I'd like to buy the Chinatown soundtrack but ideally I'd like a complete version. I know that it contains the meat of the score... but I'd still like the complete version.
I was hoping a release would arrive eventually, but then Varese re-issued the original album in 2012. It's now 2015 and I'm thinking that an expansion isn't coming, possibly because the difficulties of getting a licence to release a complete version are not worth the effort (or the expense), which is fair enough.
Annoyingly it's not available on iTunes UK (where I am) but the US store has it for a measly $5.99!
So it looks like I'll be spending $26 for the Varese reissue (16 +$10 shipping)... or do I hang on and hope for that elusive expansion?
I don't know. But I heard Townson speak shortly after the club release at a Q&A at the Krakow festival saying how he didn't want to do an expansion. He mentioned Total Recall, which he did do a deluxe version of (and Goldsmith was supportive on that), but in the case of Chinatown he was very adamant in sticking with the album program.
I don't know. But I heard Townson speak shortly after the club release at a Q&A at the Krakow festival saying how he didn't want to do an expansion. He mentioned Total Recall, which he did do a deluxe version of (and Goldsmith was supportive on that), but in the case of Chinatown he was very adamant in sticking with the album program.
I am curious, does anyone here know if Roman Polanski has ever mentioned Goldsmith and the Chinatown score? If I remember correctly he wasn't even there when Goldsmith scored the film.
I'm just curious if he has praised Goldsmith's effort?
I am curious, does anyone here know if Roman Polanski has ever mentioned Goldsmith and the Chinatown score? If I remember correctly he wasn't even there when Goldsmith scored the film.
I'm just curious if he has praised Goldsmith's effort?
No but your post reminds me of JG talking about his conversation with Polanski on Chinatown at his last Barbican concert. Suffice to say it was nothing about the score.
I am curious, does anyone here know if Roman Polanski has ever mentioned Goldsmith and the Chinatown score? If I remember correctly he wasn't even there when Goldsmith scored the film.
I'm just curious if he has praised Goldsmith's effort?
In Polanski's autobiography ("Roman, by Polanski") he speaks of his disappointment with Phillip Lambro's score, but only mentions that Goldsmith provided a replacement "in record time".
