Sorry but we need to come back to that unnecessary remake shot by Gus Van Sant on Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece.
Thing is that the end credits of the movie features a piece called "Weepy Donuts" not by Elfman this time but Bill Frisell and Wayne Horvitz doing some improvisation on Bernard Herrmann's themes.
For me this cue was the top of that film and I've wanted to own it but it looks like it's unavailable (wasn't even on the soundtrack cd album). Does anyone know if this song is officially released?
But in the context of the "Psycho" track, to my understanding (and I may be corrected) it's never been commercially released.
I happened upon this knowing there was no commercially available recording of Frisell and Wayne Horvitz's incredibly wonderful "Weepy Donuts" theme for the end titles of Van Sant's 1999 film Psycho - http://dougpayne.blogspot.com/2009/03/frisell-frazell.html
That end title is my favourite aspect of the re-score. Very lovely and completely faithful to the spirit of Herrmann's music. Then again I'm a bit of a sucker for "out there" ambient guitars.
I had heard from a fellow Herrmann fanatic and a former FSM scribe Shane Pitkin that this was recorded many years ago prior to its usage in the film. Its a really cool piece. Of course, the entire score recording as conducted by Bartek is outstanding. Somebody should re-issue this entire full recording as both the performances and recording are just about fantastic.
I revisited this remake on blu-ray recently after having seen the original shortly before, and as a reference piece it's a funny movie. On its own, it completely falls flat and I wish they'd used an original score and not re-used the Herrmann. Updating all the rest (dialogue, characters, setting, period, color, ...) but keeping the score the same was a mistake. Especially after Psycho IV had used it to much better result.
