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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 3/20/07 10:37am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story
	We covered it in the "1001 Movies" thread...but I haven't seen it, either.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 3/31/07 5:19pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story
	134. Love is a Many Splendored Thing (1955) - Alfred Newman This score took home an Oscar for Newman, beating out Steiner's Battle Cry, North's Rose Tatoo, Duning's Picnic and, the one that should have won, Elmer Bernstein's brilliant Man With the Golden Arm. This Newman's eighth appearance on this list. The film took home a Globe for "Best Film Promoting International Understanding;" Jennifer Jones plays "Dr. Han Suyin." Yes, it's that kind of movie and I think that tips you off as to what kind of score this is. The main theme has become incredibly famous and the song has become even more so. Regardless, overwrought and overrated. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 3/31/07 6:34pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Alfred Newman's Love is a Many Splendored Thing
	Yes, I've heard it. It drips sugar.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/3/07 8:06pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Alfred Newman's Love is a Many Splendored Thing
	135. Love Story (1970) - Francis Lai This is Lai's only appearance on this list. This score was nominated for a Grammy, along with Bless the Beasts and Children, Friends and Ryan's Daughter; they all lost, rightfully so, to Isaac Hayes' Shaft. It did better at the Globes, beating out Newman's Airport, Briscusse's Scrooge, Michel Legrand's Wuthering Heights and a film called Cromwell. Weak year much? Did well at the Oscars as well, taking home the prize, beating out Cromwell, Airport and, stupidly, Jerry Goldsmith's brilliant Patton. Like everyone in the western hemisphere, I have heard the main theme to this score until I want to rip my ears off my head at the first note. Not familiar with the rest of the score. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/4/07 1:29pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Francis Lai's Love Story
	Overexposure makes it impossible to evaluate this properly.
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skgai1 Registered: Nov '05	Date Posted: 4/9/07 10:23pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Francis Lai's Love Story
	I hope some of you vote in the Favorite Star Wars track tournment over in the Star Wars and Film Music forum. Love to hear your thoughts. I wish I could comment more on this thread, but there's been a large patch of films that I haven't seen before.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/10/07 6:53pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Francis Lai's Love Story
	136. Madame Bovary (1949) - Miklos Rozsa This is Rozsa's eighth appearance on this list. This score was nominated for no awards. The film stars James Mason as Flaubert (interesting casting) as he faces obscenity charges for writing the titular novel; in order to prove that the story is moral, he explains it, at which point the film follows the Bovarys into miscasting extraordinaire as Jennifer Jones (!) plays Emma and Van Heflin (!!!!!?!?!) plays Charles. Haven't seen it, haven't heard the score. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/10/07 9:02pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Miklos Rozsa's Madame Bovary
	There is a French version directed by Jean Renoir which is supposed to be much better.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/12/07 7:27pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Miklos Rozsa's Madame Bovary
	I don't know; having, you know, actual French actors in the roles jus sounds a little silly. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/17/07 9:46am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Miklos Rozsa's Madame Bovary
	137. The Magnificent Seven (1960) - Elmer Bernstein This score was nominated for an Oscar along with North's Spartacus, Previn's Elmer Gantry and Tiomin's Alamo, but lost, in one of the great travesties of all time, to Ernest Gold's Exodus. One of the top twenty or so, if you ask me. Quite probably the best Western score ever and second only to Mockingbird as Bernstein's best. The main theme is riveting and iconic, rousing and heroic. The incidental music is equally good, heroic and tragic at all the right times. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/17/07 12:44pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven
	Great, great score. Iconic.
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HookLineAndSinker Title: Magistrate Emeritus Registered: Oct '01	Date Posted: 4/17/07 1:58pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven
	Top 15 for sure. I agree it's iconic. I prefer To Kill A Mockingbird over this, but thats me. Oh and I must apologize for my comments on the Lion In Winter. I hadn't heard the score in a while and after I popped it in a few weeks ago, I realized how wrong I was about it. It's a classic that is easily top 50 for me. I love rediscovering old scores. I did that with Cinema Paradiso not too long ago also. Greatness. -----signature----- I am from the corrupt land of Illinois
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 4/23/07 10:20am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Elmer Bernstein's The Magnificent Seven
	138. A Man for All Seasons (1966) - Georges Delerue This is Delerue's only appearance on this list. This score won no awards. Not familiar with this one. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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Zaz Title: Manager, The Ampitheatre Registered: Oct '98	Date Posted: 4/23/07 11:46am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Georges Delerue's Man for All Seasons
	Me, either, and I've seen the film.
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Rogue1-and-a-half Title: Manager: Amphitheatre Registered: Nov '00	Date Posted: 5/25/07 10:41am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Georges Delerue's Man for All Seasons
	139. The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) - Elmer Bernstein Bernstein's sixth appearance on this list. This score was nominated for an Oscar, along with Duning's Picnic, North's Rose Tatoo, Steiner's Battle Cry; they all lost to Newman's cloying Love is a Many Splendored Thing. Yet another year that Bernstein should have won. This is a great score; Bernstein goes jazz and does a fantastic job of it. Should have won the Oscar, if you ask me. -----signature----- Don't be a fool, don't be blind Heart of mine If you can't do the time, don't do the crime Heart of mine
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