Greatest movie scores

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Philo

#20
April 17, 2014, 01:33:08 PM
My personal favorite is Hans Zimmer's score for The Thin Red Line

vandermolen

#21
April 18, 2014, 03:17:15 AM
Quote from: Philo on April 17, 2014, 01:33:08 PM
My personal favorite is Hans Zimmer's score for The Thin Red Line

Don't know that one. Must look out for it.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Cato

#22
April 18, 2014, 04:38:06 AM
Many great ones mentioned already: King Kong, Citizen Kane, Braveheart, .

Some not mentioned so far (I think):

Miklos Rosza: El Cid

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Jerome Moross: The Big Country

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Franz Waxman: Taras Bulba  (In the movie, Yul Brynner sings!)

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Jerry Goldsmith: Planet of the Apes (The original movie, not the dreadful remake.)

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Dmitri Tiomkin: Red River (Russian composer and a Russian orchestra slam dunk music for a John Wayne Western!

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(Amazon images not available, but the CD's and DVD's are.)

Bernard Herrmann (again!): On Dangerous Ground (Original soundtrack, which has some damage (static, scratchiness, here and there))

Jerry Goldsmith (again!): Hoosiers

And not mentioned yet for sure:

Carl Stalling: Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons!

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Sergeant Rock

#23
April 18, 2014, 08:01:50 AM Last Edit: April 18, 2014, 08:04:04 AM by Sergeant Rock
Quote from: North Star on April 16, 2014, 07:26:39 AM
Herrmann: Psycho

Quote from: EigenUser on April 17, 2014, 06:06:56 AM
My favorites are..."Psycho"

Next week the Cleveland Orchestra will be performing the score live while the film is projected above the stage.




Sarge

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Sergeant Rock

#24
April 18, 2014, 08:26:35 AM
My favorites:

Erich Wolfgang Korngold The Sea Hawk

Hans Zimmer Crimson Tide

John Williams Superman

Jerry Goldsmith Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Max Steiner They Died with Their Boots On

Bill Conti The Right Stuff

Philip Glass The Hours


Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Cato

#25
April 18, 2014, 01:47:00 PM
Speaking of Mr. P. Glass:

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"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

EigenUser

#26
April 18, 2014, 02:44:09 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 18, 2014, 08:01:50 AM
Next week the Cleveland Orchestra will be performing the score live while the film is projected above the stage.




Sarge
Cool  8) ! Why is a full orchestra on stage though? It's scored for strings alone...
Beethoven's Op. 133 -- A fugue so bad that even Beethoven himself called it "Grosse".

North Star

#27
April 18, 2014, 03:15:36 PM
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on April 18, 2014, 08:01:50 AM
Next week the Cleveland Orchestra will be performing the score live while the film is projected above the stage.

Sarge

They've (Oulu SO) done that in Oulu too, a month ago - didn't go see it, alas.
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vandermolen

#28
April 18, 2014, 10:31:58 PM
Agree with Leo about the original 'Planet of the Apes' score, which is as good as 'Alien' and just as disturbing. Also agree with Sarge about Korngold's 'The Sea Hawk'. Also Glass's 'The Hours' has some fine moments too. Waxman's 'Bride of Frankenstein' is a great one too.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Sergeant Rock

#29
April 20, 2014, 07:03:56 AM
Quote from: EigenUser on April 18, 2014, 02:44:09 PM
Cool  8) ! Why is a full orchestra on stage though? It's scored for strings alone...

I wondered the same thing. I assume this is a Photoshopped image for advertising puposes (it was posted on the Cleveland's FB page), pasting the Psycho scene onto a previous photo of the orchestra playing the soundtrack to some other film.

Sarge
the phone rings and somebody says,
"hey, they made a movie about
Mahler, you ought to go see it.
he was as f*cked-up as you are."
                               --Charles Bukowski, "Mahler"

Bogey

#30
April 20, 2014, 07:17:13 AM Last Edit: April 20, 2014, 07:33:43 AM by Bogey
Some not mentioned yet as well as a few rarely mentioned, that I enjoy:

Ten Commandments-Bernstein
Ben Hur-Rozsa
The Ghost and Mr. Muir-Herrmann
Batman-Elfman
King Kong-Steiner
Patton-Goldsmith
The Alamo-Tiomkin
The Adventures of Robinhood-Korngold
Conan-Poledouris
Time Machine-Garcia
From Russia With Love-Barry
Cider House Rules-Portman
Apollo 13-Horner
Sunset Blvd.-Waxman
Minority Report-Williams (Oy! Bruce!)
Rocky-Conti
Blade Runner-VanGelis
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Bogey

#31
April 20, 2014, 07:32:31 AM
Oh, and this one might fit the bill as it got many folks actually discovering how good soundtracks could be, including me as a kid:



There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Moonfish

#32
April 20, 2014, 11:19:32 AM
Quote from: Cato on April 18, 2014, 01:47:00 PM
Speaking of Mr. P. Glass:

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Hmm, I never watched that film. I think I will now since the soundtrack came up in this thread. Thanks Cato!
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Cato

#33
April 20, 2014, 11:25:11 AM
Quote from: Moonfish on April 20, 2014, 11:19:32 AM
Hmm, I never watched that film. I think I will now since the soundtrack came up in this thread. Thanks Cato!

Quite welcome!  I thought the soundtrack added just the right touches to the movie.  Edward Norton and Paul Giamatti are excellent. 
"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

jochanaan

#34
April 21, 2014, 07:33:10 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 17, 2014, 11:46:19 AM
...I loved The Lord of the Rings trilogy but I do have my doubts about Howard Shore's score...
Me too.  I've played a suite from The Two Towers in orchestra; there really wasn't much to it, at least to the oboe part.  Very different from John Williams' scores, which I actually have to practice! :o
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vandermolen

#35
April 21, 2014, 09:54:28 AM
Quote from: Bogey on April 20, 2014, 07:17:13 AM
Some not mentioned yet as well as a few rarely mentioned, that I enjoy:

Ten Commandments-Bernstein
Ben Hur-Rozsa
The Ghost and Mr. Muir-Herrmann
Batman-Elfman
King Kong-Steiner
Patton-Goldsmith
The Alamo-Tiomkin
The Adventures of Robinhood-Korngold
Conan-Poledouris
Time Machine-Garcia
From Russia With Love-Barry
Cider House Rules-Portman
Apollo 13-Horner
Sunset Blvd.-Waxman
Minority Report-Williams (Oy! Bruce!)
Rocky-Conti
Blade Runner-VanGelis

Agree with all the ones I know here, especially the Herrmann, Waxman, Poledouris and Rozsa works mentioned.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#36
April 21, 2014, 09:57:29 AM
Quote from: jochanaan on April 21, 2014, 07:33:10 AM
Me too.  I've played a suite from The Two Towers in orchestra; there really wasn't much to it, at least to the oboe part.  Very different from John Williams' scores, which I actually have to practice! :o

The motto theme is good and I like some of the other sequences but find the score generally rather empty and much of a muchness. Many others, including my wife, disagree of course. I think that Conan, for example, is a much finer and more varied work.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Karl Henning

#37
April 21, 2014, 10:00:35 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 21, 2014, 09:57:29 AM
. . . but find the score generally rather empty and much of a muchness.

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knight66

#38
April 21, 2014, 12:16:12 PM
I saw bits of Ben Hur today, it is one of my favourite scores, but I can't drag myself through the whole nine yards of treacle any more, a few highlights were just fine.

I am surprised that Maurice Jarre's two good 'uns have not turned up, Lawrence of Arabia and Dr Zhivago.
John Barry: The Lion in Winter is superb.
Morricone: Once Upon a Time in America. That one works on me to make me feel nostalgia, even though I was never there to be nostalgic about that time and place.
A lot of the greats have been listed out.

I have spent about 10 days wandering round Petra in Jordan. One of the days when I was on my own and stuck my iPod on, Mahler did not do it, Wagner did not do it.....strangely, Lord of the Rings did heighten the experience in a rather eerie way.

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SonicMan46

#39
April 21, 2014, 12:19:36 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on April 16, 2014, 07:50:44 AM

'On the Waterfront' is a terrific score and I nearly selected it myself (Bernstein's only movie score I think). Takemitsu is also a very interesting choice and I need to be more familiar with his music. I probably should also have selected 'To Kill a Mockingbird' by Elmer Bernstein.

Concerning Lennie's film scores, other that On the Waterfront, two others came to mind - West Side Story & On the Town (partly w/ Roger Edens; all lyrics by Aldoph Green & Betty Comden) - Dave :)

 
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