One from the heart

[clayton]

Ijust picked the re-mastered soundtrack and was wondering if anyone picked the DVD and could comment on it.

[Ken_McAlinden]

I just bought the DVD at lunch today. I will post a review in a day or two if noone else comments.

One piece of information I learned is that this is supposedly the first release of the original theatrical cut, which is a little bit shorter than previous video releases, on video.

How's the soundtrack CD?

Regards,

[clayton]

I Love it, came with a couple of bonus cuts and the sound is good although I'm told I have some hearing loss by my wife so take my endorsement with a grain of salt.

[TSmithPage]

This is the Tom Waits/Crystal Gayle soundtrack we're discussing, right? I was a big fan of this soundtrack and still play the CD on a regular basis. Are you saying the remastered CD includes tracks not available on the first issue of the CD? How does the sound quality compare, i.e., have the levels been boosted/massive decompression applied, or is this remaster an improvement over the original release?

[Ken_McAlinden]

Looking at the track list, I think there are two additional tracks : "Candy Apple Red", and "Once Upon a Town/Empty Pockets"

[clayton]

Correct it's the Waits/Gayle soundtrack, I don't have it in front of me but I seem to recall that it has 2 bonus tracks, I never had the original to compare it to but it doesn't hurt my ears to play it louder and it sound clear.

[JohnG]

I watched the movie the other day on DVD and I think it is a terrible film. Any movie starring Terri Garr and Fredrick Forrest as lovers is just not A Movie material. What was Francis thinking back then?

No wonder the critics ate this up....no wonder Francis pulled it from theaters after a week. The story is just pure fluff....not worthy of even a second of thought.

For this he bankrupted himself? Talk about ego.

It's just painful to me to watch a movie where Terri Garr is doing her schtick for almost 2 hrs. Ouch! Her downward slide after this movie began here. She's a fun comic actress in small roles but not a romantic lead in a big budget movie.

The only good things about the movie was Raul Julia and some of the camera work.

What a crash after the great Apocalypse Now.
Did Francis consume a bad bunch of grapes?

[RDK]

Kinda harsh, I think. Yeah, the film is self-indulgent, but an "artist" often goes where his muse takes him.

For what it's worth, "One From the Heart" is one of my wife's favorite films...

[Ken_McAlinden]

It's just painful to me to watch a movie where Terri Garr is doing her schtick for almost 2 hrs. Ouch! Her downward slide after this movie began here.While I agree that she is normally best in supporting roles, she made "Tootsie" and "Mr. Mom" after this one, and I would peg her downward slide as occuring sometime after that.

[JohnG]

While I agree that she is normally best in supporting roles, she made "Tootsie" and "Mr. Mom" after this one, and I would peg her downward slide as occuring sometime after that.


Yep, she is good in those ditzy comedic roles. But her stardom fell pretty fast after this period.
Again its just hard to believe that Francis bet the farm (literally) on the Leading Lady power of a Terri Garr.
With two better actors maybe One From The Heart could have been salvaged.
Evertime I see Fredrick Forrest I think "tigers! *****in tigers, never get off the boat". I just don't see a Leading Man in a Romantic Picture.

It doomed the movie from get go.

btw**At one time around here in NYC in the 90's, Terri Garr could be seen doing ads on TV promoting Lite FM Radio stations. :agree:

[Ken_McAlinden]

The A/V quality is pretty decent. It is presented in 4:3 and is one of the few major theatrical features from the last four decades that unquestionably was composed that way. The image is a bit grainier than most modern releases, but it looks like real film grain and is consistent with the highly stylized cinematography. Similarly, the 5.1 remix was clearly made with deference to the film's original mix, so they refrained from aggressive directional effects in the rear speakers and other hallmarks of modern soundtracks. The music is well presented and there is occasional LFE oomph where appropriate, but nothing goes overboard.

The extras are wonderful. They consist of a full-length commentary from the always engaging Francis Ford Coppola and a 5.1 music-only track on the first disc, and a cornucopia of audio and video material on the second disc. The featurettes focus on three main things, the grand failed experiment that was Coppola's Zoetrope Studio, the music for the film, and the technological innovations that were attempted with varying degrees of success in the making of the film. What's really impressive is the amount of contemporaneous footage from the film's production that was shot. The featurette on Tom Waits' music consists almost entirely of footage shot in 1981/1982. Some of the other featurettes include the occasional talking head reminiscing, but the bulk of their content is actual documentary footage from the time. This proves to be more interesting (to me, at least) than what you get with most retrospective documentaries on DVD.

For instance, it would be fine to hear Crystal Gayle circa-2004 talk about how Coppola interacted with her and Waits while they were recording the score, but it is even better to see actual footage of the interaction. The vintage footage is not 100% fly-on-the-wall stuff, and includes interviews and other formally staged interactions, but it tends to be a lot more interesting than what usually makes it out in present-day electronic press kit material.

You also get a number of deleted and alternate scenes, a 1982 promotional featurette, rehearsal footage, photo galleries, and a few other goodies.

For those interested in the music, in addition to the featurette on the subject, there are a number of demos and outtakes as well. One of the most interesting for me was a version of "Take Me Home" with a Tom Waits solo vocal. They are all presented as audio-only supplements in 24 bit 48 kHz PCM. Nice touch!

Regards,