I'm a big fan of movie music (as I'm sure all of you are) and so for some of you who are not aware of this I wanted to alert you to a nifty feature some DVDs contain: Isolated Music Tracks.
This feature is activated by toggling through the language tracks (french, spanish, then the director commentary track, etc.) until you get to the music track.
My favorites include: The Matrix (Don Davis), North By Northwest (B.H.), Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within and Titus (Elliot Goldenthal), Edward Scissorhands and Red Dragon (Elfman), Hollow Man and L.A. Confidential (Goldsmith).
Some of these also contain composer commentary between cues (while the movie runs silently onward until the next cue comes up).
BTW, when The Matrix first came out on DVD and I found out it had this feature, I HAD to buy my first DVD player right then. I STILL love to watch this movie with just the isolated score (better than with the regular full-mix track).
I will add more to the list later (I am out of town as I write this) but feel free to add your favorites here.
Clark
This feature is activated by toggling through the language tracks (french, spanish, then the director commentary track, etc.) until you get to the music track.
My favorites include: The Matrix (Don Davis), North By Northwest (B.H.), Final Fantasy:The Spirits Within and Titus (Elliot Goldenthal), Edward Scissorhands and Red Dragon (Elfman), Hollow Man and L.A. Confidential (Goldsmith).
Some of these also contain composer commentary between cues (while the movie runs silently onward until the next cue comes up).
BTW, when The Matrix first came out on DVD and I found out it had this feature, I HAD to buy my first DVD player right then. I STILL love to watch this movie with just the isolated score (better than with the regular full-mix track).
I will add more to the list later (I am out of town as I write this) but feel free to add your favorites here.
Clark