Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven [Soundtrack]

two mules for sister sara / days of heaven [soundtrack]

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In the cactus-studded Mexican backcountry of the 1860s, a surly drifter who could easily be mistaken for the Man with No Name becomes protector and lethal helpmate to a red-haired nun wanted by the French for aiding the Juarista revolutionaries. Essentially a two-character showcase for the newly stellar Clint Eastwood and what was beginning to seem the poststellar Shirley MacLaine (subbing for Elizabeth Taylor), this sardonic study in testy collaboration, mutual deception and distrust, and slightly creepy sexual attraction is highly rated by a fairly small number of critics--chiefly, one suspects, for the dual-auteur cachet of having been directed by Don Siegel and based on a story by Budd Boetticher. Others deem it an undersauced spaghetti Western and find that the stars grate on the viewer as well as each other. Cinematography by the great Gabriel Figueroa is some consolation, but... if only Boetticher had been allowed to direct. --Richard T. Jameson

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Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven [Soundtrack]
Once Upon a Time: The Essential Ennio Morricone
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • Excellence!
  • "his domain of film scoring is legendary ~ Ennio Morricone"
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Manufacturer: Silva America
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002V4YTU
Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

  1. Once Upon A Time In The West: Man With The Harmonica
  2. A Fistful Of Dollars
  3. For A Few Dollars More
  4. Days Of Heaven: The Harvest
  5. The Five Man Army
  6. Once Upon A Time In The West: Jill's Theme
  7. The Men From Shiloh
  8. Guns For San Sebastian: Overture
  9. Two Mules For Sister Sara
  10. A Fistful Of Dynamite: Duck, You Sucker
  11. My Name Is Nobody
  12. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: Main Theme
  13. The Good, The Bad And The Ugly: The Ecstasy Of Gold
  14. Cinema Paradiso
  15. Once Upon A Time In America: Deborah's Theme

Tracks:

  1. The Untouchables: Main Theme
  2. The Red Tent
  3. The Sicilian Clan
  4. Exorcist & The Heretic: Regan's Theme
  5. Moses The Lawgiver
  6. In The Line Of Fire
  7. The Thing
  8. Le Professionnel: Chi Mai
  9. Hamlet
  10. 1900: Romanza
  11. Casualties Of War: Elegy For Brown
  12. Marco Polo
  13. The Mission
  14. Gabriel's Oboe
  15. Ave Maria (Guarini)
  16. On Earth As It Is In Heaven
  17. Epilogue: The Falls

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellence!.......2007-04-22

These recordings range back to 1994, with a number of tracks being from Silva Screen's "Music from the Films of Clint Eatwood" compilation, with Derek Wadsworth conducting the City of Prague Philharmonic.

Those tracks are: "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly", "A Fistful of DOllars", "For a Few Dollars More", and "Two Mules for Sister Sara". "In The Line Of Fire' also appeared on that CD, performed electronically by Mark Ayres.


The next bunch of tracks is from Silva Screen's 1996 compilation, "Cinema Paradise: The Classic Film Music of Ennio Morricone", which included the majority of tracks here such as the extensive The Mission Suite, The Untouchables, Casulaties of War, Once Upon a Time In America, 1900, Chi Mai, Marco Polo, Once Upon a Time In The West (two tracks), Cinema Paradise, and The Good the Bad and the Ugly - Ecstacy of Gold, mostly being conducted by Paul Bateman, with Nic Raine doing some of the conducting duties as well.

Hamlet is from Silva's 1997 "Cinema's Classic Romances" compilation, while "The Thing" is from Silva's 2001 "Essential John Carpenter".

A Fistful of Dynamite - Duck You Sucker is from 2002's Way Out West: Essential Western Film Music Collection Volume Two.

The remaing tracks were newly recorded in 2004 for this release:
Days of Heaven, Exorcist II, Guns for San Sebastian, Moses the Lawgiver, My Name is Nobody, The Five Man Army, The Red Tent, The Men From Shiloh and The Sicilian Clan.

Highly recommended.

5 out of 5 stars "his domain of film scoring is legendary ~ Ennio Morricone".......2004-10-07

Silva America once again has outdone themselves with "Once Upon A Time:The Essential Ennio Morricone Film Music Collection", a double disc collection worth their weight in GOLD! ~ Morricone creates visual moods for each film he scores...action, adventure, mystery, romance, sentimental and suspense...the list could go on.

Ennio Morricone was born in Rome on October 11, 1928...attended the Santa Cecilia Conservatory...worked in various jazz bands, later a staff arranger and composer...an orchestrator in the '50s...scored films in the early '60s, then the WESTERNS and his name became a household word in the film industry ~ a new kind of western was on the horizon and Morricone was commissioned to score "A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS" [1964] for Sergio Leone featuring Clint Eastwood, spaghetti westerns were born ~ next "FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE" [1965] ~ and a bigger budget film "THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY" [1966], again featuring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and a third Eli Wallach whose performance was magical to watch on the big screen ~ violence and revenge gives Morricone an opportunity to feature electric guitars, flutes and jew's harp blending with a non lyrical chorus mixed with brass, strings, percussion with full orchestration that simply took your breath away...example is "ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST" [1968], featuring Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards and our hero Charles Bronson the mysterious harmonica player, director Sergio Leone's tribute to the American Western, pulled out all the stops ~ the Western was just a small part of Maestro Morricone's career, in the next paragraph take a gander of just what our icon of film music accomplished.

Our composer didn't stop there as "ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA" [1984], featuring Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern, another Sergio Leone film..."THE MISSION" [1986], featuring Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons and Aldan Quinn, is probably one of Morricone's crowning scores receiving an Academy Award nomination, very haunting and classical genre in substance..."THE UNTOUCHABLES" [1987], featuring Kevin Costner, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro during the Al Capone '30s crime organization, Morricone conjures a powerful and dynamic arrangement of his unmistakable theme..."CINEMA PARADISO" [1988], featuring Phillippe Noiret, Antonella Attili and Pupella Maggio from director Giuseppe Tomatore as he recalls his early childhood, the score immediately captures your heart, so tender and compelling as Morricone can only deliver.

City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra featuring conductors Kenneth Alwyn, Paul Bateman, James Fitzpatrick, Nic Raine, Derek Wadsworth ~ Crouch End Festival Chorus featuring Choir Master David Temple ~ vocals performed by Charlotte Kinder, Marie Kopecka and Jill Washington ~ guitar, percussion and keyboards performed by Gareth Williams ~ all in all did a magnicent job in bringing the music of a composer who wrote for over 250 films, receiving recognition from the industry and fans which was long over-due ~ his work is in constant demand, scoring as many as over a half dozen films as year.

This collection contains an overlay of each cue in Morricone's distinctive style of legendary scoring ~ the man who made this possible, a tremendous asset to every project he undertakes is James Fitzpatrick [producer of the album] ~ symphonic suites with full orchestra fullfilling the "film-score-buffs" cravings for more of the same, just the way we like 'em!

Total Time: 2-CD-Set ~ Silva America 1165 ~ (10/05/2004)
Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Two stars for two stars
  • lame western
  • Favorite Western
  • Days of Heaven - Most beautiful music ever composed
  • Two mules for sister Sara
 Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven

Manufacturer: Intermezzo Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000004AON
Release Date: 1995-12-12

Tracks:

  1. Two Mules For Sister Sara: Main Title
  2. Two Mules For Sister Sara: A Time For Miracles
  3. Two Mules For Sister Sara: Night On The Desert
  4. Two Mules For Sister Sara: Sister Sara's Theme
  5. Two Mules For Sister Sara: The Swinging Rope
  6. Two Mules For Sister Sara: The Braying Mule
  7. Two Mules For Sister Sara: La Cueva
  8. Two Mules For Sister Sara: La Cantina
  9. Two Mules For Sister Sara: The Cool Mule
  10. Two Mules For Sister Sara: The Battle
  11. Two Mules For Sister Sara: Main Title (Reprise)
  12. Days Of Heaven: Harvest
  13. Days Of Heaven: Threshing
  14. Days Of Heaven: Happiness
  15. Days Of Heaven: The Honeymoon
  16. Days Of Heaven: The Return
  17. Days Of Heaven: The Chase
  18. Days Of Heaven: The Fire
  19. Days Of Heaven: Ashes & Dust
  20. Days Of Heaven: Days Of Heaven

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars Two stars for two stars.......2007-07-09

Clint and Shirley are stars, for sure. Other than that, this rather ridiculous story doesn't have a great deal to recommend it. After the first sight of the heavy mascara on Shirley's outsize eyelashes you figure there's something not quite kosher about this nun. This makes the relationship between C & S, as they meander their way about the scenery, shooting bad guys and blowing up bridges, somewhat less than credible: either that, or Clint's being extremely dense. His gasp of surprise as one of the sisters grabs Shirley's mule, I mean donkey, shortly before the climax, pegs him as strangely inexperienced with the other sex. Besides which, ignoring the mascara, who could accept Shirley as a nun for starters? Miscast. Siegel seems to have been a competent director, with at least one outstanding movie to his name, but his direction here is not inspired. Unusually excellent review by the Amazon reviewer.

1 out of 5 stars lame western.......2007-05-22

tough to knock anything the late/capable don siegel helmed... can't say it's his fault, either. film doesn't hold up.
male lead is dull to the point it's painful to watch. the always credible shirley maclaine (particularly in this type of role) does what she can to keep the tale interesting... alas, it is not enough.

even the competant score by gifted Ennio Morricone does not really help matters much.

5 out of 5 stars Favorite Western.......2007-05-15

I love this movie with Clint Eastwood. I can watch this over and over.

5 out of 5 stars Days of Heaven - Most beautiful music ever composed.......2007-04-06

This review refers to the "Days of Heaven" tracks on the CD. Track 12 on wards. Even though as some reviewers had noted, only 25 minutes. But it's 25 minutes of heavenly music. 25 minutes of soothing lyrical tranquility that breezes past your eardrums so fleetingly, but yet so memorable that it remains with you for the rest of your life.

I have been searching for this soundtrack since 1998. Now, my long wait is over ever since I have received this long-begotten CD in my mail yesterday. With excitement I have not felt since I was kid, I quickly inserted the CD into the DVD-ROM drive. Almost by instinct, I chose the title track "Days of Heaven", the last track on the CD; soft strings that starts slowly and it revolves around a familiar tune that repeats itself again and again for 3 minutes, but it doesn't irritate me one bit, unlike 80's wall-to-wall music.

I am aware that this is not the complete soundtrack to the film. It's sad that the tracks are bundled up like a double feature with Two Mules for Sister Sara. I really hope that whoever is holding onto the rights to the soundtrack, would release an official album. This is the least they can do to "The Maestro", considering that he was given a lifetime Oscar. He's the film composer equivalent of Stanley Kubrick. Geniuses in their respective mediums, but never recognised by the Academy. Not that they need it anyway.

4 out of 5 stars Two mules for sister Sara.......2007-03-24

I collect all of Clint's Western movies. This one is a classic, very funny,
and great irony in it. Well worth the money.

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