Favorite Movie Tracks?

[USALiberal]

I love John Williams, saw him conduct movie night at the Boston Pops twice. Two of my favorites (and not the common ones) are below.

"March from 1941" and "The Cowboys Overture"

List your favorite movie piece, I am always looking for great items to add to my movie theme playlist!

[Kahuna7]

1. Purple Rain. nt

[mucifer]

2. The Theme From "The Conversation" with Gene Hackman:

So haunting. So beautiful. Was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

[Leghorn21]

3. I used to have these, and listened to them endlessly:

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Last of the Mohicans, oh yeah!!!!!

One of the few I have the dvd movie of.

[Merlot]

4. Mo Better Blues and LA Confidential

There's a Dean Martin track on LA Confidential

[nocoincidences]

6. The Boys From Brazil

I love the music, even though the movie wasn't the greatest.

Jerry Goldsmith's score was beautiful.

[USALiberal]

7. Have never seen that movie, worth a watch? Also, Goldsmith is a legend! RUDY!!! nt

[nocoincidences]

8. It's worth at least one watch,

just to see the greats Gregory Peck, Lawrence Olivier, and James Mason together.

The premise of the movie is certainly unique.

[nocoincidences]

9. I'm a movie buff

so pardon me if I bring up obscure soundtracks...Lord of Illusions...Clive Barker story.

Again, a so-so movie, but the soundtrack is one of those that sticks with you.

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[USALiberal]

11. obscure is good! nt

[Chipper Chat]

10. Some Came Running (1958)

Music by Elmer Bernstein. Every scene was enhanced by his remarkable score.
The movie starred shirley maclaine, Frank Sinatra, Arthur Kennedy and Martha Hyer.

[First Speaker]

19. That's one of the most underrated films of all time...

...people think of it as "just another Rat pack film"...but I think it's one of the best American films of the 50s, and maybe Sinatra's best performance...

[Chipper Chat]

23. A classic.

And oops I forgot Dean Martin. And Nancy Gates.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

12. Those were great! As an old movie fan I love Erich Wolfgang Korngold scores,

And this is from one of my favorites of his (I own a copy of this lp).

[Tikki]

13. Here's a couple:

URGH!…A Music War (1980)

“Ain’t This the Life”…(1979)…Oingo Boingo

Rock and Roll High School (1979)

“High School”…(1970)…MC5


Tikki

[Doc_Technical]

14. Dr. Zhivago main title

[Stuart G]

15. Theme from "The Magnificent Seven (1960)

The first and one of the few 45s I ever bought...still got it..great music. (and I must add, a great movie)


Here is the entire theme (about 5 minutes)

[USALiberal]

18. Great song, thanks! Big Country is good also.....

[Talitha]

16. The Big Chill and Forrest Gump

Great songs!

[USALiberal]

17. Forrest,Gump one of my favorites. Nt

[First Speaker]

20. Berrnard Herrman's score for Vertigo is probably the best all time...

...it's just incredibly evocative. Some other favorites--John Williams' score for Jane Eyre, Miklos Rozsa's scores for Ivanhoe and El Cid, Max Steiner's for The Big Sleep, Elmer Bernstein for Walk on the Wild Side and To Kill a Mockingbird, and Braveheart--I forget the composer...Barry? Oh--and Howard Shore's scores for Lord of the Rings... really, too many...

[USALiberal]

21. Thanks for the list! Nt

[Mendocino]

25. Another great Herrman score..

the kinetic North by Northwest.

[lpbk2713]

22. Claudia's Theme

The haunting guitar work at the beginning of Unforgiven.

It brings to mind the beginning of Cool Hand Luke.

[Aristus]

24. The gentle, serene loveliness of Mark Knopfler's 'Local Hero'.

[Heartstrings]

26. YES!

You beat me to this one Aristus!

[Aristus]

27. When I'm feeling down or stressed out, this and Knopfler's soundtrack

to The Princess Bride always make me feel better...

[Heartstrings]

32. Anything mellow Knopfler is an anti-stress reliever....

[Aristus]

33. Here's another one:

[Heartstrings]

35. Very soothing.....

Thanks! I need soothing when I have a migraine.....

[Aristus]

38. Glad I could help.

Feel better...

[Heartstrings]

42. Awwww....thanks!

[bif]

48. One of my favorites. And the movie is great too!

[zipplewrath]

28. Harry Met Sally

It's a good collection of "standards".

And from far left field...

Gangster Paradise from Dangerous Minds.

[smirkymonkey]

43. That's one of my absolute favorites too!

[yellowdogintexas]

29. The Warsaw Concerto from Dangerous Moonlight & The Sea Wolves

composed by Richard Addinsel

One of my favorites

[yellowdogintexas]

30. How could I forget? The Graduate !!!

One of the best ever.

Of course there is always Yellow Submarine ....

[Mendocino]

31. I am haunted by waters

[Number9Dream]

34. John Williams, Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, Miklos Rozsa

John Williams: Close Encounters -

Bernard Herrmann: Journey to the Center of the Earth Suite, Psycho, The Day the Earth Stood Still.
Miklos Rozsa - Ben-Hur suite
Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso
Maurice Jarre - Building the Barn (Witness)
Alfred Newman - The Mark of Zorro Suite
Morton Gould - The Ship (Windjammer)
Randy Newman - The Natural
Phillip Glass - The Illusionist
Jerry Goldsmith - Patton

[USALiberal]

36. Thank you! Nt

[Heartstrings]

37. Mr. Hollands Opus

All the songs from the soundtrack culminating in this finale....

[MrScorpio]

39. Last Tango In Paris

[Mendocino]

40. One flew east

one flew west

one flew over the cuckoos nest

Jack Nitzsche

[gratuitous]

41. That's a good one

In a similar vein is Vangelis' soundtrack from The Year of Living Dangerously:

[smirkymonkey]

44. "Extreme Ways" by Moby from the Jason Bourne movies.

[smirkymonkey]

45. I love a lot of Woody Allen's soundtracks, usually more than the film's themselves.

This is one of my favorites. He's a huge jazz aficionado, as am I, and I think he has a really great ear.

[AwakeAtLast]

46. Lux Aeterna - Requiem For a Dream

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[UniteFightBack]

47. Hair, The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. nt

[cemaphonic]

54. Morricone in general

Battle of Algiers and The Mission are also fantastic,

[Harker]

49. I love a lot of film music.

Here's a personal favorite...
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[MissMillie]

50. Recently watched American Hustle

and really liked the music in that one. Especially like the use of ELO's 10538 Overture

The Big Chill and Forrest Gump are awesome

[akraven]

51. The Magic Christian.

Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr. Add Meet the Beatles.....

[Beartracks]

57. Longtime John Williams fan! The Cowboys Overture...

... is one of my favorites, too.

I remember reading somewhere (probably Wikipedia) that Steven Spielberg's favorite march by John Williams is the one from 1941.

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