The Soundtrack recommendation for this month is Jerry Goldsmiths incredible score to Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This was the very first movie made from the TV series: Big, expensive looking and taking plenty of time to get where its going. But that leisurely pace allows those of us who arent looking for a simple good vs. evil shoot em up in space to soak up the incredible imagery and become increasingly engaged in the fascinating mystery at its core. Directed by the superb craftsman Robert Wise, using an idea borrowed from a previous television episode, the impressively expanded narrative looks like nothing wed see on the small screen. The characters are of course familiar, and some of their scenes together have a highly enjoyable nostalgic factor, but their reactions to the threat at hand are compelling and sweep us up until all is revealed in a spectacular and profoundly philosophical conclusion. This epic mystery provides a wide, sprawling canvas for composer Goldsmith to do his thing and he paints it lavishly. From his opening heroic theme, to the excitingly rhythmic Klingon battle, through to the expansive spacial beauty of the Vegur flyover and Spocks walk, Goldsmith repeatedly dazzles and amazes us with his compositional prowess. This is one of the greatest scores composed for a motion picture, and one hell of an underrated motion picture at that: Thought by many to be inferior to the others in the series, but in reality the most mature and sophisticated of the lot. The soundtrack is for those who love big, bold orchestral scores and provides the perfect winning hand to any argument over whether or not movies should have them. The La La Land 3 CD soundtrack set is a limited but definitive release and is currently available from Intrada Records.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 14:46:05 +0000
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