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| Requiem for a Dream (2000 Film) | 
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| Artists: Clint Mansell, Kronos Quartet
Label: Nonesuch
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy New: $10.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (102 reviews)
Sales Rank: 23492
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Stellar music, average editing. February 28, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The soundtrack to Requiem for a Dream is a masterpiece, unfortunately, very simmilar songs apprear frequently on the cd, some of which are very short, 11 seconds or so. For some this may be fine, but I need more structure.
 Best Film Score February 28, 2002
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the first and only film score i ever bought. Perfect score to compliment a perfect movie. This simply beautiful music. Also if you havent read the book read it now!
Befitting the Book and Movie February 14, 2002
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Never did a soundtrack truly played the movie's theme right. The composer responsible for the music should have understood the movie outright to capture its essence. This was done in a few that I can recall at th4e moment, but the greatest achievement of this union between sound and vision could best be seen in the Godfather.Now though the Godfather's sound was sad, even though we were introduced to the theme while in a wedding, the sound created by Mansell in Requiem for a Dream is best and only described as haunting. It captures you both in the movie and once you pop it in your CD player. From the beginning of the theme to its end, you're just captured into a world other than the one we live in, but incredibly similar. While the movie used a great amount of shock techniques, the music retained its haunting fervor throughout. The use of violens and the mix of synthesizers' beats just proved that opposite do attract at times. If you watch the movie, you would definitely want to buy the soundtrack to remember teh scenes over and over again. If you just buy the soundtrack, you can appreciate true music genius at its best. You just can pinpoint a classification for the sound. It's not new age, and certainly not classic. It's that limbo in between where the best of two worlds can merge and create a soothing rhythm to the soul.
Shattering. January 13, 2002
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby's Requiem For A Dream manages to pull off a rare trifecta in media today: great book, great film, great soundtrack. On the soundtrack, Clint Mansell (formerly of Pop Will Eat Itself) takes centre stage, and he creates the perfect aural companion to a spectacular book and a mindbending movie. It's flat-out amazing.What cinches it is the performance by the formidable auteurs Kronos Quartet. If ever there are a film made that suited Kronos perfectly, it's this. Their combination of subtlety and outright cacophony is both gorgeous and jarring. The Quartet's music meshes perfectly with Mansell's electronic experimentation, and the cd is presented as a suite, with three movements, just like the book and the film. There's the menace below the surface in Summer, the impending doom of Fall, and as for Winter, well, brace youself, and prepare to get a major case of the palm sweats. The last twenty minutes, with its arresting screeches inspired by Bernard Herrmann is some of the most riveting music I have ever heard. Play it loud late at night, and experience some incredibly intense music. And pleasant dreams...
Music is amazing! December 18, 2001
Clint Mansell....PWEI what tops that? This movie and it's soundtrack come close. In my book he ranks right next to Angelo Badalamenti, (who is that you say? go see Lost Highway NOW) Anyways, This movie isn't about drugs, this movie IS drugs. Ok maybe not but it's one of the most profound anti-drug statements I have ever seen. oh yea and the music is really really amazing. Keep an eye on Darren A. (the director) he's reinventing Film Noir every 3 years. The Lynch of the 2000's. easy.
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