RYUCHI SAKAMOTO ~ "WUTHERING HEIGHTS"

Original released on CD Eastworld TOCT-6691 (Japan, 1992)

OST "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (W. Kilar, 1992)

Original released on CD Columbia CK 53165

(US 1992, November 24)

"Bram Stoker's Dracula" foi um dos primeiros filmes a ser editado em DVD. A junção da atmosfera da inquietante história vampiresca com a eterna história de amor, conseguem criar uma excelente adaptação deste clássico da literatura mundial. A banda-sonora, composta por Wojciech Kilar, cobre todos os aspectos do filme, desde o mais sinistro ao mais romântico. No final, durante a apresentação dos créditos, temos ainda direito a uma brilhante interpretação de Annie Lennox do tema "Love Song For a Vampire".

Come into these arms again

And lay your body down

The rhythm of this trembling heart

Is beating like a drum

It beats for you, it bleeds for you

It knows not how it sounds

For it is the drum of drums

It is the song of songs

Once I had a rarest rose

That ever deigned to bloom

Cruel winter chilled the bud

And stole my flower too soon

Oh loneliness, oh hopelessness

To search the ends of time

For there is in all the world

No greater love than mine

Love, oh love, oh love

Still falls the rain (still falls the rain)

Love, oh love, oh, love

Still falls the night

Love, oh love, oh love
Be mine…

"Cry Baby" OST

Original released on CD MCA MCAD-8038

(US 1990, February 28)

John Waters' "Cry-Baby" goes hand in hand with "Hairspray", and is a musical film that will probably appeal more to Waters' fans than fans of musical cinema. There is nothing original or exciting about the music on the soundtrack, as energetic as it is, and its bizarre nature is probably due to the scenes from the film rather than its own oddities. Waters describes it as "music that proved kids knew how to be bad before sex, drugs, and rock & roll," yet there seems to be little separation between those attributes and the concoction of lust and loudness here. Songs like "Doin' Time for Bein' Young" and "High School Hellcats" are no different from rock & roll, except that they sound like weak imitations of songs from Grease. Waters, the master of imitation and suburban insult, may very well have planned it that way. What might have changed everything would be to have Johnny Depp, who stars as Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker, sing the songs himself. He lip-syncs to the voice of James Intveld. Depp, a surprising actor who never shies away from big-handed tasks, should have supplied his own voice, even if he sounded terrible; isn't Waters one of the greatest living admirers of "terrible"? (Peter Fawthrop in AllMusic)

EP Philips 429 684 BE (HOL., 1959)

DORIS DAY

"Pillow Talk"

Notas: Extended-Play extraído do filme "Pillow Talk / Conversa de Travesseiro", uma das melhores comédias de sempre e sem qualquer dúvida uma das preferidas aqui do Rato, que já perdeu a conta das vezes que com ela se deliciou. O tema "Inspiration" é interpretado pelo Rock Hudson e as restantes três pela Doris Day (na faixa "Roly Poly" ainda intervem Perry Blackwell). Para os fanáticos do filme, como eu, recomenda-se o duplo CD da Bear Family com 87 faixas (!), entre diálogos e diferentes versões dos temas. Os acetatos originais agora finalmente disponíveis, foram oferecidos a Rock Hudson pelo realizador (Michael Gordon) como prenda de aniversário. São estas preciosidades, dirigidas a um público específico e exigente, que as lojas portuguesas infelizmente fazem tábua rasa.