Best ever film scores

Wallace1492

You are all right in some ways, but my three favourites are:

Local Hero - music by Mark Knopler - haunting, uplifting and totally superb, gets played today as the theme for Newcastle United.

Restless Natives - fantastic score by Big Country, superb guitars, moody, scene setting and just right. RIP Stuart Adamson.

Coast to Coast - a selection of superb soul music in a little known film starring Lenny Henry about an runaway american GI DJing across England, if you have never seen it, then it is one to look out for. Never been released on Video or DVD.

nolf

dilemna wrote:

Typically a film score is music written for a film. There are many above which have used existing compositions or songs. But to be great it really has to be up to the scores of such composers as Maurice Jarre, John Barry, John Williams, Nino Rota, Jerry Goldsmith, James Honer, Henry Mancini, Elmer or Leonard Bernstein, Miklos Rozsa, Irving Berlin or Ennio Morricone to name a few.

Umm Hans Zimmer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!-
Gladiator soundtrack, hannibal soundtrack and countless others!!!

jimmypippa

Anyone mentioned The Third Man?

and for sheer campness - Flash Gordon

flybike

The Fountain OST composed by Clint Mansell and performed by the Kronos Quartet and Mogwai; absolutely stunning.

I still haven't seen the film though, not sure I want to, I'd just be listening to the soundtrack the whole way though....

iainf72

flybike wrote:

The Fountain OST composed by Clint Mansell and performed by the Kronos Quartet and Mogwai; absolutely stunning.

I still haven't seen the film though, not sure I want to, I'd just be listening to the soundtrack the whole way though....

No, you'd be concentrating trying to keep up. I'm a big fan of all concerned with the Fountain but it's a lot of work to keep up with it.



Mansell's soundtrack for "Moon" is also good.

flybike

Eh huh, I'll stick to just listening then!

Frank the tank

The warriors Barry de vorzon
Jungle book (Disney)
Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote some great tunes for various musicals.

Anonymous

QUADROPHENIA.

" I am one of the faces..."

Percy Veere

Conan the Barbarian OST by Basil Poledouris, one of the very few soundtracks that is played throughout the entire file. Absolutely brilliant.

Also +1 for Local Hero, and Independance Day wasn't too bad, or Mortal Kombat !

markos1963

For me its
Oh Brother Where Art Thou?

Blues Brothers

The Harder They Come

jos2thehua

Star Wars
James Bond
Vision Quest
Kill Bill Vol.1/2 - By far my favorite of the four...

knedlicky

Forgot to include:

Neil Young's soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch's film 'Dead Man', with Johnny Depp.

volvine

end credits on School of rock all the kids jamming to AC/DC classic stuff.

tyskie

One track that sticks in my mind for sheer intensity was when Robert Carlyle was running away from the infected in 28 Weeks Later.

rally200

Splottboy wrote:

Nearly forgot one: "The Harder They Come", Jimmy Cliff reggae film. Jimmy, Toots and the Maytals et al. Yeah Mon...

++++1

then "Get Carter" - Caine not Stallone

volvine

Barber's "Adagio for Strings" in Platoon brilliant moving stuff