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I understand and partially agree with your assessment, but why do you order it then??

I understand and partially agree with your assessment, but why do you order it then??

I understand and partially agree with your assessment, but why do you order it then??

I understand and partially agree with your assessment, but why do you order it then??

I recommend the film to all. It’s not the pinnacle of “Historical Spielberg”. But it’s a tale well told. It would be the top of the list in any other director’s filmography.
 
For some, the film can feel a bit bifurcated. Imagine the intensity of something like “12 years a Slave” intersperse with the court room proceedings of “Lincoln”.  But the intense/violent episodes help give the court room portions more importance It can be a bit jarring/dull for some. But I think Spielberg manages to blend the two pretty well. It’s a much more epic feeling story than something like “Lincoln” which was a smaller character piece ( and admittedly…a bit dry. Masterful performances. Well made. But dry.)

Expecting full repayment for the first 10 years is fine.  The rule should have been a sliding 10 years, not locked to July 3rd 2005 forever

Yes, I heard it too by chance, was very surprised, since it is not a big blockbuster movie/soundtrack. And a positive review, too, without the usual snark of highbrow culture radio concerning film music. 

Yes, I heard it too by chance, was very surprised, since it is not a big blockbuster movie/soundtrack. And a positive review, too, without the usual snark of highbrow culture radio concerning film music. 

They played "Mother and Son" this morning on BR Klassik following a review of the album (in German):
 
https://www.br.de/radio/live/br-klassik/programm/2022-11-23/3302726/#t=07:14:54
Aufnahmeprüfung: "Die Fabelmans" - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Ben Alber

I think the Sony Classical page has bits of new information and quotations from Williams and Spielberg:
 
https://www.sonyclassical.com/releases/releases-details/the-fabelmans-original-motion-picture-soundtrack

Season 4 of Buffy is great imo, it may has the most amount of good episodes (Hush + Restless are some of the best episodes of television, then there is Who Are You?, Something Blue, Pangs, Fear Itself, A New Man, New Moon Rising), even if the overall arc is weaker than in Seasons 2, 3 and 5.
 

Eine kleine Filmmusik

This has taken me a whole year to prepare and produce, decades if you count the research and accumulation of material. But I thought it was the appropriate time to create now, as a tribute to my favourite film composer in his 90th birthday year.
 
A complete walkthrough of all of his television music (with the available material and data that we currently have), presented as a podcast series over multiple parts. I hope you tune in and follow it. I will start working on Part 2 soon.
 
http://celluloidtunes.no/celluloid-tunes-73-the-complete-john-williams-television-music-walkthrough-part-1-24th-international-edition/
 
 

Watching and enjoying in silence!

Imagine two guys who never met before starting a conversation somewhere in the mid 80’s about music. Guy A says he’s really into rock and heavy metal to which guy B responds: ‘Yeah, I like rock too.’ Guy A brings up legendary bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Rush and Black Sabbath and guy B says he loves Stairway To Heaven by Led Zeppelin. Guy A says he’s also into current bands like Iron Maiden, Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica to which guy B responds: ‘You know who’s also really good right now? Bon Jovi!’ 
 
When people bring up Hans Zimmer when I’m expressing my love for film music and composers like John Williams, Ennio Morricone and Jerry Goldsmith, I often feel like guy A.
 
It’s not that Bon Jovi is a bad band. They successfully bridged rock and pop and made rock music more mainstream than before. But an Iron Maiden fan wouldn’t necessarily be into Bon Jovi, just because both bands classify as ‘rock bands’.
 
My interest in film music started at a young age when I thought of film composers as ‘classical composers like Beethoven or Mozart, but then working today.’ With his many iconic themes to my favourite films growing up and his grand orchestral sound, John Williams became the best example of this notion.
 
I like that traditional methods of composing live on and that film has become a canvas on which composers can express themselves, just like composers in the past worked on ballets, operas and such.
 
It is part of my fascination for film music.
 
So when I talk about film music, I will always mention the work ethic involved and the artistry of writing for a symphony orchestra. John Williams, Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, James Horner, Howard Shore: these are the kind of film music composers that sparked my interest in the genre.
 
Hans Zimmer is not a bad composer by any means. He sort of re-invented film music by partly replacing the traditional symphony orchestra with electronics, rock guitars and such. His composing method is one of collaboration, much different than John Williams who sits alone behind his piano writing the notes down with a pencil on paper which will eventually lead to a complex and profound symphonic work.
 
The music of Hans Zimmer simply doesn’t harmonise with my personal interest in film music, which is more an interest in the continuation of symphonic composition than specifically the film music genre.
 
When I express my fondness for John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith and someone brings up Hans Zimmer as in: ‘He’s also good’, it doesn’t quite feel right.
 
Can anyone relate or is it just me?

With Star Wars, John Williams brought orchestral scoring back into the mainstream.  With The Fabelmans, he brings classical music itself back into the mainstream.  The man is a genius.  

I prefer the original theatrical cut, since I saw the movie in this form several times in the cinema. I also like, that it has a bit more humor in it, e.g. the "train wreck" scene in the introduction of the Nearys, and the scene where Neary throws plants and garden stuff through the window into the house. I thinks those are missing or shortened in later versions.

I prefer the original theatrical cut, since I saw the movie in this form several times in the cinema. I also like, that it has a bit more humor in it, e.g. the "train wreck" scene in the introduction of the Nearys, and the scene where Neary throws plants and garden stuff through the window into the house. I thinks those are missing or shortened in later versions.

Alternate Binary sunset from A New Hope. 
 
Alternate Follow Me from Always

Alternate Binary sunset from A New Hope. 
 
Alternate Follow Me from Always

late to the game :-)

late to the game :-)

I can really recommend eclassical.com for classical music. They charge very reasonable and per second, not per disc, and they offer a lot of high rez, even often in 5.1 Multichannel. Each day they have one recording on half price which allowed me to discover a lot of music I would never have considered buying full price.

I can really recommend eclassical.com for classical music. They charge very reasonable and per second, not per disc, and they offer a lot of high rez, even often in 5.1 Multichannel. Each day they have one recording on half price which allowed me to discover a lot of music I would never have considered buying full price.