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Holko

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  1. Ah, the Superman source cues. I did skip into all of them once and I'm almost glad they're on the II/III release so I don't have to own them!
  2. Let's see... Swing, Swing, Swing (kinda) Eleventh Commandment Lava Flow The Kiss The Leaky Cauldron Cast a Christmas Spell The Courtyard Double Trouble Home Alone carols Jaws Marching Band No. 2 Stalling Around Cantina Band 1&2 Anything Goes (kinda) Dinner Source Are all really damn good! Off the top of my head.
  3. Escape from the Planet of the Apes, The Labor Continues (couldn't find it on YT but it's conveniently in the LLL sample, 0:59-) https://johndadlez.com/MP3/PlanetOfTheApesSoundtrackCollection/3 EFTPOTA/3_10_TLC.mp3 Compared with The Mummy:
  4. Good luck convincing the 90.000 separate legal entities holding the rights to different ones about that.
  5. Maybe the other end, complete scores on a couple CDs. Every episode does have 1-2 unreleased cues so far, even if some of them are completely inconsequential.
  6. Yeah, all that artwork and samples gone forever instead of being placed in an OOP section, marked very clearly so there's no confusion...
  7. I have had worse experiences with jewel cases than these little dents or crumpling with digipaks, though. Like Schindler's List which came in a jewel case whose front just doesn't stay on. Or CE3K with prongs so strong the disc bends 30+ degrees before it becomes free and I'm afraid I'll snap it everytime. Or the HP box, where Disc 3's teeth just broke off and it was rattling around inside the case, thankfully not getting a single scratch.
  8. These specialty label releases are limited to 3000,5000, etc. copies (Minority Report has 3500), but La-La Land doesn't order all of these at once for manufacturing, and once their initial batch (a couple hundred or thousand copies) is gone, it takes weeks, sometimes months to restock because manufacturing plants are limited and overworked. Since you're French, I was just about to recommend your local reseller https://www.musicbox-records.com, from whom I ordered Minority Report last Friday, but I just saw even they have it out of stock by now and probably won't get more until LLL gets more. So it's the waiting game again. If all 3500 copies sell out, LLL will indicate that clearly on their website and after a while will even remove the page.
  9. And of course it's only a small portion of the lower back corner of the outer sleeve. What I do dislike is when they don't have a slip like this that helps them hold the shape, so they just flop all around - like the Deluxe Across the Stars or the 3 disc remaster of the White Album, that latter one developed a light crease down the middle of the spine.
  10. This is the worst I've come across and it looks worse on this picture than it is.
  11. I like that digipaks allow for more sprawling and creative artwork. I have the TFA and RLJ digipaks and I'll get TRoS in this version too. Not completely on topic but I LOVE the packaging of the LotR Extended DVDs, too.
  12. Shouldn't A.I. be marked Sold Out instead of Out of Print?
  13. Pócspetri (1983) A wonderfully disturbing and upsetting 3 hour documentary. The titular village in the very Northeast of the country was an unassuming, unremarkable place until 1948, when the local priest heated up the population against the socialisation of schools, and on a June evening, when they went to protest against it, the nonviolent mob turned into an incomprehensible mess, a policeman was killed and telephone lines were soon cut so no news can get out. The prosecution was swift and cruel: the priest was sentenced to death (later modified to prison for life) for inciting the people, another man for killing the policeman after taking his gun away (he was hanged on the day of the sentencing), multiple other people (the cable cutters) for years in prison. The village gained notoriety country-wide as cop killers, the socialisation of land and schools proceeded with greater force. The film does start with a recording of the sentence to start you off, but afterward it's nothing but director Judit Ember in the village in 1982, talking to people, getting them to remember what really happened. None of it is scripted or really directed, it's all the informal testimonies of these honest, rural, real people - feeling a need to tell the tuth even if they may be reprosecuted for it. It features no narration, crutches for the viewer or a greater truth, just these pieces of memories from which you can slowly piece together the events (the bonus 1998 talk with the director helps a lot, too), and decades of repressed trauma coming back up. The cop died out of a complete accident, most probably had a faulty gun which he slammed on the ground to make noise, then it went off and shot him through the head. The heads of state saw this as a great opportunity to push socialisation and anti-religiousness, so the soon arriving State Defense Force beat the entire village (causing many to die, some to be crippled for life, all to be traumatised and somewhat socially stigmatised) to get false confessions, signatures from witnesses of made up charges, and most importantly a scapegoat who they can declare mudrerer and cruelly ceremoniously execute to make an example out of him in one of the first grand show trials. The "People's Republic" sacrificed a villageful of its mostly completely innocent people. The film was banned until the democratic transformation in 1989, and the director fought and pushed the villagers she grew to know and whose trust she gained to fight for a retrial - which eventually happened in multiple rounds and everyone who got sentenced in the past got retroactively acquitted. The executed "Murderer", who, as it turns out, took the blame so none of his brothers had to be hurt anymore, got reburied in the village 2 years ago. I'm very glad this 3 hour mammoth comes on 2 discs, I didn't have it in me to witness it all at once, it was too powerful seeing all those broken people bringing up their dark past. I'm certainly glad I saw it. I actually find it not dissimilar to the 20 years older 20 Hours (fictional, acted book adaptation), which is a film about a journalist travelling to a village, interviewing people, trying to piece together the history and family feuds from many conflicting and nonchronological accounts.
  14. So, finally ordered this score. I don't have nearly the same connection tk it as to the first one but I know it'll grow on me very quickly. The opening Somewhere Im My Memory and Star of Betlehem are new takes, right? Are they revised, rearranged, different?
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