Author Topic: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Jerry Goldsmith's The Omen
MarcusP2  12805 posts
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Date Posted: 6/29/08 8:20am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Patrick Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing
I love this movie, though I have only seen it twice so perhaps that's not a true assessment. I can't comment on the score though.

 

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Zaz  38621 posts
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Date Posted: 7/16/08 3:52pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Patrick Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing
*Sigh* I guess I should see it.

 

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Rogue1-and-a-half  22235 posts
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Date Posted: 9/29/08 2:16pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Patrick Doyle's Much Ado About Nothing
149. Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - Richard Rodney Bennett

This score had a soundtrack nominated for a Grammy in 1976; the other nominees were the multi-artist Nashville, Goldsmith's Wind and the Lion and Mancini's Return of the Pink Panther. Rightfully, they all lost to Williams' Jaws. The score was also nominated for an Oscar, along with North's Shanks, Williams' Towering Inferno and Goldsmith's Chinatown. They all lost to Rota and Coppola for The Godfather, Part II. Chinatown should have won, but, oh, well.

I've seen this film and its sort of a playhouse presentation; tons of great actors all on hand, none of them really given the chance to do anything approaching 'acting.' One of Christie's better novels, I think, but Finney's wrong for the part.

Regardless, I don't recall the music at all.

 

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Zaz  38621 posts
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Date Posted: 9/29/08 6:54pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Richard Rodney Bennett's Murder on the Orient Express
Don't remember the music, either.

 

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Rogue1-and-a-half  22235 posts
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Date Posted: 11/1/08 8:06am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Richard Rodney Bennett's Murder on the Orient Express
150. Mutiny on the Bounty (1962) - Bronislau Kaper

This score was nominated for a Golden Globe, along with Jarre's Lawrence of Arabia, Meredith Wilson's Music Man and Waxman's Taras Bulba; they all lost, rightfully so, to Bernstein's staggering To Kill a Mockingbird. Nominated for an Oscar as well, along with the exact same slate, except instead of Music Man, they nominated Goldsmith's Freud; it lost again, but the winner this time was Jarre's Lawrence of Arabia.

Never seen this movie.

 

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Date Posted: 11/1/08 10:58am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bronislau Kaper's Mutiny on the Bounty
Not only a great score, but one of the greatest score albums of all time: The complete score from the film, a complete alternative score, and album version of the score. Highly recommended. http://screenarchives.com/title_detail.cfm?ID=4135

 

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Zaz  38621 posts
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Date Posted: 11/2/08 10:27pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bronislau Kaper's Mutiny on the Bounty
"Lord Jim" is also supposed to be good...

 

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Rogue1-and-a-half  22235 posts
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Date Posted: 11/15/08 9:32am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bronislau Kaper's Mutiny on the Bounty
Lord Jim wasn't that great, either score or movie. Peter O'Toole gave a great performance though.

151. The Natural (1984) - Randy Newman

This score was nominated for an Oscar, along with Alex North's Under the Volcano and two Williams scores, The River and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. They all lost to Maurice Jarre's Passage to India.

Haven't seen this one.

 

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Zaz  38621 posts
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Date Posted: 11/15/08 12:00pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Randy Newman's The Natural
One word of advice: Don't.

 

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Rogue1-and-a-half  22235 posts
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Date Posted: 12/2/08 3:22pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Randy Newman's The Natural
152. North by Northwest (1959) - Bernard Hermann

This score was nominated for no awards.

This is, in my opinion, lesser Hermann (at least lesser Hermann for Hitchcock); it can't hold a candle to Vertigo or Psycho. But it has some high points; the opening titles, for instance, are brilliant and the music is perfect there.

 

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Date Posted: 12/2/08 4:27pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bernard Hermann's North by Northwest
I used to think it was lesser. Then I got McNeely's new recording, which was a revelation, and now it's among my favs.

 

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Zaz  38621 posts
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Date Posted: 12/2/08 8:46pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bernard Hermann's North by Northwest
It's a great score, and the opening credits are brilliantly done in conception, execution and music.

 

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JohnWesleyDowney  5243 posts
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Date Posted: 12/2/08 8:50pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bernard Hermann's North by Northwest - Date Edited: 12/2/08 8:50pm (1 edits total) Edited By: JohnWesleyDowney
Zaz posted:
It's a great score, and the opening credits are brilliantly done in conception, execution and music.


Definitely, it's a classic opening sequence, great music from Hermann, great titles from Saul Bass, IIRC.

The score is awesome in the aftermath of the crop dusting sequence as the truck explodes.

I also thought the score throughout the climactic scene on the face of Mt. Rushmore was great.

 

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HookLineAndSinker  16790 posts
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Date Posted: 12/3/08 10:13am Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bernard Hermann's North by Northwest
I'd like to go back to Murder On The Orient Express to express my love for the score. Elegance meets death. I'd certainly give this a top 100 spot.

 

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Zaz  38621 posts
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Date Posted: 1/3 3:40pm Subject: RE: AFI's 100 Best Scores: Disc. Bernard Hermann's North by Northwest
Just saw NBNW *again* on TCM. Great score.

 

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