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]

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