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| Requiem for a Dream (2000 Film) | 
 enlarge | Artists: Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (102 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4377
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 79611
UPC: 075597961126
EAN: 0075597961126
ASIN: B00004Y6Q5
Release Date: October 10, 2000
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| Tracks:
| • | Summer: Summer Overture | | • | Summer: Party | | • | Summer: Coney Island Dreaming | | • | Summer: Party | | • | Summer: Chocolate Charms | | • | Summer: Ghosts of Things to Come | | • | Summer: Dreams | | • | Summer: Tense | | • | Summer: Dr. Pill | | • | Summer: High on Life | | • | Summer: Ghosts | | • | Summer: Crimin' and Dealin' | | • | Summer: Hope Overture | | • | Summer: Tense | | • | Summer: Bialy and Lox Conga - Moonrats | | • | Fall: Cleaning Apartment | | • | Fall: Ghosts-Falling | | • | Fall: Dreams | | • | Fall: Arnold | | • | Fall: Marion Barfs | | • | Fall: Supermarket Sweep | | • | Fall: Dreams | | • | Fall: Sara Goldfarb Has Left the Building | | • | Fall: Bugs Got a Devilish Grin Conga | | • | Winter: Winter Overture | | • | Winter: Southern Hospitality | | • | Winter: Fear | | • | Winter: Full Tense | | • | Winter: The Beginning of the End | | • | Winter: Ghosts of a Future Lost | | • | Winter: Meltdown | | • | Winter: Lux Aeterna | | • | Winter: Coney Island Low |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Composer Clint Mansell made his impact as a soundtrack composer known with his production of the Pi soundtrack. On that disc, the former vocalist for UK group Pop Will Eat Itself melded an abstract 20th-century classical sensibility to electronica with great (and eerie) results. On Requiem for a Dream--the follow-up film from Pi director Darren Aronofsky--Mansell repeats his magic. Here, teamed with the Kronos Quartet--one of the world's foremost (and most progressive) string quartets--Mansell fuses big-beat, ambient, and driving chamber music. The result is a mesmerizing aural complement to an already mesmerizing film. Dark, unpredictable, and thoroughly engrossing. --Jason Verlinde
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| Customer Reviews: Read 97 more reviews...
 Ugh... April 17, 2008
After hearing this score, I felt like throwing up. Almost all of it is pointless electronic garbage. One 20-second-long track is actually just three slow, electronic beeps played one after the other. I felt nothing after hearing this soundtrack. The only tracks on this album that are worth listening to are the overtures. But even they are boring; each one uses the same dreary theme over again. It starts to sound like the composer Clint Mansell is on the same drugs that characters in the movie use. Only get this soundtrack if you love techno/electronica music. Clint Mansell's effort to be original for this soundtrack failed horribly. Don't waste your money.
 the stuff dreams are made of February 24, 2008
Greatly orchestrated. This music really brings the emotions and intensity of the film to life. I felt myself getting a little on edge, especially listening to the tracks that corresponded with the intense scenes of the film.
 sucks out your soul: kinda like the movie October 13, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Requiem for a Dream" is perhaps the most depressing American film ever created. I try to search my knowledge for something more depressing, but nothing comes even close.
That said, I don't see how anyone can watch that movie more than once without being a masochist. However, the score here is probably just as addictive and encapsulating as the drugs that destroyed the characters in the movie.
Like many film soundtracks, it consists of a few small snippets of music and a few behomouth 'overtures.' Standouts include "Summer Overture," "The Beginning of the End," "Meltdown" and "Lux Aeterna." But if you look at the album as a whole, the way it's divided, you have three huge movements: Summer, Fall and Winter.
Now, you can certainly pull aside "Summer Overture" and "Lux Aeterna" out and listen to them individually if you want to get a good dose of the haunting violin hook. However, this is an album that in order to fully enjoy, you have to listen to it all at once, or at least by the three divisions. It's the easiest cd to listen to all the way through that I've ever bought.
If you love classical music, scary electronica or want something explore the nether regions of your mind with--;)--this is an excellent album for you!
 WILD AND WIERD May 12, 2007
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
This movie was really a complete mind blowing experience. It should be the poster movie of why not to do herion. Showing what addiction to anything can do and what it will bring you to. Somewhat a love story and very sad for all the characters involed.
"it's showtime!" January 19, 2007
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
perfectly told story about addiction(s) and how people cope with them. it's beautifully sad in every way.
you gott'a love ellen burstyn. she's amazing in this film!
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