#Leonard Rosenman

[arcanespillo]

stills from James Dean: A Portrait (1988) dir by Gary Legon

"James observed classes but did not participate, he couldn't bear to have his performance criticized by the class, he said 'if I let them dissect me like a rabbit in a laboratory, I might not be able to produce again.' At the actors' studio he studied method acting, where an actor learns to utilize every emotion from their real life in their dramatic roles, although this line between acting and life was deliberately left ambiguous, students were warned never to confuse the two, Jimmy repeatedly violated this rule, he succumbed to what the method called the existential fallacy of confusing himself with his creation, it gave a sense of urgency and risk to all his roles"

#my hc is dean winchester was obsessed w him #this is canon actually (im lying i dunno if it is) #spn hc #james dean #a portrait #1988 #Steve Allen #Julie Harris #Dennis Hopper #Rip Torn #Eli Wallach #Rod Steiger #Beverly Long #Sal Mineo #Joanne Woodward #Jayne Meadows #Leonard Rosenman #Katherine Dunham #Dick Van Patten #Nick Ray #Floyd McCarty #Cory Allen #Graham Nash #gary legon #documentary #caps #screencaps

[mtonino]

...A questo incombente sentimento di morte rimanda in particolar modo la Sarabanda di Haendel, che - derivata dalla prima suite per clavicembalo e riorchestrata da Rosenman - apre il film sui titoli di testa e inesorabilemte lo percorre tutto. Negli studi su Barry Lyndon si è rilevata l'associazione della Sarabanda con i molti duelli che vi ricorrono e in particolare con i due scontri speculari (quello "finto"

con il capitano Quinn e quello "vero" con Lord Bullington) che determinanon il destino del protagonista e che sono correlati tra loro anche dal ricorrere della medesima orchestrazione - un cupo rintocco dei timapni sull'inquieto dei violoncelli e dei contrabbassi. In realtà il tema haendeliano letteralmente "assedia" l'ultima parte di Barry Lyndon, accompagnando implacabile il precipitare del dramma di Redmond Barry verso la perdita del figlio e il successivo disfacimento fisico e psichico fino alla tragica condizione di invalido determinata dal drammatico esito del duello con il figliastro: nella scena in cui il protagonista appare ormai sconfitto a letto con la gamba amputata il tema della Sarabanda ritorna ancora una volta, affidato peraltro al violoncello "solo" secondo uno stilema che - come si è più volte rilevato - è particolarmente caro a Kubrick.

La composizione di Haendel assume in tal modo in Barry Lyndon un ruolo nodale, tanto più rilevante perché - grazie anche a un'orchestrazione che ne amplifica le implicazioni drammatiche - questa musica tipicamente barocca viene sganciata da una precisa funzione storicizzante, come ci dice lo stesso Kubrick quando riconosce che essa non vuol evocare alcuna epoca in particolare.

La centralità della Sarabanda è ribadita dal suo ritornare anche nei titoli finali sulla base di una scelta che è assolutamente inedita nel cinema di Kubrick, sin qui caratterizzato dalla differenziazione tra musiche di "testa" e di "coda": posto agli estremi di Barry Lyndon, il brano haendeliano viene così a "chiudere" il film, smentendone in certo modo la traiettoria lineare e la connotazione "storica" e svelando l'illusorietà della stessa vicenda del protagonista, ricondotta infine il dove era incominciata.

#barry lyndon #stanley kubrick #video #sarabanda #georg friedrich händel #vimeo #mine #leonard rosenman #Vimeo

[junipercalle]

I was recently gifted a copy of the Star Trek IV soundtrack-- the MCA Records release, 1986 (thank you, love!). I love the score; I love the movie, it's a great time, and the score is such a good part of it.

The track listing has been an experience, though. It raises so many interesting questions about how a film CD gets to be the way it is. Here it is:

01 Main Title

02 The Whaler

03 Market Street

04 Crash/Whale Fugue

05 Ballad of the Whale

06 Gillian Seeks Kirk

07 Chekov's Run

08 Time Travel

09 Hospital Chase

10 The Probe

11 Home Again/End Credits

Take a good look at that order, think about this movie, and boggle.

For science (it's science if you write it down, right?) I went ahead and reordered that, in the order of the music as it appears in the film. (this agrees with the order in the Intrada release, minus the cues that one added, and excepting 5 which is in their extra tracks section):

01 Main Title

10 The Probe

08 Time Travel

03 Market Street

05 Ballad of the Whale (still not sure on this, is it in the aquarium tour or just not in film?)

07 Chekov's Run

06 Gillian Seeks Kirk

09 Hospital Chase

04 Crash/Whale Fugue

02 The Whaler

11 Home Again/End Credits

Let's try that again for lulz: 01, 10, 08, 03, 05, 07, 06, 09, 04, 02, 11

I'm fascinated. I don't mind, exactly-- I can reorder tracks however I want, I already fixed the play order. But I'm absolutely fascinated by the order this was released in. How? What process lead to this? Why is it like that? Was it a matter of cue recording order, that was retained in the score's release? Finishing date? Was it like Godzilla vs. Biollante, where things were recorded in a few suites and cut apart for the film?

I'd love to know. I love that there are still things I have no idea about, things yet to be learned about a work that I'd seen since so long ago, and about a fandom I've been in for so long.

#star trek iv #star trek iv: the voyage home #leonard rosenman #star trek #star trek:tos

[ncc-42069]

Hey, got 82 minutes? How about a full orchestra concert of Trek's music?

#star trek #Star Trek music #Jerry Goldsmith #James Horner #Leonard Rosenman #Dennis McCarthy #Michael Giacchino #Alexander Courage #Youtube

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching [Never Actually Seen Before Edition]

SYBIL Daniel Petrie USA, 1976

#watching #never seen before #Daniel Petrie #Joanne Woodward #Sally Field #American television #1976 #Leonard Rosenman

[astanleykubrick]

The third episode of my Cracking the Kube series has a very special treat: a NEVER BEFORE HEARD interview with Stanley Kubrick, in which he discuss some of the myths and legends that surround him. In the first part of the episode I set the context for my analysis of the mythology, which will be in the second part. Thanks for your attention.

#Kubrick interview #Malcolm mcdowell #anya kubrick #mythology #Youtube #Christiane Kubrick #David Thomson #Leonard Rosenman #Paul Joyce #The Invisible Man

[thebutcher-5]

La macchina nera

Benvenuti o bentornati sul nostro blog. Nello scorso articolo siamo tornati a parlare di horror, horror fantascientifico per la precisione, di produzione francese ossia Meander. La storia parla di questa donna che, dopo essere stata aggredita, si risveglia in un tunnel metallico, con una strana tuta addosso e un bracciale che le indica il tempo limite che ha per uscire da quella zona. La…

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#azione #Dennis Shryack #Dies Irae #drammatico #Elliot Silverstein #film #Gerald Hirschfeld #horror #James Brolin #Kathleen Lloyd #Kevin Pike #Kim Richards #Kyle Richards #La macchina nera #Lane Slate #Leonard Rosenman #Michael Butler #Michael McCroskey #movies #Nuovo Messico #Recensione #Recensione film #road movie #Ronny Cox #Santa Ynez #The Car #Universal Pictures #Wade Parent

[dukeofriven]

Best 'Classic' Trek Theme

#star trek #star trek voyager #ds9 #star trek deep space nine #tng #TOS #Enterprise #trek #Insurrection is a terrible move but I used to play emulated N64 Harvest moon listening to that score #and it's fantastic #yes faith of the heart was originally from Patch Adams #the least of its sins? #'classic' trek is defined here as every Trek series with a living appearance by Majel Barret #Except Star Trek '09 because that doesn't count as classic Trek that would be silly

[filmnoirfoundation]

Next up for for FNF prez Eddie Muller at the Turner Classic Movies Film Festival today. He'll introduce Elia Kazan's EAST OF EDEN (1955), 11:45 am, TCL Chinese Theatres, House 1.

#TCMFF film notes:

When director Elia Kazan realized Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift were too old to play the brothers in his adaptation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, he went looking for new talent. Boy, did he find it! In his first starring role (and the only one of his major films released during his lifetime), James Dean burns up the screen with inner turmoil. He’s cast as Cal, the tortured Cain to Richard Davalos’s Abel and Raymond Massey’s Adam in coastal California on the eve of World War I. Rejection dominates Dean’s performance as he strives to win his father’s love, finds himself drawn to his brother’s girlfriend (Julie Harris), and discovers his mother (Jo Van Fleet) is running a brothel in a nearby town.

Working with cinematographer Ted McCord, Kazan reflected Cal’s emotional turmoil in his creative use of the widescreen image. This was Kazan’s first film shot in color and CinemaScope, and he frequently tilts the camera to intensify a scene’s emotional impact. He also worked with composer Leonard Rosenman to make the score mirror Cal’s inner life. At the time, many reviewers lauded Kazan’s move into widescreen while complaining that Dean’s performance was just an imitation of early Brando. More recent critics have hailed the film as Kazan’s and Dean’s best. Van Fleet won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress with her film debut, with additional nominations going to Kazan, Dean, and Paul Osborn’s adapted screenplay.

d. Elia Kazan, 118 minutes, DCP

World premiere restoration courtesy of Warner Bros. Classics

Restored by Warner Bros. in collaboration with the Film Foundation

#east of eden #tcmff #eddie muller #tcl chinese theatre #james dean #julie harris #eliz kazan

[byneddiedingo]

Natalie Wood and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955)

Cast: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, James Backus, Ann Doran, Corey Allen, William Hopper, Rochelle Hudson, Dennis Hopper. Screenplay: Stewart Stern, Irving Shulman, Nicholas Ray. Cinematography: Ernest Haller. Art direction: Malcolm C. Bert. Film editing: William H. Ziegler. Music: Leonard Rosenbaum. 

Rebel Without a Cause seems to me a better movie than either of the other two James Dean made: East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) and Giant (George Stevens, 1956). It's less pretentious than the adaptation of John Steinbeck's attempt to retell the story of Cain and Abel in the Salinas Valley, and less bloated than the blockbuster version of Edna Ferber's novel about Texas. And Ray, a director with many personal hangups of his own, was far more in tune with Dean than either Kazan or Stevens, who were shocked by their star's eccentricities. Granted, Rebel is full of hack psychology and sociology, attributing the problems of Jim Stark (Dean), Judy (Natalie Wood), and John "Plato" Crawford (Sal Mineo) to parental inadequacy: Jim's weak father (Jim Backus) and domineering mother (Ann Doran) and paternal grandmother (Virginia Brissac), Judy's distant father (William Hopper) and mother (Rochelle Hudson), and Plato's absentee parents who have left him in care of the maid (Marietta Canty). In fact, Jim and his friends really are rebels without a cause, there being neither an efficient cause -- one that makes them do stupidly self-destructive things -- nor a final cause -- a clear purpose behind their madness. Fortunately, Ray is not as interested in explaining his characters as he is in bringing them to life. Unlike Kazan or Stevens, Ray gives his actors ample room to explore the parts they're playing. There's a loose, improvisatory quality to the scenes Dean, Wood, and Mineo play together, more suggestive of the French New Wave filmmakers than of Hollywood's tightly controlled directors. It's no surprise that both Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut were admirers of Ray's work. At the same time, though, Rebel is very much a Hollywood product, with vivid color cinematography by Ernest Haller, who had won an Oscar for his work on Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939), and a fine score by Leonard Rosenman. Most of all, though, it has Dean, Wood, and Mineo, performers with an obvious rapport. At one point, for example, Dean puts a cigarette in his mouth backward -- filter on the outside -- and Wood reaches out and turns it around, a bit establishing their intimacy that feels so real that you wonder if it was improvised or developed in performance. (In fact, I noticed the gesture because I had just seen Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend, made ten years earlier, in which Jane Wyman performs the same turning-the-cigarette-around action for Ray Milland several times. Cigarettes are nasty things but they make wonderful props.)

#Rebel Without a Cause #Nicholas Ray #Natalie Wood #James Dean

[bi-files]

A Fannish Year Review - 2023

1. Your main fandom of the year: I've kind of been all over the map, but I am always a fan of Dr. Strange and Star Trek. I do still love the X files!

2. Have u watched a film this year?? I have! I watched The Fifth Element for the first time and I really really enjoyed the costumes!

3. Your favorite book this year: Oooh that's hard, but I think it have to be The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. I liked the story structure and the descriptions a lot. But coming in hot behind that is Diane Duane's Spock's World and A. C. Crispin's Sarek. I was in a bit of a reading slump at those Star Trek books really really helped me get back on the train.

4. Your favorite album or song this year: Hospital Chase by Leonard Rosenman (it's the soundtrack bit in Star Trek IV where Kirk and co break Chekov out of the hospital) never fails to make me smile.

5. Your favorite tv shows this year: I'd have to say Slow Horses, Star Trek (TOS & TNG), the X files, and Avatar: the last airbender.

6. Your favorite tumblr community this year: From what I've seen, the Star Trek community here is so kind and fun. I've really enjoyed the art and the cool headcanons here.

7. Your best new fandom discovery of the year: I'm pretty new to this whole fandom thing, so everything has been new to me, but I've really enjoyed the X files love on this website. I've been watching since a yearish before COVID, but I didn't know about you guys til now!

8. Your biggest fandom disappointment of the year: The second season of Slow Horses (a spy show on Apple tv) was not nearly as good as the first season. Luckily, the 3rd season just came out and it is incredible!

9. Your tv/movie boyfriend and/or girlfriend of the year: I think Riker with a bread is stunning.

10. Your biggest squee moment of the year: As both a country music fan (yeah yeah I know!)and X files fan the release of the full song from Dreamland II on youtube was so exciting!

Thanks for tagging me @frogsmulder! It was good to get know you better :)

No pressure, but I'd love to here you guys' thoughts on the matter!

@cock-holliday @spocksbestfriend @highlyillogicalandroid @aelaer

#tag games #star trek #fan thoughts of 2023

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

🎬 1950 1955 1960

🎬1950: Sunset BLVD (dir. Billy Wilder)

A gripping story of delusion and ego in the genre I call "Hollywood gothic", really essential viewing. Score by Franz Waxman!

🎬1955: Rebel Without A Cause (dir. Nicholas Ray)

The quintessential James Dean movie [of the only 3 he made] - it's got 1950s teenage angst, lush color cinematography with moody lighting and location shooting that makes it far more dynamic and immersive than the many 'soundstage-y' films of the era. Also Leonard Rosenman's score is beautiful.

🎬1960: The Apartment (dir. Billy Wilder)

I know these are pretty conventional choices, but they're both quality movies. I find myself coming back to this movie, it's just well-constructed. Here's a playlist I made tracing the arc of the film!

send me a 🎬 + a year and i’ll tell you my favorite movie from that year. OR send me a 🎶 + a year and i’ll tell you my favorite song from that year.

[chansonsinternationales]

[jamesleoherlihy]

east of eden james dean notes for neil

-when james dean came into the office to meet kazan for the first time he was resentful & impatient & conversation was not his gift so they just sat there looking at each other for a long time . and then jimmy asked if kazan wanted a ride on his motorbike . and on the ride he completely scared the SHIT out of kazan w how fast he was going. and yeah he got the part

-w the boldness of a seasoned star jimmy suggested his friend (and father figure, in his mind, which leonard was creeped out by) leonard rosenman be composer for the picture, & he got the job, & that’s why the musical score seems so personal and focused on cal trask specifically and those heightened mess of emotions

-in his and paul newman’s chemistry read they flirted and paul pinched his ass 👍

-when they landed in california to shoot the picture jimmy asked to stop at his father’s house, & from this short chilly visit w winston duke kazan was like OHHHH. that’s why- ok. and built the entire father-son relationship in the film around it in what parts he choose to emphasize etc

-the guy who played adam trask HATED jimmy’s guts bc he would say his lines wrong on purpose every single time and was in general unbearable and completely unruly to work w by that i mean jimmy would sometimes literally pull his dick out and piss on stage in front of everybody when he wasn’t getting his way . and kazan encouraged such antics to get better chemistry/anger so what u see on screen is like . raymond massey’s actual unrestrained hate for him .

-kazan invited marlon brando over to the set of east of eden as a gift for jimmy but made sure to warn him first that james dean was completely obsessed w him and modeled his entire conduct and style on brando , and brando was kind, but later urged him to enter psychotherapy and said “len, why don’t you get him to an analyst? your friend is nuts!”

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Playing

Leonard Rosenman FANTASTIC VOYAGE Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

#currently playing #Leonard Rosenman #film scores #1966

[thecat1945]

I have major life things happening now, I need to continue to make healthy life choices and not “wig out”. It’s times like these I wish my mom was here still, there’s so many things I would say , like “did you know that” or “you ever eat that before?” Or “you ever see that movie?” , so much I’d say,the below pic is from fall of 2019, the day we got Holly delivered from the Midwest…….

#Spotify