FoR 3 Alternative Film List - The Vote

[MrGongGong]

Please enlighten me...

So many of the folks in here swoon at the mere mention of his name that he can do no wrong !
I"m sure Elgar was more than capable of writing dross along with the best of them , not that i'm suggesting for one minute that he ever did

[french frank]

I wonder how many of those are for the actual score in question
rather than the feeling that the composer is neglected ?

You mean - neglected compared with John Williams? Or neglected in not being chosen by the BBC film experts?

Good result, though (thanks Suffy) - I've posted the result (top three) on our Fb page to show what a pretentious bunch we are I have actually seen Scott of the Antarctic and Henry V but nothing post-1950

Probably the general distaste for lists of Top Things stopped people attempting the final choices.

[Richard Tarleton]

Thanks from me too, sc.

[BBMmk2]

I am glad that RVW won the top vote. Also pleased with Morricone and Bernard Herman(two entries!)

[vinteuil]

Scott of the Antarctic: Vaughan Williams 12
Henry V: Walton 11
Alexander Nevsky: Prokofiev 9
The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Morricone 8
The Third Man: Karas 8
For a few Dollars More: Morricone 7
Murder on the Orient Express: R R Bennett 7
Once upon a time in the West: Morricone 7
Psycho: Herrmann 7
Things to Come: A Bliss 7
Vertigo: Herrmann 7

!

... so first prize to Morricone

Morricone : 21 points
Herrmann : 14 points
Vaughan Wms : 12 points
Walton 11
Prokofiev 9
Karas 8
Richd R Bennett 7
Bliss 7

( ... so pleased to see that Vaughan Williams came third... )

[amateur51]

so pleased to see that Vaughan Williams came third... )

[french frank]

... so first prize to Morricone

But he needed three goes to overhaul RVW

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But he needed three goes to overhaul RVW

Good, Bad and Ugly?

[antongould]

... so first prize to Morricone

Morricone : 21 points
Herrmann : 14 points
Vaughan Wms : 12 points
Walton 11
Prokofiev 9
Karas 8
Richd R Bennett 7
Bliss 7

( ... so pleased to see that Vaughan Williams came third... )

Off topic, I was listening to Sir A Previn on DID and he recounted the tale of introducing the Tallis Fantasia to the Vienna Phil. He claimed all/most of the orchestra had never heard of either Tallis or RVW!

[gamba]

Thank you, salymap, you've done it for me !

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[gamba]

Where have you lot been ?

How about Georges Auric & his wonderfully imaginative scores for Cocteau's films.

For many years the country producing the most intelligent, poetic & worthwhile films was France - they have lived in my memory from the day first seen. Probably the greatest of them all, ' Les Enfants du Paradis ' was never once mentioned in these lists - shame on you !!

thank you, Alain, good to see Flaherty's ' Louisiana Story ' listed. I have the CD of this great music.

[gradus]

Somewhat belatedly, I have just come across this 'sticky' thread. It seems like a good opportunity to wax lyrical about Franz Waxman and his score for A Place in the Sun which I recommend to anyone who enjoys the sound of Hollywood scores played by studio orchestras of the 50's. The score rarely gets an outing nowadays although John Wilson included Waxman's suite from the film in his 2014 Hollywood Prom in a particularly smouldering performance.
Waxman; how many other composers can claim to have beaten Shostakovich to the punch?

[Ian Thumwood]

Robin Hood - Korngold.

I think that this is one of my favourite films. It is easily the best Robin Hood film.

I agree with the nominations for Miles' "Lift to the scaffold" but could bot see any reference to Jerry Goldsmith's music to "Breakheart pass." This is a film that I loved as a kid and always enjoyed the music.

We went to see the "Taar" film back in March and both of us nearly fell asleep. It was really underwhelming - a case of "Taar - no thanks."

[anorak]

I'm very late to the party on this. In fact, the party is over, but FWIW here are some of my favourites: Michael Nyman's soundtracks to Peter Greenaway's films; Florian Fricke's (Popol Vuh) soundtracks to Werner Herzog's films; Angelo Badalamenti's soundtracks to David Lynch's TV and films; Brain Easdale - The Red Shoes; Dave Grusin - Three Days of the Condor; Hans-Werner Henze - Un Amour de Swann; Jerry Goldsmith - Chinatown; Thomas Newman - American Beauty; Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas; Lalo Schifrin - Bullitt and Dirty Harry; Isaac Hayes - Shaft; Michael Small - Klute; Philip Glass - Mishima; Vangelis - Blade Runner.

[smittims]

Apart from Vaughan Willams and Walton, one of my favoiurite film scores is Fernando Previtali's for Visconti's first film , Ossessione. I find it intensely haunting and it's one of the reasons I re-watch the film.