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I really like the "Man of Galilee" suite that combines material from The Greatest Story Ever Told and The Robe.

Not able to listen to it now but so excited to get Howard Shore's SE7EN in the post this morning. I shouldn't be since I have had the bootleg version for many years, but it's great to finally have a legitimate release CD in my hand.

King Kong Barry

I don't listen to this nearly enough, every time I listen to it I've forgotten just how good it is!

It is brilliant. I hope this is the full score FSM edition? Anything else is lacking.

I'm so happy for you that you finally got this score!

I don't have it but will have a listen to Cosmopolis which is one of my favourites his, and his collaboration with Matric.

That's interesting, because the film was absolutely slaughtered by my colleagues who saw it in Venice a few days ago. That sealed it; with an insanely boring Desplat score and my colleagues' negative feedback, this film is an absolute no-go for me.

NP: The Bible (1966) - Toshiro Mayuzumi

I bought this when I was freshly collecting film music. I expected something resembling Rozsa and was duly disappointed. Only many years later I recognized the greatness of this score.

Volker

Days of Heaven - Ennio Morricone

In case anyone out there hasn't heard it, the title track is life-alteringly good.

Ghostbusters - Theodore Shapiro

Pretty solid score really, despite 3 or 4 boring cues in the middle of the disc. His action music is generally very entertaining though the massive choir overuse does annoy the hell out of me at times.

I can imagine what you mean, although film version I actually found it inspiring and hopeful. The entire knot is unraveled by gentle tugs of acts of kindness, compassion, unselfishness and forgiveness. He makes that initial choice to reach out with the letter despite there being no possible gain for him to do so, and that kindness reflects and echoes and resounds throughout the entire rest of the plot. People are always going to screw things up regardless, but it's not always that people are able to navigate such complex webs of misfortunes, instincts and inevitabilities and yet not have every choice they make be something that hurts the people around them more. These people chose to be better then they could have been and that gave me hope.

Or maybe it was just Desplat

With such extreme variations in feedback (from my colleagues who hated it to you who loved it), maybe I should see it after all. Just to make up my own mind. My colleagues also said it's very much an "Oscar bait" film which (sadly, in their opinion) will get loads of nominations.

After so many moons I finally have my stereo up and running last night. And my first play...


NP : THIBAUD THE CRUSADER - Georges Delerue



In fact I played it three times in a row. At first I was convinced that that theme was a rip-off of something else, I'd known it for years and years it was that familiar, I knew the tune and how it developed before the theme had even got there. Looking up IMDb I found out it's a TV show I used to watch as a child during the school summer holidays, dubbed with English actors voices it was called Desert Crusader in the UK. That theme has stuck in my head for all those decades and I never knew who did it, I'd 100% forgotten what it had been from and had no idea it had already been available for years.

Thanks so much Martijn, I'm so pleased I won this giveaway over Thor who also wanted it, a great score and a great re-discovery

Yes, finally!

Congrats indeed! How long were you "out"? Half a year?