Post clips of beautiful movie scores

Dah-dah-dah-daddah-DAHHHHHH.

ŽELARY. I still think Clint Eastwood copied this theme in Letters from Iwo Jima a few years later.

Phantom Thread.

The great "Archery" sequence from "The Age of Innocence," with the gorgeous Elmer Bernstein score.

The Hours

Flowers in the Attic.

Inception

Phantom Thread's score is lovely. I sat until the end of the credits to listen to it.

Inception - Time

The Sailor who Fell From Grace With the Sea.

The opening credits sequence of "Fahrenheit 451," with the delicate, dreamy Bernard Herrmann underscoring.

Reagan's Theme from Exorcist 2 The Heretic

There are several very moving musical sequences in this film. The great Alfred Newman.

I've always hated Alfred Newman - his scores all sounded exactly the same. And all those weepy violins - YUCK!

I do love Thomas Newman though.

The River

I absolutely love this piano cover of Carol Anne's Theme from Poltergeist.

THE BIG COUNTRY by Jerome Moss

If this one doesn't give you chills, then nothing ever will:

THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947)

music by Bernard Herrmann the same composer who created the music for many of Hitchcock's films

My all-time favorite.

Max Steiner - The Letter

The Talented Mr Ripley - Gabriel Yared

More Jerry Goldsmith fabulousness - his haunting main theme for The Sand Pebbles. Creepy and beautiful at the same time.

BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING

TO KiLL A MOCKINGBiRD

DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978)

The title theme was adapted from 'The Aquarium' from Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals.

SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS

Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann

Schindler's List

Brokeback Mountain

This version is beautiful

I've always loved Pino Donaggio's score for Carrie. So gorgeous and sad at one moment and terrifying the next. Brilliant!

Flåklypa Grand Prix

Le mépris a movie by Godard - soundtrack Georges Delerue

The woefully underrated Malkovich-directed The Dancer Upstairs (Bardem lowkeying it all the way).

First cut is "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" done by Nina Simone. Prepare to weep.

John Barry, King Kong (1976). It's a large reason why I love the movie so damned much.

La scoumoune by François de Roubaix A rare use of the barrel organ

"Days of Wine and Roses"

Is anyone even listening to any of these clips?

Yes, I have enjoyed listening to them after a lousy day at work. Most were new to me and I especially liked Bent Fabric's "Flåklypa Grand Prix" and Jerome Moross' "The Big Country".

I love this music from "The Indiscretion of and American Wife" composed by Alessandro Cicognini.

The most beautiful score of all time from the film Amelie. I want this played at my wedding and my funeral.

Does "beautiful" include passionate, powerful and exciting? Then here are some candidates....

...and...

Another Pino Donaggio score. 'Don't Look Now'. I couldn't find the movie clip, but this plays during the end credits, as Julie Christie accompanies (spoiler!!!) Donald Sutherland's funeral barge into the waters of Venice. I own the entire score.

...and...

Ryuichi Sakamoto's theme for 'The Sheltering Sky'.

Sorry but the dreary, droning Amelie is everything that is wrong with contemporary film scoring.

...and...

Out of Africa

...and...

I didn't like this movie in spite of Carter Burwell's haunting score.

One of the all-time greats: Franz Waxman's unforgettable score for "Rebecca," with the six note motif (starting at 00:17) that invokes the dead Rebecca herself and haunts the entire film in different permutations.

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

...and...(for the Alfred Newman hater!!)

Ooops--here's "rebecca"

Le Professionel

Another great score from the Hitchcock oeuvre: "The Hunt," from Bernard Herrmann's score for "Marnie"

Poor Forio!

R44 I've never seen "Kings Row" or heard Korngold's score before, but I'll bet John Williams has.

Yes, he has...unapologetically. As Korngold heard Wagner before him....

...Morricone...with lyrics....sung by the great Mireille Mathieu

Mise Eire( I am Ireland) 1959

...and...

Nino Rota's "La Dolce Vita". Bella musica.

...and...

...and corresponding scene...

...and the BRILLIANT Mancini main title for....

...and more thrilling Alfred Newman...

The cue 'Home' from Trevor Jones' score for LAWN DOGS brings a lump to my throat and makes me shiver. It's a deathly string theme that is tragic, lovely, aching and eerie in the way the end of CROUCHING TIGER was.

The yearning, tremulous, despairing solo violin motif fits the bittersweet fairytale story of the film perfectly. It's played over the chilling, desperately sad final scene to devastating effect - having just shot her own father in the chest, Mischa Barton's 10-year-old heroine Devon watches from a treetop as her best friend/platonic true-love Trent (Sam Rockwell) runs for his life over the stateline to escape a jail sentence (for Devon's crime).

...and more thrilling John Williams....

..and some Poulenc puckishness from Williams....

Alex North. I want this at my funeral.

Heavens to Betsy May!

...and from lovely Elmer....

...to a hair-raisingly decadent Jarre....

Ennio Morricone, Ecstasy of Gold from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Of course The Mission is also great.

The Leftovers - so haunting. One of my favs

Not a movie score, r74.

One of my favorites from Michel Legrand, Summer of 42.

[quote] The cue 'Home' from Trevor Jones' score for LAWN DOGS brings a lump to my throat and makes me shiver.

Mary!

...and more delicious melodrama from De Vol (oh, that tympany and the inner voices at 2'06")...

Anton Karas' score for Carol Reed's "The Third Man".

...more Legrand...the woodwind runs at 2'54"!

...and the limpid, ever-so-French stylings of Delerue....

OMG, I'm ashamed to realize I didn't even think of Erich Korngold! One of the greatest Hollywood composers that ever existed.

William Walton's "The Princes in the Tower" from "Richard III" (1955).

I posted this on another thread a while ago, but it's definitely worth listening to twice.

"Surviving Picasso" score by Richard Robbins.

Oh, God, Walton! The Battle of Agincourt!

...and the orgasmic love theme from the other Bernstein...

From "Aguirre, The Wrath of God", scored by Popul Vuh.

...and in all its slashing angularity...

Far from your loving eyes, in a place where winter never comes...

Beautiful soundtrack - Wind River

"Sunrise in the Kalahari" from The Gods Must Be Crazy II

Does anyone remember this, from a French B&W movie?

Duel in the Sun, by Dmitri Tiomkin

Atonement by Dario Marianelli

“Love Theme” from Klute

“Cavatina” theme from The Deer Hunter

Walk on the Wild Side by Elmer Bernstein. Stupid movie, awesome score.

[R31] Yes, the composition played when Carrie returns to the candlelit house and again when Piper Lurie’s character is “crucified” is haunting and sad and beautiful.

"The Company of Wolves" stands out to me, not just for soundtrack but sound work, period. It manages to convey fantasy wonder in a sometimes grisly fairy tale world without getting too bleak. Some of the audio even sounds like it's being funneled through a dream, that tunnel sounding distance.

I thought the score for the Coen Brothers’ Miller’s Crossing was extraordinary. It’s a great old film, too.

THe “Candle Theme” from Carrie is beautiful, R97. It almost sounds like an ancient hymn with the heavy organ. Pino Donaggio was a genius.

R91 It might be Louis Malle's "The Fire Within". Sad movie.

Yes, R101. That is IT! It's been driving me crazy for months. Thank you so much.

The “Candle Theme”

Nino Rota’s score for “Death on the Nile”, 1978.

Someone posted this on a DePalma thread. Pino Donaggio/"Body Double".

I still think the soundtrack, soundwork of "My Own Private Idaho" is a perfect example of "eclectic" at its best. Often cozy, sometimes comedic, sometimes poignant, it conjures up the sort of era-ambiguous, dreamy time flow that's a perfect fit for the content and characters living in a parallel community not under the same schedule and behavioral constraints as the mainstream one. Kind of like they're weaving in and out of that mainstream time flow based on limited interactions with it.

R104 Lovely music, it instantly brought back memories of seeing the movie in grade 8 and dreaming of Egypt.

But this is specifically scores? I've posted this before on a similar thread but Michael Nyman's work for "The Draughtman's Contract" is perfect. It even has this slightly cheeky air of absurdity to it, like it's aware of its own labored pomposity.

DUEL IN THE SUN is magnificent, as is most of Tiomkin.

Another Christie winner...

Nino Rota’s “Romeo and Juliet”

Midnight Run

R105 That sounds like a rip-off of Tangerine Dream's score from Risky Business.

Angelo Badalamenti.

"Mulholland Drive"

Ravi Shankar + Victorian hymns is exactly what "Alice in Wonderland" should be:

Miles Davis/"Elevator to the Gallows"

"Harlem Nights". Love those sultry horns and the romanticized nod to the period music.

Off track but Eddie Murphy looked like perfection in this. His comedic talent has always masked how beautiful he is.

Rachel Portman's score for "Smoke" (1995).

Georges Delerue - Julia

Devastating.

Summer of '42 - Michael Legrand

Blade Runner - Vangelis....always liked the version more that was available for decades as Big V refused to record the soundtrack. His version is a bit more fiddly, but still stunning

[italic]Steel Magnolias,[/italic] Georges Delerue

[italic]Fried Green Tomatoes,[/italic] Thomas Newman

....

I know, not a movie, but still...

[italic]Somewhere in Time,[/italic] John Barry

Ennio. Very very good. Moving.

Two for the Road

(Mancini schmaltz but I adore it)

Thanks for starting this thread. I love The River Pastorale by Rózsa.

Was just listening to S&G this week, r130 (the 2 disc studio album).

ANYTHING Jerry Goldsmith was involved with, starting with the original "Planet of the Apes" films.

What a coincidence, R131!

How has no one mentioned the great Prokofiev film scores?

Agreed about Ghost and Mrs Muir (was Vertigo to obvious?), Les parapluies de Cherbourg, Aguirre, La Dolce Vita, and many others. Orfeo Negro had one of the great scores.

Per Nørgård's score for Babette's Feast was amazing.

"Betty Blue", scored by Gabriel Yared.

Define Dancing scene from WALL-E, Thomas Newman

Highly under-rated opening music for "Elf"

If you like the score for Sleeping with the Enemy, you'll love the main theme from The Hand that Rocks the Cradle. This track from Elmer Bernstein also has a similar feel.

The 90's was the last great era for thematically rich scores. Of the current generation, only Desplat works in that style.

Beautiful beyond words.

Believe it or not, one of the best romantic themes of all time was John Barry's love theme for Howard the Duck. I prefer this rerecording to the original.

love theme from north by northwest from Bernard herrmann. Couldn't find a clip of the train compartment scene where it is used.

Jerry Goldsmith again. Basic Instinct.

Cyrano de Bergerac - music Jean-Claude Petit

The innocence of the main title (starting with the accordion entrance at 0'50") ALWAYS gets me blubbering, r 137.

Unforgettable theme.

Alex North. Again. His score for CLEOPATRA is wonderful.

The best R&B soundtrack

The best Pino Donaggio score

Underrated score from the most underrated movie of the last decade

David Lynch's best

Another great Lynch score

The most legendary score from Ennio

A Single Man

The Fountain.

Ryuichi Sakamoto with David Sylvian "Forbidden Colours" (OST Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence)

R99, it's a great theme. It's based on a tune called 'The Lament for Limerick'.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon title theme

*main title

THE HIGH AND THE MIGHTY is greatness, indeed, but you need a recording worthy of it....

These contemporary scores, with their sampled two-note droning and blatant ripoff of far superior music, can't hold a candle to Golden Age craft and invention.

...more Morricone....

...Morricone redux...

The original Jerry Goldsmith score for Legend. This was only released in Europe. The American score was rewritten by Tangerine Dream and much more pop-oriented (though I still enjoy it).

Any Arvo Part for Tarkovsky. Peter Gabriel for Scorsese's Last Temptation. Whoever scored The Face of Another.

Overture from Far From the Madding Crowd

Good one, r 165.

R163 The same thing happened with The Neverending Story. However, I love the American soundtrack just as well because I also enjoyed Moroder's contributions to the score.

Jerry Goldsmith created a masterpiece with Rudy but I thought Trevor Rabin's score for Remember the Titans was just as epic and heart pumping. Both are absolutely essential.

I thought Randy Edelman's theme for Dragon the Bruce Lee Story was very uplifting as well.

Fell in love with this score. It's the only thing I remember from this movie.

Another Horner masterpiece.

Narciso Yepes/ "Forbidden Games" (1952)

Adding to the James Horner appreciation. RIP

R47, we concur.

My Father’s Glory

Vladimir Cosma wrote the score for My Father’s Glory

Why did Edelman not live up the promise he displayed in the 90's? Gettysburg has one of the best scores I've ever heard.

Some Mother's Son

Jocelyn Pook, from The Merchant of Venice - 'Her Gentle Spirit'. Mesmerizing...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, end credits music from the film Silk. This film, while not great, ends beautifully, with voiceover narration from a letter that's being read by the main character. The way that scene segues into this music is so perfect - it keeps the aching feeling from those words in the final scene going.

Camille Claudel by Yared. The music starts at the one minute mark.

This is why I love the datalounge.

[quote]Jocelyn Pook,

Love her score for the documentary about the Peterson case, The Staircase.

Philip Glass score for the documentary "The Thin Blue Line".

And who could ever forget Philip Glass' haunting music from the closing credits of Candyman?! Pure perfection.

Christopher Young contributed a lot of good horror scores. Hellraiser is probably the most famous.

Stealing Home had a good theme that evokes instant nostalgia. Not so much for the 60s but definitely the 80s when the movie came out.

My favorite - Gattaca, Michael Nyman

More from Gattaca.

Good to make love to.

For 12 fingers.

Thank you, R180. I own this film's soundtrack (CD), which I'd purchased after viewing this exquisitely photographed and scored film.

In the Mood for Love

W/E - "Letters" - Abel Korzeniowski

W/E - "Evgeni's Waltz" - Abel Korzeniowski

Francis Lai, theme for the 1987 film Dark Eyes:

The film itself is middling, but Jan A.P. Kaczmarek's score for the 1996 film Bliss is so gorgeous, evocative and full of beautiful violin. This is my favorite track:

Outstanding theme from the original Let the Right One In.

More from the movie.

“Maurice”, 1987, composed by Richard Robbins

bump

The Red Pony Aaron Copland

Genius James Newton Howard on A PERFECT MURDER

William Walton Henry V Touch her soft lips and part

The MORNING ON THE RANCH cue from THE RED PONY is one of the most enchanting pieces of music ever written for film. Thanks for reminding me, 201.

Also sublime is the Main Title to CAREFUL HE MIGHT HEAR YOU....

I love the music from The Age of Adaline, especially at the end

"Gorodish" from Diva

"Sentimental Walk" from Diva

"The Ludlows" from Legends of the Fall