Favorite Film Score(s)

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I like Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Ryuichi Sakamoto)-- beautiful and heraldic,and Dr. Kanzo (Yosuke Yamashita)--boppy and matches the action perfectly. What do you all like? (Non- Japanese composers welcome.)

― Mary, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I am sappy and I like the music from "Cinema Paradiso." Grazie, Ennio!

― Aaron G!, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Barry Lyndon, Clockwork orange...all the kubrick's movie soundtracks.

― Just Me, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Hard to go wrong with the usual suspects: Rota, Morricone, Herrmann, and Mancini. Hans Zimmer's score for The Thin Red Line is probably my fave from last few years, and although Howard Shore's score for Ed Wood is fairly slight and mostly short cues, it's a lot of fun too. Sakamoto's score for Love Is the Devil (the Francis Bacon biopic--I think I have the title right) springs to mind as well, though it's been a while since I've heard it. I'd have to go look on the shelves at home to remember more.

One that looking at home won't help with: I always loved the score to Yojimbo but have never seen it on album or disc.

― Lee G, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Tangerine Dream thread just reminded me--Sorcerer, TD's score for William Friedkin's career-sinking remake of The Wages of Fear. I think Mixmaster Mike bit it somewhere. Oh yeah, and John Barry's score for The Black Hole, as purloined by the Beta Band. And a lot of those, whaddyacallum', James Bond things Barry did. This is fun.

― Lee G, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

*2001* -one of the pairings of movie/music where it's difficult to conceive of one without the other. Especially classic for the scene where the shuttle arrives at the rotating station.

― lyra in seattle, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lee G: yeah the Yojimbo score is by Masaru Sato(h), who scored a few other Kurosawa films too (plus a few godzillas). I've been looking for that for ages but have only ever come across $50 billion box-sets. also have to second Hermann, esp Vertigo.

― The Actual Mr. Jones, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

In The Mood For Love, Vertigo, Psycho, The Third Man, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Gone With the Wind, 8 1/2, and The Wizard of Oz.

― ryan, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Randy Newman's score for The Natural provided the soundtrack to the countless hours of my youth spent on the baseball diamond. It was no coincidence that I was #9 every year I played (also left-handed, just like Roy).

― Ryan Evans, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anything by Lalo Schifrin-->Enter The Dragon, Bullitt, Man from UNCLE, etc. What else? John Barry gettin' down with his bad self on the Ipcress Files or the Bond film scores, David Shire's The Taking of Pelham 123, Roy Budd's Get Carter or Diamonds, Quincy Jones' The Italian Job, Herbie Hancock's Death Wish (sampled by every DJ and his mother).....and of course, stuff by Ennio Morricone, Jerry Goldsmith....the list goes on and on.

― Mr.Banana, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

A personal fave is Manfred Mann's Up The Junction because not only is it a great soundtrack, but also, arguably the bands greatest album. Beat Girl's a corker as well.

― Jez, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Surprised that nobody's mentioned "Midnight Cowboy". I'm not a huge John Barry fan but this rules.

Ennio Morricone has done so much stuff I'm sure some is crap, there's a couple of greta comps of non-Spaghetti Western stuff called "Mondo Morricone" which are both great.

― Winkelmann, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

claude bollings borsalino. 20s style saloon bar mechanical piano bizness

for morricone, i'd suggest che c'entriamo con noi la rivoluzione, or metti una sera a cena, haven't heard the rest of the soundtrack for those though

i'll second midnight cowboy, and then yes there are all those 'funky soundtracks' type things, the schifrins and quincy jones stuff, david shires the taking of pelham 1-2-3 is good, les baxters' hells bells (very different from baxters other stuff)

― gareth, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like phillip glass's soundtrack for "mishima".

― mike (ro)bott, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let us take a small moment to consider how wretched James Horner is.

― GCannon, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Neil Young's Dead Man soundtrack is among my favorites (I guess that technically wasn't scored, it was improvised). 2001 is also great--I especially love the Gyorgi Ligeti compositions... they're very creepy.

Someone mentioned Bruce Lee soundtracks--has anyone played with this yet? It's really, really fun:

I Know Where Bruce Lee Lives

― Diego, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i love rza's score for ghost dog...

― robin, Tuesday, 6 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why are Kubrick's soundtracks so *money*? Did he really know what he was doing or did he know just enough to work with the right people? For another Malcolm McLaren pic circa "Clockwork Orange" check out "O Lucky Man" featuring a soundtrack (and movie appearances) by Alan Price.

― Mary, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Why are Kubrick's soundtracks so *money*?

That's funnier than I first realized. :-)

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oops, and I meant Malcolm McDowell in "O Lucky Man", hence the connection to "Clockwork Orange", you all probably figured that out, but just to avoid any confusion. Damn that Malcolm McLaren sneaking into this thread...

― Mary, Sunday, 11 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

twenty-one years pass...

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/02/the-ugly-truth-of-how-movie-scores-are-made

I knew Zimmer had a crew behind him but I thought that meant like five or six people:

A website devoted to Zimmer credits the many collaborators who make up the Remote Control “team.” There are 66 composers, 74 cocomposers, 28 arrangers, 72 additional arrangers, and 23 credited with “additional music.” Sixteen more people in various capacities round out the list, bringing the total to 279. If Zimmer can’t get a cue right, one composer told me, “he has 60 people behind him willing to give it a shot.”

― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 29 April 2024 03:19 (two weeks ago) link

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