SORCERER OUTTAKES
Billy Friedkin’s Sorcerer is probably best known — thanks to Peter Biskind’s Easy Riders, Raging Bulls — as one of the movies whose production excesses helped put the nail in the coffin of the last great Golden Age in American filmmaking. I happen to love the film, especially Tangerine Dream’s haunting original score. Then I came across this post on Subterranean Cinema. Apparently, jazz keyboardist Keith Jarret recorded some music for the movie on an 18th century organ that was never included on the film’s original soundtrack. Thankfully, the folks at Subterranean uploaded an MP3. Enjoy.
Incidentally, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Wages of Fear — the French classic on which Sorcerer was based — was just released on DVD by Criterion. Essential viewing.
For more Tangerine Dream action: Noah Baumbach’s The Squid and the Whale, currently in theaters, pays clever homage to the ’80s with its lifting of the Risky Business theme.
(Thanks Paul.)
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