FoR 3 Alternative Film List - The Vote

[MarkG]

Here's my list


Mark



Ben Hur - Rozsa
Henry V - Walton
Key Largo - M Steiner
Spellbound - Rozsa
The Asphalt Jungle - Rozsa
The Big Country - Morross
The Big Sleep - M Steiner
The Ipcress File - J Barry
The Lavender Hill Mob - Auric

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

l'ascenseur pour l'échafaud miles davis

you left Jules et Jim G Delerue off the list ....

and Ellington's Anatomy of Murder

and Sait On Jamais & Odds Against Tomorrow both by John Lewis .... that list does jazz no favours and this is a protest vote

[agingjb]

Add my voice to Sait On Jamais (No Sun in Venice), John Lewis; although I've never seen the film I played an MJQ EP of part of the score to destruction 50 years ago.

[french frank]

that list does jazz no favours and this is a protest vote

If the jazz fans had suggested any works, they'd have been on the list

[Alain Maréchal]

I'm confused by earlier posts - are we supposed to list in order of preference? Thse are mine in alphabetical, but I could reorder if required.


Citizen Kane - Herrmann
Gone with the Wind - M Steiner
Henry V - Walton
Hobson's Choice - Arnold
Ivan the Terrible - Prokofiev
Jezebel - M Steiner
Laura - Raskin
Louisiana Story - V Thomson
Murder on the Orient Express - R R Bennett
North by Northwest - Herrmann
Psycho - Herrmann
Rear Window - F Waxman
Richard III - Walton
The Bride of Frankenstein - F Waxman
The Third Man - Karas
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - Legrand
Things to Come - A Bliss
Vertigo - Herrmann

I've been strict with myself and have disassociated scores from films.
I nominate special award for best waltz to Jezebel.
Plus I nominate Amarcord - Rota as most deserving score omitted from your list

[Sir Velo]

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.

I wouldn't worry too much SC. If anything, the apathy shown is an endorsement of the fact that "Top 10s" and film music is not a "traditional" radio 3 listeners tasse de the.

[amateur51]

I wouldn't worry too much SC. If anything, the apathy shown is an endorsement of the fact that "Top 10s" and film music is not a "traditional" radio 3 listeners tasse de the.

[Richard Tarleton]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Dr Zhivago
ET
High Noon
In the Heat of the Night
Midnight Cowboy
Paris Texas
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Alamo
The Big Country
The Graduate
Where Eagles Dare (or, as Clint Eastwood said it should have been called, Where Doubles Dare)
Zorba the Greek
Zulu

And thanks, SC. My problem is that although there are many great scores on your list, I can seldom remember them ouside the context of the film. So this list does not entirely represent my taste in films

Oh - and the stand-out James Bond score for me is George Martin/Paul Macartney Live and Let Die (best JB film, too)

[aeolium]

Alexander Nevsky
Far from the Madding Crowd
For a Few Dollars More
Laura
North by Northwest
Of Mice and Men
Spellbound
Sunset Boulevard
Taxi Driver
The Go-Between
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Sea Hawk
The Third Man
Touch of Evil
Vertigo
Zorba the Greek

[I also like Herrmann's score for Hangover Square, with its Concerto Macabre, and I seem to recall Theodorakis' music for Z was very powerful though it's ages ago since I saw it]

[MrGongGong]

Oh - and the stand-out James Bond score for me is George Martin/Paul Macartney Live and Let Die (best JB film, too)

I think ?
They (or rather HE ) only wrote the title song ?
(I could be wrong here >>>)

[Richard Tarleton]

I think ?
They (or rather HE ) only wrote the title song ?
(I could be wrong here >>>)

I think - George Martin did the score, Macca and Wings the title song - my info here

[MrGongGong]

I think - George Martin did the score, Macca and Wings the title song - my info here

Thanks
So they got a composer to write the music
that's a relief , I was worried that there might have been a "St" Linda tambourine solo hidden in there

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I note that only two of us have voted for Star Wars Episodes 1-3. I know there's an understandable reaction to SW in general as a result of the Radio 3 "vote", but I do admire the way the composer morphs the main titles theme into other themes, particularly its transformation into the love theme in Episode 2.

[vinteuil]

... only two of us have voted for Star Wars.

I have never seen Star Wars.

[Richard Tarleton]

I note that only two of us have voted for Star Wars Episodes 1-3.

I wasn't sure if this really meant 1-3, or 4-6, which is what the first 3 films have become? I haven't seen 1-3 (the recent ones).