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Actually, Javier Navarrete wrote Mirrors and Marianelli has just recently finished scoring Joe Wright's (director of Atonement and Pride and Prejudice) The Soloist -- a movie about a homeless cello player I believe. And Marianelli winning last year was the first time the academy got it right in quite some time, IMO. If Williams is even nominated for KotCS, that will be lucky. It's a painfully mediocre score and doesn't deserve the nomination. I'd say it's perhaps Desplat's time to take home the award if his Curious Cast of Benjamin Button score is any good.

I haven't seen the film yet, but was wondering if anyone can comment on this posted by FSM's Jeff Bond: And I have to say that Williams' score has the least impact of any in the series--don't ask me whether the score itself was any good: it was dialed too low to notice any music other than the stuff repeated from earlier scores. Does Ben Burtt strike again?

The end of Part 2 he talks about Irina's Theme, but up to that they are the same. Just watch part 2.

I agree. I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm on my third listen, but I'm not going to make any kind of statement as to its quality this soon. It took me a long time to get into Raiders, and I only truly appreciated it after watching the film for the first time in 5 or more years.

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Or will it even be available on iTunes? It will definitely be released on iTunes. It's just a question of whether that is tomorrow or next Tuesday. Three of Williams's four scores from 2005 (all except Sith) were released a week early on iTunes. I know that this is a new record company, so it's tough to tell. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if it shows up on iTunes tomorrow. I'd say it was 60-40 (not released-released), but that's a mostly baseless and worthless prediction. Ted It's possible. If you search for "Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" in the iTunes store, John Williams comes up under the artists tab, which means it must be in their system. It's not much, but a possibility.

I'm curious about how the clips are chosen. Do you think it's put together like the clips on iTunes where it's the 30 seconds immediately following the first 45 seconds of the track, or do you think they are hand picked by an editor?

Not too surprising really. What's more interesting is the announcement that it will be two movies.

"The Dragon Boy" from Hisaishi's Spirited Away.

Interesting article. Thanks for the link. I'm particularly curious about this quote, "Composers desperately need their own professional organization to fight for better treatment by both the production companies and the performing rights organizations that so heavily penalize instrumental score music because it doesn’t have lyrics."

Bland underscore? How can anything in Finding Neverland be considered bland? It's intricately orchestrated, has wonderful themes, and a few great piano solos to boot.

It's a fantastic score and completely deserves to win. The same goes for Finding Neverland.

Atonement is definitely my pick. Fantastic score from beginning to end. I love Giacchino's score, but I don't think it holds up to Marianelli's work.

You can preview the entire soundtrack here: http://music.lionsgate.com/rambo/

Just saw "Good Night and Good Luck" for the fourth or fifth time. My absolute favorite film from 2005. Beautiful and elegant cinematography and film that takes a somewhat documentary approach to telling the story by integrated actual footage of McCarthy and his hearings. Although Murrow and CBS were not responsible for ultimately bringing down McCarthy, they showed the power the press has as a watchdog on the government and certainly helped in the fight. Easily the best film about journalism since "All the President's Men".