Philip Glass scored both the Candyman films, and the music only got a CD release this year because he was apparently ashamed of them, but got a lot of requests and changed his mind. I have some Ifukube classical music and he is quite interesting in that area as well. His 1985 Violin Sonata is actually built around music from _Kaiju Soshingeki_ (Destroy All Monsters), which is not surprising, since most composers do this sort of thing if they write for both genres. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lang Thompson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 10:42 PM Subject: Re: Kurosawa and Godzilla > Well, in an odd way Kurosawa did direct Godzilla. One of the bandits in > "Seven Samurai" was played by Haruo Nakajima who was also Godzilla in most > of the films up to the early 70s. > > I've also heard that composer Akira Ifukube is considered quite the > highbrow in Japan and his work on the Godzilla films is seen as somewhat > mystifying, sort as if Ned Rorem or Milton Babbitt had scored a slasher > film in the US. > > > LT > > ---- > For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html