CHINATOWN Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Music Composed and Conducted by Jerry Goldsmith
It’s one of the greatest film scores of all time! It’s one of the all-time classic soundtrack albums! Chinatown has been remastered and sounds better than ever!
In a legendary performance, three-time Academy Award® winner Jack Nicholson stars as private eye Jake Gittes. Hired by a mysterious woman to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Gittes’ sleuthing brings him into contact with Mulwray’s wife (Academy Award® winner Faye Dunaway), a stunning socialite with secrets of her own. As a determined Gittes delves deeper he soon realizes that even the City of Angels has a dark side. Director Roman Polanski’s Chinatown has evolved from an atmospheric film noir mystery into a modern day classic, with Robert Towne’s Academy Award®-winning script unforgettably and brilliantly capturing a lost era of deceit, corruption and treachery.
Just in time for the film’s glorious debut on Blu-ray DVD, Jerry Goldsmith’s classic Chinatown returns in this definitive presentation after being out of print for over a decade.
CDs expected to begin shipping the week of May 29.
Limited Edition of 3000 copies
Price: $19.98 Catalog #: VCL 0512 1129
1. Love Theme From Chinatown (Main Title) (2:04) 2. Noah Cross (2:31) 3. Easy Living (1:51) (Leo Robin & Ralph Rainger) 4. Jake And Evelyn (2:47) 5. I Can’t Get Started (3:38) (Ira Gershwin & Vernon Duke) Performed by Bunny Berigan & His Orchestra 6. The Last Of Ida (3:01) 7. The Captive (3:11) 8. The Boy On A Horse (2:08) 9. The Way You Look Tonight (2:19) (Dorothy Fields & Jerome Kern) 10. The Wrong Clue (2:35) 11. J.J. Gittes (3:09) 12. Love Theme From Chinatown (End Title) (2:03)
Definitive. I do love hyperbole as much as the next fellow, but definitive, I should think, would mean complete and this is just the same old soundtrack album we've had for years. How much better can it sound? It's a nice release for those who never managed to get it, but the hyperbole is completely unnecessary.
So why isn't this one considered a Varese Encore release?
Maybe because the recording didn't make its first appearance on the Varese label, having been initially released on an ABC LP. The Encore releases all appeared first in the U.S. on Varese.
Definitive. I do love hyperbole as much as the next fellow, but definitive, I should think, would mean complete and this is just the same old soundtrack album we've had for years. How much better can it sound? It's a nice release for those who never managed to get it, but the hyperbole is completely unnecessary.
Agreed, and most disappointing that it is not complete.
So why isn't this one considered a Varese Encore release?
Maybe because the recording didn't make its first appearance on the Varese label, having been initially released on an ABC LP. The Encore releases all appeared first in the U.S. on Varese.
That's true but still, it's first release on CD was from Varese, so I consider this an "encore" release.
Varese works in mysterious ways; I'm still wondering why they didn't expand Elias' Children of the Corn when it got the club treatment and now the same deal with Chinatown. An iconic score, but I'm not sure this'll be the last we'll see of it on cd.
Less than ten minutes is unreleased, IIRC. But it's such a spare score that not a note of it is wasted; a complete edition would have been lovely. But looking at the positive, an all-time classic is back in print on CD for those who want it.
Less than ten minutes is unreleased, IIRC. But it's such a spare score that not a note of it is wasted; a complete edition would have been lovely. But looking at the positive, an all-time classic is back in print on CD for those who want it.
O.K., but if Varese do not care to expand CHINATOWN with less then ten minutes what will they do with John Williams' DRACULA ?
