Thursday, December 02, 2010

My Favorite Theme



And the movie ranks right up there too.
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9 comments:

David Cranmer said...

Such a superb film.

8:30 PM
Todd Mason said...

The musical cues put together here remind me of Ran Blake, particularly, and to some extent of Brubeck, John Lewis, maybe Lennie Tristano.

It's been far too long since I've seen the film. Pity about Cindy Williams's career, but I hope that inane sitcom helped make her financially secure.

9:07 PM
Todd Mason said...

WIKIPEDIA's entry:

[David] Shire began scoring for television in the 1960s and made the leap to scoring feature films in the early 1970s. He was married to actress Talia Shire, for whose brother Francis Ford Coppola he scored The Conversation, perhaps his best known score, in 1974. Additional screen credits include Two People, All the President's Men, The Hindenburg, Farewell My Lovely, The Taking of Pelham One-Two-Three, 2010, Return to Oz, Max Dugan Returns (a Neil Simon [screenplay]) and Zodiac. He composed original music for Saturday Night Fever (for which he received two Grammy Award nominations), and also worked on several disco adaptations including "Night on Disco Mountain." He won the Academy Award for Best Song for his and Norman Gimble's theme song for Norma Rae, "It Goes Like It Goes".

--I can forgive him for "Night on Disco Mountain" for THE CONVERSATION and THE TAKING OF PELHAM ONE TWO THREE alone...

9:12 PM
pattinase (abbott) said...

This is the only piece of his music I know at all.

9:42 PM
Anonymous said...

Patti - Oh, that is a good, good movie!

10:32 PM
TM linking PELHAM 1 2 3 score said...

You've probably heard some of his work with Streisand, too, w/o knowing it was his.

Clipped condensation of the PELHAM score:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsyDWtzfA7k

or hit the namelink...

11:18 PM
Anonymous said...

"He'd kill us."

Great movie.

Jeff M.

9:31 AM
Jack Bates said...

One of the all time best. BTW- a month later, I finally responded to your question about the Dutch Leonard Film Fest...

5:45 PM
Ron Scheer said...

Thanks for this one, Patti. THE CONVERSATION is a brilliant movie. Hackman's plastic raincoat sums up his character perfectly. I wish Coppola had made more films like it.

The music is fine - and what a great list of credits for David Shire.

9:08 AM

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