Feature Film by Douglas Gordon was an art exhibit turned into a book; the book contained a CD of James Conlon conducting the Paris Opera Orchestra; it is the only source for the completeVertigo score, including the little ten-second tinkling when Judy is being remade into Madeline. The book is long out of print... copies occasionally show up on eBay, though.
You've never heard Body Heat? While it presents no great departure for Barry, it is nevertheless one of his most influential scores, the passionate, sultry sound that characterized the noir genre until Jerry Goldsmith's Basic Instinct converted that into cold intelligence.
Of course, the bulk of films and scores that Body Heat influences were the type of direct-to-video erotic thrillers that got shown on Cinemax late at night... Basic Instinct as well, but I don't really consider that film to be so different from that which it engendered while I think that Body Heatis a witty update of Double Indemnity, which brilliantly uses the inherent superficiality of the cinematic medium to create deliberately shallow characters.
You strike me as somebody who would appreciate Barry's original soundtrack recording, which extremely rare, so I've uploaded it for you. While the Varese Sarabande recording has a few extra tracks and better sound (the mix on this was done by John Lasher himself because he didn't want to pay Dan Wallin for a proper one), I think that this is a score that no Barry fan should be without.
Heh... I was listening to Body Heat in the car on the way to work... because of the explosion yesterday, I ended up also listening to Chinatown and most of The Incredibles as well on the way (I finished up the latter on my portable player on the way to my first job - I love "The Incredits!").
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Re: Nice selection!!!
Date: 2007-07-19 09:16 pm (UTC)You've never heard Body Heat? While it presents no great departure for Barry, it is nevertheless one of his most influential scores, the passionate, sultry sound that characterized the noir genre until Jerry Goldsmith's Basic Instinct converted that into cold intelligence.
Of course, the bulk of films and scores that Body Heat influences were the type of direct-to-video erotic thrillers that got shown on Cinemax late at night... Basic Instinct as well, but I don't really consider that film to be so different from that which it engendered while I think that Body Heatis a witty update of Double Indemnity, which brilliantly uses the inherent superficiality of the cinematic medium to create deliberately shallow characters.
You strike me as somebody who would appreciate Barry's original soundtrack recording, which extremely rare, so I've uploaded it for you. While the Varese Sarabande recording has a few extra tracks and better sound (the mix on this was done by John Lasher himself because he didn't want to pay Dan Wallin for a proper one), I think that this is a score that no Barry fan should be without.
Heh... I was listening to Body Heat in the car on the way to work... because of the explosion yesterday, I ended up also listening to Chinatown and most of The Incredibles as well on the way (I finished up the latter on my portable player on the way to my first job - I love "The Incredits!").