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Air Force One would be an amazing release, however I think it's time for a true complete release of The Matrix.
I missed out on the Deluxe Edition years ago, and I know there is material missing from the DE.
It would close the book on Don Davis's iconic music.
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In terms of wish lists:
Marco Beltrami Deluxe Edition Wishlist
I, Robot
Terminator 3
The Omen (2006)
James Horner Deluxe Edition Wishlist
Brainstorm (Complete film cues as well as the re-recording in one package)
Jerry Goldsmith Deluxe Edition Wishlist
Damine: Omen II (if there is more music, or better source for damaged tracks)
The Final Conflict (Similar to Omen 40th Anniversary release)
Air Force One
Small Soldiers
US Marshalls
The Hollow Man
Rudy
Leonard Rosenman Deluxe Edition Wishlist
Robocop 2
Don Davis Deluxe Edition Wishlist
The Matrix (More an Ultimate/Complete edition to accompany the LLL releases of Reloaded and Revolutions)
John Powell Deluxe Edition Wishlist
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Bourne Ultimatum
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Two more Varese-in-perpetuity titles have been Deluxified!
The Haunting was no big surprise, being one of the more requested expanded Goldsmith titles since DeputyRiley's excellent Complete Score Breakdown thread:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=110033&forumID=1&archive=0
But the new Maurice Jarre Deluxe Edition for Almost an Angel came as a complete surprise to me! I completely overlooked Jarre in my original post, and now I am prompted to notice that Varese actually released a number of his other scores from 1989 to 2000, when they were usually getting perpetuity rights. Can anyone who's familiar with the complete scores vs. albums chime in as to whether any others of these are worth expanding?
Enemies: A Love Story
Dead Poets Society / The Year of Living Dangerously
After Dark, My Sweet
Ghost
Jacob's Ladder
Only the Lonely
I Dreamed of Africa
I would also like to note that this Jarre title is (I think) the first Deluxe Edition to come in at only 1000 units -- please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think only Encore reissues have been that limited. I'm really glad Varese is willing to invest the time and money in expanding smaller titles like Almost An Angel. One might think that at only 1000 units, they could be lazy and just do an Encore Edition. Now I have renewed hope for Eidelman's magnum opus Christopher Columbus: The Discovery...and maybe even John Debney's underrated fantastic score to Paulie.
Yavar
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Ghost was released (and reissued) by Milan; from my memory, Dead Poets Society wasn't missing anything except for an unknown David Hynes cue and a harp overdub for "Keating's Triumph", but it would be nice to have a Club release of that, or even an Encore release, since it is OOP.
In my opinion, the score that would benefit the most from a Deluxe Edition is Witness
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http://filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=123653&forumID=1&archive=0
This is worth another bump, because of Varese's Stephen King box they recently announced, which contains two disc (presumably complete) Deluxe Editions of
Dreamcatcher (James Newton Howard) -- their previous album under 40 minutes!
The Stand (W.G. Snuffy Walden) -- previous album was 46.5 minutes
plus
a THREE DISC set of Nicholas Pike's score to The Shining miniseries, previously released not by Varese but by the composer on a 46 minute album
and
a single disc of Tangerine Dream's Firestarter, which may or may not be expanded from the original 41 minute Varese album
Yavar
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I watched "Witness" about a year ago and didn't notice anything much not on the album. Was I asleep?
It's been a while since I saw the film, so I don't remember distinct unreleased cues, but I do remember that the album is missing the dynamic film versions of "The Beginning Of The End" and "The Amish Are Coming"
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Ah. Fair enough. The film remains very good, though I have to say the music felt a little thin now to me. At the time, it felt like a fresh approach, but the freshness is gone, so I found the score this time to be a bit of a distraction.
That film version of "The Amish Are Coming" is just magical, though
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In terms of wish lists:
Damine: Omen II (if there is more music, or better source for damaged tracks)
Apparently no more music (unless there was an outtake/unique alternate left off, but nothing from the film is unreleased), but a better source for the damaged film tracks is something we all hope for! On the other hand, The Final Conflict does have several unreleased cues.
Ghost was released (and reissued) by Milan; from my memory,
Varese released it in America. In fact I believe Robert Townson gave an interview sometime in the past several years where he revealed it was the best selling Varese album of all time, and was responsible for giving them the funds to do many other projects. Milan did reissue it, but perhaps not with the complete score...I wonder if there is any more to release. Has anyone given the film a thorough check?
Dead Poets Society wasn't missing anything except for an unknown David Hynes cue and a harp overdub for "Keating's Triumph", but it would be nice to have a Club release of that, or even an Encore release, since it is OOP.
That's interesting. The score makes such a difference in the film that I guess I forget how brief it really is -- so brief that it had to be filled out with other Jarre music for the CD release. But is Year of Living Dangerously complete on that release?
I of course would like to see more Goldsmith or Goldenthal expanded but there are also the two Ewoks scores by Peter Bernstein, especially the score for the first film. Assuming these two are "in-perpetuity titles"!
I think JTWFan is right on this and Intrada may be our only hope. Besides being Lucasfilm, Varese also only rarely got perpetuity rights in the 80s.
Not sure if Varese has perp rights on Leviathan and Raggedy Man, but I would be happy if they issued them as Encore titles or DE's, as I don't have either of these in any form.
Unclear if Varese has perp rights. Leviathan was released in 1989, the year they started getting those rights as standard practice (but it's never been made clear at what point during that year they began doing that). I hope very much Leviathan gets a Deluxe Edition though, thanks to DeputyRiley's Complete Score Breakdown which reveals a lot of promising music left off the prior release:
http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=110196&archive=0
Raggedy Man is less likely held by them as it was a limited Club release. I wouldn't be totally shocked if Intrada came out with a reissue. Roger watched the film in the past year or so to confirm that there wasn't any unreleased music of note.
Yavar
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Ghost was released (and reissued) by Milan; from my memory,
Varese released it in America. In fact I believe Robert Townson gave an interview sometime in the past several years where he revealed it was the best selling Varese album of all time, and was responsible for giving them the funds to do many other projects. Milan did reissue it, but perhaps not with the complete score...I wonder if there is any more to release. Has anyone given the film a thorough check?
According to soundtrackcollector.com, Milan released it in the U.S. (you can even see the Milan logo on the bottom left of the album cover). The complicated thing about the album is that the tracks are organized into suites comprised of disparate cues, and the titles themselves are vague, making it difficult to determine exactly what's there and what's missing. When the album was expanded with 7 minutes of new material, it was again organized in "suite" form, and the new material was in mono.
Dead Poets Society wasn't missing anything except for an unknown David Hynes cue and a harp overdub for "Keating's Triumph", but it would be nice to have a Club release of that, or even an Encore release, since it is OOP.
That's interesting. The score makes such a difference in the film that I guess I forget how brief it really is -- so brief that it had to be filled out with other Jarre music for the CD release. But is Year of Living Dangerously complete on that release?
I never saw the 1983 film, but it wouldn't surprise me if it wasn't complete. And I misspoke; David Hynes is supposed to be David "Hykes". As brief as Jarre's score was for D.P.S., there may be more music that he composed but wasn't used, and that would warrant a true, separate Deluxe Edition.
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Crossed Goldsmith's Small Soldiers and Williams's The Cowboys off the list! Best Varese batch expansion twofer EVER! (I'm even more over the moon about the Williams than the Goldsmith!)
Yavar
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