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I know the CD is prohibitively expensive right now, but do yourself a favor and buy or rent the superb film, WA. I don't always love Kirk Douglas but this was his best ever performance, his own favorite of his work and mine too. Gena Rowlands is magic in this movie as well, and Walter Matthau also makes a strong impression in a minimally-comedic role.
In fact, I adored both film and score so much that I wrote my senior paper at St. John's College on it. Difficult to get approved as a non-program work, and a somewhat obscure one at that, but I did it and I think it came off decently well.
Yavar, thanks for bringing up Lonely Are The Brave. Remember this thread? We did a fine discussion of the score and later the movie.
I do, and thanks for linking to it for WagnerAlmighty, as she continues her Goldsmith exploration. I used to consider Lonely Are the Brave to be Goldsmith's first true masterpiece, but I think I might have to revise that assessment. The Highwayman from 1489 Words, written before he'd scored a single feature, is simply incredible. And I suspect I will soon discover some other amazing pre-1962 stuff in the course of this Odyssey...
Yavar
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I know the CD is prohibitively expensive right now, but do yourself a favor and buy or rent the superb film, WA. I don't always love Kirk Douglas but this was his best ever performance, his own favorite of his work and mine too. Gena Rowlands is magic in this movie as well, and Walter Matthau also makes a strong impression in a minimally-comedic role.
In fact, I adored both film and score so much that I wrote my senior paper at St. John's College on it. Difficult to get approved as a non-program work, and a somewhat obscure one at that, but I did it and I think it came off decently well.
Yavar, thanks for bringing up Lonely Are The Brave. Remember this thread? We did a fine discussion of the score and later the movie.
I do, and thanks for linking to it for WagnerAlmighty, as she continues her Goldsmith exploration. I used to consider Lonely Are the Brave to be Goldsmith's first true masterpiece, but I think I might have to revise that assessment. The Highwayman from 1489 Words, written before he'd scored a single feature, is simply incredible. And I suspect I will soon discover some other amazing pre-1962 stuff in the course of this Odyssey...
Yavar
I hope I can watch the movie soon. I'm psyched for more Odyssey btw.
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Too bad about Amazon video....
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Yavar
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Yeah, I was confused because it was linked to on the DVD page I provided...both rental and buy options (though the DVD is a better deal in that regard...and also includes bonus features including a featurette on Goldsmith's contribution, which I doubt are included in Amazon's digital version.
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Yeah, I was confused because it was linked to on the DVD page I provided...both rental and buy options (though the DVD is a better deal in that regard...and also includes bonus features including a featurette on Goldsmith's contribution, which I doubt are included in Amazon's digital version.
Yavar
Whoa JG extras!!!!
Hokay, the dvd is a no-brainer.
I glanced too quickly the first time.
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And our first regular episode, on Jerry's first feature film score, Black Patch, is now live at www.goldsmithodyssey.com!
Note that we give a spoiler warning about two thirds of the way through, so if you're curious to sample the score and learn about the film before watching, you're safe up until that point.
For those who want more in depth score analysis, here is the complete score breakdown with liner notes that I only recently revised to incorporate new insights gleaned from studying the music anew for our podcast discussion (beware of spoilers here if you've never seen the film):
http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=119663&forumID=1&archive=0
I really fell in love with the score the more I listened to it. Very curious to hear your thoughts on the music and our podcast!
Yavar
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Yavar, I wanted to listen to this podcast. If I understand the directions correctly, a listener must download iTunes in order to hear this program. Is that correct?
iTunes is only one option, albeit one which many people use. As Erik kindly pointed out, you can play it directly off of our website: just click the "play" icon which hopefully shows up for you. I think Jens may have also put it on one or two other platforms besides iTunes, but playing it off our site is probably the simplest.
(We bought the domain name www.goldsmithodyssey.com which redirects to the buzzsprout site.)
I can't wait to hear what you think, Joan (and Erik).
Yavar
P.S. Just to explain the funny little notice Jens put up under the episode description about me and Clark still learning how to use computers: both of us somehow made the same mistake, in that we hooked up our nice recording microphones, saw the red power light go on, and assumed it would automatically take over as the preferred recording device. We somehow both forgot that for our Episode 0, we had to go into our preferences and switch to that mic from our computer's internal mic. So both of us ended up recording our voices with the latter instead of the former; hence, Jens and the music clips sound much better than our two voices.
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Well, that's one way to tell you two apart from Jens! Haha
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Official answer from Clark (he forgot his old login, so for the time being I'll relay his replies myself):
"Douglas is my "radio name," so I always used that for my writing online. I haven't really been active on any of the forums for a few years (just don't have time to stay active on a forum these days), but I still host a film music-themed radio show on the small station where I work and do my best to keep up with what's happening in the world of film music."
Yavar
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Thanks for the plug, (Member) -- and yes, our Episode 2 on City of Fear is now indeed up! We have experimented with the format this time, so that we get to music discussion within about 5 minutes (and intersperse the film discussion throughout). Do please give us feedback on whether you prefer this format. You can reply here or email mail@goldsmithodyssey.com. We welcome constructive negative feedback!
And if you have *positive* feedback, please do rate our podcast on iTunes as well please!
Yavar
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