APBez 11 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 Just wondering if anyone can recommend a few decent DVD featurettes that highlight the work of the film composers. Obviously, the E.T. extras feature JW a lot and the LOTR DVDs give a good deal of time to Howard Shore's scoring. Which, in your opinion, are the best? They may or may not cover JW's work.Thanks,APBez Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Breathmask 555 Posted October 8, 2005 Share Posted October 8, 2005 The featurette on the Indy trilogy is pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigscore 0 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 You may want to seek out "The Making of the Music" on Slingshot Entertainment's "Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees". There's lots of time spent both in Johnny Clegg's South African studio and on the scoring stage recording the orchestral score with composer Amin Bhatia. It's a brief but enlightening look into the creation of the songs (by Clegg) and the score (by Bhatia) and how the final IMAX film was a bonafide collaboration between the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Barnsbury 8 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Signs has a better score featurette than most Williams DVDs.Ray Barnsbury Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incanus 5,715 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Patton(2 Disc edition) has a lenghty Goldsmith interview (or so I have heard) on the Extras Disc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Gabriel Yared on THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY is pretty good and let's not forget Jerry Goldsmith's DVD featuring the scoring sessions from THE RIVER WILD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Gladiator, 2 disc R2 has a good featurette (kind of an extended interview) with Zimmer including a look at his studio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Return of the King Extended DVD has a good 20 mins about the music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,207 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 Does the Goldsmith documentary DVD count?Marian - 8O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SturgisPodmore 0 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 I think the Edward Scissorhands DVD has an entire commentary by just Elfman, or Elfman and Burton.~Sturgis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 The Village has a whole chapter of the "Deconstructing The Village" making of feature focused on the score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robthehand 3 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 I think the Edward Scissorhands DVD has an entire commentary by just Elfman, or Elfman and Burton.~SturgisIn that case - you can also count The Matrix and I, Robot (and some others that I can't remember right now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benefactor 3 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 ALIEN QUADRILOGY (as well as two-disc editions of every movie) has really good and pretty large segments about every Alien score with interesting and honest interviews.Flesh + Blood only featurette dedicated to Basil Poledouris score.There are Goldsmith and Poledouris commentaries on Hollow Man and Starship Troopers interspaced within isolated scores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Does the Goldsmith documentary DVD count?Marian - Yes. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 The Star Trek 2 disc sets to include TMP, Wrath Of Khan, The Undiscovered Country and First Contact have segments with the composer including a touching tribute to Goldsmith on the FC set.Can't remember if the other ST films have any composer segments.Episode 1 has some decent moments with Williams, 1941 has the isolated score plus a few videos of Williams conducting the score. Actually most of Spielberg's DVD's have interviews with Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 ALIEN QUADRILOGY (as well as two-disc editions of every movie) has really good and pretty large segments about every Alien score with interesting and honest interviews.What do they say about "Aliens," the one with the most tempestuous history?Jeff -- who only has the single-disc "Aliens" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurker 5 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Horner talks about how pressed for time they were on that and how lacking the facilities were when he went to record it. He mentions how they (the facilites and the engineer) were good for Williams and his score to Star Wars but not for his music, whatever the hell that means.He and Gale Anne Hurd also praise his big climatic cue...........which was dropped from the film and tracked with "Bishop's Countdown".ALIEN also has a very interesting story with music being tracked and dropped and replaced. We hear Jerry's side of it and and editor Terry Rawlings' perspective as well.Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 We hear Jerry's side of it and and editor Terry Rawlings' perspective as well.NeilYay Jerry!BOOOOO Terry! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Danny Elfman on PLANET OF THE APES (2000). Elliot Goldenthal on TITUS and FRIDA was very good as well. Don't forget Bennie in THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT TORN CURTAIN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 We hear Jerry's side of it and and editor Terry Rawlings' perspective as well.NeilYay Jerry!BOOOOO Terry!Stubborn as mules the two of them.Hitch, who held a banner at Jerry in the Albert Hall stating WHY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 No you didn't!It said "MORE VOYAGER...MORE" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitch 57 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 Jerry had that brat Damien burn that banner off chin 5. Can't you remember? That's why I replaced it quickly with WHY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 10, 2005 Share Posted October 10, 2005 You are living in a fantasy world Sir Hitch.Take those pills or you'll wake up thinking you are that Pete guy from Kanturk, Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 He and Gale Anne Hurd also praise his big climatic cue...........which was dropped from the film and tracked with "Bishop's Countdown".I'm assuming you're talking about the music that was put into the end of "Die Hard." If so, I think "Bishop's Countdown" was a better choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Are you on crack! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 And ...I rented "Pleasantville" yesterday and went through the menu options. On there is an isolated score with commentary by Randy Newman. After I watched the movie (it's good until the final 15 minutes) I turned on Randy's commentary, which I enjoyed to a point. He makes comments about each cue after you hear them and also talks about his contemporaries (particularly Horner, Goldsmith and Williams) and his uncle Alfred. He often rambles, but it's good for film score enthusiasts, not so much for people who don't know the business (he never says Goldsmith's or Horner's first names). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 Are you on crack!Are you emphasizing that I am on crack or asking if I am on crack?The answer is no in either case. I didn't like the fact that so many cues were butchered in the film, but this one worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 But since the original cue (Resolution) was not used, how do you know that that would not have worked better.So I ask again, are you on crack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trumpeteer 302 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 I played the CD along with the movie, and maybe it's because I've heard "Bishop's Countdown" associated with that scene so much, but I like that music better. It has more of an urgency.And I have not ingested any illegal substances today or any other day in my life.Jeff -- possibly a Quaker in a former life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted October 11, 2005 Share Posted October 11, 2005 And I have not ingested any illegal substances today or any other day in my life.Didn't you compete in an Olympic event?If so you are BUSTED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ren 75 Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 Oh no not these again,this is a great thread. i need to compile a list of these and keep them at my school Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkgyver 1,645 Posted October 12, 2005 Share Posted October 12, 2005 I've yet to see a featurette that beats the 30 minutes documentary on the Bonus DVD of the Return Of The King soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Penna 3,694 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 My only criticisms of that are how much it focuses on the soloists and Annie Lennox, who to be honest I don't really care much about and would rather hear more about the score itself.*Note to self* read above post twice before replying.I'll have to try & find that one sometime because I didn't consider it worth the exorbitant price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klokwerk 0 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I was thinking the other day to try and look for a list such as this.Anyway, as I was perusing the DVDs that my family had rented last weekend I stumbled across a crappy chick flick. First Daughter. I'm glad I did though as, surprisingly, it contains a short featurette with Blake Neely talking about Michael Kamen. For those who don't know, it was during his work on this particular film that Mr. Kamen passed away. It was sort of interesting and I really wasn't expecting a bonus featurette like that on such a DVD.Also, the Williams bits in the JAWS "Making of" doco and also the short featurette on JAWS 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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