RTI has released a digital version of the soundtrack album for 1996 Italian horror movie The Stendhal Syndrome (La sindrome di Stendhal) written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi and Luigi Diberti. The album features the film’s original music composed, orchestrated and conducted by Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Mission, Once Upon a Time in the West, Cinema Paradiso, The Hateful Eight). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download on Amazon and most other major digital music services. Image Music & DRG Records have previously released a (now out-of-print) CD version back in 1998 (in Italy) and 1999 (in the U.S.).
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‘Dark Glasses’ (‘Occhiali Neri’) Soundtrack Released
Zend Avesta has released a soundtrack album for Dario Argento’s horror thriller Dark Glasses (Occhiali Neri). The album features the film’s original music composed by Arnaud Rebotini (BPM (Beats Per Minute), Curiosa, Eastern Boys, With the Wind). The soundtrack is now available to stream/download here, where you can also check out the track list and listen to audio samples. A vinyl edition is available to order here. Dark Glasses is written and directed by Argento and stars Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Mario Pirrello, Andrea Gherpelli and Maria Rosaria Russo. The movie follows a prostitute who loses her sight in a car crash as she tries to flee a serial killer and finds an ally in a young boy whose life has also been altered forever by the accident.
Daft Punk to Compose Music for Dario Argento’s ‘Black Glasses’ (‘Occhiali Neri’)
Director Dario Argento (Suspiria, Inferno, Opera, Trauma) revealed in a recent interview with Repubblica (via The Film Stage) that the French electronic music duo Daft Punk are set to compose the music for his upcoming feature Black Glasses (Occhiali Neri). The movie will star Asia Argento and is being described as his return to crime films . No plot details have been announced yet. Argento also co-wrote the screenplay and Luciano Tovoli will serve as the director of photography, Daft Punk have made their scoring debut on 2010’s Tron: Legacy.