The Score ****

[eighthobstruction]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0002pf6/score-cinemas-greatest-soundtracks

This was a very enjoyable film 90 minutes....What it is NOT i.e not an annoying dumbed down Mathew Sweet offering as might be usual....

What it is....a film where Composers and Musicians plus Technical Staff do the voice over, and lead the film seamlessly through the territory....

[edashtav]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...st-soundtracks

This was a very enjoyable film 90 minutes....What it is NOT i.e not an annoying dumbed down Mathew Sweet offering as might be usual....

What it is....a film where Composers and Musicians plus Technical Staff do the voice over, and lead the film seamlessly through the territory....

Well spotted, eigthobstruction,thank you.

[Nick Armstrong]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod...st-soundtracks

This was a very enjoyable film 90 minutes....What it is NOT i.e not an annoying dumbed down Mathew Sweet offering as might be usual....

What it is....a film where Composers and Musicians plus Technical Staff do the voice over, and lead the film seamlessly through the territory....

Agreed, watched this last night - great viewing and listening. Fascinating to see some of the names 'in the flesh'. I knew about Hans Zimmer's pop background, but not Danny Elfman's (who's one of my top favourites).

Particularly interesting hearing about (and seeing) the interaction between directors (Cameron, Spielberg) and their composers.

(I would quibble with your dismissal of Matthew Sweet though - I enjoy his style on Sounds of Cinema, as well as the content, usually)

[jayne lee wilson]

Yes, absolutely brilliant romp through all kinds of musical-cinematic wonders,lots of great studio/rehearsal footage and enlightening interview clips, and if you love those early Spielberg-Williams collaborations as much as I do, an enjoyably tearful watch as well!

That ending of ET never loses its wrenching effect on me.... The five-note Close Encounters tune, or the Star Wars trumpets ( taking me back to a life-memory-galaxy long ago and far away (but with Star Wars, the saga continues..).....I saw both films in the first month of their release on the big screen (when my ears could still take it).... the striding stirring "second subject" of Jurassic Park as we switch from the jaw-dropped faces in the jeep and the Brachiosaur is suddenly there before us, and settles back on its haunches to munch the topmost leaves....

[Nick Armstrong]

an enjoyably tearful watch as well!

Very touching tribute to James Horner from James Cameron over the final titles...

[Braunschlag]

Very touching tribute to James Horner from James Cameron over the final titles...

I’m very fond of one of Horner’s early scores, Batteries not Included. An energetic jazz romp unlike any of the symphonic scores. Billy May is credited with some of the scoring which might account for the sheer slam of the swing episodes. A charming little film.
Anyone registered the recent death of Bruno Ganz? Watching Wings of Desire as a personal tribute the other day I like to think he’s back up there watching over Berlin.