RAISING CAIN includes a breathtaking love theme - but I truly fell in love with THE GAMBLE, which includes another gorgeous, sweeping main theme and some wondrous soaring variations on it like in the good old Williams "Flying" mode. Other excellent works from Donaggio include the quite recent UP AT THE VILLA, and older ones like OLTRE LA PORTA and even the quite disturbing but extremely effective score for Nicolas Roeg's DON'T LOOK NOW from 1973.

APPOINTMENT WITH DEATH is surprisingly very "light" when compared to the more "usual" Donaggio style. My other Donaggio favorites naturally include CARRIE, BODY DOUBLE, and DRESSED TO KILL (including some magnificent string writing), and also such lesser-known scores as DÉJĀVU and GOING BANANAS (the latter including yet another extremely beautiful, sweeping Main Theme).

Any other thoughts on Donaggio ---?

KEN

While I love certain themes in CARRIE, there are a few cues that make me cringe.

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Originally posted by dgoldwas:
While I love certain themes in CARRIE, there are a few cues that make me cringe.

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I do agree about those "few cues" - but I believe that those specific cues were ordered in their place by Da Palma, not Donaggio.

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
De Palma - low quality??

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Well, with the exception of CARRIE, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE and THE FURY, I honestly can't say that DaPalma's other movies would be that great...

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
I wasn't that impressed by Carrie myself... but The Fury, Dressed to Kill, Carlito's Way, Blow Out, Mission Impossible, Femme Fatale - all very good and/or great movies.

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I am shocked - SHOCKED! - that you left out one of DePalma's best films ever: THE UNTOUCHABLES.

< Loud exclamations from the forum of taste as that pipe organ suspense music starts up...>

CARRIE is a score I don't listen to much, because I don't much care for the songs and the dialogue cues (and at least one of the score cues, if I remember right, is pure noise).

Away from DePalma: I picked up his GIOVANNI FALCONE score a few weeks ago, and that's not bad either. THE GAMBLE is quite lovely, but my memory is that there are some distracting electronics in there as well. Ditto for COLPO DI CODA (TRUST) which is/was available on Cam.

One other recommendation: UP AT THE VILLA on Varese, which has some of those lush Donaggio orchestrations that recall his DRESSED TO KILL.

So back on dePalma: is there any hope that someone - anyone? Prometheus? Intrada? Varese Club? - can put out BODY DOUBLE? The re-recorded tracks on that Milan disc are fine as far as they go, but that's nowhere near far enough....

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Originally posted by Richard Street:
So back on dePalma: is there any hope that someone - anyone? Prometheus? Intrada? Varese Club? - can put out BODY DOUBLE? The re-recorded tracks on that Milan disc are fine as far as they go, but that's nowhere near far enough....

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"...anyone..."

Here you go, Richard ! http://www.kolumbus.fi/kenneth.sundberg/mlspe_bodyd.html

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I am shocked - SHOCKED! - that you left out one of DePalma's best films ever: THE UNTOUCHABLES.

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THE FURY was the first DePala film I ever saw, it's cheesey but I love it, Kirk Douglas hates this film and wishes he'd never done it?? a shame as I thought his performance was very good and what else can one say about Williams's brilliant score!

Oh, and franz...I too love Morricone's Mission To Mars score

Whatever, I've kind of grown out of both the director and the composer - they made a huge impression on me when I was a teenager, but I find their approaches to film-making and composing just a trifle infantile today. De Palma did some great early films - have you seen HI MOM! starring a young Robert De Niro? And Donaggio did some great work away from De Palma - DON'T LOOK NOW is splendid (I love the way he scored the sex scene between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie with that light guitar and flute theme - very different from the overtly "porno" schtick he would use for subsequent films with scenes of nakedness in them).

KEN<HR size=1></BLOCKQUOTE>

What's the point of that site? Is it just for the owner to show off his collection?
It says, "NOT FOR SALE", so what's the point? You apparently can't buy any of the titles he has there.

If there IS a way to buy them from him......I would really appreciate knowing what the process is.

Ron S.

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What's the point of that site? Is it just for the owner to show off his collection? It says, "NOT FOR SALE", so what's the point? You apparently can't buy any of the titles he has there.

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Ron, I appreciate your ability TO READ and TO UNDERSTAND, because you've understood it perfectly correct: I don't SELL anything from my collection. The main point of that site is indeed for me to show off the special items I continuously produce for my collection. I'm a schizophrenic bastard - but I'm also probably the only person in the Internet who takes responsibility of his every action.

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If there IS a way to buy them from him......I would really appreciate knowing what the process is.

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There ISN'T a way to buy them from me, because I don't SELL them. Period. And as I already said, I'm a schizophrenic bastard, because nowadays I don't like doing trades either - and I should probably take my Music Library completely away from the 'Net (...I'm truly exhausted because of the continuous flow of one-sentence e-mail inquiries of my collection).

As I said, I'm a schizophrenic bastard.

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Ron, I appreciate your ability TO READ and TO UNDERSTAND, because you've understood it perfectly correct: I don't SELL anything from my collection. The main point of that site is indeed for me to show off the special items I continuously produce for my collection. I'm a schizophrenic bastard - but I'm also probably the only person in the Internet who takes responsibility of his every action.

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There ISN'T a way to buy them from me, because I don't SELL them. Period. And as I already said, I'm a schizophrenic bastard, because nowadays I don't like doing trades either - and I should probably take my Music Library completely away from the 'Net (...I'm truly exhausted because of the continuous flow of one-sentence e-mail inquiries of my collection).

As I said, I'm a schizophrenic bastard.

KEN

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Ken!

I don't know about your being an "Schizophrenic Bastard", but I'm sure I'm not the only one here that's damn envious of your collection.

Best,

Is there any hope that someone - anyone? Prometheus? Intrada? Varese Club? - can put out BODY DOUBLE?