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I haven't had much to time to post lately, but I have to chime in on this one, as Logan's Run stands tall among Goldsmith's extensive sci-fi resume. This is really a textbook case where the score is so much more intelligent than the finished film, blending cold, menacing synth tones with the more lyrical, coplandesque for the exterior scenes outside the dome. This is the kind of cerebral, thoroughly thought out film score I happen to enjoy very much, filled with the usual rythmic and melodic inventiveness Goldsmith was so fond of during the seventies. Goldsmith also opens his main titles with a three note motive that plays as a clever answer to Kubrick's use of Also Sprach Zarathustra in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The fact this extraordinary expanded release hasn't sold out mystifying to me, in this age of limited editions selling out in such short time. Maybe because some collectors felt they didn't need another release, albeit expanded, following earlier incarnations on Bay Cties and Chapter III. But the sound on FSM release is nothing short of revelatory.
Not only has Logan's Run not sold out yet but The Illustrated Man is also still widely available, another jewel in the Goldsmith crown, IMHO.
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