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John Williams - Images - In Search of Unicorns

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 21h

John Williams score for Images, with Stomu Yamashta, is one of his best and often sounds nothing like John Williams, or even a film score.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juzx...

YouTube video by LM R

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 1d

Gloria Gresham was the costume designer on Body Double as well as Fletch, which shares a Nostromo crew hat. Maybe it was hers by that point.

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 1d

I remember the press for this film in the UK when it was released.

There's a great Gladys Knight song on the soundtrack.

It also continued the innovative prosthetic make-up of Caglione/Drexler for Touchstone (Dick Smith in the photo with John Caglione, Jr).

A Night on Bald Mountain (Irwin Kostal Re-Record 1982)

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 2d

Kostal's arrangement of The Night On Bald Mountain scene has some really unusual, military-style percussion during the opening.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOMV...

YouTube video by Irwin Kostal - Topic

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 2d

I saw this several times on the big screen during the Eisner/Katzenberg rerelease. There's really no experience like it.

One day, I would really like to see it set to the 1982 Irwin Kostal rerecording of Stowkowski's original soundtrack.

Ken Plume @kenplume.bsky.social · 4d

It’s still remarkable that Disney produced - and released - this segment in 1940. A horror short that should rank with its Universal monster movie contemporaries… The animation is lush and experimental, and really shows off the Disney special animated effects team…

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Reposted by Tim Partridge

Bob Chipman 🔜PAX East @bobchipman.bsky.social · 3d

Get your kids off YouTube and get em on Tubi 😉

Vulture @vulture.com · 3d

After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.

After leaving HBO Max earlier this year, ‘Looney Tunes’ is a hit on Tubi, the company says, and popular across generations. It should be a model for every classic cartoons trapped in streaming limbo.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't notice that. I was too busy admiring how you made the dramatic backlight, used to separate Blackthorne from the background, disappear when the hatch opens, to maximise the finality of the closed doors.

Now I'll never unsee that hair!

Short Circuit (OST) - Main Title

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 3d

I love how the bassy synth sequencer from David Shire's Short Circuit theme sounds like it could be from an early Prodigy tune.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYtS...

YouTube video by Slick's Film Soundtracks

Analogue - a Film by Daniel D. Moses

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting that Disney's Talespin, set the same year as the Rocketeer (sort of), had an episode that aired months apart from the film, in which Baloo becomes a similar hero.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 6d

Check this wonderfully warm little ASMR based short out, if you haven’t already.

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · Sep 20

GREAT new little short film:

If you have 4.5 minutes and like comforting sounds and a view of a time that no longer exists, take a warm trip down a millennial memory lane of technology and ASMR.
youtu.be/A1LEzK1s6Do

YouTube video by Daniel D. Moses

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 6d

What an opening shot, literally!

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 8d

I can’t be the only Saturday morning Millennial to double take at this product.

Tina Turner - One Of The Living (1985) HD

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 9d

With a gratuitously dodgy yet awesome music edit transition (in a higher pitch) to him on 2:54 on the music video. I love the boldness.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 10d

The music video seems to be filmed entirely on a steadicam, when it's not footage from the film. Quite dangerous looking choreography! Tina Turner's ankles are often cut off in the frame; hopefully she was wearing soft shoes when the heels weren't in shot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP39...

YouTube video by ClassicVideos80s

One Of The Living (Extended Version)

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 10d

We Don't Need Another Hero might be the more famous Tina Turner song from Mad Max, but this tune (and mix) is my favourite. Now forty years and one month old!:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDzd...

YouTube video by Tina Turner - Topic

Tina Turner - One Of The Living (1985) HD

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 10d

The music video seems to be filmed entirely on a steadicam, when it's not footage from the film. Quite dangerous looking choreography! Tina Turner's ankles are often cut off in the frame; hopefully she was wearing soft shoes when the heels weren't in shot.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP39...

YouTube video by ClassicVideos80s

Ridley Scott on advertising, Alien, Rita Hayworth on the state of movies today | BFI in Conversation

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 11d

At times it has a real feeling & tone of the Indiana Jones movies. There's obviously pulp adventure, '30s setting, the villain, the end set piece, etc. Even the more comedic scene at the club. I like to the think the Zeppelin flew in directly from the air scene in Last Crusade (also set in 1938).

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 11d

This is a fantastic hour long watch (or even listen):

Ridley Scott on stage at the BFI, very well hosted and moderated by his son, Luke.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs2I...

YouTube video by BFI

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13d

I would say these are the top four Drew Struzan posters that have followed me around since I first saw them. Each one conjured up so much emotion, excitement and curiosity, transporting me to an unknown, magical place before I'd even seen the film or knew what it was about.

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Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13d

Industrial Light and Magic logo, created by Drew Struzan.

Tim Partridge @timpartridge.bsky.social · 13d

Drew Struzan's poster art was so great, he could make self-pastiche as striking as his original.