Favorite Movies Soundtracks??

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43. Pat Metheny - A Map of the World (2000)

Starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore and David Strathairn.
I had to drive from Houston to Dallas to see the movie. It was distributed in very few theaters and I don't know why.

Pat Metheny is my favorite jazz guitarist. He plays clean, which is very unfashionable these days in rock. He stole all his licks from Wes Montgomery. I've followed Pat since the mid-1970s. Some of the stuff he has put out in the last ten years has sounded like white noise, with no structure to it. That I do not like.

A sample:

The writing of the Map of the World Score, Part 1:

The writing of the Map of the World Score, Part 2:

"This is not America" by David Bowie and Pat Metheny, from "The Falcon and the Snowman", 1985.

I once saw the Pat Metheny Group live, and he said, "I wrote a movie score, and I didn't get rich and famous" referring to "The Falcon and the Snowman". It was a true story about two teenagers who were spies. They used a shredder to mix their drinks in.

I also like those European guys who went to Hollywood in the 30s and wrote movie scores: Max Steiner(Gone with the Wind), Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklos Rosza, Bernard Herrmann(Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Psycho), etc. Can't remember all their names. Guys who knew how to orchestrate. Sometimes John Williams' scores remind me of the horn parts in Bruckner's Fourth.

Sergei Prokofief wrote the score to "Alexander Nevsky."

And as you probably all know, they stole the Polovetzian Dances of Borodin for "Kismet". "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" is from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2. "Strangers in Paradise" is from the Polovetzian Dances.

Steal from the best.