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[threeplusfire]

The Red Violin is a lovely film that follows an unusual instrument over centuries and owners. One of my favorite parts is the scene with Jason Flemyng and Greta Scacchi, where he plays a brilliant new piece after their tryst in his dressing room. This movie is full of brilliant moments, and the sad sense of a long history that weaves through so many lives.

Orange juice and cigarettes.
Here I am.

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[theotoky.livejournal.com]

What a gorgeous movie, eh? Beautiful sndtrk too. The chinese vingette is my favourite.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. It's so wonderful. Makes me wish I had some musical talent to call my own.

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

...And the soundtrack is most excellent (by no means recalling classic 80s comedies with Keanu). John Corigliano, though an asshole in person, is quite possibly one of the best composers alive. It's a shame that he isn't asked to compose more film scores, but, perhaps that may be due to the fact that his film scores don't manipulate and only underscore and happen to be gorgeous pieces outside of the scope of the film... The Red Violin score by itself is probably better than most of his stand-alone pieces, I think. ###end dorkiness###

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Don't apologize for knowing something well. Really.

I am not familiar with the name. Has he done other film scores? That piece that Frederick plays in the concert hall is fantastic. Sex a la violin.

[silentjack.livejournal.com]

Corigliano is one of those big-name well-recorded composers who has also done some work in the film scoring biz. He hasn't a plethora of films to his name, but of note are: Ghosts of Versailles, Revolution, and Altered States. And, of course, Le Violin Rouge. He's also a first-rate composer, on any level, and I highly recommend him. But he's one in a rather overshadowed lineage of "real" composers who have composed marvelous film scores. Among others are the German Hans Werner Henze, Americans Virgil Thomson and Aaron Copland, and other composers who (much earlier) composed film music alongside concert music and it was all just as good, if not better... Folks like Hindemith, Schoenberg, Lutoslawski, Penderecki, Bernstein, and -- folks you should be familiar with, you Slavophile, you -- Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

Hell, even the notorious Philip Glass has some of his best music in film -- Kundun, e.g., and his score to the The Truman Show was the highlight of that film.

Ever seen Forbidden Planet? :D

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Forbidden Planet... I don't think I've watched that in ages. Heh.

Thanks for telling me all that. It is indeed very interesting.