(c) 2009 L. Driver Productions, inc. / Warner Bros. Records, Inc. - A Band Apart / Warner Bros. Records. - EX: Quentin Tarantino.
Along with The Limits of Control, one of the best compilation soundtracks of the year. Like the film, the soundtrack, too, is a meta-commentary of film history.
1. The Green Leaves Of Summer (Dimitri Tiomkin & Paul Francis Webster) pres. Nick Perito (1960), instrumental version of the main title song from The Alamo (1960)
2. The Verdict / Dopo la condanna (Ennio Morricone) pres. Ennio Morricone from La resa dei conti (1966)
3. White Lightning (Main Title) (Charles Bernstein) pres. Charles Bernstein (1973)
4. Slaughter (Billy Preston) pres. Billy Preston (1972)
5. The Surrender / La resa (Ennio Morricone) pres. Ennio Morricone from La resa dei conti (1966)
6. One Silver Dollar / Un dollaro bucato (Gianni Ferrio) pres. The Film Studio Orchestra (1967), from Un dollaro bucato (1965)
7. Davon geht die Welt nicht unter (Bruno Balz & Michael Jary) pres. Zarah Leander, from Die grosse Liebe (1942)
8. L'Homme dans le grand sombrero / The Man With The Big Sombrero (Phil Boutelje & Foster Carling) pres. Samantha Shelton and Michael Andrew, inspired by the original recording by June Havoc in Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
9. Ich wollt, ich wär' ein Huhn (Hans-Fritz Beckmann & Peter Kreuder) pres. Lilian Harvey and Willy Fritsch, from Glückskinder (1936)
10. Main Theme from Dark of the Sun (Jacques Loussier) pres. Jacques Loussier, from The Mercenaries / Dark of the Sun (1968)
11. Cat People (Putting Out The Fire) (David Bowie & Giorgio Moroder) pres. David Bowie (1981), from Cat People (1982)
12. Tiger Tank (Lalo Schifrin) pres. Lalo Schifrin, from Kelly's Heroes (1970)
13. Un amico (Ennio Morricone) pres. Ennio Morricone, from Revolver (1973)
14. Rabbia e tarantella (Ennio Morricone) pres. Ennio Morricone, from Allonsanfan (1974)
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Other Ennio Morricone selections in the motion picture itself: "L’incontro con la figlia" (from Il ritorno di Ringo, 1965), "Il mercenario (ripresa)" (from Il mercenario, 1968), "Algiers November 1, 1954" (with Gillo Pontecorvo; from La battaglia di Algeri, 1966), and "Mystic and Severe" (from Da uomo a uomo, 1967.
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Sunday, September 06, 2009
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo
Naurettavan miehen tragedia / Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man. IT 1981. PC: Fiction Cinematografica, Ladd Company. P: Giovanni Bertolucci. D+SC: Bernardo Bertolucci. DP: Carlo Di Palma - Technicolor. M: Ennio Morricone. LOC: Parma. Starring Ugo Tognazzi (Giovanni Spaggiari), Anouk Aimée (Barbara Spaggiari), Laura Morante (Laura), Victor Cavallo (Adelfo). 116 min. Vintage print with e-subtitles in Finnish by Lena Talvio. Viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki, 3 June 2008. - This print has not been brilliant to begin with, from one intermediate too many, with focus problems. And now the colour has started to fade. - The film can be compared with Kurosawa's High and Low, with the big industrialist as the main figure. The son has been kidnapped, but it is a trick plot of the young radical terrorists with the son's collaboration. - The drama of the Parmese cheese factory facing bankruptcy, the hard challenges also seen from the industrialist's viewpoint. As in Kurosawa's film, he's a self-made man. - A lively Ennio Morricone score. - Autumnal cinematography by Carlo Di Palma.
Thursday, December 04, 1997
U Turn
100478 / 16 / US / 1997 / Stone, Oliver / / thriller
U Turn / U-käännös helvettiin. PC: Phoenix Pictures. A TriStar Pictures release. D: Oliver Stone. SC: John Ridley - based on his novel. DP: Robert Richardson. M: Ennio Morricone. CAST: Sean Penn (Bobby Cooper), Jennifer Lopez (Grace McKenna), Nick Nolte (Jake McKenna). 125’. 1,85. MPAA 35464. Rated R = 17. DIST: Columbia TriStar Egmont Finland. Viewed in Helsinki, VET, Wednesday 3 December 1997. *** Hyperrealistic. High contrast. Offbeat. Hallucinated. Indulging in misleading cuts. Feverish. Uncontrolled. All characters are overblown. There is no normality in it. It impresses at first but gets slowly boring. Oliver Stone has been in fine form, never boring, and Nixon was a masterpiece. This one is an unwitting film noir parody. Might be best on video in 15’ doses.
U Turn / U-käännös helvettiin. PC: Phoenix Pictures. A TriStar Pictures release. D: Oliver Stone. SC: John Ridley - based on his novel. DP: Robert Richardson. M: Ennio Morricone. CAST: Sean Penn (Bobby Cooper), Jennifer Lopez (Grace McKenna), Nick Nolte (Jake McKenna). 125’. 1,85. MPAA 35464. Rated R = 17. DIST: Columbia TriStar Egmont Finland. Viewed in Helsinki, VET, Wednesday 3 December 1997. *** Hyperrealistic. High contrast. Offbeat. Hallucinated. Indulging in misleading cuts. Feverish. Uncontrolled. All characters are overblown. There is no normality in it. It impresses at first but gets slowly boring. Oliver Stone has been in fine form, never boring, and Nixon was a masterpiece. This one is an unwitting film noir parody. Might be best on video in 15’ doses.
Friday, November 21, 1997
La sindrome di Stendhal
V-003391 / 18 / IT / 1996 / Argento, Dario / / thriller
Sindrome di Stendhal, La / The Stendhal Syndrome. PC: Medusa Film. P+D+SC: Dario Argento. DP: Giuseppe Rotunno. FX: Sergio Stivaletti. M: Ennio Morricone. CAST: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Paolo Bonacelli. VHS PAL cropped from 1,85 to 1,33. Dubbed into monotonous English. Time-coded. Long version 113’26” /25 fps/ = 118’10” /24 fps/. (Cf GB release 110’43” at 25 fps.) DIST: Finn Innovation Productions. Big screen video projection viewed in Helsinki, VET, Friday 21 November 1997. Impossible to evaluate: the plot is not the thing, and the probably exquisite visuals could not be appreciated from this VHS copy. Asia Argento is a policewoman tracking down a serial rapist-killer. Visiting Uffizi Gallery and other marvellous sites of art she succumbs to ”the Stendhal syndrome”: a posttraumatic stress reaction with personality changes. (The title has been taken from the novelist, since he was the first one to record it based on his experiences in Florence.) Her persona changes several times, and after eliminating the killer in a gruesome battle she is taken over by the slain monster: ”He is inside me now”.
Sindrome di Stendhal, La / The Stendhal Syndrome. PC: Medusa Film. P+D+SC: Dario Argento. DP: Giuseppe Rotunno. FX: Sergio Stivaletti. M: Ennio Morricone. CAST: Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Paolo Bonacelli. VHS PAL cropped from 1,85 to 1,33. Dubbed into monotonous English. Time-coded. Long version 113’26” /25 fps/ = 118’10” /24 fps/. (Cf GB release 110’43” at 25 fps.) DIST: Finn Innovation Productions. Big screen video projection viewed in Helsinki, VET, Friday 21 November 1997. Impossible to evaluate: the plot is not the thing, and the probably exquisite visuals could not be appreciated from this VHS copy. Asia Argento is a policewoman tracking down a serial rapist-killer. Visiting Uffizi Gallery and other marvellous sites of art she succumbs to ”the Stendhal syndrome”: a posttraumatic stress reaction with personality changes. (The title has been taken from the novelist, since he was the first one to record it based on his experiences in Florence.) Her persona changes several times, and after eliminating the killer in a gruesome battle she is taken over by the slain monster: ”He is inside me now”.
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