year and it's almost a guilty pleasure watch (forget the sequel. Waste of time). But on this viewing I marvelled more at Williams' score -chiefly Raising the Christmas Tree and when the survivors first sight the red wheel. The former makes something almost comical as raising a huge Christmas decoration immensely epic. Like climbing Everest. (I reread the book and easy to see why changes were made, they were more survivors in the book -32 and a few other things). Anyway, tradition is that once I watch Poseidon, onto Towering Inferno, or vice versa. 
 
Footnote is that this was probably the first Gene Hackman film I watched and though it's probably down his all time favourites, still a role I enjoy him in. Even if there's touches of ham along the way: "Why God? Why this woman!?"

Yeah, while the movie had it's flaws, I can overlook that.  But I absolutely hated what RJ did to Luke.  Hamill had an interview recently where he said JJ was planning on showing just how powerful Luke was when Rey showed up and a much more meaningful reason why he was there.  RJ just decided to piss all over the character and piss on an audience that had been waiting over 30 years to see their hero again.  So retcon his story and redeem it the best you can.  I'd be ok with him rematerializing on that planet he was fighting Kylo.  Like he wakes up there.

Again, Inky, it's one of his very best, from an underrated film.
 
 
 
Leave it aaaht, guv'nor!
The film is a huge lump of Cheddar, but the score is great. Judy Davis looks oddly sexy, with a machine gun.
Shame that Eon didn't go with Collins, as 007.

If you guys Stateside are having problems with orders arriving, I guess in Britain we'll get it sometime next year?

Been reading a book on Robert F. Kennedy and what with other stuff, sought out selected tracks from Williams' JFK. Something about the theme that just stirs time after time. I find it's one of those scores that to me can become quite separate from the movie it has been done for. Motorcade for example -that gradual build and frantic use of the theme conjuring images of the actual motorcade and the shots ringing out as opposed to Costner's narration/delivery. Or Arlington -hopes lost, dashed. 
 
Worthy mention to the JFK Suite that's on YouTube, in Japan I think, conducted by JW himself. 
 
 

If just sharing a public space counts then mine is character actor Mike Starr, most well-known for his memorable role in Dumb & Dumber as the guy they kill with hot sauce.  I went through airport security with him.

My wife claims Roger Waters brushed past her boobs at a concert once, and I've touched her boobs, so I've pretty much shaken hands with Roger Waters.

Anyone ever have that thing where you've got two film score themes stuck in your head at the same time and they keep blending together either playing in counterpoint or leading into each other?
 
I have that right now with Max Steiner's main theme to Adventures of Don Juan and Williams' sailing theme for Jaws 2
 
 

More spectacular and emotive than anything in Nolan's Dunkirk.

The action sequences are superb.  The rest still is interesting, in an old-fashioned kind of way.

sought out my Superman disc and after a couple of tracks listened to Flying Sequence and reminded of a short moment that for whatever reason always tickles. Could only find it on YouTube with the vocal for the love theme but...
 
 
about 2.43 to 2.49. How it sort of dips and (to my mind) strengthens before pushing into the theme. Can't explain it but today sent a shiver down the spine but the theme generally always does that. 

sought out my Superman disc and after a couple of tracks listened to Flying Sequence and reminded of a short moment that for whatever reason always tickles. Could only find it on YouTube with the vocal for the love theme but...
 
 
about 2.43 to 2.49. How it sort of dips and (to my mind) strengthens before pushing into the theme. Can't explain it but today sent a shiver down the spine but the theme generally always does that. 

- Greatest Hits 1969-1999 compilation
- Star Wars Ep. IV (1997 2 CD set)
- Home Alone (LLL 25th anniversary edition)
- Superman (2000 2 CD set, if you can't afford or don't want to invest that much money in The Blue Box)
- ET (LLL 2 CD edition)

Logan's Run
Planet of the Apes
Explorers
 
- Jerrald King Goldsmith

Just like Chris Reeve was the perfect Superman and literally born for the role he played, so was Margot Kidder and she played Lois Lane perfectly, no other actress could have/has done it better. Rest in peace! 

Jaws: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition 
 
my first introduction to the score long before I got hold of the Intrada one. I almost went for the McNeely copy first. One day I'm sure. 

Jaws: 25th Anniversary Collector's Edition 
 
my first introduction to the score long before I got hold of the Intrada one. I almost went for the McNeely copy first. One day I'm sure. 

Warren Oates; a flame snuffed-out far too soon.