Afternoon, all -
I don't suppose this is something that Intrada could pick up and put out for us greedy savages on the other side of the counter? (Or Music Box, or Quartet, or Kritzerland, or....?) A proper CD release that is not a part of a twenty-disc set that I don't know that I can shell out for at the moment would be great. I saw the movie last night and while I usually dig Legrand's music, his work on this seemed quite exceptional to my ears. There was a fair bit of jazz trio stuff behind the party scenes, which I suppose will rankle some round these parts, but the noir-y jazzy stuff under the film-within-a-film, which got a lot of space on the soundtrack because of the nature of the thing, was a lot of fun too.
His end title cue knocked me on my backside, though. I don't know what direction Legrand got or from whom, but it plays like a glorious emotional culmination to the forty-odd years of work that it took to get this film done and released. I'm keen to see the film again just to revisit the end credit music, actually. I'm not familiar enough with Legrand's music to recognize if it's a previously existing piece of music, but even if it is I wouldn't mind having it on CD.
Controversial opinion warning: There is also a significant amount of preexisting and source music in the movie that could stand to be represented on a soundtrack CD as well. In particular, there's a very striking gypsy (?) singer over the film's climax that is used to striking effect. They indicated in the Q&A that a lot of their music choices were driven by things Welles wrote down in memos or notes to himself or others, this vocal piece at the end in particular. My music wish list has been whittled down nicely over the years and this is the first time in a good long while that I've added a thing to it — seems like a good sign of something or other, hmm?
) but he appears for a moment in this. The stony expression on Bogdanovich's face as Legrand says that he envisions music from the beginning to the end of the movie had me falling about!