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| Joanne |
Motion Picture SoundtracksWhich one is your favorite? I never get tired of listening to The Importance of Being Earnest. Even though it's not really right for the time period, the music is so happy and jazzy that it puts me in a good mood whenever I listen to it. The sad and romantic themes from Anna and the King also appeal to me, sometimes.
By the way, has anyone here seen 300 yet? I saw it last week (loved it, I'd see it 299 more times if I could). Is it just me, or is the theme in the closing credits the same exact theme from Titus (the weird Anthony Hopkins version)? Am I hearing things? 
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| Uriel |
Grosse Pointe Blank and Bright Lights, Big City had great soundtracks. Need I mention Pretty In Pink? I had a fondness for Hackers, as well.
My dad had a Ry Cooder fixation for a while -- the soundtrack to Crossroads was pretty great. Did you read that nonsense about the Iranian government accusing 300 of being a US ploy to undermine their culture? Dude, it concerns a battle that happened almost 2 millennia ago -- between ancient Greeks and ancient Persians ... somebody has their turban wrapped a little too tight!
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| Elaine |
I haven't bought a soundtrack in ages. But the ones I loved listening to back in the day (or still listen to) are as follows:
The Mission Frida Last of the Mohicans Four Rooms The Craft Strictly Ballroom Chicago Natural Born Killers Pulp Fiction Lost Highway Legends of the Fall El Mariachi Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Haven't seen 300 yet, but I want to. I honestly don't remember the musical score of Titus. I think I was too disturbed by the images.  ... well, except for Jonathan Rhys Meyers lovely bum. 
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| Walker |
Re: Motion Picture Soundtracks
It varies which soundtrack is my favorite. I like a lot of what Danny Elfman's written, which includes the music in Batman, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride. John Williams has done some good stuff. I was pretty impressed by Dario Marianelli's music in V for Vendetta. James Horner's music in A Beautiful Mind has quite a bit of atmosphere to it, like for instance during the Car Chase; it's not exactly your average car chase music. The Dances with Wolves soundtrack by John Barry is majestic, let me tell you. Another soundtrack that has some good bits is the Interview with the Vampire soundtrack by Elliot Goldenthal, e.g. Libera Me, Lestat's Recitative and Santiago's Waltz. If you should feel depressed and isolated and want to dig deeper into your misery and possibly damage yourself, for whatever reason, the Alien 3 soundtrack by E.G. has some tracks to offer you. Also worthy of mentioning is of course the eeire, beautiful and magnificent Sixth Sense soundtrack by James Newton Howard. It's interesting to hear how much of film music is stolen from classical music. For instance, in one of Prokofiev's symphonies (I forget which one) you can hear bits from both Indiana Jones and Star Wars.
I haven't seen the film but I listened to some pieces of the soundtrack on Amazon. I too like that kind of music. It makes it kind of hard to sit still. |
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| Joanne |
 I especially liked "Halcyon+on+on." But a few years after that movie came out, I started working at a dance club, and since then I've always associated any sort of electronic, trance, or techno music with work and general drudgery.
Yummy!
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| Deborah |
I like Danny Elfman's work, too.
John Barryis a prolific composer, having scored, among others, The Lion in Winter, Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa and Dances With Wolves, not to mention the first dozen or so James Bond movies. Although the initial proposed 007 theme was composed by someone else, whose name escapes me now, it was Barry's reworking of it that became the famous signature theme. (The other guy is the one who's credited, though.) I also liked the score of The Last of the Mohicans, especially combined with those sweeping views of the gorgeous mountains in North Carolina (which passed for mountains in New York). The composer is Trevor Jones, who is also prolific. Georges Delerue composed the Renaissance-inspired scores for A Man for All Seasons and Anne of a Thousand Days, both of which I like very much. (In fact, I probably would like just about any score that used Renaissance music or something that sounds like it.) I loved the score for the 1970 Wuthering Heights. How could it have been written by Michel LeGrand, who also wrote the atrocious* Les Parapluies de Cherbourg in 1964? *Just my opinion, of course. |
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