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Film Score Fanatic: January 2013
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). Though there have been some great scores from composers late in their careers, one thinks of Dimitri Tiomkin’s Guns of Navarone. Or Bernard Herrmann’s Taxi Driver. Perhaps no composer had such a fruitful later career as Miklós Rózsa, who scored films like The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. And Eye of the Needle. At the end of his career. But the score of his that is perhaps most impressive is his last, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Is an incred...
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The Hard Bop Homepage Blog: The Jazz Project - Fangs
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Saturday, October 11, 2008. The Jazz Project - Fangs. S last album came out on Verve in 1999. Reissues? Well, now that the Blue Note and OJC catalogues have been pretty well exhausted, what remains might be interesting (Chess, Duke/Peacock, etc.) but I don't think there are any hidden Sidewinder. S or Soul Station. S left out there. (Unless you count Sonny Criss. S At The Crossroads. Which has been released in Japan.). And Stacie McGregor's Straight Up. As a fan for years of Grant Green. Is, pure and sim...
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The Hard Bop Homepage Blog: Isaac Hayes
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Is still one of my favorite albums . . . ever . . . in any genre. There have been numerous versions of Isaac Hayes' "Theme from Shaft" but I wanted to share with you one of my favorites. It's from the 1974 album by Maynard Ferguson MF Horn 2. In terms of fusion/big band sessions from the 70s, this has to be near the top of the list in terms of both song selection and solos. The opener, "Give It One," is probably the best Ferguson track from the entire decade. Have a Nice Decade.
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Film Score Fanatic: December 2014
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014. My first exposure to this classic Max Steiner score came via Charles Gerhardt’s incomparable RCA recordings, in this case the album called Captain Blood – Classic Film Scores for Errol Flynn. In addition to his swashbucklers penned by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, there were also suites from a couple of his Warner Brothers’ westerns written by the great Max Steiner, They Died With Their Boots On. And my favorite, Dodge City. Or Steiner’s The Fountainhead. View my complete profile.
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The E List ~ classic film reviews: Jagged Edge (1985)
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The E List classic film reviews. Reviews of classic cinema, genre greats, and modern masterpieces. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Director: Richard Marquand Writer: Joe Eszterhas. Film Score: John Barry Cinematography: Matthew F. Leonetti. Starring: Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote and Robert Loggia. Is a very neat courtroom thriller. Interestingly, there are some parallels between this film and The File on Thelma Jordon. And the adaptation of Ira Levin’s Sliver. When she takes a cigarette from Mary Kay...
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The E List ~ classic film reviews: Chained (1934)
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The E List classic film reviews. Reviews of classic cinema, genre greats, and modern masterpieces. Friday, July 31, 2015. Director: Clarence Brown Writer: John Lee Mahin. Film Score: Herbert Stothart Cinematography: George J. Folsey. Starring: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger and Stuart Erwin. May not be the best example of the Crawford-Gable team, but it is a satisfying film that actually benefits from the lack of extreme drama. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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Film Score Fanatic: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982). Though there have been some great scores from composers late in their careers, one thinks of Dimitri Tiomkin’s Guns of Navarone. Or Bernard Herrmann’s Taxi Driver. Perhaps no composer had such a fruitful later career as Miklós Rózsa, who scored films like The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. And Eye of the Needle. At the end of his career. But the score of his that is perhaps most impressive is his last, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid. Is an incred...
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The E List ~ classic film reviews: Becoming Jane (2007)
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The E List classic film reviews. Reviews of classic cinema, genre greats, and modern masterpieces. Saturday, August 15, 2015. Director: Julian Jarrold Writers: Sarah Williams and Kevin Hood. Film Score: Adrian Johnston Cinematography: Eigil Bryld. Starring: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, James Cromwell and Maggie Smith. In a similar fashion as Shakespeare in Love. This film attempts to show the author falling in love, as well as being inspired to write one of her novels, Pride and Prejudice. Samuel L. ...
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The E List ~ classic film reviews: Midnight Cowboy (1969)
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The E List classic film reviews. Reviews of classic cinema, genre greats, and modern masterpieces. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. Director: John Schlesinger Writer: Waldo Salt. Film Score: John Barry Cinematography: Adam Holender. Starring: Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Brenda Vaccaro and Sylvia Miles. Might not seem as controversial as it was when it was first released, but it is a fascinating piece of cinema that is also and entertaining work of art. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.