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Teddy, re your post on Midnight Cowboy , did John Williams do some or most of that soundtrack do you know?
What are your favorite soundtracks from the movies?
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White Knight
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Favorite Movie Sountracks
I just finished watching Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, :devil: starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei :grin: and Jude Law. I thought the sountrack really added to the overall mood set by this storyline, which is basically one of tragedy.
I just finished watching Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, :devil: starring Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei :grin: and Jude Law. I thought the sountrack really added to the overall mood set by this storyline, which is basically one of tragedy.
sergeastorms
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Blade Runner - Vangelis
Goodbye Lenin - Yann Tiersen
Traffic - Cliff Martinez
Moon - Clint Mansell
Donnie Darko - Mark Andrews
Goodbye Lenin - Yann Tiersen
Traffic - Cliff Martinez
Moon - Clint Mansell
Donnie Darko - Mark Andrews
Corno Dolce
Admiral Honkenwheezenpooferspieler
Pirates of the Caribbean has quite a soundtrack - I haven't seen the movie although. A friend sent me a link so that I could hear the music. Why I don't see the movie? Johnny Depp imo is a first-class jerk.......
GoneBaroque
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Probably my favorite is the score which Raymond Leppard composed for the old black and white version of Lord of the Flies. Everytime I see the film I hear the Kyrie Elision theme for weeks.
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I just heard the score from X men played on a classic radio station at 19 in their weekly "hit parade" ; what an absolute load of cr@p, no tune, just a load of repetitive strings with a few horns thrown in at intervals.
It does not meet my definition of music, let alone classical music, is it possibly that the film is popular enough to drag this garbage along with it?
It does not meet my definition of music, let alone classical music, is it possibly that the film is popular enough to drag this garbage along with it?
GoneBaroque
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Was it composed by Philip Glass by any chance? Seriously I like all of the three notes he uses!
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I think this comment seen on another forum says a lot
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alexlamy
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I've had a really interesting read looking at this post. I'm a film composer (aspiring) myself and I generally agree with everything I've read here; apart from the X-men score. The first score was by Michael Kamen and it is incredible, maybe not an incredible listen as a purely music for music's sake album (although I quite like most of it), but for the film it's great. That is the issue though, as said before, some very good music can be very bad in films and vice versa.
As for my favourite music from films, I'll shortlist a few below
- The music to all three Matrix movies, particularly first and third - Don Davis
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
- Casino Royale - David Arnold
- Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
- Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
- Hook - John Williams
- Dinosaur - James Newton Howard
- The Da Vinci Code - Hans Zimmer
- Band of Brothers (TV 10 part series) - Michael Kamen
From that list you could probably say that Band of Brothers and The Matrix scores are the least listenable without the films, but I actually think the music The Matrix is some of the best film music to date. It's a real change from any standard film music aesthetics, even when the third film intends to be more Wagnerian. Also, just to name a couple, the scores to 'Birth' (Alexandre Desplat) and 'Crash' (Mark Isham) aren't very 'listenable' solely as music, but they're both amazing scores for the films even though they're very drone based and sparse. Anyone who hasn't seen those two films should watch them, Birth, particularly, is very 'arty'.
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As for my favourite music from films, I'll shortlist a few below
- The music to all three Matrix movies, particularly first and third - Don Davis
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Tan Dun
- Casino Royale - David Arnold
- Memoirs of a Geisha - John Williams
- Vertigo - Bernard Herrmann
- Hook - John Williams
- Dinosaur - James Newton Howard
- The Da Vinci Code - Hans Zimmer
- Band of Brothers (TV 10 part series) - Michael Kamen
From that list you could probably say that Band of Brothers and The Matrix scores are the least listenable without the films, but I actually think the music The Matrix is some of the best film music to date. It's a real change from any standard film music aesthetics, even when the third film intends to be more Wagnerian. Also, just to name a couple, the scores to 'Birth' (Alexandre Desplat) and 'Crash' (Mark Isham) aren't very 'listenable' solely as music, but they're both amazing scores for the films even though they're very drone based and sparse. Anyone who hasn't seen those two films should watch them, Birth, particularly, is very 'arty'.
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Alex
Hi Alex,
I'll have to agree about Matrix. Don Davis did a great job on scoring the movies. I love how he approached the scoring of slowmo scenes.
My favorite track would have to be the Matrix Reloaded Suite. I really wish I could see the score for it.
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I'll have to agree about Matrix. Don Davis did a great job on scoring the movies. I love how he approached the scoring of slowmo scenes.
My favorite track would have to be the Matrix Reloaded Suite. I really wish I could see the score for it.
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alexlamy
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Hey Mat.
I'm lucky enough to have found a promo score for all three of the Matrix scores, so I have every cue from the films rather than just the suite that was released on the Reloaded soundtrack. It's pretty hard to get scores for any film score, but there are a few Matrix excerpts (as well as hundreds of others from other film scores) in a book called 'On The Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring' by Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Track-Guide-Contemporary-Film-Scoring/dp/0415941369
It's pretty expensive but it's a great book, and it's the only time you're really going to see good transcriptions of film scores, as A LOT of bad transcriptions exist, especially for any John Williams score lol The parts of the Matrix cues in there reveal quite a lot, and there's some good quotes from Don Davis too, it really is incredible music. It's definitely worth seeing if a library near you has it just to take a look at
I'm lucky enough to have found a promo score for all three of the Matrix scores, so I have every cue from the films rather than just the suite that was released on the Reloaded soundtrack. It's pretty hard to get scores for any film score, but there are a few Matrix excerpts (as well as hundreds of others from other film scores) in a book called 'On The Track: A Guide to Contemporary Film Scoring' by Fred Karlin and Rayburn Wright. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Track-Guide-Contemporary-Film-Scoring/dp/0415941369
It's pretty expensive but it's a great book, and it's the only time you're really going to see good transcriptions of film scores, as A LOT of bad transcriptions exist, especially for any John Williams score lol The parts of the Matrix cues in there reveal quite a lot, and there's some good quotes from Don Davis too, it really is incredible music. It's definitely worth seeing if a library near you has it just to take a look at
methodistgirl
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I will say Orasion from "Rise of Darkari" movie. It's simply
just beautiful.
judy tooley
just beautiful.
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ianskyline
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anyone like John Powell's score for How To Train Your Dragon? I think it's one of my highlights from last year.
Especially this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbZtfznQb-Y&feature=player_embedded
Especially this scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbZtfznQb-Y&feature=player_embedded