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 Posted:   Sep 13, 2019 - 12:57 PM   
 By:   JohnnyG   (Member)

On the Beach by Christopher Gordon -- no contest.

In fact it's one of my top 10 scores of all time...hell, maybe top 5.

Yavar



To paraphrase Morgan Freeman/Detective Somerset in SE7EN: "I agree with the first part"!

(...and I can understand the second part of your statement too!)

 
 Posted:   Sep 13, 2019 - 1:42 PM   
 By:   First Breath   (Member)

Razorback - Iva Davies

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 13, 2019 - 1:54 PM   
 By:   stedra338   (Member)

The last wave .

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 1:02 PM   
 By:   wizardofoz   (Member)

On the Beach by Christopher Gordon -- no contest.

In fact it's one of my top 10 scores of all time...hell, maybe top 5.

Yavar


Okay. I should get this.

Remembered an old favorite:

Lightning Jack by Rowland. Wonderful western pastiche with an Australian sensibility.

And

Frauds by Guy Gross

And the score by Nigel “Babe” Westlake for “The Celluloid Heroes”

Totally brilliant.

 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 1:03 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

The Quiet Earth

Really? I thought The Quiet Earth was a New Zealand film?


Doh!

 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 1:05 PM   
 By:   'Lenny Bruce' Marshall   (Member)

Fyi

There's a great doc on the Aussie film industry, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD(?)

TONS of full frontal nudity - men and women!

 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 1:30 PM   
 By:   johnonymous86   (Member)

Wouldn't Babe be considered New Zealand???

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 1:33 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Wouldn't Babe be considered New Zealand???

No, as far as I know, NZ has nothing to do with it. It's an Australian-US co-production.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 1:41 PM   
 By:   jkannry   (Member)

On the Beach by Christopher Gordon -- no contest.

In fact it's one of my top 10 scores of all time...hell, maybe top 5.

Yavar


!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Oh yeah!!!

Can I add the Quiet Man? Walkabout Barry?

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 2:16 PM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

Does QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER by Basil Poledouris count?
If yes, that one too.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 2:26 PM   
 By:   Thor   (Member)

Does QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER by Basil Poledouris count?
If yes, that one too.


It's a co-production, but yes -- I think it counts. A good suggestion.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 2:44 PM   
 By:   Hurdy Gurdy   (Member)

I thought Henry wudda been here by now with COOLANGATTA GOLD by Bill Conti.

 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 3:57 PM   
 By:   TominAtl   (Member)

By far my hands favorite is Mario Milo's "The Lighthorsemen" and was ecstatic that a remastered version was released a couple of years ago.

But my other 2 are Christopher Gordon's "On the Beach" and Bruce Rowland's "The Man from Snow River".

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 4:02 PM   
 By:   gyorgyL   (Member)

Harlequin : Brian May
Mad Max The Road Warrior : Brian May

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 5:56 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

I thought Henry wudda been here by now with COOLANGATTA GOLD by Bill Conti.

Hi Kev! You are correct actually! I also love the scores to George Miller films.smile

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 6:05 PM   
 By:   henry   (Member)

I forgot about Conti's NAPOLEON!

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 7:19 PM   
 By:   Anacleto   (Member)

Here are some Australian scores I have on LPs.

You Can't See Around Corners (Thomas Tycho)
The Tintookies (Kert Herwig )
Wayleggo (Oswald Cheesman) -actually a New Zealand feature.
Sleeping Dogs (Murray Grindlay)
The True Story of Eskimo Nell (Brian May)
The Irishman (Charles Marawood)
Caddie (Patrick Flynn)
Boney (Sven Libaek)

Since nobody else has these listed I suspect they must be very old.

 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 7:45 PM   
 By:   Spinmeister   (Member)

Most of the mainstays have already been mentioned, but another would be Bruce Smeaton's lovely A Town Like Alice, a long-time favourite of mine, which saw release by Southern Cross back in 1986.

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 8:59 PM   
 By:   Broughtfan   (Member)

My hands down "vote" goes to "Dusty," a 1983 family adventure tale scored by composer Frank Strangio (Berklee grad, transplanted to "OZ" in the early eighties). Stunning debut film score by a musician who deserves way more recognition than he has received. Beautifully-crafted music for a good, quite well-made/acted film. Sadly, no score recording extant other than a short suite of cues (about seven minutes of music) on the composer's (early) demo CD.

Only thing on YT I could find, a three-minute trailer (albeit one containing excerpts from score):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cvDVrOR3Fo

Intrada, La-La Land, Kritzerland, Varese, Quartet, etc. should consider looking into the possibility of releasing some of this (sadly under-represented) composer's excellent film scores (for, admittedly, not necessarily great films). Some titles (other than aforementioned "Dusty"):

Young Blades (2001 swashbuckler film)
Paradise Found (2003, recorded in London with members of the Philharmonia)
Elephant Tales (2006)
The Dragon Pearl (2011)

 
 
 Posted:   Sep 14, 2019 - 11:47 PM   
 By:   Slackattack   (Member)

Might be Iceman (Bruce Smeaton), Babe (Nigel Westlake) or Wake In Fright (John Scott) for me. Admittedly haven't heard a lot of the ones posted here though -- will be checking them out for sure!

Still gunning for a release of Babe: Pig In The City as well. Westlake mentioned in an interview that almost all of his music got removed when the producers found the movie to be 'too dark.' What's left in the film (and included on his Shimmering Lights album) is just incredible

 
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