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Hotel Room
from "Wild Side" (2000)
By Ryuichi Sakamoto
from UF (Ultimate Films)
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"I became friends with Donald Cammell, the late director of the film Wild Side, in LA around the time I won the Academy Award for The Last Emperor, and I often visited his home up in the mountains. Actually, around that time there was a film project being produced by Marlon Brando, where Donald was set to direct and I was set to do the music, but for some reason the plan quietly fell through afterward. The subject matter was about the relationship between the CIA and drugs. If it had actually happened, I think it would have turned out really interesting, though..."
Ryuichi Sakamoto, from his liner notes for the 2002 compilation "UF"
The Brando film never happened. "Wild Side" was the only film Ryuichi and Cammell finished together, and Donald wasn't there for it. His film was taken from him and recut without his permission, and he took his own life in April 1996. Four years later, editor Frank Mazzola and China Kong, Cammell's widow and co-writer, rebuilt the film he intended, and Ryuichi wrote a new score for it. Of that score, only "Hotel Room" has ever been released.
To mark the first English edition of "Music Sets You Free", published Sept 22nd by HarperVia, Japan Society presents "Music by Ryuichi Sakamoto", two nights of rarely-seen films from his forty years of film scoring.
Donald Cammell's "Wild Side" (Director's Cut) screens Saturday, Sept 12th at 8:30 PM on 35mm.
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