Oh, are you in for a treat! I envy you to be able to see movie for the first time in this presentation. I hope you have a large screen.
Make sure the lights are out or low, shut off the telephone and just dig in. It's worth it.
Somewhere, and I can't place where now, the reason why Jarre conducted was that Boult could not conduct to picture and maintain synchronization. I think Spiegel wanted his name more for the prestige than anything else.
I can tell you as a conductor who has conducted both symphonic music in...
If any film deserved this kind of love and attention, it is Lawrence of Arabia. It's a simple as that.
I well remember sitting in one of the few seats available at the Ziegfeld Theatre three days after the film opened in 1989, which was too close to the screen. I found myself moving my head from...