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..somehow, I had it in my head that Doctor Zhivago (Maurice Jarre) was a contender but maybe I'm mistaken.
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Haunting, emotional score. That's what I remember most of what was an excellent film overall.
which I think would limit them to US films. Otherwise I'm sure you'd see Nevsky there at the top of the list.
*American* Film Institute.
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Jeff Starrs,I like this kind of list preciesly because they automatically put me in a contrary mood and I 'm allowed to hate the choices and the order anyway, no one really cares. The main positive use of such a list is thatit reminds us to listen better to the scores when we see them again and generally appreciate the role of the music.
But, really, that's a pretty good list as these lists go- since these lists tend to alloy the actual quality with the movie's popularity to come up with these ratings. Hence, these lists always are topped by familiar movies that made lots of money.
As I say, it's good list and perhaps I'd place "Vertigo" a bit higher in the rankings, and I'd like to add a serious, wonderful score, that for the Charles Laughton/John Mills 1954 "Hobson's Choice". I'm embarassed to say I can't remember if the composer was Arnold Bax- becasuse Bax scores a couple of Laughton's movies, or who I think it is- William Walton. Walton and Bax were superb serious composers of the first half of the 20th C and perhaps only Britten was more prestigious in the UK then.
The score for "Hobson's Choice" is certainly "Bambi's Choice" and, the movie itself is one of the greats. I think John Mill's acting- as a shoemaker that undergoes a miraculous transformation from employee to human before your eyes- and comic as hell- is one the most memorable acting jobs I know of. Let me say Mills is comparable to Neville in "Richard III" and Hawthorn in "The Madness of King George" As for the music-it's- whether Walton or Bax- is just perfect. And it may also be Laughton's best role- the blustery, self-important owner of the Manchester shoe shop where Mills is working down a hole in the floor- see it! A young Prunella Scales- later Sybil Fawlty in "Fawlty Towers" -is one of Laughton's three daughters- and spoiled rotten.
Cheers,
Bambi B
orejones,Tbanks for mentioning Malcolm Arnold- I hadn't seen "Hobson's" for 15 years and couldn't sleep wondering if it were Bax or Walton!
It's obviously time to watch it again.
Cheers,Bambi B
I just did again after a span of very few months.
I can only say.
Formidable. And that is the right word for it.
..Yes, Hobson's Choice (don't remember the music) is a wonderful film and your mention of the very British John Mills got me thinking of Hayley, his daughter, who for us school boys at the time was a weird kind of sexual icon.
Prunella Scales' Sybil, is classic study in dragons.
I think I'll dig out the series tonight and have a laugh...
looking at her today its hard to believe, but yes, after Pollyanna, I was crazy about her. She was a hot number back then, both sexually (to males in early teens) and as an in demand starlet in Parent Trap, Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, and of course Pollyanna.
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I was hers. I think I was 12. Didn't know WHY.
Yeah, I know...I seem to remember it was all a bit confusing for a young boy sorting the hot stuff from the innocent Polly Anna things...I'm not sure if it got much easier, either....
here are the credits -Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
Directed by
Henry Levin
Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Charles Brackett
Robert Burns poem "My Love is Like a Red, Red Rose" [used in song]
Walter Reisch
Jules Verne novel Voyage au centre de la terreCast (in credits order)
Pat Boone .... Alec McEwen
James Mason .... Professor Oliver Lindenbrook
Arlene Dahl .... Mrs. Carla Goetaborg
Diane Baker .... Jenny
Thayer David .... Count Saknussem
Peter Ronson .... Hans Belker
Robert Adler .... Groom
Alan Napier .... Dean
Was what I was thinking of.
And it had another hit simgle, Castaway.I believe The Parent Trap had a huge single, Lets Get Together, altho I can't remember if Hayley sang it or not.
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Big Country, Experiment in Terror, El Cid (about as good as Ben Hur...).
El Cid made AFI's top 250.
...the man whose compositions created the "soundscape" of the American west.No Red Pony.
No Our Town.
But he influenced darn near every composer who scored a major movie about the heartland or the west.
OTOH, I was delighted to see Elmer Bernstein on the list 2x.
I actually don't put too much stock in the AFI lists. They're fun to post about on forums.
I thinko it was limited to original film scores, not scores from another genre.
that it can't make the top 250? Conan The Barbarian and not GB&U?Also a very average (at best) flick, Southern Comfort, featured a very good score by Ry Cooder. Would have liked to have seen it mentioned, but I didn't expect it to be.
Another notable omission, The Straight Story.
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..but I did like Straight Story, alot.
Not that SS didn't have inspired moments
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And hard to believe it's a Disney flick, Strange bedfellows, indeed.
The music from the movie West Side Story is adapted from the original musical.95% of what you hear in the film was composed as a stage musical. Bernstein added a bit of underscoring but the songs, dances and most of the conective music were composed for the original Broadway production.
Now if somebody did a list of great music from 20th century American Theater and left off West Side Story - then I'd be honked.
The movie "West Side Story" contains virtually no music composed for film i.e. a *film score*.BTW, Out of Africa's score doesn't contain 99% Mozart.
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...but lots are.
..I'm glad Psycho is there...I can still see Janet Leigh peering through the rain driven windscreen, on the run with the booty, with that music that tells you everything bad is up front...
The up-front music is, of course, that high pitched 'scissor-whistle'...!!!
I posted here recently that Herrman was shooting for a "black and white sound".
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Morricone 23rd with Mission.
Duh, did you read the list? ;0)
Miles & Quincy aren't there though.
Grins
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