FoR 3 Alternative Film List - The Vote

[MrGongGong]

Thanks for those who've contributed so far. I think including me that's 18. Where a few of you have mentioned favourites not on the list I've added them to the voting spreadsheet (I can't believe I missed High Noon off!). I think we'll need at least 50+ of you to vote to make this worthwhile and have at least a clear top 10. So please keep your votes coming folks!

I'm changing my name to Kennedy
can I vote again ?

[french frank]

I think including me that's 18.

Are you saying your vote is the OP, and you're choosing all of them, or are you keeping your choices under your hat?

[mangerton]

Thanks for those who've contributed so far. I think including me that's 18. Where a few of you have mentioned favourites not on the list I've added them to the voting spreadsheet (I can't believe I missed High Noon off!). I think we'll need at least 50+ of you to vote to make this worthwhile and have at least a clear top 10. So please keep your votes coming folks!

Similarly, when I voted this morning, I couldn't find "Bullitt - Schifrin" on the list. Could it be added, please?

[Suffolkcoastal]

Of course Mangerton, I have recorded your vote.

My votes are fairly obvious ff all the RVW & Copland, On the Waterfront, most of the Walton, Alexander Nevsky, the Shostakovich Hamlet. some Arnold inc. The Inn of the 6th Happiness, Ben Hur, The Lord of the Rings, The Big Country, The Magnificent Seven, Where Eagles Dare, Things to Come. I think that's most of them. Am surprised no-one apart from me has voted for Of Mice & Men, Copland's best film score and a classic film IMHO.

[Bax-of-Delights]

The Third Man - Karas (on our very first date my wife and I were talking about old films and we, more or less simultaneously, hummed the Karas theme to each other as our favourite piece of film music. )

Psycho - Hermann (no connnection to the above! )

Amelie - Yann Tiersen

Once Upon A Time in the West - Morricone

Vertigo - Hermann

[agingjb]

A Fistful of Dollars - Morricone
Alexander Nevsky - Prokofiev
Casablanca - M Steiner
El Cid - Rozsa
Far from the Madding Crowd - R R Bennett
For a few Dollars More - Morricone
Gone with the Wind - M Steiner
Hamlet - Walton
Henry V - Walton
Koyaanisqatsi - P Glass
Lawrence of Arabia - M Jarre
Scott of the Antarctic - Vaughan Williams
The Day the Earth Stood Still - Herrmann
The Draughtsman's Contract - Nyman
The Fall of the Roman Empire - Tiomkin
The Good the Bad and the Ugly - Morricone
The Graduate - P Simon
The Third Man - Karas

[agingjb]

Hearing the Non Nobis Domine by Patrick Doyle from the Branagh version of Henry V, this morning on Radio 3, I assume there are good reasons for the absence of the film from the list. But I like it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Hearing the Non Nobis Domine by Patrick Doyle from the Branagh version of Henry V, this morning on Radio 3, I assume there are good reasons for the absence of the film from the list. But I like it.

There are some individual pieces in Doyle's film scores (Non Nobis one of them) that are effective, but in general, I find his Music too loud (Branagh's last words in the St Crispen speech is drowned out by the Music - I wouldn't want even Beethoven drowning out Shakespeare!) and literally overblown. Walton knew that less is more.

[Suffolkcoastal]

If anyone does like Patrick Doyle's film scores and once to vote for them then let me know and I'll register it on my spreadsheet.

So far 20 members have voted, still need plenty more of you to register your votes before we have an adequate sample to counter in a very small way that BBC poll.

[Lancashire Lass]

Here's mine:

633 Squadron - Goodwin
A Bridge Too Far - Addison
Edward Scissorhands - Elfman
Gladiator - Zimmer & Gerrard
Gone with the Wind - M Steiner
Lawrence of Arabia - M Jarre
Lord of the Rings (trilogy) - H Shore
Midnight Cowboy - J Barry
Murder on the Orient Express - R R Bennett
Out of Africa - J Barry
Play 'Misty' for Me - Barton
Scott of the Antarctic - Vaughan Williams
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) - Korngold
The Glass Mountain - Rota
The Godfather - Rota
The Magnificent Seven - E Bernstein
The Misfits - A North
Trapeze - Arnold
Where Eagles Dare - Goodwin
Whistle down the Wind – Arnold

That's 20, but I'd have replaced one of them (dunno which) if you'd included Body Heat (J Barry). A steamy, sultry score if ever there was one!

Film's not bad, either :-)

[Bax-of-Delights]

Almost forgot this one - and from a composer not normally associated with film music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq3GoVQmWh0

John Ireland: The Overlanders.

[BBMmk2]

I've mentioned this as well, BoD. Rather good though, as you say!

Available on Chandos/

[Suffolkcoastal]

The voting will close in less than 48 hours, still rather disappointed at how few Boarders have voted allowing us to express how the traditional R3 listener would have voted in the BBC/R3 poll.
But many thanks to those who have contributed and they show a real diversity, we do have a clear leader in the voting so far but not enough votes cast to get a clear Top Ten.

[Don Petter]

I have no interest in films*, or film music, so an abstention from me.


* I have not been to a cinema since leaving partway through Bonny and Clyde in 1967, as I could not stand the violence. I suspect the latter would now seem trivial by subsequent standards.

[amateur51]

I have no interest in films*, or film music, so an abstention from me.


* I have not been to a cinema since leaving partway through Bonny and Clyde in 1967, as I could not stand the violence. I suspect the latter would now seem trivial by subsequent standards.

I love cinema and films but it's rare that I dissociate the music from the film - for me they're inextricably linked and try as I might to focus on the music, I find myself wanting to vote for the film, which is not what we're being asked to do. So no votes from either.