taxi4ballet Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I was listening to a programme on Classic FM the other day about the composer John Williams - what marvellous music and such an incredible variety of atmosphere and moods. It got me thinking about film soundtracks, and I'm wondering which film music others on this forum enjoy. Over to you...! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Well, I tend not to buy soundtrack albums but some old favourites are Saturday Night Fever, Dirty Dancing, Swing and the soundtrack for a punk film that I never saw called That Summer. I also very much like the soundtrack to John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13 (and that film, come to think of it). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Talking about John Williams, I think the only ever soundtrack album I bought was Superman - The Movie. I think that was one of his. It's still sitting in the record cabinet. Apart from that, and leaving aside all the "cheats" which just re-hash existing songs, I'd also say the Korngold Adventures of Robin Hood (I think that's the title - it's the Errol Flynn one, anyway). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Korngold was a good composer in his own right but escaped to the USA to escape the Nazis. No one in the US believed there was such a thing as a non-Nazi German or Austrian and the only work he could find as a composer was in Hollywood. He hated his film music which he regarded as hack work only undertaken to feed his family (with thanks to my eldest's godfather who is a profession musician with an interest in film music). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 I enjoy the music from The Godfather, The Mark of Zorro, Last of the Mohicans, Lawrence of Arabia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 My two favourites by miles: A Room with a View (Richard Robbins) and Sabrina (John Williams). Those two are permanently on my ipod. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted August 31, 2012 Share Posted August 31, 2012 Well, I suppose there has to be something good about The Last of the Mohicans 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 One reason I keep watching the much criticised W.E. is for the music,( actually I like the film too), Madonna wrote the end credits song but the rest is by Abel Korzeniowski, puts me in mind of The Piano, another great score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Oh Alison! Last of the Mohicans is a very fine film and the only one I like DDL in! I love the score for The Piano but have never been able to watch the whole film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 It may be a very fine film, Janet, but Last of the Mohicans it is not. And I find its attitude to race totally insulting for the supposedly enlightened 1990s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 I also like the music to Harry Potter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 One of my favourites is the music for 'Local Hero', by Mark Knopfler - the theme is used all the time on trailers for tv programmes etc, you will be bound to recognise it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAB Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Richard Addinsell: Warsaw Concerto from Dangerous Moonlight Arthur Bliss: Shape of Things to Come The Chieftains: Women of Ireland from Barry Lyndon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CeliB Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 DH is voting member of BAFTA so we get lots of soundtracks sent to us. Particular favourites: Michael Nyman'sThe Piano James Newton Howard's Peter Pan (cry at the ending of that film every time- even tho have watched about 100 times with kids...) Thomas Newman Road to Perdition Theme song from True Romance- credited to Hans Zimmer but actually an adaptation of Carl Orffs Gassenhauer soundtrack to Get Shorty- great flim, great vibes Mobys Extreme Ways written for the Bourne films Danny Elfman- The Corpse Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands Bruno Coulais Coraline (you can tell that as a family our tastes run to gothic romances!) Most recent family favourite is the soundtrack to Inception- mostly Hans Zimmer but some others too.. and we all love the Inception button which can be downloaded form the internet (you have to have seen the film!!!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted September 29, 2012 Share Posted September 29, 2012 I love the Star Wars soundtrack (again John Williams), and the brilliant use of Gershwin's music in Woody Allen's masterpiece, Manhattan (especially a particularly splendid version of Rhapsody in Blue). Despite being atrocious movies, the Twilight films had interesting bands on their soundtracks 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Yes they did. Particularly love "Hearing Damage" by Thom Yorke, and Muse's "Supermassive Black Hole". Mind you, I also really like the Twilight films (runs away) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 I like a track called In The House – In A Heartbeat, Liverpool composer John Murphy It's from from 28 Days Later and is also music for the Strongbow Pear Advert which is where I heard it and I had to google it. I would like to be able to know the name of the artist and title of the piece of music/song during television programmes. At least at the end of a film there are the credits. Usually I am desperately trying to read as the credits roll up at an incredibly fast speed. It is possible to google films but I have not found it possible to track down (sorry about the pun) songs/music in television programmes. If there is a way, please let me know. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Shazam is your friend! If you have an iphone or an Android smartphone, Shazam is a free app. You hold your phone up to the tv or radio and it "listens", then (hopefully) identifies both song and artist. :-) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porthesia Posted October 22, 2012 Share Posted October 22, 2012 Unfortunately my phone is about 4 years old, due for upgrade around Christmas, so if I'm lucky enough to get a better phone i'll try that one out - thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxi4ballet Posted October 23, 2012 Author Share Posted October 23, 2012 My nephew's got it on his phone, really handy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna C Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 I use it all the time. I must admit that it works a lot better on the iphone than it did on my Samsung Galaxy, but that could have been down to the phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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