Movie Soundtracks

The film is superb too! : )

Debs

steve

+1

Fantastic film too, pity they didn't get away with it

Debs

Ooh, ooh. Preisner's score for Three Colours Red is one of my favourite all time albums. I urge you to give it another listen, really. 

(White and Blue are weaker as music for sure).

I love Wim Mertens "Belly of an Architect"

&

Yann Tiersen's "Goodbye, Lenin"

&

Michael Nyman's "Wonderland"

All the above as examples of their composers' skill, which just happened to be on a soundtrack. I greatly like almost everything Tiersen has done, and lots of Michael Nyman too.

As a soundtrack that is a collection of disparate music from a film, then "True Romance" is one of my favourites, but I also love the film, which must surely help.

Another one.  Goodwin did a pretty good job despite the controversy surrounding the dropping of most of Walton's original score.  Luckily they kept the highlight which is without doubt Walton's "Battle In The Air" conducted by Malcolm Arnold.

Yes!!!

And I would add this one, also for the music and the film:

un Coeur en Hiver

Dear Richard,

I think that the Walton score for the Battle Of Britain is quite remarkable and for me at least it is the way I watch the film, as the original Walton score is available via the menu on the edition of the film that I have on DVD.

The music sometimes seems paradoxical in a way that could only come from a man who lived through the times, and worked in London during the hard times of the War itself.

But the climax is met in the Battle in the Air scene much more powerfully when the musical lead in has been all by the man who wrote such an immense climax.

Goodwin's music seems no more remarkable to me than any number of other War-film sound-tracks of the time [and earlier] from the British perspective, but I really think his music makes a superb and memorable musical counterpoint for Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.

Farmer

This masterpiece existed before Robert Altman used several of these songs for his brilliant film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, but they work so well that one could easily be forgiven for thinking they were written for the movie.

Laurence Olivier threatened to pull out of the production, unless some of Walton's score appeared - and I agree, Richard, that it was a highlight of the film (along with Ms York in WRAF blue shirt, black tie and black stockings).

Apparently, there exists a cut of the film with Walton's full score reinstated, which I haven't seen or heard.

PS: Farmer, you beat me to the draw! 

Korngold, Miklos Rozsa, Dimitri Tiomkin, Bernard Hermann and John Barry seem to appear frequently in my collection, some of those old Hollywood scores make great standalone listening. 

Can't say I noticed the soundtrack while watching Red. Good excuse to watch it yet again.

++1 for john barry (RAH this october 4th i think) and lalo schifrin's bullett remade version is excelent

what about roy budd's get carter p###holes in the snow"!

pauls

My favorite Preisner score is for another Kieslowski film, The Double Life of Veronique.

Thanks Fred

Have ordered it - seems quite a rarity. I really love his Requiem also, so I'm sure will enjoy this.

Cheers

Rod

I've not seen the film, but this soundtrack's really good and an excellent recording. Tom Waits and Crystal Gale complement each other surprisingly well :-

Jerry Fielding wrote a superb jazz-based score for the 1977 Clint Eastwood movie 'The Gauntlet'. Much of the score does not appear in the final cut of the film but the soundtrack album is a real gem with some spectacular trumpet and sax playing.

Not strictly speaking a movie score but rather a TV score is 'Doc Martin' by Colin Towns. Some excellent melodies infused with a mediterranian flavour. Colin's other soundtracks are well worth investigating but sadly much of his output is unavailable commercially.

Peter

Vangelis for the film Bladerunner.

Great music and a great film.

Ralf

Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Dickinson, Jim Keltner, Flaco Jimenez, Sam the Sham, and Freddy Fender.

The Border Soundtrack.   Find it on vinyl!

Excellent Soundtrack IMHO.

SteveT

 Never seen the film, but this is a great Soundtrack, especially "Girl in a Sports car".

Two of the biggest selling soundtrack albums ever.

Both available at your local charity shop