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I just discovered that David Newman posted the complete movie with his score on youtube. That was the live performance at the Sundance Film Festival in 1989. Newman was the music director of the festival back then and composed a new score to the 1927 silent movie by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. I actually like the movie (Murnau was quite an inventive filmmaker) and I absolutely love the score. Such fantastic themes.
Glad that it`s complete on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta-cUoMKbXg
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Bless you, Counterpoint, for this alert! I'll look forward to luxuriating in the experience...
But why qualify your praise with the word "actually," as if you were surprised the movie was any good? SUNRISE is universally recognized as a classic, a pinnacle of the silent era at its zenith.
(Long ago, circa 1978, when I was researching my book on THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, I had the phone number of producer Paul Gregory, then married to Janet Gaynor. I had never met or spoken with her but I thought she might like to know that the Academy had scheduled a special screening of SUNRISE, so I gave her a call. Although as it happened she wouldn't be able to attend, she thanked me for telling her about it. With her effervescent, pixie voice, she was a delight to talk to. In closing, I told her, "I'm very happy to meet your voice," to which she said, "Well, it's a cinch you won't be hearing it in SUNRISE.")
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Bless you, Counterpoint, for this alert! I'll look forward to luxuriating in the experience...
But why qualify your praise with the word "actually," as if you were surprised the movie was any good? SUNRISE is universally recognized as a classic, a pinnacle of the silent era at its zenith.
(Long ago, circa 1978, when I was researching my book on THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, I had the phone number of producer Paul Gregory, then married to Janet Gaynor. I had never met or spoken with her but I thought she might like to know that the Academy had scheduled a special screening of SUNRISE, so I gave her a call. Although as it happened she wouldn't be able to attend, she thanked me for telling her about it. With her effervescent, pixie voice, she was a delight to talk to. In closing, I told her, "I'm very happy to meet your voice," to which she said, "Well, it's a cinch you won't be hearing it in SUNRISE.")
Thanks for sharing. I didn`t use the word actually because I thought that the movie wasn`t considered to be a classic which it rightfully is (IMO it`s Murnau`s best movie next to Nosferatu) but because we usually only talk about the scores and seldom talk about the films.
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Wow! That'a a great find! I love Newman in this style.
My thoughts exactly. Thanks for the link
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This is a fantastic film. Newman's score is really good, I'd love to have a recording of it without the audience!
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This is a fantastic film. Newman's score is really good, I'd love to have a recording of it without the audience!
I agree 100% Movie and score are sensational. Unfortunately Newman never made a studio recording of the score. It only exists the live recording with the audience.
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It probably went over with the Sundance crowd (whoever they were) who hired David Newman to conduct that wonderful album of Christmas film music by Tiomkin, Mockridge and Addinsell, the flagship in what was planned to be a series of CD's and which, alas, never progressed past square one.
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Thanks, Counterpoint -- that's a load off my mind. (And thanks again for posting this thread!)
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I will say this… the audience laughing when the intertitle “Couldn't she get drowned?” starts melting is representative of the reaction at every screening I've seen of Sunrise.
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Years ago, in a now long gone used music store in San Diego, I found a 2-CDR set of a live performance of this score from Sundance. One of Newman's best. Must have been some kind of promo. Haven't heard it in years. Looks like I'll give it another listen. Sound is probably no better than this live performance you're all discussing.
Hope it still plays...
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