Author: Various Artists

Brand: WEA

Format: Soundtrack

Release Date: 11-12-2001

Details: Product Description Out of print in the U.S.! Original soundtrack to the 2001 motion picture directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz. In Vanilla Sky, young, handsome and wealthy publishing tycoon David Aames can have anything his heart desires. Still, David's charmed life seems incomplete. One night, David meets the woman of his dreams and believes he may have found the missing piece. But an encounter with an ex-jealous lover sends David's world out of control. The soundtrack features tracks from Paul McCartney, R.E.M., Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Red House Painters, The Monkees and many others. Warner. Amazon.ca Given his status as America's top male sex symbol, there's a perverse irony to Tom Cruise's virtually simmer-free performance in this would-be erotic thriller, Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's remake of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's Abre los Ojos ("Open Your Eyes"). But ifCrowe stops just short of delivering another undercooked Tom turkey, his vaunted early years as boy-wonder rock writer--and the help of frequent collaborator Danny Bramson--informs the film with an exceptionally rich and eclectic pop-musicscore that leans heavily on unreconstructed psychedelia. Such was the Crowe-Bramson reputation that they secured original songs by no less than REM (the janglypop of "All the Right Friends") and Paul McCartney (a playfully obtuse title track that would otherwise be a stand-out on any modern Mac album), wrapping them in one sublime surprise, original and otherwise: Sigur Rós's hypnotic "Svefn-g-englar"; the gorgeous languor of "Have You Forgotten" by Red House Painters; star Cameron Diaz debuting as a singer (under the name Julianna Gianni) with Crowe and wife/film scorer/Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson in Wilson's equally dreamy "I Fall Apart"; the Monkees' psychedelic "Porpoise Song", Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place" and Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye". Constructed as the playlist of some strangely liberated FM broadcast that never was, this soundtrackis also a collection that proves that the best part of any turkey may well be the stuffing--sonic or otherwise.-- Jerry McCulley

UPC: 093624810926

EAN: 0093624810926

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood