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King Kong Vs Godzilla (Original Motion Picture Score)
Akira Ifukube's score to the legendary 1962 monster movie King Kong vs. Godzilla. Ifukube's visionary music is tense and violent, a perfect complement to Ishirō Honda's film. This incredible score alternates between brass and strings as you witness the death and destruction that comes in the wake of these two classic film monsters' battles.
Godzilla
"Akira Ifukube's mighty score to the legendary monster movie that started it all, 'Godzilla'! Ifukube's visionary music is super dark reflecting the horror of Ishiro Honda's film. This incredible score music alternates between brass and strings as we witness the death and destruction that comes in Godzilla's wake."
L'Avventura
Doxy Cinematic present the score for L'Avventura (1960), composed by Michelangelo Antonioni's longtime collaborator, Giovanni Fusco. Starring Monica Vitti, presents a great thematic variety with a memorable main theme, swing tunes, dramatic love themes and some funky tracks. Extra tracks and alternate versions included. Edition of 500.
The Hustler
The Hustler (1961) was the first truly iconic film of Paul Newman's career. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards: Best Picture, Actor, Actress, Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction and two for Best Supporting Actor. The beautiful jazz score, finally re-released on vinyl, is by the composer Kenyon Hopkins (Baby Doll, 12 Angry Men, The Fugitive Kind).
A great and much-underrated composer of jazz-inflected film scores and musical portraits, Hopkins worked in television begi…
Smog
The long-forgotten soundtrack to a hip early 1960s Italian cult movie, with music by Piero Umiliani and the legendary Chet Baker. Helen Merrill's vocal theme is just outstanding, rarely bettered -- the jazz is playful, mysterious and charming. This is just inspired and incredible music. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Il Gattopardo (The Leopard)
The Nino Rota soundtrack to Luchino Visconti's 1963 masterpiece Il Gattopardo ("The Leopard") adds immeasurably to that film's grandeur. The music is very classical in style, almost as though it were written during the era the film is set -- Sicily, 1860.
Memorable and incomparable is the closing sequence, when Burt Lancaster's Prince Fabrizio recognizes that his way of life is disappearing before his eyes. Limited edition of 500 copies.
Eva
Doxy present Michel Legrand's original soundtrack for Eva, directed by Joseph Losey and released in 1962. Michel Legrand, the so-called Mozart of the new wave cinema, was made fully aware that he was actually the director's second choice for Eva's soundtrack. Joseph Losey originally wanted Miles Davis for the project. But Legrand's beautifully constructed jazz score serves as a perfect complement to the charismatic images of the film's Venetian setting. The main character's love of jazz music …
L'Eclisse
Doxy Cinematic present for the first time on vinyl, the complete score for the legendary movie L'Eclisse (1962), composed by Michelangelo Antonioni's longtime collaborator, Giovanni Fusco. Starring Monica Vitti and Alain Delon, this is a collection of disturbing and dissonant tunes that mirror the dark mood of the Antonioni's masterpiece. Includes "Eclisse Twist" by the great Italian singer, Mina. Edition of 500.
Jules et Jim/Tirez sur le pianiste
The fruitful and long working relationship between the legendary director François Truffaut and composer Georges Deleruecovered 23 years and 11 films, beginning with Tirez sur le pianiste (Shoot the Piano Player) (1960). In this compilation, two of the most famous scores of "the Mozart of the Nouvelle Vague" are reunited in a precious LP. From the melancholic tunes of Jules et Jim (1962) to the vibrant piano of Tirez sur le pianiste, you can find here all the colors of Truffaut's cinema. First p…
La Notte
Michelangelo Antonioni's 1961 masterpiece La Notte is an atmospheric and enthralling movie starring the great Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau and Monica Vitti and is the second entry in his famous "alienation trilogy" the central film of a trilogy beginning with L'Avventura (1960) and ending withL'Eclisse (1962). Antonioni's composer-of-choice for the first and the third movies was Giovanni Fusco, however, since La Notte was shot in Milan, Antonioni's initial idea was to hire a native compos…
Les Statues Meurent Aussi
Les Statues Meurent Aussi (1953) is a 30 minute short film with a very complicated history of censorship that at one time elevated it to a somewhat mythical status and which prevented it from being brought into the wider public eye until some 16 years after it was completed. The Alain Resnais and Chris Marker's film exhibits a series of sculptures, masks and other traditional art from Sub-Saharan Africa projecting a passionately anti-colonial, anti-racist, even anti-capitalist message in a stunn…
Music For Soviet Films
"Shostakovich's involvement with the cinema dates to his youth in Leningrad. Shostakovich composed his first screen score in 1929, three years after his swift rise to fame with his startling 'First Symphony', and the same year he began the Age of Gold ballet. The film was The New Babylon, a writer-director collaboration by Shklovski and Trauberg -- Michurin began in 1946, after the end of World War 2. By then, Shostakovich had achieved a formidable reputation as composer all over the world.…
Shadows
For the first time on vinyl, Charles Mingus's great score for the legendary 1959 directorial debut of John Cassavetes, Shadows. Much has been said about the controversial relationship between these two masters. "The score encapsulates Cassavetes' and Mingus's unique approaches to both improvisation and composition in their respective media, illuminating the oppositional nature of jazz to mainstream cultural production and the underbelly of race relations in 1950's America" --Ross Lipman, "Mi…
La Musique dans le Film d'Alain Resnais
This unedited collection of soundtracks to the films of Alain Resnais explores the legendary French director's relationships with some of the greatest composers of the era: Georges Delerue (whom Le Figaro dubbed "the Mozart of cinema"), Giovanni Fusco (known for his work with Michelangelo Antonioni), Francis Seyrig, and the great Hans Werner Henze. A film director of insatiable curiosity and a man rightly considered as a musician among filmmakers, Resnais worked with composers of widely differ…
Le Mepris / Il Disprezzo
For the first time togheter in a double LP, audiophile quality 45rpm, the two versions of Godard’s masterpiece soundtrack: the solemn and powerful french version composed by Georges Delerue, the Mozart of French Cinema, and the exotic jazzy version of the great Piero Piccioni.