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A fascinating film, full of dread and darkness. I believe both Stamp & Eggar won acting awards for this film, that year at Cannes, but I'm not certain. I loved this score in the film, and as a stand-alone listen it works as well. My favorite cue in the film score is sadly not included in either the album nor the CD release: The End Credits music. This has the films main them played out in gorgeous fashion, as if it were 'leaving winter and into spring', gloriously.
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As a young teenager back in the late 60s this was the Jarre score I first connected with.
Even then I had a tendency for smaller orchestras and moody, disturbing scores, as in The Whisperers, The Fox, and In Cold Blood.
The Collector and Is Paris Burning? and, okay, throw The Damned in there, remain my most played Jarre scores.
Many years ago I stumbled on a thread--may have been on a different site--that just trashed this score, one post after another, as if the world of music had no place for something like The Collector. One of my first indications on the internet how people's opinions could be so varied, vicious, and, uh, just wrong. So, Ron, thank you for posting.
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Ron Pulliam
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As a young teenager back in the late 60s this was the Jarre score I first connected with.
Even then I had a tendency for smaller orchestras and moody, disturbing scores, as in The Whisperers, The Fox, and In Cold Blood.
The Collector and Is Paris Burning? and, okay, throw The Damned in there, remain my most played Jarre scores.
Many years ago I stumbled on a thread--may have been on a different site--that just trashed this score, one post after another, as if the world of music had no place for something like The Collector. One of my first indications on the internet how people's opinions could be so varied, vicious, and, uh, just wrong. So, Ron, thank you for posting.
You are most welcome (a couple of years later). You have excellent musical taste. If you have not seen it, I implore you to seek out "Resurrection" starring Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard and Eve Le Gallienne. It's one of Jarre's best scores, IMO.
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Ron, I have seen Resurrection, though not for many years. I was managing a record store at the time and already knew that there was no album--not an uncommon thing back in the 80s for non-John Williams scored films. And thank you for the compliment regarding my taste and for your posts. That moody stuff from the 60s really stuck with me.
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Just last week I found a mint American stereo copy of 'The Collector' for 7 bucks. As you indicated, a fine, moody score. I've had the CD for years and a mono copy of the vinyl. As with Barry, Goldsmith, E. Bernstein and others including Jarre - I'm a super fan of any of their 60's output. I also think 'Is Paris Burning?' a masterwork - as the recent re-recording so completely reveals.
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