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Caught the film this afternoon and really enjoyed it. Maybe it would have benefited from being 15 minutes shorter but overall it's an intriguing, interesting film, beautifully acted and directed. Excellent Thomas Newman score, fairly sparse but always perfectly constructed. I picked up the CD in US a few weeks back and look forward to playing it soon.
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My estimate was 'Rain' came in at about 30 minutes. Score is used so well in this film, none of the wall to wall nonsense. One of the year's best imo.
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I like the music on its own, but it really irritated me in the film. That cue "Rain" really sticks out like a sore thumb to me - why spend so much time reconstructing the cinematography and mise-en-scene of a 1960s spy film if you're just going to layer contemporary electronic Newman music over it? Much of my other issues with the score I blame on Spielberg, as I had the same issues with Newman's music here as I often do with Williams' scores for the director's later day dramas. The director's tendency to take intimate scenes that work just fine on their own and underline them with sentimental patriotic music just feels tacky to me, as though Spielberg doesn't trust the actors to get the point across on their own. And in some instances, as with the last scene on the train, the patriotic music actually steamrolled over the darker ironies suggested by the material. It makes me wonder what the film would have looked and sounded like if the Coens had directed their own script.
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Anyone who prefers listening in chronological order, here you go: 05 Rain (1:21) 07 The Article (1:36) 04 Standing Man (2:11) 03 Ejection Protocol (1:56) 02 Sunlit Silence (4:04) 01 Hall of Trade Unions, Moscow (0:43) 09 Private Citizen (1:35) 11 West Berlin (1:12) 12 FriedrichstraBe Station (1:26) 10 The Impatient Plan (1:35) 06 Lt. Francis Gary Powers (3:04) 08 The Wall (2:14) 13 Glienicke Bridge (10:51) 14 Homecoming (7:46) 15 Bridge of Spies (End Title) (6:57) The OST, incidentally, is complete
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