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flyonthewall2983 wrote:Maurice Jarre

Very sad. When I was young and didn't know anything about computers except that mine had a cd player, I borrowed the Lawrence of Arabia cd from the library and would play it night after night and fall asleep to it. To me, there is nothing grander than this music in film. Purely subjective, but mine it is. I can never tell you which is my favorite film, or top ten, but I could tell which film music score is the best I have ever heard in my life. God bless this man. May he rest in peace.

I've been mixing that guy up with Maurice Jaubert! Thought he was dead ages ago as he would have written the score for L'Atalante.

Les Yeux sans visage's score is one of those scores that conjures the whole world & atmosphere of the film with just a few notes. Very few composers are that talented where they can see-- truly apprehend-- the sum spiritual circumference of a film, and distill this wholesale into a musical composition that both represents and compliments the work. Jarre was that talented.

Celebrate Jarre's life and work by playing the "Building the Barn" sequence from Witness, one of the most sublime marriages of music and image in any Hollywood film
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King Prendergast wrote:Celebrate Jarre's life and work by playing the "Building the Barn" sequence from Witness, one of the most sublime marriages of music and image in any Hollywood film.

He wasn't bad with Dead Poets either...

Other than the Leans and Franjus I think my favorite Jarre is THE TRAIN. It perfectly complements the tension and frenzy of Frankenheimer's film. I also like THE COLLECTOR, IS PARIS BURNING? and NIGHT OF THE GENERALS but haven't heard them in the context of the films in many years. I do agree that his work for Franju achieves a kind of minimalist perfection that he never (except perhaps in the Wyler) quite hit again. I haven't seen THE DAMNED in over thirty years but that droning sludge of a score comes back every so often to haunt me. It managed to make even a nude Ingrid Thulin come across like a morphine drip!

Maurice Jarre was truly one of the giants of film music. A couple nights ago a friend and I went over his entire filmography of over 160 titles, and it's really an amazing career. My favorites are definitely the Leans, my personal favorite being Ryan's Daughter, but he was just wonderful from his earliest French period right until the end. Sadly, like Elmer Bernstein and Jerry Goldsmith, his last Hollywood score was rejected.

I just finished watching last season of Buffy, and my girlfriend's been telling me how much I'll enjoy the character he played. Very sad.

Never heard of the guy, but 33 years old? Jesus!

Even though he played a green demon with horns, I found Lorne to be the most engaging and "human" character on Angel. How tragic.

Helen Levitt, photographer who also worked on many films

Lou Perryman, from The Whole Shootin' Match, murdered. That link says "homicide suspected," but a radio report just confirmed murder.

It's deeply upsetting - everyone at Watchmaker Films is horrified. Editing Lou's section of the commentary was my favourite part of the job on The Whole Shootin' Match. Just horrible, horrible news.

I haven't yet had the chance to listen to his commentaries, but they're going on tonight.

What makes it worse is that, according to the police, it was just a random murder. The guy they've arrested just sort of happened upon Perryman's house and killed him. Turned himself in a day or two later, if I recall rightly.

Aside from his work with Eagle Pennell, he was also one of the more memorable images of 1980s gonzo cinema: the skinned-alive L.G. McPeters in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.

Co-founder of Fortissimo Films, Wouter Barendrecht.

I really, really loved Shootin' Match, and the commentary on it and A Hell of a Note were very enjoyable. That is just tragic news about Perryman.

I've never seen Last Night at the Alamo, but if I do, it'll probably be kinda lonely.

Jack Wrangler, gay porn legend.

That documentary sounds quite interesting. The obit alone has me intrigued. (NB: not a porn consumer.)

Marilyn Chambers RIP :^o

As a lifelong Philadelphian, I feel that I can't pass by this thread without posting that longtime Phillies broadcaster [and one of the greatest voices in the history of sports] Harry Kalas has died at the age of 73.

Marilyn Chambers' finest (non-porn) hour

Perhaps it is just my recent Joy of Sex Education exploration that meant I was more aware of it but I certainly noticed the fur coat that the disease spreading Rose wears on watching the clip!