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LOG IN Forgot Login? Register General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board Search Terms:  Search Within:  topics posts since 2019 2018 posts 2017 posts 2016 posts 2015 posts 2014 posts 2013 posts 2012 posts 2011 posts 2010 posts 2009 posts 2008 posts 2007 posts 2006 posts 2005 posts 2004 posts 2003 posts 2002 posts 2001 posts 2000 posts users  search tips  You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2      General Discussion: Maurice Jarre's Sunshine     1 2    NEXT   LAST   Last Post   Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 12:54 AM     By:   Kirby34   (Member) I've been listening to this excellent score many times the last few days. The main theme is amazing and probably one of the best I've ever heard! My favorite track is the last one 'The Sonnenscheins' with the soprano solo performing the main theme in all it's glory (I love the powerful, noble ending to this track!). It's Maurice Jarre in classical mode (it sounds like something you'd hear in an orchestra hall, not a modern movie). I would probably pay $50 to get this if I didn't own it already. What do people think of this one?    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 1:15 AM     By:   Michael Arlidge   (Member) For me, Sunshine is to Maurice Jarre what Far From Heaven is to Elmer Bernstein. That is to say that it's not only Jarre's final feature film score, but it's one of his greatest scores. The album is only 36 minutes long, but it contains more brilliance in that short space of time than almost any other recent score manages to accomplish in twice that length. A very strong 5/5 from me.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 1:17 AM     By:   Bob Bryden   (Member) It's ironic that I'm not a huge Jarre fan because 'Lawrence of Arabia' is in my top 3 scores of all-time!! Despite the repetition I find in his work - there are a good dozen scores by Jarre I appreciate. I remember reading a newspaper article in the 90's where he and his wife were interviewed. She was quoted as basically telling him point blank that he was repeating himself too much and should retire. Which, for all intents and purposes, he soon did. I say all this to say - I was so delighted to discover the score you mention. 'Sunshine' is a wondrous swan song. in my view, for Jarre's career. Like a few other of 'the great ones' (Tiomkin, Newman, etc.) He wrote one of his finest works in his later years.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 1:20 AM     By:   Michael Arlidge   (Member) It's ironic that I'm not a huge Jarre fan because 'Lawrence of Arabia' is in my top 3 scores of all-time!! Jarre's not a favourite composer of mine either. In fact, other than Sunshine, and his David Lean scores, I find hardly any of his work to my liking.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 1:33 AM     By:   Kirby34   (Member) I didn't like Maurice Jarre for the longest time (my first score of his was "The Year of Living Dangerously" so can you blame me). But, then Varese released "Top Secret" (one of my all-time favorite movies), which I remembered had a beautiful love theme that I had in my head since childhood. Then I got "Lawrence of Arabia" and a few others, like "Sunshine", and now I really love his work. I know enough to steer away from his electronic work, but his full symphonic stuff is really epic for almost everything he writes for. I still don't have that many scores of his to be able to find a pattern of repetition, but a lot of his score CDs are sequenced with lots of repetition. Like Dr. Zhivago I swear every other track is "Lara's Theme" and at the end of the CD there is a swing, jazz, and rock n' roll versin of "Lara's Theme." It gets pretty old by the end.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 1:51 AM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) A long movie -- really too long for a feature and yet too short to tell a multigenerational saga. This one really ought to have been extended for a television series. I honestly can't recall the music. Was the album material really in the film? What a subject it would have been for Miklos Rozsa!    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 3:33 AM     By:   franz_conrad   (Member) Was the album material really in the film? Most of it was to my recollection. I think it was a film which could have featured more scoring... Istvan Szabo films tend to be spare on music.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 3:37 AM     By:   Michael Arlidge   (Member) Istvan Szabo films tend to be spare on music. Is the album presentation (36 minutes) the whole score?    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 4:01 AM     By:   franz_conrad   (Member) I only saw it once years ago. I don't remember there were any unreleased themes in the film. Most of the music that appears is on the soundtrack, though I believe the 'Sonnenschein' theme only appears once at the end, not in both English and Magyar-language versions as on the CD.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 4:17 AM     By:   The_Mark_of_Score-O   (Member) In the not-too-distant future, this film is going to be confused with SUNSHINE (2007), a dippy sci-fi epic, to be released later this year, about a group of "scientists" who have to fly into the sun to reignite it like a bad hibachi briquette (you'd think the tepid public reception a couple of years ago for Paramount's THE CORE, with a similar concept [substitute the center of the Earth for the Sun] would've told Fox not to waste its money.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 4:57 AM     By:   KeoNato   (Member) In the not-too-distant future, this film is going to be confused with SUNSHINE (2007), a dippy sci-fi epic, to be released later this year, about a group of "scientists" who have to fly into the sun to reignite it like a bad hibachi briquette (you'd think the tepid public reception a couple of years ago for Paramount's THE CORE, with a similar concept [substitute the center of the Earth for the Sun] would've told Fox not to waste its money. Too late for me. For a moment I got even more excited about Danny Boyle's movie. (We in america are just getting it now.)    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 10:52 AM     By:   adilson   (Member) Sunshine is a beautiful score, but isn't fair to think in Maurice Jarre only for this and David Lean's scores for the good side or for the electronics for the bad side as I have seen here, Maurice Jarre composed more than 150 scores and I don't need list the big quantity of great scores that he has composed in his long career, for who know just a little of his work certainly understand what I'm talking about.    Posted:   Jul 24, 2007 - 5:32 PM     By:   Reeler   (Member) I was watching Witness and thinking I have more time for the score than the contextless storyline.    Posted:   Mar 29, 2008 - 8:57 AM     By:   Dorian   (Member) For me, Sunshine is to Maurice Jarre what Far From Heaven is to Elmer Bernstein. That is to say that it's not only Jarre's final feature film score, but it's one of his greatest scores. The album is only 36 minutes long, but it contains more brilliance in that short space of time than almost any other recent score manages to accomplish in twice that length. A very strong 5/5 from me. Reviving the old thread while the score is playing here and I have just one word on mind, "amazing".    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 8:56 AM     By:   CK   (Member) Currently on play, and what a wonderful little score this is. And it has A THEME!    Posted:   Mar 17, 2019 - 10:53 AM     By:   Rozsaphile   (Member) I honestly don't recall much music and never heard the disc version. (Is it still out there?) The more I learn of Miklos Rozsa's family history, the more appropriate this film would have been for him. If only . . . And if only they had allotted an extra hour or two for the multigenerational saga.    Posted:   Sep 12, 2024 - 1:30 AM     By:   Dorian   (Member) For me, Sunshine is to Maurice Jarre what Far From Heaven is to Elmer Bernstein. That is to say that it's not only Jarre's final feature film score, but it's one of his greatest scores. The album is only 36 minutes long, but it contains more brilliance in that short space of time than almost any other recent score manages to accomplish in twice that length. A very strong 5/5 from me. Reviving the old thread while the score is playing here and I have just one word on mind, "amazing". Just playing this as a part of the centennary revision of my Jarre collection. What a great score. It's funny seeing myself commenting on its quality here 16 years ago already.    Posted:   Sep 12, 2024 - 1:51 AM     By:   Amer Zahid   (Member) Memorable score that still gets repeated playbacks!    Posted:   Sep 12, 2024 - 4:40 PM     By:   podres185   (Member) Truly one of the very best at composing memorable themes. One of the earliest responses on this thread was critical of the overuse of Lara's theme in "Doctor Zhivago" -- a valid criticism of the film, I would say, but not necessarily of Jarre. Stories from the post- production of that 1965 film indicate that David Lean had grown so fond of the theme he jettisoned Jarre's music in several cues and substituted the theme. Reportedly, Jarre was furious at the time.    Posted:   Sep 13, 2024 - 12:22 AM     By:   Thor   (Member) I actually met the director of this film as he visited the media institute where I studied back in the early 2000s. I even asked him about Jarre, but I can't for the sake of me remember what I asked and what his response was. One thing I DO remember from his talk was a rather surprising lauding of Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom he had met, and his charisma, which was not something I expected from a European arthouse director. It's a nice score; haven't played it in ages - thanks for the bump!     General Discussion: Maurice Jarre's Sunshine    < 1 2  > >>  Go to page:  1 2   First Post    General Discussion • Trading Post • Non-Film Score Discussion  Profile • Preferences • Community Rules • Help/Contact • Search Board You must log in or register to post.   Go to page:  1 2

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