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Nov 29, 2018 - 4:20 AM
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Thor
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We've done a number of variations of these over the years (usually by decade or individual year), but due to a recent thread over on JWFAN, I decided to go through the entire film history and choose my favourites. I don't expect anyone else to share theirs; it's a lot of work, but I thought it would be interesting to share mine here too. Also, I'm sure I'll have to replace some of these as I remember favourites I've forgotten in a respective year. It's a dynamic list. I've tried to keep a balanced list of scores I love to listen to, and scores that work great in their movie -- even though they are very different areas. OK, I can’t start at the beginning of film history in the 1890s, since there were no original scores. They were also rare in the 1900s and 1910s, although shout-outs to these – all of with whom I’m familiar and like: 1908: L’Assasinat de Duc de Guise (Camille Saint-Saens) 1915: The Birth of a Nation (Joseph Carl Breil) 1916: Intolerance (Joseph Carl Breil) 1918: A Dog’s Life (Charlie Chaplin) …and then let’s start proper in 1920: 1920: ? 1921: The Kid (Charlie Chaplin) 1922: Nosferatu (Hans Erdmann) 1923: La Roue (Arthur Honegger) 1924: Greed (William Axt) 1925: Battleship Potemkin (Edmund Meisel) 1926: ? 1927: Metropolis (Gottfried Huppertz) 1928: October (Dmitri Shostakovich) 1929: ? 1930: Der Blaue Engel (Friedrich Hollaender) 1931: City Lights (Charlie Chaplin) 1932: ? 1933: King Kong (Max Steiner) 1934: Madame Bovary (Darius Milhaud) 1935: Captain Blood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) 1936: The Plow that Broke the Plains (Virgil Thomson) 1937: The Prince and the Pauper (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) 1938: Alexander Nevsky (Sergei Prokofiev) 1939: The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Erich Wolfgang Korngold) 1940: Rebecca (Franz Waxman) 1941: 49th Parallell (Ralph Vaughan Williams) 1942: The Jungle Book (Miklos Rozsa) 1943: The Song of Bernadette (Alfred Newman) 1944: Jane Eyre (Bernard Herrmann) 1945: Ivan the Terrible (Sergei Prokofiev) 1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (Hugo Friedhofer) 1947: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Bernard Herrmann) 1948: Bicycle Thieves (Alessandro Cicognini) 1949: Passport to Pimlico (Georges Auric) 1950: Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman) 1951: Quo Vadis (Miklos Rozsa) 1952: Viva Zapata! (Alex North) 1953: Julius Caesar (Miklos Rozsa) 1954: Sansho the Bailiff (Fumio Hayasaka) 1955: The Man With the Golden Arm (Elmer Bernstein) 1956: The Ten Commandments (Elmer Bernstein) 1957: Peyton Place (Franz Waxman) 1958: The Big Country (Jerome Moross) 1959: Ben Hur (Miklos Rozsa) – tricky year, Sleeping Beauty and The 400 Blows are very close 1960: The Magnificent Seven (Elmer Bernstein) 1961: King of Kings (Miklos Rozsa) 1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Elmer Bernstein) 1963: The Leopard (Nino Rota) 1964: The Fall of the Roman Empire (Dimitri Tiomkin) 1965: The Agony and the Ecstasy (Alex North) 1966: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone) – but something in me really wants to select Not With My Wife You Don’t! Seriously. One of my JW favourites of the 60s. 1967: Our Mother’s House (Georges Delerue) 1968: Planet of the Apes (Jerry Goldsmith) – but what a year in terms of film music! 1969: The Reivers (John Williams) 1970: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Arne Nordheim) – unless Jane Eyre counts, being a TV movie 1971: Get Carter (Roy Budd) 1972: L'Apocalypse des Animaux (Vangelis) – but Solaris and Images a very close second 1973: Papillon (Jerry Goldsmith) – but Cinderella Liberty a close second 1974: The Towering Inferno (John Williams) 1975: Jaws (John Williams) 1976: The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith) 1977: Star Wars (John Williams) 1978: Superman: The Movie (John Williams) 1979: Alien (Jerry Goldsmith) 1980: The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams) 1981: Raiders of the Lost Ark (John Williams) 1982: Blade Runner (Vangelis) 1983: Return of the Jedi (John Williams) 1984: The Neverending Story (Giorgio Moroder & Klaus Doldinger) 1985: Ladyhawke (Andrew Powell) 1986: Aliens (James Horner) 1987: Empire of the Sun (John Williams) – but Pelle the Conqueror a close second 1988: Midnight Run (Danny Elfman) 1989: The Abyss (Alan Silvestri) – but The Last Crusade a close second 1990: Edward Scissorhands (Danny Elfman) 1991: Hook (John Williams) – but Beauty and the Beast a close second 1992: Alien 3 (Elliot Goldenthal) 1993: Jurassic Park (John Williams) 1994: The Shawshank Redemption (Thomas Newman) 1995: Waterworld (James Newton Howard) -- but Crimson Tide and Heat a close second 1996: The Rock (Hans Zimmer & Nick Glennie-Smith) 1997: Titanic (James Horner) 1998: The Thin Red Line (Hans Zimmer) 1999: The Mummy (Jerry Goldsmith), but Snow Falling on Cedars a close second (what a year!) 2000: Gladiator (Hans Zimmer) 2001: A.I. – Artificial Intelligence (John Williams) 2002: Whale Rider (Lisa Gerrard) 2003: The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Howard Shore) 2004: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (John Williams), but Crash and Passion of the Christ a close second 2005: Memoirs of a Geisha (John Williams) 2006: World Trade Center (Craig Armstrong) 2007: El Greco (Vangelis), but Transformers a close second 2008: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (James Horner), but Standard Operating Procedure a close second 2009: Avatar (James Horner) 2010: Inception (Hans Zimmer) 2011: Jane Eyre (Dario Marianelli) 2012: Life of Pi (Mychael Danna) 2013: Prisoners (Jóhann Jóhannsson) 2014: The Unknown Known (Danny Elfman) 2015: The Duke of Burgundy (Cat’s Eyes) 2016: Nerve (Rob Simonsen) 2017: Valley of Shadows (Zbigniew Preisner) 2018: Videoman (Waveshaper & Robert Parker) 2019: A Hidden Life (James Newton Howard) 2020: Blood Machines (Carpenter Brut) 2021: Pleasure (Karl Frid) 2022: Benedetta (Anne Dudley) 2023: ? I know I have question marks for '26, '29 and '32. There are some great movies these years, but not a lot in terms of score, or original score.
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That is a really great list. And not that it matters in the scheme of things, but I agree with most of the choices you've made.
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I ought to sue Thor!...but what the hey, I’m flattered at the theft! 1975: Jaws by John Williams 1976: The Omen by Jerry Goldsmith 1977: Suspiria by Goblin 1978: The Fury by John Williams 1979: The Muppet Movie by Paul Williams and Kenneth Ascher 1980: The Fog by John Carpenter 1981: The Great Muppet Caper by Joe Raposo 1982: Poltergeist by Jerry Goldsmith 1983: Under Fire by Jerry Goldsmith 1984: Gremlins by Jerry Goldsmith 1985: Return to Oz by David Shire 1986: King Kong Lives by John Scott 1987: Hellraiser by Christopher Young 1988: Land Before Time by James Horner 1989: Little Mermaid by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman 1990: Gremlins 2 by Jerry Goldsmith 1991: Hook by John Williams 1992: Batman Returns by Danny Elfman 1993: Nightmare Before Christmas by Danny Elfman 1994: Miracle on 34th Street by Bruce Broughton 1995: Far From Home by John Scott 1996: Homeward Bound 2 by Bruce Broughton 1997: The Lost World by John Williams 1998: A Bug’s Life by Randy Newman 1999: Sleepy Hollow by Danny Elfman 2000: Chicken Run by John Powell and HGW 2001: Monsters Inc by Randy Newman 2002: Eight Legged Freaks by John Ottman 2003: Looney Tunes Back in Action by Jerry Goldsmith 2004: Mickey Donald and Goofy in The Three Musketeers by Bruce Broughton 2005: An Unfinished Life by Christopher Young 2006: Pan's Labyrinth by Javier Navarrete 2007: The Orphanage by Fernando Velasquez 2008: Horton Hears a Who by John Powell 2009: Drag Me to Hell by Christopher Young 2010: How to Train Your Dragon by John Powell 2011: The Adventures of Tintin by John Williams 2012: The Amazing Spider-Man by James Horner 2013: Frozen by Christophe Beck 2014: How to Train Your Dragon 2 by John Powell 2015: Shaun the Sheep Movie by Ilan Eshker 2016: Pete's Dragon by Daniel Hart 2017: Ferdinand by John Powell 2018: Fallen Kingdom by Michael Giacchino
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But you didn't ask my lawyers! The same idiom? What do you mean by that, sir Thor?
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Oh!...oh dear, pardon my being predictable then. ^^; It probably says something about my predictability that upon being quizzed, my (fellow film score-loving) grandfather was very easily able to guess that Poltergeist is my all-time favorite score in the entire world, without much hinting at all.
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