Thursday, July 29, 2010
The best lecture on movies ever
At this link (http://ancientfaith.com/specials/the_climacus_conference_of_thoughtful_ascent), at the very bottom there is a podcast called "The Orthodox Moviegoer". Listen to it, please. You will never watch movies the same way again. He here says everything I could ever hope to say, and much better than I would.
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Hey Jillian!
ReplyDeleteThis is Justin from SO Latin. :-)
Great blog! Soundtracks have always interested me and sometimes I pay more attention to the score than to the actual movie itself (such is the case for not a few Max Steiner films.)
Howard Shore definitely seems to be one of the premiere film composers of all time, but strangely enough, outside of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, not much of his soundtracks really catch my attention. His soundtrack for The Last Mimsi in particular, sounded a bit lackluster, I thought. Do you know of any other Howard Shore scores that are in par with his Lord of the Rings music?
And do you have something against Bernard Hermann!? I couldn't help but notice you don't mention him once...:-)
~JJ.
So nice to hear from you! You are the very first SO person who I've heard from on this blog, and I really appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteVery good point, as a matter of fact, I haven't come across a Shore score that even seems to come close to the Lord of the Rings. It's almost as if he used up all his creative juices in this one, giant effort.
You know, I've never heard anything of Bernard Hermann, but I will look him up. Thanks for the recommendation!