Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted June 3, 2023 Share Posted June 3, 2023 Just finished the Hans Zimmer - Hollywood Rebel documentary. Main takeaways: Hans has the best samples, according to Nolan. He was an absent father who worked all the time. Life isn't as long as you think it is. You can live a playful life or you can live a life that excludes playfulness, and it doesn't get you anywhere. Playfulness gets you somewhere. Did Hans just share the meaning of life? GerateWohl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,473 Posted June 3, 2023 Share Posted June 3, 2023 Haven't seen the Zimmer doc, but I do think more docs about film composers are a great idea. As long as the interviews are actually interesting and not, you know, just ass-kissing - which is unfortunately is what I think a JW documentary would be. Brónach and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,287 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 The only one I've watched is the Ennio Morricone one, which is absolutely terrific and highly recommended whether you're particularly a fan or not. On 03/06/2023 at 10:18 PM, Edmilson said: Haven't seen the Zimmer doc, but I do think more docs about film composers are a great idea. As long as the interviews are actually interesting and not, you know, just ass-kissing - which is unfortunately is what I think a JW documentary would be. I do think you might be right on the JW documentary, I'm not sure it'll give us masses of insight. With the Ennio one, I learned lots about him as well as go to enjoy bits of all those marvellous scores. I'm not saying it was a no holds barred expose (I don't want that either!) but dug deep enough to feel valuable. Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,515 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 We need something like a BBC HardTalk but for John Williams: "Mr. Williams, would you like to apologize to the Holst estate for lifting the ending chords from Mars?" "Do you think it's acceptable for film composers to steal from other composers as widely as you have done?" And probably the hardest of all... "How much music exactly did William Ross contribute to Chamber of Secrets?" Jurassic Shark and Edmilson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted June 5, 2023 Author Share Posted June 5, 2023 2 minutes ago, Loert said: We need something like a BBC HardTalk but for John Williams: "Mr. Williams, would you like to apologize to the Holst estate for lifting the ending chords from Mars?" "Do you think it's acceptable for film composers to steal from other composers as widely as you have done?" And probably the hardest of all... "How much music exactly did William Ross contribute to Chamber of Secrets?" He'd brush of any critical question with anecdotes about cookies and dead composers. Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 7,521 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 While I love the fact that NRK (the main Norwegian broadcaster) screened the "Hollywood Rebel" documentary two nights ago, I already saw it when it premiered on BBC a few months back. It's OK, but for a hardcore fan like myself, it mostly flirts with the subject; kinda superficial, neglecting to go much into his glorious work in the late 80s and 90s. But I suppose that is true for all film music documentaries airing on mainstream media. There's rarely much for the fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GerateWohl 4,373 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 At the overall documentry "Score" a few years ago Hans Zimmer almost seemed upset talking about Williams' "Jaws" score "Everybody says it's just two notes. It isn't just two notes. It is a sophisticated symphonical composition." Watching that, I thought, he wanted to make Williams a compliment. But after watching the "Hollywood Rebel" I think, Zimmer himself wrote some themes with just two notes like the Joker theme from Dark Knight and probably he just wanted to point out "That is how you really write a two note theme!" 1977 and Jurassic Shark 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted June 5, 2023 Author Share Posted June 5, 2023 Or he's saying JW is a genius for writing a two-note theme, therefore he also has to be a genius. I had to smile when one of his collaborators talks about him trying to write a one-note theme for the Joker. JTN and GerateWohl 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 4,673 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 1 minute ago, Jurassic Shark said: Or he's saying JW is a genius for writing a two-note theme, therefore he also has to be a genius. I had to smile when one of his collaborators talk about him trying to wrote a one-note theme for the Joker. The guy who scored The Birds did one better! Jurassic Shark and GerateWohl 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,211 Posted June 5, 2023 Share Posted June 5, 2023 6 hours ago, Loert said: "Mr. Williams, would you like to apologize to the Holst estate for lifting the ending chords from Mars?" "Do you think it's acceptable for film composers to steal from other composers as widely as you have done?" And probably the hardest of all... "How much music exactly did William Ross contribute to Chamber of Secrets?" "Were they really *all* dead?" Loert 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,302 Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 spielberg as a jerry hater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted July 8, 2023 Author Share Posted July 8, 2023 Just watched My Old School. A fascinating, and eventually sad, documentary. LSH 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karelm 2,915 Posted July 8, 2023 Share Posted July 8, 2023 I saw the 1976 IMAX documentary, Flight. It started off so corny but ended up being really good. It begins with a silly scene of an over the top hot air balloon pilot but ends with very good pre Star Wars special effects of planetary exploration. This was probably mind blowing to 1976 audiences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Every documentary I've ever seen, always ends up being about the sexual practices of the Serengeti lions. Darn that Attenborough, he's got a lot to answer for Jurassic Shark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 I think the last documentary I watched was Tim's Vermeer, which was pretty interesting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 32 minutes ago, Jay said: I think the last documentary I watched was Tim's Vermeer, which was pretty interesting! Interesting, looks like something I'd enjoy. Does it contain original music? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 I don't remember Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 IMDB says music by Conrad Pope! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,374 Posted August 6, 2023 Share Posted August 6, 2023 Ah yea, that sounds familiar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted August 6, 2023 Author Share Posted August 6, 2023 Hehe, it has strong similarities with Desplat's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted August 7, 2023 Share Posted August 7, 2023 Holko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted August 7, 2023 Share Posted August 7, 2023 Any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,346 Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 22 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Any good? Boring* and interesting at the same time. * rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal, ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,554 Posted August 8, 2023 Share Posted August 8, 2023 I really want to see this, but three things put me off: 1/ I dislike LET IT BE with a passion. 2/ I'm not sure if I could sit through all the minutae of a band fiddling around. I'd rather hear the finished product. 3/ Yoko Ono. Still, it's probably worth it, just for the rooftop concert. I'll buy it, eventually. A24 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,091 Posted August 8, 2023 Author Share Posted August 8, 2023 This score is a warm blanket. Anybody familiar with other music by Schweitzer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Well, I watched the documentary on Mr. Dressup available on Amazon Prime, and I bawled my eyes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,484 Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 I'm currently watching the documentary 'The Andy Warhol Diaries' on Netflix in the hope of learning a bit more about Andy Warhol... a figure I've always found strange and highly overrated... and I still believe that. The guy made paintings with a soup can and a photocopy of Marilyn Monroe, then 'industrialized' his work because every big star of the time wanted 'their' painting done by Andy Warhol. I think he made a mockery of everyone. I wasn't a fan, and I'm not becoming one. But well, some things are interesting, although, for me, there will always be an aura of discomfort surrounding this character, who was a great social misfit, almost an extraterrestrial, and who was praised by a certain New York establishment, although I still don't know why. He wasn't someone who championed a social cause, nor was he a role model or a hero; he was rather 'ordinary' at his core and not particularly adept at being happy. Ultimately, Andy Warhol marketed himself as a product, and his art remains a compelling reflection of the widespread cultural unease and disillusionment prevalent during a troubled era—specifically, the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s—an experience I personally didn't live through due to my younger age. Not for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,360 Posted November 29, 2023 Share Posted November 29, 2023 If these walls could sing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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