Technicolor
09-02-08, 11:55 PM
Well... I was watching the DVD of Kazan's A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and, somehow, halfway through it I got myself thinking "won't these actors please shut up and let me just enjoy the music!?!?" :p
No, of course I did not think that. :) Brando and Leigh are fine... but the music in those old classic films sometimes is so fabulous that I wish MORE DVDs of classic films were released with a "music-only" track. I do not mind if it is just a beautiful and simple mono (or stereo) sound. Anyone who loves Alex North's beautiful music for THE MISFITS will not be offended by the absence of the THX or DTS and will just rejoice with the option of listening to David Amram's great score for THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, Raksin's LAURA, Waxman's REAR WINDOW... or that beautiful music we hear in the middle of Matt Dillon's first film OVER THE EDGE, when boy and girl say goodbye at dawn.
Some DVDs like THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL actually do come with a music-only track... and it is amazing (thank you, Warner, thank you!). Criterion also did it for REBECCA (it's Criterion, of course!). But these titles are just two of a handful classic DVDs released with a music-only track... and it is sad because there are many, many masterpieces out there that are simply unavailable.
My example: I dream of REAR WINDOW, BULLIT and that beautiful Bernie Leighton version of "Bilbao Song" we can hear on Woddy Allen's ANOTHER WOMAN).
I know you can SOMETIMES buy the CD soundtrack... but most classic films were not released on a full CD and many that did only have a thin slice of the full cake. And some do not have the same version we hear in the film... and some even dare to have the tracks mixed in stupid medleys. Uh...
Quoting 3-6 Mafia: "it is hard out here for a classic soundtrack lover". :p
...Now that Blu-ray is here why won't the studios give us alternative music-only tracks for those classic films? BULLIT is a great example. Not available on CD (the CDs we find are all rerecordings... and the great music we hear at the opening sequence is nowehere to be found in its full length).
Sony will be releasing LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on Blu-ray soon, right? Did anybody remember to include a music-only track?
Why is this element so overlooked? :)
Thanks!
No, of course I did not think that. :) Brando and Leigh are fine... but the music in those old classic films sometimes is so fabulous that I wish MORE DVDs of classic films were released with a "music-only" track. I do not mind if it is just a beautiful and simple mono (or stereo) sound. Anyone who loves Alex North's beautiful music for THE MISFITS will not be offended by the absence of the THX or DTS and will just rejoice with the option of listening to David Amram's great score for THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, Raksin's LAURA, Waxman's REAR WINDOW... or that beautiful music we hear in the middle of Matt Dillon's first film OVER THE EDGE, when boy and girl say goodbye at dawn.
Some DVDs like THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL actually do come with a music-only track... and it is amazing (thank you, Warner, thank you!). Criterion also did it for REBECCA (it's Criterion, of course!). But these titles are just two of a handful classic DVDs released with a music-only track... and it is sad because there are many, many masterpieces out there that are simply unavailable.
My example: I dream of REAR WINDOW, BULLIT and that beautiful Bernie Leighton version of "Bilbao Song" we can hear on Woddy Allen's ANOTHER WOMAN).
I know you can SOMETIMES buy the CD soundtrack... but most classic films were not released on a full CD and many that did only have a thin slice of the full cake. And some do not have the same version we hear in the film... and some even dare to have the tracks mixed in stupid medleys. Uh...
Quoting 3-6 Mafia: "it is hard out here for a classic soundtrack lover". :p
...Now that Blu-ray is here why won't the studios give us alternative music-only tracks for those classic films? BULLIT is a great example. Not available on CD (the CDs we find are all rerecordings... and the great music we hear at the opening sequence is nowehere to be found in its full length).
Sony will be releasing LAWRENCE OF ARABIA on Blu-ray soon, right? Did anybody remember to include a music-only track?
Why is this element so overlooked? :)
Thanks!