Film (movie) Music

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

What's the first movie that you recall watching in the theatre?

K

That's good question, but probably The NeverEnding Story, which I believe I saw in a dollar theater back in the late 80s. I still love this film to this day.

What about you?

[Roy Bland]

What's the first movie that you recall watching in the theatre?

K

It may have been very imaginative from a historical point of view but as a cinematic spectacle it held its own quite well.

[Kalevala]

That's good question, but probably The NeverEnding Story, which I believe I saw in a dollar theater back in the late 80s. I still love this film to this day.

What about you?

I'll have to think about it....

K

[Der Schattenmann]

I'll have to think about it....

K

I'm still waiting...

[Roasted Swan]

This collection has been discussed before;



it can still be found on the usual online locations very reasonably priced for the 2 CD set.  Sourced from digital studio recordings for the Silva Screen label - sometimes in Prague sometimes in the UK - there is a lot of tremendous music here.  Today I enjoyed a lot Arnold's "Rhapsody - the Sound Barrier".  Typical Arnold with lots of brilliant brass writing and suitably stiff-upper-lip march music - great fun and well played!

Not the recording I was listening to but here's Andrew Davis at the BBC Proms in 1996.....

[relm1]

That's good question, but probably The NeverEnding Story, which I believe I saw in a dollar theater back in the late 80s. I still love this film to this day.

What about you?

For me it was Star Wars which had a profound influence on me musically and my love of outer space.  Second film might have been Close Encounters which bored me to tears until the ending which blew me away.  I was just a kid and wanted my spaceships and aliens to shoot things.  But those scores were so, so great!

[hopefullytrusting]

Probably my favorite film composer: Hans Zimmer

Live - Lion King - Circle of Life/King of Pride Rock - Lebo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mQIRCUs0tc

(Don't even listen to the old ost anymore, similar with how the Superman 2025 main theme has replaced all others for me - even though Cavill is my favorite Superman).

[vandermolen]

West Side Story (original film)

[Roy Bland]

Vlad was a pioneer of avant garde in Italy

[LKB]

What's the first movie that you recall watching in the theatre?

K

For me, Godzilla vs. the Thing ( as it was released in the US ).

There is a fairly decent version at the Internet Archive, though I won't vouch for the aspect ratio:

https://archive.org/details/MvG-1964-4K-Extras/mothra+vs+godzilla+1964+extras/%E3%83%A2%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E5%AF%BE%E3%82%B4%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A9%E3%80%80%EF%BC%9C4K-Ultra+HD+Blu-ray%EF%BC%9E_t04.mkv

[Roy Bland]

Italian western movie  started before Sergio Leone in 1960 with a series of comic parodies, so Gianni Ferrio arrived before Morricone

[Roy Bland]

On the same subject

[Roy Bland]

[relm1]

That's good question, but probably The NeverEnding Story, which I believe I saw in a dollar theater back in the late 80s. I still love this film to this day.

What about you?

I love that film.  That was my first date to see that movie, I think I was in sixth grade.

[Opus131]

Been enjoying this. The more peaceful Sea music (not Shark music) reminded me, at times, of Vaughan Williams's 'A London Symphony'

John Williams is fun to rediscover AFTER getting into classical music.

I remember watching Home Alone again with my sister's kids once at a family reunion and i was not expecting this amount of counterpoint in a film score:

[relm1]

John Williams is fun to rediscover AFTER getting into classical music.

I remember watching Home Alone again with my sister's kids once at a family reunion and i was not expecting this amount of counterpoint in a film score:

Well, he is a very contrapuntal film composer.

Many more examples but you get the point.