I really enjoyed it! There's nothing else like it. I'm glad the producers got Mancini onboard. With all the praise for Hank, I may just get the new Intrada issue.
I really enjoyed it! There's nothing else like it. I'm glad the producers got Mancini onboard. With all the praise for Hank, I may just get the new Intrada issue.
I’m aware of the 4k but it’s not the longer international cut as you said so for me isn’t really worth it then.
I THINK this version has the longest cut that's ever been released (116) min. From what I recall the director's cut was 126ish mins but never shown outside theaters. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Lifeforce-Blu-ray/44295/
Funny, the other day I was watching an episode of KING OF QUEENS where Doug was playing in a football game and they played what I thought was Mancini's LIFEFORCE theme and I was wondering why would they play that, but I just realized it must have been the Spence theme.
If that was the episode where Doug lied, it's Legrand's BRIAN'S SONG.
Funny, the other day I was watching an episode of KING OF QUEENS where Doug was playing in a football game and they played what I thought was Mancini's LIFEFORCE theme and I was wondering why would they play that, but I just realized it must have been the Spence theme.
If that was the episode where Doug lied, it's Legrand's BRIAN'S SONG.
Yes, it was a Spence theme, or at least Music From the NFL.
Can't wait for listening to this never before heard Michael Kamen's ORCHESTRAL music for LIFEFORCE. I always thaught he only delivered synth additional music for the movie. This is a scoop! This Intrada totally unexpected CD release seems to be now my most awaited of theirs....
This is no scoop for me. The orchestral music by Kamen can be heard in the theatrical cut. Just listen to the intro music there. That is pure Kamen if I'm not totally mistaken.
For me, Mancini's acclaimed main theme from Lifeforce never fully delivered after the very promising start because the middle section with the light comedy style music for strings (which is so typical for Mancini) ruins the entire experience for me. I would have rejected it and asked that he came up with a more satisfying solution for that section.
The main title sequence is visually one of the most unexcited things ever put on film - I'm talking about the director's cut. I'm close to call it terrible. Kamen at least brought musically some real mystery feeling during the intro right before the main title sequence begins (speaking of the shorter theatrical version).
I'm impressed by that Michael Kamen clip. I didn't know - and wouldn't have imagined - that any of Kamen's alternate score would've sounded so 1950s/60s, as Yavar pointed out.
Mancini's score is very much in the post-"Star Wars," symphonic, neo-classical 1980s style that was very fashionable when "Lifeforce" was made... but Kamen was apparently asked to write - at least in part - a throwback (even for the '80s) horror score?
I vaguely recall sampling some of Kamen's material from the previous release and feeling indifferent about it, but I don't remember anything even remotely resembling this clip. My understanding has always been that Kamen only had to partially rescore the film because of the new edits, but did Kamen actually re-score *the entire film* from scratch after it was re-cut for the American release? If so, it was ultimately decided that the American cut would be a hybrid score with both Mancini and Kamen material, and mostly Mancini as I recall (but I haven't seen the American cut since the VHS days, so my memory might be foggy there). But I assume Kamen did re-score the entire film and that his score will get its own self-contained album on Intrada's release.
Anyway, I'm excited to learn more about this release!
