This topic was quite popular on the old MusicWeb forum so I thought I'd revive it and let you all have your say again.
So.... what's your favourite film score?
I personally love the new Pride and Prejudice score composed by Dario Marianelli. It's beautiful. Has anyone heard it or tried to play it?
Your Favourite film score?
Posted 13 September 2006
Oooh.. hard one.
Lots, but lately my favourites are the 28 days later soundtrack,
Batman Begins, and the soundtrack to an odd French film called Recycled (composed by Blixa Bargeld of the Badseeds).
All good!
Lots, but lately my favourites are the 28 days later soundtrack,
Batman Begins, and the soundtrack to an odd French film called Recycled (composed by Blixa Bargeld of the Badseeds).
All good!
Posted 13 September 2006
Yes, SO difficult because:
i) I tend to separate a good film score from good music used in a film. A good film score is one that enhances the film for me without being obtrusive (excluding musicals, of course). If I start humming it or wondering how the composer did it while I'm watching the film it might be great music but doesn't work for film for me, like others might think differently.
ii) there is so much good music written specially for film but turned into a suite or similar later.
Like Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica & Bernstein's On the Water Front.
i) I tend to separate a good film score from good music used in a film. A good film score is one that enhances the film for me without being obtrusive (excluding musicals, of course). If I start humming it or wondering how the composer did it while I'm watching the film it might be great music but doesn't work for film for me, like others might think differently.
ii) there is so much good music written specially for film but turned into a suite or similar later.
Like Vaughan Williams' Sinfonia Antartica & Bernstein's On the Water Front.
Posted 13 September 2006
I can't narrow it down to a single one either. I'm pretty much a sucker for most things Hisaishi, and other noteworthy soundtracks (that is, music written specifically for the movie) include tracks 1-4 on the Band of Brothers CD and the end credit rolls for Indiana Jones (take your pick) and Jurassic Park. To name but a few. Plenty more out there.
Posted 14 September 2006
I haven’t seen too many film scores, but I got one of my favourites:
The score to “Star Wars” (1977) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ by John Williams, which is so insanely well composed and orchestrated that it sits right up there with the best scores by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Debussy, etc…
“Star Wars Suite” has been recorded just as any symhonic suite by e. g. Zubin Meta with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Another concept is music not originally written for film, but utilised by a clever director. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Oddysey” (1968 ) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ is great in this respect, with Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss and György Ligeti etc. filling different aspects in a virtuoso way.
A third concept is the other way around: Composing film for music, the music video way. Disney’s original “Fantasia” (1940) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/ is still a favourite after 66 years…
The fourth concept, is the filmatic redering of live concerts. “URGH! A Music War” (1981) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138902/ is great in this respect.
Regards
The score to “Star Wars” (1977) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/ by John Williams, which is so insanely well composed and orchestrated that it sits right up there with the best scores by Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Debussy, etc…
“Star Wars Suite” has been recorded just as any symhonic suite by e. g. Zubin Meta with Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.
Another concept is music not originally written for film, but utilised by a clever director. Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Oddysey” (1968 ) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/ is great in this respect, with Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss and György Ligeti etc. filling different aspects in a virtuoso way.
A third concept is the other way around: Composing film for music, the music video way. Disney’s original “Fantasia” (1940) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032455/ is still a favourite after 66 years…
The fourth concept, is the filmatic redering of live concerts. “URGH! A Music War” (1981) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138902/ is great in this respect.
Regards
Thorolf A. Holmboe
Posted 20 November 2006
It's funny, Thorolf, that you mentioned the soundtrack to Kubrick's 2001. Yes, I thought it was great. Nevertheless, it was a temp track. Kubrick hired Alex North to score the film who, at the film's premier, was shocked to find out that his score wasn't used. In fact, it broke his heart to the point where he fell ill and never really recovered. Varese Sarabande released North's score with Jerry Goldsmith conducting. I forgot which UK orchestra they used. The music was beautiful, and in many ways, I felt, matched the film better than Kubrick's final choices. But North's score would not have the commercial success that the temp track did. It all came down to people's familiarity with the music and hearing it up agaist such great cinematography. C'est la vie...
Posted 20 November 2006
Por Una Cabeza (by a head) by Carlos Gardel which is a tango used in "True Lies", "Scent of a Woman" and "Schindler's List". I think the best arrangement was by John Williams on "Cinema Serenade" with Itzhak Perlman on violin. It's tasty 
Posted 20 November 2006
ascottk said:
Por Una Cabeza (by a head) by Carlos Gardel which is a tango used in "True Lies", "Scent of a Woman" and "Schindler's List". I think the best arrangement was by John Williams on "Cinema Serenade" with Itzhak Perlman on violin. It's tasty
After seeing that film "True Lies" I went and found the music to that piece. I liked it too
Posted 23 November 2006
Lets face it if the credits have John Williams.......!
Sons of Sibelius, my forum
Posted 24 November 2006
I'm a big fan of film scores and have a slew of sountrack CDs. But my big three are:
Silverado — Bruce Broughton
E.T. — John Williams
American President — Marc Shaiman
Silverado — Bruce Broughton
E.T. — John Williams
American President — Marc Shaiman
Posted 24 November 2006
My favorite film composers are Dmitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, and Miklos Rosza. Other good ones are David Raksin, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, Alfred Newman, and Bernard Herrmann. I can't pick an absolute favorite.
Some movies to check out:
Tiomkin: Giant, Rio Bravo, Dial M for Murder
Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven, The Rat Race, Spies Like Us
Rosza: Quo Vadis, Spellbound
Raksin: Laura, Force of Evil
Mancini: Darling Lili, Touch of Evil, Victor Victoria
Morricone: The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once upon a Time in the West
Newman: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Dragonwyck
Herrmann: Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest
There are lots of others.
Some movies to check out:
Tiomkin: Giant, Rio Bravo, Dial M for Murder
Bernstein: The Magnificent Seven, The Rat Race, Spies Like Us
Rosza: Quo Vadis, Spellbound
Raksin: Laura, Force of Evil
Mancini: Darling Lili, Touch of Evil, Victor Victoria
Morricone: The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Once upon a Time in the West
Newman: Love is a Many-Splendored Thing, Dragonwyck
Herrmann: Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest
There are lots of others.
Guest_Jake Hodges_*
Posted 25 November 2006
This isn't even hard for me. My favorite has got to be 'Pirates Of The Carribean; Dead Man's Chest.'
Posted 25 November 2006
Jake Hodges said:
This isn't even hard for me. My favorite has got to be 'Pirates Of The Carribean; Dead Man's Chest.'
Cool, that is also one of my favourite, but I think he first movie had a better soundtrack. Do you like any other Hans Zimmer scores?
Posted 25 November 2006
Richard Rodney Bennett did a very good score for "Only two can play" (sometimes described as "The last film in which Peter Sellers bothered to act"), but even more memorable was a TV showing of the Pabst silent, "Pandora's Box" (Louise Brook's finest film), with incidental music composed and arranged by Carl Davis. He started off in Berlin cabaret style, and may have included some actual Weill. Then for the end, where she get's murderd by Jack the Ripper, we had a large chunk of Berg's "Lulu".
Posted 27 November 2006
MaestroX said:
Cool, that is also one of my favourite, but I think he first movie had a better soundtrack. Do you like any other Hans Zimmer scores?
Didn't Klaus Badelt score the Pirates movies?
Well, for movie scores I like alot of Alan Silvestri's music, Cast Away, Forrest Gump and the like
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Guest_Jake Hodges_*
Posted 28 November 2006
Sor Is My Hero said:
Didn't Klaus Badelt score the Pirates movies?
Well, for movie scores I like alot of Alan Silvestri's music, Cast Away, Forrest Gump and the like
Well, for movie scores I like alot of Alan Silvestri's music, Cast Away, Forrest Gump and the like
I think Klaus did the first one and Hans Zimmer did the second.
Posted 24 December 2006
Steam - Transcendental
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Conan the Barbarian - Basil Poledouris
Aliens - James Horner
Sabrina - John Williams
Bourne Identity/Supremacy - John Powell
The World is Not Enough - David Arnold
Dark City - Trevor Jones
Anime scores:
Kujaku-Oh (1987 OVA) - Yaz-Kaz
Bubble Gum Crisis series - Makaino Kouji
Jin Roh - Hajime Mizoguchi
Black Magic M-66 - Yoshihiro Katayama
Macross series/film - Kaneda Kentaro
Megazone 23 series, Kimagure Orange Road series - Sagisu Shirow
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise - Sakamoto Ryuichi/various
Yotoden series
Anything from Kanno Yoko
Blade Runner - Vangelis
Conan the Barbarian - Basil Poledouris
Aliens - James Horner
Sabrina - John Williams
Bourne Identity/Supremacy - John Powell
The World is Not Enough - David Arnold
Dark City - Trevor Jones
Anime scores:
Kujaku-Oh (1987 OVA) - Yaz-Kaz
Bubble Gum Crisis series - Makaino Kouji
Jin Roh - Hajime Mizoguchi
Black Magic M-66 - Yoshihiro Katayama
Macross series/film - Kaneda Kentaro
Megazone 23 series, Kimagure Orange Road series - Sagisu Shirow
Royal Space Force: Wings of Honneamise - Sakamoto Ryuichi/various
Yotoden series
Anything from Kanno Yoko
