One of my favourite historical films of all time is Anne of the Thousand days. The acting is phenomenal, the music is incredible, I love the costumes and it's one of those films you can watch over and over again. So delightfully enchanting, despite the tragedy of poor Anne Boleyn. 12:50 , is my favourite piece of music, I end up wanting to hum this over and over again, lol.
The whole of this Oscar nominated score deserves a cd release…the whole score, not the fragments offered on the Decca LP album released in 1970. Legal quibbles prevent it, or so I'm told. So much of the score was devoted to cues between scenes of only seconds in duration, but what cues! Some of the bits here are unfamiliar to me from the film, but they are nice additions. Many thanks for posting.
This is magnificent, and I thank you for sharing it. I saw this movie in high school and have fell under the spell of Anne Boleyn ever since. As one commentator said, it is the WHOLE soundtrack, and not just parts of it, that remain magnificent in the depth and felling it evokes. I find it hard to believe that Genevieve Bujold just seemed to disappear after this movie...she was a brilliant and unbelievably talented young actress who was stunningly beautiful by any standards. She should have rose to stardom in the same degree as Bette Davis, Vivian Leigh, etc. Bujold was total class. Thank you again, homhable!
I agree about Geneviève Bujold being a A-1 actress. I have also wondered why she disappeared. All I know is she stilll lives in California with her husband, they have one son. I miss her. She starred in COMA with Michael Douglas, also OBSESSION a most remarkable movie, a must see.
The composer, the wonderful Georges Delerue, wrote many fine film scores, including A Man for All Seasons, which preceded Anne of the Thousand Days by a couple of years. Please also listen to the Steel Magnolias soundtrack. Luscious, haunting and memorable. Sadly missed.
I think I may have said before, but I will say it again. Thanks for posting this incredibly beautiful and haunting music, one of the best movie scores ever, I honestly believe. Great to see how many other folk love it too. We owe you such thanks, as of course, it is not available to buy on record, tape, cd or itunes. best wishes and thanks.
Georges Delerue was a masterful composer, Oscar-nominated for several film scores in his career (including AOTTD), ultimately winning for his charming music for "A Little Romance" in 1980. It's too bad that this remains one of a handful of his scores not yet available on CD.
Anne was certainly a tragic figure of sorts, but in part by her own making. I'll never understand why some adulate her as they do. Queen Katherine was a devoted and loving wife, the first among many real victims in this "story". Thomas More, Fisher, and others, lost their lives, and England was ripped away from its spiritual heritage because one man would do anything to have a male heir. His daughter Elizabeth dispelled the myth of that being a necessity! I had this album when I was in high school. Really wonderful to hear it again. There's a bit in it (played on modern instruments) that was played on period instruments in the film, I can't remember the name of it. Was used in a scene where Henry and Anne dance together for the first time. The piece really was written by the king.
Weeeellll . . . trouble with having only a female heir, even if she was the greatest ruler in a thousand years of Brit history, is that the social prejudices of the era it impossible for her to bear an heir and stay ruler (imagine what a mess England would have been with any of her potential husbands in control of it). So, though it was a sexist and self-fulfilling prophecy, Henry was right--no male heir, no dynasty.
*Anne Boleyn was a victim as Catherine of Aragon and Thomas More...Anne Boleyn was forced by her own family, by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey and by Henry VIII Tudor himself to become his mistress or his wife...Anne Boleyn only wanted married Henry Percy (her True Love), but Henry VIII Tudor made sure that Anne could not have a happy ending...Anne is almost more of a victim than Catherine of Aragon because she was beheaded, while Catherine died a warm and soft bed of heart cancer and a natural death...Anne Boleyn was innocent of all the accusations made against her...Anne Boleyn was only a pawn of her family and was killed by Henry VIII Tudor simply for not being able to bear him a son...so yes Anne is a victim...you Catholic fans of Catherine of Aragon must stop besmirching the memory of Queen Anne Boleyn!!! 😡*
Hans Thorsen,i agree with your comments about Anne as she went in to marriage as an older woman and fully aware of court politics.I am not sure about Anne's part in the Reformation though,the Church was powerful and wealthy and i would suggest that is one of the main reasons for Henry's break from Rome and the destruction of the Monasteries and taking church land as he,and the country,were almost bankrupt.The music you refer to is a piece that Henry called "my Galliard", music for a type of dance that is apparently composed by him.
This is one of my favorite movie scores. Too bad the composer isn't alive today and still scripting movie scores. I wanted to buy the score, but it's no available. Thanks! The movie was perfect. (Genevieve Bujold should have had Meryl Streep's career. Bulold is a much more natural actress. She would have been superb in SOPHIE'S CHOICE.)
*Poor Anne Boleyn, Catherine of of Aragon, Mary I Tudor and Elizabeth I...Henry VIII Tudor was a monster...I love so much "Anne of the Thousand Days"!!! 😍💖*
Georges delerue was a complete master of his craft Sumptuous music Such a shame most of the american films he wrote for were second rate But here we have one of his best .
Some of his music sounds quite XVI century. So, the only XVI century tune in the movie is the galliard that Henry and Anne dance to. (added here in minute 11:19 performed by Savall, I think)
11:15 I can see music composed by Georges Delerue but what is the name of this piece? Also does anyone know what is the name of the dance that Burton and Bujold dance to this piece in the movie?
Actually, it is reported that Henry was quite fit and trim and a great dancer around the time of the first two wives, and it wasn't until Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleaves when he became so morbidly obese. And the chronic sores on his legs made him stink, too! 😯
Henry took on Muhammed Ali so he had to be fit...it was later he let himself go, I recall after the Brute adverts with Keegan. So I think Burton captured him just right
God's unconditional promise to king David of Israel never to fail a decendant ruling over the house of Israel . Enter Jeremiah the prophets he took the daughter of king zedekiah to Ireland and married her to the king of Ireland from Ireland to Scotland and to England. God's says I will overturn it overturn it overturn it until he comes who's right it is...this is Jesus Christ 🔥
