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Nov 14, 2018 - 12:15 PM
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DS
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Welles has excellent taste. With Herrmann gone, I'm glad he got around to choosing Legrand. Let's see if this will be the beginning of a wonderful new director/composer relationship.
To seriously address your post, if "The Deep" - which is largely finished and is only lacking most of the audio - or any other uncompleted but mostly filmed Welles project (his "Don Quixote," for instance) receives a similar reconstruction, then I imagine there's a good chance Legrand will be called to score them. No other elaborate Welles recontruction is on the radar that I can tell, though, but one can hope.
Meanwhile, I had no idea previous Legrand music was in "Other Side of the Wind," thank you James for the correction. I feel a tad bit silly now for having read so deeply into the End Title music, but then again maybe that's why it was used - it does feel like the emotional summation of "Wind" (and the coda does feel like a sendoff).
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Nov 14, 2018 - 1:38 PM
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Bond1965
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I suggest everyone read Jon Burlingame's article on Legrand and the scoring of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND.
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/composer-michel-legrand-sent-himself-back-to-70s-to-work-with-orson-welles-on-wind-1203016817/
Everything about “Wind” was unconventional, and the music was no exception, producer Rymsza recalls. “Michel was so passionate about this project,” he says. “He broke the film down into chapters,” like a novel, “and then he wrote nearly two hours of music, wall-to-wall.”
Legrand describes his score as “somewhere between a fugue, a swing-jazz trio, the influence of the Second Viennese School [such 20th-century modernists as Arnold Schoenberg] and a piano duo where one is jazz and the other classical.”
I had heard another record label was going to release the score to this film but I'm not sure if that is still happening.
As it is, the film didn't seem to have a lot of what I would term "dramatic" score and I imagine quite a bit of Legrand's music wasn't used in the final cut.
James
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I suggest everyone read Jon Burlingame's article on Legrand and the scoring of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND.
https://variety.com/2018/music/news/composer-michel-legrand-sent-himself-back-to-70s-to-work-with-orson-welles-on-wind-1203016817/
Everything about “Wind” was unconventional, and the music was no exception, producer Rymsza recalls. “Michel was so passionate about this project,” he says. “He broke the film down into chapters,” like a novel, “and then he wrote nearly two hours of music, wall-to-wall.”
Legrand describes his score as “somewhere between a fugue, a swing-jazz trio, the influence of the Second Viennese School [such 20th-century modernists as Arnold Schoenberg] and a piano duo where one is jazz and the other classical.”
I had heard another record label was going to release the score to this film but I'm not sure if that is still happening.
As it is, the film didn't seem to have a lot of what I would term "dramatic" score and I imagine quite a bit of Legrand's music wasn't used in the final cut.
James
Yeah, 2 cds worth.
MV
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Wow, LLL with more great surprises...
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Netflix is supposed to show this soon.
Hoping its good.
Well it certainly isn't "good" but it is interesting if you get the self-referential aspects; which is practically the whole point of the film.
Nice score.
Brm
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A quick update on this release. It should be out sometime in February and it is now a fully packed 1CD release
MV
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I watched the first half hour of the film on Netflix before I had to take a break. Maybe it was my expectations; I had not expected such a hokey riff on French New Wave, or the 'assembled' nature of the piece. But I aim to finish it at some later point; it's a surprisingly LONG film.
Check out the making of doc.
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Did it turn out in fact to be Legrand's final score, I wonder?
The only other film in the running, per the IMDB, would be the French comedy "J'ai perdu Albert" which opened in France on 12 September 2018. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND opened at the Venice Film Festival on 31 August 2018. I guess it's a toss-up as to which one he finished last. The film prior to those two ("The Guardians") opened a year earlier, in September 2017.
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