Hooray! I've made a Tarkovskys former AD sandwich! While he's here, perhaps he can tell us if he thinks Natalya Bondarchuk or Natascha McElhone had the better cans.

I think the driving stuff itself was B&W, and the shots of nighttime Tokyo at the end were in color.

Interesting point LRC. I could see that working two ways: either you show too much and blow the mystery or not show enough and have it be too cryptic.

James Cameron
Someone should give him some credit here: he optioned it to remake it himself, Soderbergh came along and told him his ideas for the film, and Cameron decided that Soderbergh would make the better version of Solaris so he sent him off and left him the hell alone to do his thing. Gotta respect that.

Is that Tokyo? Or Osaka? Somebody know?

Bakelite!

Prose
From the description, it does not sound dissimilar to Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, and the 'Chums of Chance' sections also written in the prose style of a 19th-century adventure book.

Obviously intended more for short spurts than extended sessions.
I've been told that a lot too.

Someone fell off of Cliff Robertson?!

I prefer to stand, on account of my impudence, and a lodged butt-plug.

Re inappropriate rock scores: Old man DYM remembers the geek uproar when it was rumored Paul McCartney was going to replace John Williams for "The Empire Strikes Back". I also remember when iPods were made from Bakelite and vulcanized rubber.

The neat trick that Preisner and Kieslowski pulled off for "Bleu" was to create an underscore that functions as a traditional film score, but also serves as an inner monologue for music that Juliet Binoche's character may or may not be composing in her head.

Ooh! Oooh! I can't stop posting! I'm a fucking lunatic!

One person whom I thought should have gotten more gigs was Bruce Boughton. Still have fond memories of the "Silverado" soundtrack.

And further on Horner and my insatiable need to keep posting on this article: there's a cue from "Aliens" I believe was called "Bishop's Countdown" that I swear was used for every third movie trailer throughout the 1990s. The music with the big, repeating Horner metallic and orchestral bell chlunk (or chlank, to coin…

I clearly remember seeing Tom Hanks' "Volunteers" back in the day and burst out laughing in the theatre when a helicopter flew into frame accompanied by a horn burst that was note-for-note identical to the Khan theme from Star Trek II. Ah, James Horner. And I am that much of a dork, laughing at french horns in a…

Did Shire do "2010"? I suppose I could go to IMDB but my typing fingers are busy grieving for Farrah.

Two great Tangerine Dream scores: "Sorcerer" and "Three O'Clock High".

Yep. "The Abyss" score is the thing that gives it any emotional resonance.

Carl Stalling
If you want accessible, I think there's a few CDs out there of Carl Stalling's music for the Warner Bros. cartoons. Great and remarkable stuff, even without the visuals.