MICHAEL GIACCHINO

Legends of The Fall is a lovely score.

It's Horner's masterpiece to me.

it's one of his very best yes, an easy 5 star rating for me

Gorgeous? I think that's a perfect assessment of John Toll's Oscar-winning cinematography

The only cinematographer in history to get two Oscars in a row (Legends of the Fall and Braveheart next year). While Janusz Kaminski's work for Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece and I was happy, since he was Polish, Toll's work on The Thin Red Line was yet another beauty worthy of an Oscar had Ryan not been nominated.

But, the loser that year and an unworthy one was Zimmer. Thin Red Line AND Prince of Egypt. Losing...

You are right of course, the cinematography is one quarter of its appeal, the actors are an other quarter, and Horner's score is the remaining half.

I really love the acting in LOTF, so heartfelt, nuanced and dramatic by Aidan Quinn, Henry Thomas, Anthony Hopkins and mainly Brad Pitt.

Oh my how could I forget Julia Ormond?

I stand corrected, not merely a cardboard character (or actress) that one.

From July...and in German?

Hahah loved it !

Very good choice if true! I hope so.

A friend of mine works at Paramount and saw a screening last monday of 10 minutes from CAPTAIN AMERICA (music by Michael Giacchino), and he said the footage looked finished and contained music. Did Giacchino record it all already, or could it be he heard tempmusic?

Although a former filmmusic lover, the friend of mine in question stepped off of it some time ago and all he could mention was that it 'sounded orchestral', but didn't particularly stick out to him (which isn't saying anything). He also mentioned the footage looked 'too much like Iron Man', although it had 'some kind of Indiana Jones vibe, with castles and such, filmed in Europe'.

He wasn't too impressed with it, although it could be fun, according to him (he was much more impressed with the footage from COWBOYS & ALIENS that was screened, which he said had a LOT of Spielberg influences - consider me hyped as well!).

What it was was a guy who said his friend was a curier for some company and he delivered scripts to both Giacchino's house, and Bruce Broughton's house (mentor of Giacchino).

I'm hoping it's "Music by: Bruce Broughton" with a "Score Produced" or "Score Consultant" by "Michael Giacchino", but I think that'll be the other way around.

I have no idea -- I jsut pass along the info. Though Broughton's supposedly a nice guy to chat with, and his wife answers his e-mails, so maybe try asking him if really curious.

Good to know, I've never heard that before!

Something happened to me last night, and although it is a bit shamefull it is maybe also a good thing, so I thought I'd share it here.

I already admitted to not nowing a lot about Giacchino, and after seeing the final season of Lost, I listened to the score and I liked it. So lets consider me a newbie when it come to G.

So a couple of days ago I was looking around the internet trying to find out which series I could watch, and I was reminded of the fact that I never finished watching Alias (stopped somewhere mid Season 3 and never picked up again). So I started downloading Season 3 and 4.

Let say three epsiodes into Season three, I start noticing the score. Of coarse I remembered the 'Alias' sound, as it is very particular, but I start noticing that certain eerie moments, or certain tense moments sounded 'exactly' like tense moments in Lost.

I didn't even doubt it for a second, and just knew it had to be a Giacchino score.

And indeed, it is. So now I'm viewing the rest of the third season (and the fourth and fifth) while listening more closely to his scoring.

Or how picking up an older series can have an enriching experience.

Am I forgiven for not knowing it was Giacchino's work to begin with?

Elin