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Okay, so I'm not completely insane, just a little bit daft.
Thanks Jason
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Haha.
Rest assured Chris, the Eiger is coming.
Probably this Friday.
Or I'm climbing up the drainpipe.
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Seriously, since Williams started composing film scores has there ever been a decade where he hasn't just knocked so many works out of the park? Being the young age of 30, I am discovering a lot of scores for the first time. I really believe forty years from now John Williams will still be talked about and admired. He has left an incredible mark the history of film scores and American pop culture.
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John Williams was given free reign on scoring Robert Altman’s Images. John Williams was told by Altman you can do whatever, as long as you don’t go over budget, since there was no more money for the Score itself.
John Williams has said in a few interviews…That Images, along with Close Encounters, Schindler’s List are his Best Scores.
When I went back years ago and found Images, I was truly amazed by the complexity of the score, it is a truly haunting score with Percussions and Jarring Human Sound Effects by Stomu Yamash’ta. After hearing Superman, E.T., Indiana Jones, Images is like no other.
Here is a 1975 interview of John Williams on how Images Score came together…And it is a shame that Suzanne York..Did Not Get an Oscar Nomination for Best Actress…playing a schizophrenia, paranoid, who see’s doppelgängers…”Cathryn! I Love You! And Cathryn replied..”You Don’t!
Spooky
https://www.jwfan.com/?p=4583
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My (CD) copy arrived from Spain today!
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Great write-up EdG -- thank you!
Yavar
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Jul 13, 2021 - 8:42 AM
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Graham Watt
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This is great! I too had the old piece of footwear, but I can now use that as a beermat. This is the real deal, the bee's knees and the dog's bollox.
I also found that there's a good upload of the film on the Tube, so I watched that as well. Really interesting film, and I'm surprised I'd never seen it before. As regards the music, it does alter the listening experience after having seen the film. The opening track seems to "make more sense" (if that makes sense) when the tonal material is visually linked to scenes of Susannah York reading her (yes, it was hers!) book of stories. The titles appear intermittently over panning shots of the house's interiors, and we hear the more experimental stuff. Also intriguing was to see/hear the murder of "Marcel" (if it was him, and if it was a murder....) alongside Stomu Yamash'ta's vocal effects of a man being killed. I don't think I'd have noticed that it was part of the musical tapestry instead of just sounds of the actor acting as if he was dying - unless I knew the truth.
I noticed that the End Titles of the film end on a more tonal note than on the CD release. Intrigued, I went to get the CD just to listen out for the bit that turned out not to be on the CD at all! Furious, I wrote a letter of complaint to Quartet asking why their release wasn't complete, and they politely told me to read the liner notes, which I did, and am now completely happy again.
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