Bill Wrobel's DVD - Film Score Rundowns

-The Wrong Man (1956) *** [music *** 1/2]
http://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Man-Henry-
Fonda/dp/B0002HOER6/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1293326794&sr=1-1
I’ve already discussed the music in my rundown, and I discussed it also in
Talking Herrmann. Here are the links:
http://herrmann.uib.no/talking/view.cgi?forum=thGeneral&topic=1804
http://www.filmscorerundowns.net/herrmann/wrongman.pdf
-Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann (1992 dvd) ***
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Movies-Bernard-
Herrmann/dp/B000TJ0SB8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1293326932&sr=1-1
I am freshly going over this documentary dvd this morning (Sunday, May 15,
2011) that runs just under an hour, and I am thoroughly enjoying it. It was well done by
Joshua Waletzky. Many interesting people “in the know” are interviewed. For instance,
his first wife, Lucille Fletcher, is shown several times discussing early Herrmann. At
11:20 Chris Palmer is interviewed, then Elmer Bernstein immediately afterward
(Bernstein returns several more times later). You get to see Royal S. Brown starting at
14:58 I believe discussing Herrmann’s music style. Then you see David Raksin. At 27:54
Norman Corwin is introduced, and so on. I don’t have the dvd location but early on you
see Herrmann from 1967 in Paris. He still looks pretty good there. But at 27:54 when he
is seen in London 1972, boy does he look a lot older. It’s amazing what a mere five-year
span did to this man physically! He aged considerably, and looked really bad by 1975.
There are always consequences to habits—good habits and bad. Smoking, a gruff
approach to life, and so forth. He was an odd composer always seemingly at odds with
his environment!
-Film Music Masters: Jerry Goldsmith (2005 dvd) ***
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.soundtrackfan.com/livescores/compo
sers/jgoldsmith/covers/goldsmith-dvd-film-musicmasters.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.soundtrackfan.com/livescores/composers/jgoldsmith/goldsmith-dvd-film-musicmasters.htm&usg=__pxcJkQCBWsW55aSKwVE2r2K8_JA=&h=358&w=250&sz=13&
hl=en&start=7&zoom=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=H3ZBORedC7dDZM:&tbnh=121&tbn
w=84&prev=/images%3Fq%3DJerry%2BGoldsmith,%2BMusic%2Bfrom%2Bthe%2BM
ovies%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26tbs%3Disch:1
I am fairly sure I kept detailed notes on this dvd somewhere, either in one of my
blogs or on a Talking Herrmann post perhaps. Right now at this moment I cannot find the
notes but if I do, I’ll include them here. I recommend the dvd.
-Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959) *** [music *** 1/2]
289