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| This is a comments thread about FSM CD: Marathon Man/The Parallax View |
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Nearly a year since this was released by FSM.
Quite a blockbuster score.
A most-cherished release. I'd love to see a Criterion edition of Parallax View.
The original DVD is 12 years old and apparently not so easy to come by these days.
right. that's why I snatched up a copy from Blockbuster 's going out of biz sale - $3 bucks!
it's for sale or trade on my Trading Post thread
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Looks like Paramount has reissued the old Parallax View DVD as well as a number of other back catalog films.
http://amzn.com/B00AEFYTMQ
damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Have you heard his score for THE STAR CHAMBER?
It was written in a very similar style.
If you like this double bill you should like that score also.
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Someone commented on the font used on the spine of the "Parallax View" DVD box, and I went on a search for my copy of it but couldn't find it -- with over 4,000 DVDs, some occasionally fall between the cracks, and that one seems to be the latest victim. I mainly wanted to find it to take a listen to some of the music to decide whether or not I should buy this CD. But some of the comments convinced me to put it in my SAE cart, along with a couple of other things. But, as I reported in the "Prancer" discussion, trying to make sure I hadn't already ordered "Prancer" I found a confirming email from SAE that weeks ago I had already ordered the "Marathon Man/Parallax View" CD," so I quickly deleted it from my cart. Hope that when I DO get it that it matches some of the positive comments posted about it earlier in this thread. "The Parallax View" is an excellent, even haunting movie, and it has inspired a number of other films over the years. Anyone remember Stephen King's movie "The Dead Zone" with Martin Sheen as a candidate with evil plans and Christopher Walken determined to stop him? But it all probably started with the wonderful (original!) "The Manchurian Candidate"!
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Who's Babe? Dustin Hoffman?
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Yes, while I remembered that Roy Scheider was his brother "Doc" and Laurence Olivier Szell and William Devane Janeway ("Call me Janey"), I HAD forgotten that Dustin Hoffman's nickname in the movie was "Babe." Many of us now associate "Babe" with a movie about a pig, and, before that, the baseball great, I had temp amnesia about Hoffman's character's nickname in this gripping drama. "Is it SAFE???"
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I wrote about ordering "Marathon Man/The Parallax View" last month from SAE and just received it, along with the DVD for "The Incredible Shrinking Man," the made to order DVD of "The Competition," and the Criterion Collection Blu-ray of Robert Altman's great "Nashville." Will probably put on "Nashville" first! Strike that. I decided to download the "MM/TPV" cd first, and notice that it has some of Jeff Bond's patented insightful notes. Great! And wow -- 49 cues for 79 minutes! Not much room left THERE! Incidentally, I bought it mainly because of composer Michael Small than any memory I may have had of the music in either of those taut dramas.
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Playing this Michael Small double header for the first time in a while and reminded of just what a great album it is. Tense, moody, atmospheric. Can't believe this one didn't sell out long ago....
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As you may have guessed - what with you lot going on about it - I finally got around to watching the DVD again.
The music with the film is just perfect.
On its own, on the CD, its good, I find it evocative of the film, but Im not yet convinced it works so well as an isolated listen. Perhaps I will change my mind after more listens.
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check out my resequencing for a 'good listen' - i agree that as presented on cd it does not work well as an iso listen
bruce
MARATHON MAN
original score by Michael Small
(track numbers are from the FSM cd)
Side One
1. Main Title 3:00
2. Tragedy at the Truck 1:31
10. Love Scene 3:00
4. Bellman and Pram In Hot Pursuit / Out of the Race 1:19
13. Resemble Diamonds / Fountain Appointment 1:48
21. Chase Pt. I 2:08 *
22. Chase Pt. II 0:57
Side Two
11. The Letter 1:00
18. False Rescue 1:12
25. House on the Hill / Approaching Showdown 2:39 Pt. I
28. The Recognition 1:47
29. Szell Escapes 1:25
32. Diamonds of Death 1:17
33. Babe Tosses Gun 1:53
34. End credits 2.00
* two tracks can be nicely combined in to one if you put track 13 before 21; it ends with a drum beat & 22 begins with one making for a nice seque
Bump
Enjoy
Brm
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