Anya ,'Bring On The Night'
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What's the name of the book it's in (the Ellroy story)?
I think I read it in Hollywood Nocturnes, but he's also got a collection titled Dick Contino's Blues and Other Stories.
Brief synopsis: Dick Contino, a 50s accordion player, a star in the making, is destroyed by a draft-dodging scandal. His life is on the skids until he comes up with the idea of resurrecting his career with a fake kidnapping scam. Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.
Leo was great in Catch Me If You Can. And honestly, I think he was really good in Titanic, too, but so many people hate that movie, just because of the sheer size of it, and the dominance it had. Which is kind of sad, but oh well.
Meanwhile a serial killer is on the loose.
Aren't they always?
Aren't they always?
Those slippery bastards.
I liked Titanic. I like spectacles. So there.
Actually, this reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask, which is:
The only instrumental soundtrack I've ever noticed and liked enough to buy is the one for Requiem for a Dream. Is there anything similar out there?
But what do glasses have to do with Titanic?
Oh, wait, you meant Spectacular Spectacles. Never mind...
From AMG:
Darren Aronofsky's second film Requiem for a Dream features a score from his Pi collaborator, former Pop Will Eat Itself vocalist/guitarist Clint Mansell. This time, Mansell blends his usual electronic/industrial leanings with brooding, evocative performances from the Kronos Quartet. As with Pi, Mansell's compositions play a large part in Requiem for a Dream, which is an adaptation of Hubert Selby's 1978 novel about the harrowing lives of four drug addicts. Impressively, Mansell's score manages to be appropriately dark and disturbing, as well as compulsively listenable. by Heather Phares
So. Try the soundtrack for Pi. Or maybe something by Pop Will Eat Itself. Or possibly something by Kronos Quartet (though they vary quite a bit from album to album depending obviously on the composer).
But what do glasses have to do with Titanic?
Hee. I came this close to posting something very similar.
I heard bits of Howard Shore's score for Naked Lunch, and was pretty impressed by its jazzy, quirky style. I might end up getting it from Amazon.
I have the three LotR soundtracks, as well as the one from Pirates of the Caribbean, which I don't listen to that much since it's pretty repetitive around the same theme that gets old really fast, and also the rerecorded soundtrack for To Kill a Mockingbird, which was directed by Elmer Bernstein back in 1996 and is more complete than the original release from forty years ago. That one is still one of my favorite scores, and I highly recommend buying it.