… not including musicals.
- Cinema Paradiso – haunting and very romantic music by Ennio Morricone
- Paris, Texas – Ry Cooder (my man!)
- Deliverance – Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
- Amadeus – um… three guesses?
- Pulp Fiction – fab mixed bag of Tarantino’s fave tunes
What are some of yours?
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The Virgin Suicides (Claustrophobic and threatening yet beautiful…and Playground Love is just beautiful…Air kinda went down hill after this)
The Big Lebowski (you might not think it…but the soundtrack album is incredible)
The Wicker Man (unless you count that as a musical…lots of the songs are sung…but for real…like in the plot…not like just for the sake so singing and dancing)
Sky Blue (the soundtrack made up for the slightly sketchy dubbing on the English version….I couldn’t find an original version)
Powaqqatsi (You can’t go wrong with Philip Glass…and I preffered the sounds of this one to Koyaniqatsi)
Special mentions to O Brother where art thou and Requiem for a dream.
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The Committments! Still a fave soundtrack of mine!
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The Big Lebowsky! I loved that movie, I didn’t know they had a soundtrack out for it, gotta get that. I know a cat who’s *got* to be related to The Dude… 😉
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Death in Venice
I started a lifelong love of the music of Mahler after seeing this film as a youngster.
Dr Zchivago. Still love the Maurice Jarre score
Deliverance
The Crying Game
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Oh goodness yes, also agree on Amadeus
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Oh sorry, also meant to post
Gallipolli
(I’m a bit like London buses aren’t I?. Nothing for ages and then 3 come along at once 😉 )
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Ha! I’ve been wondering where you were.
I’d forgotten about the music in Gallipoli – very nice. But I can’t recall the music in Death in Venice, The Crying Game or Wicker Man. *waves to Alabaster*
Haven’t seen the Virgin Suicides or Sky Blue (haven’t even heard of the latter). But I agree about The Big Lebowski and The Commitments. *waves to SC*
A few more that I like – The Mission and The Godfather. The fabulous Gershwin tunes in Manhattan. And Reservoir Dogs – Tarantino must have an amazing record collection.
It’s funny how we might not remember the music in a film, but we’d notice if it wasn’t there. Have there ever been any films made without music?
(Fanny, if you put ‘classic/’ between ‘h2g2’ and your U number, your page with show up in Classic – otherwise you get the icky Brunel default skin)
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Orlando is one of my favourites, mostly because I’m keen on early music and there’s some nice Elizabethan/Jacobean pieces in it.
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Saw ‘A Clockwork Orange’ again on TV last night. I think it is a magnificent film partly for the huge variety of music on the soundtrack.
(Oh and az, yes I love the new green and orange colour sceme in the ‘diner’)
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az could you check your spam. I just posted a comment here about A Clockwork Orange, and it wouldn’t post.
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Found it! One of my own comments went into the spam file yesterday – weird.
That’s another film I’ve never seen – is it worth buying?
Glad you like the new decor at the diner – there are some new recipes too.
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Oh my goodness yes. A Clockwork Orange is wonderful. The sound track is very important to the film and is a very rich mixture of stuff. But notably Beethoven’s 9th and Singing in the Rain, which are important to the story.
A lot of people find it too violent. But I find the violence quite theatrical. I think the film ultimately highlights the real violence of the British ‘establisment’ .
It was banned for many years by Kubrick himself because of a real life incident which he attributed to some kids watching the film. But it’s regularly shown on TV here now, late at night.
Go buy!!
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