Spore Hero <\/a><\/strong>(EA Games), Winifred Phillips\u2019 latest video game soundtrack. This time it\u2019s for the new Nintendo Wii game, and it\u2019s an hour-long series of lengthy, meaty themes and clever variations. Solid narrative, and another album by a composer to keep watching for (and listening to)<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/i917.photobucket.com\/albums\/ad14\/wegeewegee\/EdgeOfDarkness1985_R1.gif\")
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In terms of DVD news, a long while ago I snapped up the Region 2 BBC release of Edge of Darkness<\/strong> (1985), the British mini-series that really gave Martin Campbell his big career break. The series has been remade for American theatrical audiences with Campbell in the director\u2019s chair, and while it\u2019s easy to say this film version slated for 2010 is NOT NECESSARY, perhaps it\u2019ll please audiences hesitant to try out the long mini-series, or have them check it out beforehand (which you should do).<\/p>\nThat said, while I\u2019ll have a review of the series up next week (along with Campbell\u2019s early nudie-roughie-silly Brit sexploitation film from the seventies), I will confirm that the Region 1 release out this week is a literally NTSC-PAL conversion of the same Region 2 master, and it includes the same featurettes, vintage interviews and isolated score by Eric Clapton and the late, great Michael Kamen.<\/p>\n
Clapton\u2019s forays into film and TV are few, but this was one of his best because of a damned soulful guitar theme which nailed a father\u2019s heartache in losing his daughter, his horror in finding she was pawn in a murderous plot, and trying to make sense of the madness when madness itself is mucking up his own sanity. Big themes nicely delivered in a riveting 3-part mini-series (and a heroine that\u2019s much more sympathetic than the vague, forgettable variation in the film version of The Constant Gardener<\/strong>).<\/p>\nAlso new this week is Criterion\u2019s DVD and Blu-ray releases of Wim Wenders\u2019 Wings of Desire <\/strong>(1987), with a new commentary track, and a second disc of extras I\u2019ll have reviewed in time for next week\u2019s 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall\u2019s demise.<\/p>\nAnd just because variation is important, coming next are two Tinto Brass features from Cult Epics \u2013 Nerosubianco<\/strong> \/ Attraction<\/strong> (1969), and L\u2019urlo<\/strong> \/ The Howl<\/strong> (1970) \u2013 two films one can regard as the director\u2019s last and very sincere editorial experiments in pop art and political\/social\/sexual satire before he lost his mind and went popo-crazy.<\/p>\nIn 1969, there was the group of European provocateurs Fernando Arrabal, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and Du\u0161an Makavejev\u2026 and Tinto Brass, and I\u2019ll explain why, without losing my soul.<\/p>\n
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