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Lightborne Goldmember	Here's the list from the July Music Issue of Movieline magazine: 1. ALMOST FAMOUS 2. AMERICAN GRAFFITI 3. BLADE RUNNER 4.CHINATOWN 5.CLOCKWORK ORANGE 6. CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND 7. FRANTIC 8. THE HARDER THEY COME 9. HIGH FIDELITY 10. JACKIE BROWN 11. JESUS' SON 12. THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO 13. THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST 14. LOCAL HERO 15. MILLER'S CROSSING 16. THE MISSION 17. MUSIC BY RY COODER 18. O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU? 19. THE PIANO 20. ROUND MIDNIGHT 21. RUSHMORE 22. SUPERFLY 23. SWEET AND LOWDOWN 24. VERTIGO 25. VIRGIN SUICIDES What do you think? A few I'd agree with...By the way, there is a nice little interview with Mark Isham in that same issue.
posted 07-01-2002 06:59 PM PT (US)

rkeaveney Minimember	Movieline is the bottom of the movie magazine barrel. Just sad. It's like what, 25 pages and half of it is fashion articles. Looks like they know jack about soundtracks too! Ryan
posted 07-01-2002 07:17 PM PT (US)

Lancelot Goldmember	They mention Superfly, but not Shaft. Music by Ry Cooder? Plenty specific. Why not Eric Kunzel and the Cinncinati Pops Great Fantasy Album? A lot of the music found on those CDs can be obtained on other recordings.
posted 07-01-2002 07:28 PM PT (US)

jonathan_little Goldmember	So... these people obviously don't have a clue about film music. Next!
posted 07-01-2002 08:11 PM PT (US)

HAL 2000 Goldmember	That is pretty wack. What was the criteria?
posted 07-01-2002 08:37 PM PT (US)

Lightborne Goldmember	Don't know what the criteria was and I definitely think that the majority were horrible choices. However, they did have LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST and THE MISSION on there, even though they were easy choices for the cannon of film music. It was nice seeing CHINATOWN on there. But that was the choice for Jerry??? And CLOSE ENCOUNTERS was the choice for Johnny???
posted 07-01-2002 10:26 PM PT (US)

Bulldog Goldmember	It doesn't get any better than Chinatown. I'm surprised that JW only had one score make it on the list...and I'm really surprised it wasn't Jaws.
posted 07-02-2002 05:43 AM PT (US)

jeffy Goldmember	11 of the 25 are song CDs. And the rest are pretty good scores, not all-time greats. Yeah, if they only wanted to put one score per composer on the list, they made some pretty uninspired choices.
posted 07-02-2002 09:16 AM PT (US)

Rich Douglas Goldmember	hmmmmmm, interesting.... I don't agree with that list at all. In my opinion they are missing waaaayyyy to many good scores to call that a best soundtrack list. Wonder why titanic didnt make it though, it sold really well. Rich
posted 07-02-2002 12:09 PM PT (US)

CindyLover1969 Minimember	Still better than the British music magazine Mojo's - at least Movieline didn't include Easy Rider or Saturday Night Fever!
posted 07-04-2002 11:43 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Goldmember	Some odd choices on that list from OUR point of view! On the other hand, it is reflective of the man-in-the-street's perception of film music. The snobby man-in-the-street's perception, that is. The kind that thinks he knows all about movies and would laugh in your face at the idea of giving even a moment's consideration to the score from THE SWARM (for example). But I do kind of see the logic in the list, even if I don't agree with it. Let's never forget - WE'RE the weird ones, everyone else is normal!
posted 07-06-2002 04:07 AM PT (US)

Lightborne Goldmember	Well, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS isn't exactly what I would call the "mainstream" man-on-the-street choice for John Williams. ...Or even Ry Cooder.
posted 07-06-2002 10:47 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Goldmember	True, Lightborne. Neither is CHINATOWN. They're not the ordinary Joe choices. Joe and Joline would have chosen TOP GUN. But I still think that the list reflects Mr Snobby-Snooty Joe's ideas - the films included have to have a certain "cool factor" (even kitsch can be cool) and preferably have scores by people who don't normally work in films, and which avoid the orchestral symphonic sound. Of course, there are exceptions to that on the list too.
posted 07-07-2002 10:57 AM PT (US)

Graham Watt Goldmember	Don't mean to flog the donkey (or whatever the expression is), but I was just reading about the passing of John Frankenheimer, and it made me think of a hypothetical list from Movieline of the top 25 directors of all time. Hitchcock would probably be on the list. Frankenheimer wouldn't. Andy Warhol would, etc.
posted 07-07-2002 11:02 AM PT (US)

Richard Street Goldmember	quote: Originally posted by jeffy: Yeah, if they only wanted to put one score per composer on the list, they made some pretty uninspired choices. Given that they didn't restrict it to one score per composer (Morricone gets THE MISSION and FRANTIC!?!?!), it's even worse. The listmakers have full access to the entire works of Korngold, Williams, Goldsmith, Doyle, Shore, Arnold, Folk, Bernstein, Zimmer, Horner, Mancini, Poledouris, Donaggio, Newton Howard and any and all of four Newmans, but they insist on making room for JACKIE BROWN. Ridiculous. NP: EXPLORERS (Jerry Goldsmith)
posted 07-07-2002 11:13 AM PT (US)

Lightborne Goldmember	If the magazine's editors could pull themselves away from BUFFY and AMERICAN IDOL for a second or two, they would've (since this month's MOVIELINE is "The Music Issue") created two separate lists...one for top 25 scores and one for top 25 soundtracks or song/music collections. Song soundtracks, as much as many of us may hate them, do have their place and are just as important to their films as Williams scores are to a Spielberg film. Cases in point are Tarantino's soundtracks, RUSHMORE, O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU, SNATCH, TRAINSPOTTING, MAGNOLIA, DESPERADO and one of my favorites: NATURAL BORN KILLERS.
posted 07-07-2002 10:45 PM PT (US)

Richard Goldmember	How the HELL did 'Blade Runner' make it in at all, let alone number 3?!?!?!?! NP: Mulholland Drive - Badalamenti **/***
posted 07-09-2002 07:48 PM PT (US)

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