Nov 3 movie: The Man with a Movie Camera. This morning I really needed to forget about the fate of western civilization, for at least a little while, and spend time with something beautiful. Luckily I had this movie on the DVR. Just like the first time, I muted the TV and played the score by the Cinematic Orchestra, which I have on CD. I wrote the movie up already, and all I can add now is that it was even better this time because I was better at synching up the soundtrack. Unfortunately, it can't be matched perfectly because they seemed to have shortened some of the tracks on the CD. In a couple of places I had to repeat a track almost all the way through to make the next track start at the right time. Still, the points where the movie and score synched perfectly (the first 20 minutes or so, and the very end) were breathtaking.
I wish the movie was available with this score on DVD. They could have used the DVD commentary track to provide it as an alternate to the regular score (by Alloy Orchestra). Alas, I think the only way is to play the CD and DVD simultaneously like I did, an imperfect match-up, or to see the Cinematic Orchestra perform the score live. Which they may not do again.
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