INTRADA Announces:
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS
Composed by DENNY ZEITLIN
INTRADA ISC 488
Intrada presents a completely restored and expanded edition of Denny Zeitlin's score to the 1978 version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Zeitlin was an interesting choice to score Invasion, seeing as he had not scored films previously (or after), but his acquaintanceship with director Philip Kaufman led to the assignment. Zeitlin had a unique perspective on the project, and not just as a jazz artist—he was also a trained psychiatrist. While the main character played by Donald Sutherland was originally going to play saxophone with a jazz-styled score to complement, this was eventually abandoned in favor of a "20th-century electronic/acoustic score" for both symphony orchestra and electronics. While adept at jazz and electronics, Zeitlin had never composed for orchestra before. He ultimately composed a score bristling with avant-garde dissonances and effects, as well as a nod to 1950s horror in an alarming four-note “sting” for the pods, and a jazz/blues love theme.
For this new release, Intrada features the expanded program on disc 1, remixed, assembled and mastered from the 8-track session masters by Chris Malone, with Zeitlin's unique presentation of the original LP master on disc 2.
Check out the trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KLoxuEg2-A&t=2sThe film comes at the end of the paranoia genre of films common in the '70s. As the folks of San Francisco sleep, they are one by one replaced by identical aliens—exact duplicates in appearance, but completely lacking personality. Donald Sutherland plays Matthew Bennell, a San Francisco health inspector; Brooke Adams is Elizabeth Driscoll, a co-worker with whom Matthew is falling in love. Oddballs Jeff Goldblum and Veronica Cartwright are Jack and Nancy Bellicec, proprietors of a New Age massage parlor where an alien pod grows into a disgusting double of Jack. Leonard Nimoy plays a trendy psychiatrist, Dr. David Kibner, who at first seems to try to soothe the growing paranoia of Matthew, Elizabeth and the Bellicecs, but who ultimately reveals himself as a ringleader of the invaders—so stoic that it’s hard to tell the difference between pod-possessed Kibner and normal Kibner.
Intrada ISC 488
Retail Price: $30.99
Barcode: 7 20258 54880 1
Starts Shipping 7/19
For track listing and sound samples, visit
https://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.12673/.f
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