The Creature

Carter Burwell – The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Unfairly dissed at the time of its release (1994), The Hudsucker Proxy has gained many supporters over the years but still, in my opinion, has much re-appraising to go through. One aspect of the Coens’ return to screwball comedy that barely anybody mentions is its score. That’s a shame because it is grand and majestic with a compelling compassion for the characters even at their most pathetic. Reportedly loosely based on the “Adagio” and “Phrygia” movements of the ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian, the music swells with proper punctuation throughout Tim Robbins’ crazy climb up the corporate ladder. A few perfect-for-period Duke Ellington numbers make the cut too but the icing on the Coens’ cake musically is the cameo by Peter Gallagher as fictitious crooner Vic Tenneta who briefly steals one nightclub scene with his rendition of “Memories Are Made Of This”.

01. Prologue
02. Norville Suite
03. Waring’s Descent
04. The Hud Sleeps
05. Light Lunch
06. The Wheel Turns
07. The Hula Hoop
08. Useful
09. Walk of Shame
10. Blue Letter
11. A Long Way Down
12. The Chase
13. Norville’s End
14. Epilogue
15. Norville’s Reprise

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Teaser:Tetsuo - The Bullet Man (2009)

Plot: The life of an ordinary American businessman living in Tokyo with his Japanese wife (Akiko Monou) and a three-year-old son changes forever after a sudden tragedy. His extreme anger turns his body metallic to fight at a ultra-fast speed against a mysterious evil in the dynamically-changing city of Tokyo.

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The Wicked City

Chappaqua (1966)

Chappaqua is a cult film written, directed by and starring Conrad Rooks. It is based on Rooks' experiences with drug addiction. It includes cameo appearances by a host of famous names of the 1960s: author William S. Burroughs, guru Swami Satchidananda, beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Moondog, and Ravi Shankar, who co-wrote the score with Philip Glass. Rooks had commissioned jazz artist Ornette Coleman to compose music for the film, but his score, which has become known as the Chappaqua Suite was ultimately not used. Coleman too makes a cameo appearance in the film.

The film briefly depicts its namesake, Chappaqua, New York, a sleepy hamlet in Westchester County, in a few minutes of wintry panoramas. The hamlet is an overt symbol of drug-free, suburban childhood innocence, and is also one of the film's many nods to Native American culture. The northern Westchester area had been heavily inhabited by Native Americans; the word chappaqua itself derives from the Wappinger (a nation of the Algonquin tribe) word for 'laurel swamp'.

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Bill Lee

The Man with the Golden Arm OST (1955)

01. Clark Street (The Hop / Homecoming / Antek's)
02. Zosh
03. Frankie Machine
04. The Fix
05. Molly
06. Breakup (Flight / Louie's / Burlesque)
07. Sunday Morning
08. Desperation
09. Audition
10. The Cure (Withdraw / Cold / Morning)
11. Finale
12. Wild and Crazy
13. Exotica
14. Smooth
15. Just A Little Jazz
16. Nightcap
17. Return Of The Man

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