Yavar Moradi

Just saw Mare of Easttown (2021) on HBO Max. Really good detective show! You get a real sense of the community. It’s a much better American Broadchurch, than the actual American Broadchurch. Kate Winslet and Evan Peters were both terrific and I also enjoyed Jean Smart (who I know primarily from Hacks) as Winslet’s mother. Yavar

American History X for film Poldark for TV This is my *favorite* Goldsmith TV movie score, beating out Crawlspace, The Red Pony, and the lovely A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I'm just a sucker for his low end brass action writing! So freakin' awesome! Composer David Newman is a big fan of this score too, the very first Goldsmith score he played on as a session violinist. Listen to us talk about his memories of playing on it here: https://goldsmithodyssey.buzzsprout.com/159614/episodes/1000935-odyssey-interviews-david-newman Yavar

That's funny, because I can recall a dozen Broughton themes off the top of my head, but Lost in Space is one I struggle with more because I don't think it has as memorable a theme as he's demonstrated being able to do elsewhere. Here are some of my favorite and most memorable Broughton themes, starting with YSH since that's what this thread is about... (to be sure it's a bit tricky for me to hum this theme, but I can instantly recall it to mind) (super catchy and fun) (his most badass theme?) (this might be my personal favorite Broughton theme actually... so insanely catchy) (such a gorgeous main theme right off the bat!) And for a final more obscure drama pick, try the theme that starts 53 seconds into this (before that is the main theme, which I also like but find less memorable): Yavar

I'm a Millennial (an older one, I guess... I turn 40 later this year). I'm not really triggered by the prequels at this point; I just think they're as awful as they always were and I can't really understand their rehabilitation, even as a backlash to the sequel trilogy which fell apart by the end. In terms of *resemblance*, I honestly can't fathom how anyone could argue the prequels look more like the original trilogy than the sequel trilogy does (and yeah, "imitation" certainly helps them resemble that original trilogy more). I mean, I guess if you're talking the "Special Edition" of the original trilogy done shortly before the prequels? Yavar

It’s definitely one I remember crafting a playlist for to enjoy better. I should try to find that and compare my old whittle of the 2CD promo with the original album program, which I’ve never had. Yavar

On opposite day, sure. Yavar

For those interested in a brief YouTube review from someone who doesn’t pull silly faces in the video (or in a thumbnail), this reasonably measured one just made me really happy: So glad they’ve clearly nailed the Lois & Clark dynamic for this one… that’s my #1 issue with Superman Returns (I think Bosworth was honestly miscast and was far too young) which otherwise I consider fairly underrated. Yavar

IIRC Shadow Conspiracy for the same director has some pretty badass stuff too... But I agree that on album I don't really enjoy listening to his more atonal horror writing. Somehow I have a lot more tolerance for that kind of thing with Goldsmith. Yavar

Surely Rise of Skywalker is more hated, at this point. Almost everyone seems to hate that one, whereas The Last Jedi divided the fandom almost in half between those who loved it and those who hated it. I'll still rewatch Rise of Skywalker any day before revisiting a single prequel. Yavar

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That's the most recent Kritzerland release (slightly tweaked/improved supposedly, though it sounds fairly similar to me, in comparison with the HUGELY IMPROVED and expanded Prince of Foxes on the same set). It has minimal notes so if you've got that it makes sense that you're unaware of the missing cue. I'm pretty sure that the earlier Screen Archives 2CD edition of the score, with a beautiful and packed liner notes booklet, does mention it: https://www1.screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm/ID/3277/CAPTAIN-FROM-CASTILE/ Yavar

If 15 years ago someone had told me that: 1) I'd be longing for the Tyler Bates/James Gunn collaboration to continue, and 2) the Williams Superman theme would be used in a new Superman movie, but I would be longing for the days of John Ottman's (less) dumbing down of it... Yavar

Yup, the very first cue after the Main Title, which “sets the scene” so to speak. Really good cue and I’ve always been sad it was lost. IIRC on the Twilight Time Blu-ray iso they didn’t even have it from M&E, but substituted some temp guitar music or something instead. The more recent Kritzerland box set has minimal notes as usual IIRC so maybe it doesn’t bother to mention it, but if you have the SAE 2CD set with the great notes booklet, I’m pretty sure it does mention it. (Also, the original pressings of the SAE 2CD set were missing another cue later in the picture.) Yavar

It’s missing at least one key cue which was lost. But yes, it’s most of the score. It just happens to be my favorite Golden Age score by my favorite Golden Age composer, and arguably his magnum opus (there are like a dozen great themes in this thing!) which he wrote over the course of a whole year after doing a ton of research. So it is very worthy of a score book IMO. Yavar

Oh man Newman's Captain from Castile would be amazing for people to study in written form. That said, if the point is to tackle something that doesn't really exist on album, then I'd love to get Newman and Friedhofer's The Mark of Zorro (1939), and discover exactly which cues were written by which composer. Yavar

I doubt it, but it would be great if they'd sub-license it for inclusion, IMO. Maybe Arnold could make it happen. Either way I'll be substituting it as the title song in my own personal playlist... Yavar

Hard disagree, from this Goldsmith fan... Yavar

Here's one that basically says it's a mixed bag: With you on that. Supergirl has some admittedly excellent highlights but has never clicked with me and always feels like less than the sum of its parts. I keep thinking if a new definitive edition is produced of the score, maybe I'll finally come around on it. But so far it's one that most people love that I just... don't. Now on that we'll have to agree to disagree. I love the new Williams themes and how Courage adapted them and incorporated them with the old ones. Yavar

Correct. Goldsmith had only one very brief meeting with Polanski on Chinatown. Yavar

Huh I like season 1 of Angel (it's got some really excellent episodes), though I admit that the series hit its stride more in season 2. My favorite season of the show is the last one though, where they really changed up the formula (really had to be done after the mostly-horrendous fourth season!) Yavar

That one was certainly unique and interesting, but I must admit it left me somewhat underwhelmed on the whole. The scene where they get high was certainly memorable, funny, and surprising for a Pixar film though! Excellent Danna score. Yavar

Saw Elio in theater this past weekend (a bit of a double-bill as it followed the new Jurassic World) and thought it was an absolutely fantastic and wonderful film with a perfect accompanying score, the first time in a while I can remember tearing up in theater! What I would liken it to most is sort of a spiritual successor to the original Lilo & Stitch. This is my favorite Pixar film (and Pixar score) in many years and it's a real shame it hasn't been doing well at the box office because I guess people don't know what it is. Lots of great 80s Goldsmith touches I heard throughout the score. Yavar

Crossing my fingers that LLL will put out the complete Arnold score on CD some day (complete Quantum of Solace too, obviously), and be able to include all versions of "You Know My Name" mastered similarly to the score, which it beautifully fits within. Yavar

Lord Jim is one of Kaper's very best scores and especially since the complete score (as with THEM!, or Barry's masterpiece The Last Valley which you also put out) appears to be lost in audio form, I think it would be a great and worthy project. I hope you eventually inspire some new recordings of these classic lost scores. Yavar

So do you still plan to start a 2025 thread @Brundlefly? LLL announced a 2CD Sum of All Fears just a week ago… Yavar