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Posted by Mark Silvester (Member # 929) on August 23, 2015, 08:51 AM:

Hi all

another little post. This time around one of the most emphatic elements around fim...and certainly to the emotion... favourite filme music/themes..here is one of mine a brilliant "kitchen sink drama" :

"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" - Johnny Dankworth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xWAug1ESU

Posted by Paul Barker (Member # 4318) on August 23, 2015, 09:09 AM:

fantastic film Mark. love films like this. fabulous track.

Posted by Vidar Olavesen (Member # 3354) on August 23, 2015, 09:48 AM:

For me, anything John Williams, Ennio Morricone and the John Carpenter music is nice. Something about the soundtrack to Peggy Sue Got Married always gets to me

Posted by Mark Silvester (Member # 929) on August 23, 2015, 09:53 AM:

Paul - me and you need to meet up one day and if we can have "Mike Newell, the artful dodger himself...and "Toddy!"...what a day. P.M. me for my personal mobile Paul - Mark.
[Smile]

Posted by Larry Arpin (Member # 744) on August 23, 2015, 10:40 AM:

Bernard Herrmann is the best. Hitchcock & 4 of Ray Harryhausen films. He's very creative in his music as there are only woodwinds in his score for JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, strings in PSYCHO, and his score for DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is just magnificent with the intro of the thiamine. Of course, I enjoy lots of music but he is my favorite.

Posted by Paul Adsett (Member # 25) on August 23, 2015, 11:08 AM:

No question in my mind that Bernard Herrmann's composition for Vertigo is the best ever film score, Absolutely brilliant.

Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on August 23, 2015, 03:25 PM:

'The Untouchables' is a favourite of mine, especially the Al Capone theme.

Posted by David Guest (Member # 2791) on August 23, 2015, 03:58 PM:

yes sat nite and sunday morn is good I also have it on 16mm but the best which I also have on 16mm is murder she said

Posted by Paul Spinks (Member # 573) on August 23, 2015, 04:08 PM:

The classic scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklos Rosza and Dimitri Tiomkin always work for me, as well as Max Steiner when he went to Warner Bros. Any Hammer Film without James Bernard's music just doesn't sound right, and Barry Gray's wonderful music truly enhanced all those excellent Gerry Anderson TV shows from the 1960's.
(Edit) David you are so right about "Murder She Said". Anything by Ron Goodwin is always just perfect.

Posted by Trevor Adams (Member # 42) on August 23, 2015, 04:55 PM:

Zhivago

Posted by Mark Silvester (Member # 929) on August 24, 2015, 02:47 AM:

I agree with your comment on the "Capone" theme Jonathan...another favourite of mine is Randy Newmans - "The Natural".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQ4ZIBoEd4

Posted by Andrew Woodcock (Member # 3260) on August 24, 2015, 03:49 AM:

Porcelain by Moby, taken from "The Beach"
Fantastic atmospheric chill out track that emphatically captures the desired mood of that moment in the film.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=moby+the+beach&FORM=VIRE2#view=detail&mid=129C95B964ADE6B048B2129C95B964ADE6B048B2

Posted by Kevin Clark (Member # 211) on August 24, 2015, 03:56 AM:

A bit of a 'marmite' selection from me but I could happily listen to Anton Karas's zither all day long as featured in The Third Man.

Kevin

Posted by Mark Silvester (Member # 929) on August 24, 2015, 04:04 AM:

Hi Kevin

absolutely...so evocative and "thrilling" all at the same time...one of my favourite films...and themes...here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ [Smile]

Posted by Gary Crawford (Member # 67) on August 28, 2015, 06:34 AM:

I have trouble separating the reasons why I like certain scores. I can listen to Bride of Frankenstein and King Kong cd's every day, but I think it's more because of my childhood love of the films, as much as the music itself, which brings back favorite scenes and moments of the film for me. I'd favor Bride as far as great music goes.

As to great music scores that stand alone, it's hard to pick one. Film scores are not written to stand alone from the film. They are written FOR the film. But that said, I'd have to agree that Vertigo or Psycho might be favorites. Along with the score for Farewell, My Lovely.

Posted by Dave Groves (Member # 4685) on August 28, 2015, 08:33 AM:

Almost anything from Kordas 'Thief of Bagdad'. Miklos Rozas music is entrancing but then, so is the film.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 29, 2015, 12:55 PM:

STAR WARS!! I know that it may be quite generic now to most people, but it was a perfect marriage image and sound and everytime I listen to it, I'm brought back to that first day.

The soundtrack from "BladeRunner" (and anything done by "Vangelis"

Runner's up ...

In the "classical" vein ...

"Born Free" Soundtrack, By the great John Barry (his soundtrack for "Somewhere in Time is magnificent!)

" Hawaii " (Elmer Bernstein, I think)

... and last but certainly not least ... soundtrack with vocals ..

Audrey Hepburn's rendition of "Moon River" from the soundtrack of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"! That song has a haunted lovely longing to it.

Posted by Douglas Meltzer (Member # 28) on August 30, 2015, 08:42 AM:

John Addison's rousing music for Swashbuckler has long been one of my favorites. That same year (1976) he did another terrific score for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.

Doug

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 30, 2015, 01:12 PM:

I love the music from "Dances With Wolves",

-actually more than the movie itself!

(Is it cheating to love the music from the Fantasias?)

Posted by Jean-Christophe Deblock (Member # 792) on August 30, 2015, 02:46 PM:

MIKLOS ROZSA, definitely!

Posted by Tom Photiou (Member # 130) on August 31, 2015, 03:17 AM:

Ennio morriconie for me.I dont think he's ever written bad score.also john barry, apart from the 007 scores he also did the excellent score for the last valley. John Williams ron goodwin and miklos roza

Posted by Jonathan Trevithick (Member # 3066) on August 31, 2015, 03:28 AM:

John Barry could do little wrong except that ocassionally some of his scores echoed some of his others. He composed a very fitting score for 'Chaplin' which I particularly like.

Posted by Mark Silvester (Member # 929) on August 31, 2015, 03:41 AM:

I loved the theme from "Somewhere in Time" by John Barry....a wonderful film too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SglaO9ywFSg [Smile]

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