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

Ennio Morricone | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 12, 1995)
• Original Release Date: June 16, 1970
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Intermezzo Media
• ASIN: B000004AON
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #216,761 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Titoli Di Testa (Main Title)

2. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Tempo Di Miracoli (A Time for Miracles)

3. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Notte Nel Deserto (Night on the Desert)

4. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Tema Di Sorella Sara (Sister Sara's Theme)

5. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Corda Oscillante (the Swinging Rope)

6. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Il Mulo Ragliante (the Braying Mule)

7. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Cueva (la Cueva)

8. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Cantina (la Cantina)

9. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Il Mulo Indifferente (the Cool Mule)

10. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Battaglia (the Battle)

11. Two Mules For Sister Sara, film score: Titoli Di Coda (Reprise) [Main Title (Reprise)]

12. Days of Heaven, film score: Raccolto (Harvest)

13. Days of Heaven, film score: Trebbiatura (Threshing)

14. Days of Heaven, film score: Felicità (Happiness)

15. Days of Heaven, film score: Luna Di Miele (the Honeymoon)

16. Days of Heaven, film score: Il Ritorno (the Return)

17. Days of Heaven, film score: Caccia (the Chase)

18. Days of Heaven, film score: Il Fuoco (the Fire)

19. Days of Heaven, film score: Ceneri E Polvere (Ashes and Dust)

20. Days of Heaven, film score: I Giorni del Cielo (Days of Heaven)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A mixture, July 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven (Audio CD)

'Days of Heaven' has one of Morricones most haunting soundtracks which complements the movie's vast visual presence and doom ridden narrative. Its combination with a lightweight western comedy sountrack on this CD soundtrack is incongruous - thank goodness for programmable CD players!

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars TWO FOR THE PRICE OF ONE, August 17, 2000

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Mark Eakes (Lompoc, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven (Audio CD)

DAYS OF HEAVEN was once a film without a released soundtrack though many fans had begged for one. Finally one was released and it was nominated for a Grammy Award to boot. This is a very different Morricone than most people will encouter if all they've heard is his music for the spaghetti westerns. It has a haunting, nostalgic feel to it, and goes for lighter orchestrations than the usual Morricone score. He doesn't always score the most obvious scenes and that makes for a different feel to the picture, but when he does score a scene, you do not forget the images it accompanies. A brief note, the CD contins a cue that is not in the film, and a couple pieces from the CD are shortened in the film, especially THRESHING, one of my favorite cues.

As to TWO MULES FOR SISTER SARA. I did not think it was a lightweight incongruous western. It fit right in with Eastwood's DOLLAR films, though it's more American due to the director DON SIEGEL (INVASTION OF TH BODY SNATCHERS, DIRTY HARRY, etc.) Perhaps it's Morricone's sense of humor that doesn't allow his score to become too serious; his score seems to play off the fact that Shirley MacLaine's Sister Sara realy isn't a nun but someone of a less-than-sacred profession, and the music reflects her playfulness and ribaldness. One note: there is one cut on the CD that is not in the film. Instead of it, they could've put on the attack by the Indians, or Sara's climb to the top of the train bridge.

These two scores show Morricone's range and are a welcome addition to any Morricone collection.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavenly "Days" should have its own CD release, March 2, 2007

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DL Minor "movie maven" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Two Mules for Sister Sara / Days Of Heaven (Audio CD)

This review is a bit of a cheat because I don't own this particular CD though I've long owned the Eastwood-MacLaine movie on VHS and the 1978 "Days of Heaven" original soundtrack LP, so I'm quite familiar with the music.

And I do LOVE the music; what a thrill to see the great Ennio Morricone at last week's 79th Academy Awards ceremony receiving his Oscar. (Yes, okay, it was a tad awkward watching the weathered Eastwood translating Morricone's emotional Italian for American audiences, but moving nonetheless.)

The observation has been made here that Morricone's composition for "Two Mules for Sister Sara" is at its best and most memorable when playfully underscoring the feisty MacLaine character; I'd have to agree--I remember almost nothing of the soundtrack for "Sara" when it concentrates on the action, especially the lengthy battle near the end of the film.

On the other hand, after nearly 30 years (!), the exquisite orchestral "Days of Heaven" soundtrack remains a towering achievement and one of my personal favorites. Morricone's yearning, beautiful music is by turns lilting, wildly celebratory, lushly romantic, achingly melancholy, and darkly ominous--a perfect match to the majesty and sweep of Malick's elegant, elegiac masterpiece. (Accordingly, the 5 star rating is primarily for Morricone's "Heaven" music rather than for "Sara".)

In short, though "Two Mules for Sister Sara" was very entertaining as a movie, I'm not sure the world truly needs a full original soundtrack for it; it's inconceivable to me however that the score for the epic "Days of Heaven" still lacks its own separate release on disc.

One final note: though the item for review is a double-soundtrack compact disc, I notice the majority of the remarks here address the movie rather than its music, and only the Eastwood-MacLaine movie at that. (What's up with that??) Kudos, then, to reviewer Mark Eakes from Lompoc, CA for his thoughtful review of the merits, pro and con of this CD.