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Title: A Five Star Score
Review: Who says that they don't write film music like they used to?..The score to "Hoffa"is a throw-back to that golden age,when giants like Waxman,Steiner,Tiomkin,andKorngold routinely turned out marvelously symphonic scores..Kudos to composer David Newman for giving us a taste of what REAL film music sounds like...or should sound like...It would seem that,aside from such artists as John Williams,James Horner and James Newton-Howard,few composers working in film today know how to write grand symphonic soundtrack scores...Maybe it's a budget thing,with producers throwing all of thier extra cash into on-screen pyrotecnics,while cheaping out on the music that may well define thier film,or maybe what we are dealing with is an age that prefers computer generated claptrap to real music...in any event the intricate,lush,thrilling score that David newman has written goes against the grain..which is to say that it is a five star effort in a one star world....
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