NEW FSM CDs: THX 1138 and Home From the Hill
Film Score Monthly's new limited edition CDs feature classic film scores
by Lalo Schifrin and Bronislau Kaper:
Silver
Age Classics: THX 1138
Before Star Wars, before Indiana Jones -- even before
American Grafitti -- there was THX 1138 (1971), the first
film directed by George Lucas. THX 1138 is an imaginative, futuristic
1984/Brave New World-type of story of a dehumanized worker (Robert Duvall)
who breaks free from the shackles of his totalitarian society.
Lalo Schifrin's score for THX 1138 utilizes an eclectic blend
of styles, from Baroque-influenced choral work for the main titles, to
liturgical cues, to brooding strings for the oppressive society, to the
use of Bach's St. Matthew's Passion for the end credits. There are strange,
avant garde sounds for the film's memorable creations -- buzzing organ
for the white-on-white prison and menacing percussion for the robot policemen
-- an evocative love theme for alto flute and harp, and source cues meant
to sound like "drugged-out" Muzak.
FSM's premiere release THX 1138 is a fascinating musical journey
of Schifrin's score and source music, ranging from avant garde soundscapes
to cheeky plays on his Latin jazz of the '60s. The CD includes passages
not heard in the finished film and is entirely in stereo, remixed from
the original Warner Bros. elements.
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Golden
Age Classics: HOME FROM THE HILL
Home From the Hill (1960) is a Southern family drama featuring
a quartet of excellent performances: Robert Mitchum as a powerful Texas
patriarch; Eleanor Parker as his brittle wife; George Hamilton as their
sheltered son; and George Peppard as Mitchum's worldly (but illegitimate)
other son. The film features glossy M-G-M production values on the one
hand, and beautifully handled restraint on the other.
The score to Home From the Hill is one of the masterpieces of
Bronislau Kaper (The Prodigal, Mutiny on the Bounty). Kaper's themes
for Home From the Hill seem as timeless as the land itself and as
belonging as the Southern hospitality of the characters. He weaves through
the film's interconnected maze of relationships, evoking love -- both familial
and romantic -- as well as tension and violence.
FSM's premiere release of Home From the Hill features the complete
underscore including four alternate selections. It is remixed in stereo
from the original 35mm masters, with the exception of five passages recorded
on 17.5mm monaural film at a later scoring session.
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