Magical Movie Music Moments

Maurice Jarre's opening score sets the scene.

Kuma, you beat me to it - I have 20 or so I want to post and that one ranks highly.

So many great tunes in one film

All of Woody's film have great music and of course cracking jokes and great looking women like Diane Keaton.







Dean...

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Originally posted by Howlinhounddog:


So many great tunes in one film

Cinema Paradiso gets my vote, a superb emotional film.

As this plays all geeks well up. Boo Hooo!







Dean..

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Originally posted by Howlinhounddog:

So many great tunes in one film

Ha! My favourite scene from my favourite film of all time - this is the clip for that scene.



Pat metheny version of the 'Love Theme'

Howlinhounddog, Sniper, would like to humbly submit my application to the Cinema Paradiso fan club. Beautiful, emotional . . . I distinctly remember a few "lump in the throat" moments watching this movie (sniffle).

My all time favorite is this one:



Bernard Herman's masterful score to Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest. Great film made magical by the music!

Max

Woody Allen's montage of images of New York, under his narration about the city/start of his autobiography to 'Rhapsody in Blue' is one of my favourites.


Peter Greenaway editing the final ten or so minutes of 'Drowing by Numbers' to Mozart Concertante for viola and violin (2nd Movement).
Excerpt, and dubbed into Italian, but still not a bad clip.


From TV, during the third series of Homicide: Life on the Streets, when Beau Felton discovers his wife has left him.


Regarding William Walton's (excellent) score for the film 'Battle of Britain', from wikipedia:
"The first was written by Sir William Walton, and conducted by Malcolm Arnold. However, the music department at United Artists objected that the score was too short. As a result, a further score was commissioned from Ron Goodwin. Producer S. Benjamin Fisz and actor Sir Laurence Olivier protested this decision, and Olivier threatened to take his name from the credits. In the end, one segment of the Walton score, titled The Battle in the Air, which framed the climactic air battles of 15 September 1940, was retained in the final cut, as well as a few bars of his March in the final scene before the credits roll. The Walton score was played with no sound effects of aircraft engines or gunfire, giving the "Battle" sequence a transcendent, lyrical quality."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...f_Britain_%28film%29

I would also add all those fantastic jazz scores for 70's cop movies by Ron Carter, Lalo Schifrin (Dirty Harry) etc.


JamieWenesday:

Am right with you on Ennio Morricone's wonderful scores for Sergio Leone's films.

Sorry to say that like much else connected with Tarantino, the use of music is not original, the style of music as well as the voice over style is lifted from Terrence Malick's 'Badlands' (1973).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...nds_%28film%29#Score
Still if you are going to copy, copy from the best.

This is rather overused piece if you are used to looking at gaming video's but..... it is still a powerful piece of modern Classical music by Clint Mansell for the film Requiem for a Dream.







Dean...

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...hN86WLU&feature=fvsr 

[Embedding disabled by request] May explain why i can't get it to show.

Well worth clicking on the link though, imho

Debs

From "The Double Life of Veronique", directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski / Music by Zbigniew Preisner / Starring Irène Jacob:

From the White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)

Without the music, the scenes aren't nearly powerful.

Sunflower.

Schindler's List.

McCabe and Mrs. Miller is one of the greatest films of all-time, due in no small part to the incredible soundtrack of songs by Leonard Cohen, none of which were written for the film! All preexisting, they fit so well that there's no way songs written intentionally would have fit any better. All classics from his first album, Songs of Leonard Cohen - The Stranger Song (heard here in the opening credits, Sisters Of Mercy, and Winter Lady.



What a perfect marriage of sight and sound.

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Originally posted by JamieL_v2:

Terrence Malick's 'Badlands' (1973)

One of my favorites, too.

Malick also directed another of my favorites, Days Of Heaven, which makes such beautiful use of Camille Saint-Saëns' The Aquarium from Carnival of the Animals.



What a perfect marriage of sight and sound.

Another of my all-time favorites is Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand, with an amazing score by Bruce Langhorne. Here's a description from a review that says it exactly right:

"[the soundtrack for The Hired Hand is] an unbearably lovely needlepoint of ever-so-gently pyschedelicized instrumental Americana."

Can't seem to embed trailer, but here's a link ... sorry if there's an ad first:

The Hired Hand - trailer

What a perfect marriage of sight and sound.

Try this link for The Hired Hand

The Hired Hand - trailer