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post #91 of 97
9/27/04 at 1:56am
I really liked the music from The Legend of 1900.
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post #92 of 97
9/27/04 at 2:42am
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Originally Posted by rsaavedra
Reviving this thread to recommend a soundtrack I like a lot: "Hero", music by Tan Dun, same composer of "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon". Great music, and the movie is one of my favorites of all time I must say.

Yes, such original compositions to match the theme and the mood of the movie, and the resultant soundtrack is fantastic by itself.

I read the original Chinese novel some 30 years ago, and never thought that the movie adaptation (somewhat different from the original writing) would turn out so well.

Happy listening,
W
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post #93 of 97
9/27/04 at 3:24am
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Originally Posted by scrypt
I'm not certain if you're addressing me or not, but Morricone is very much an occasional composer, in my o-minion; treacle like The Mission has nothing to do with the likes of Stendhal, which is a dissonant synth soundtrack written in the form of a passacaille. Our tastes (yours and mine) might be rather different; I'm one of the few people I know who prefers Morricone's chamber music to most of his soundtracks, and collects recordings of his all-composers' improvisational group, Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza. Still, the fact that you would even mention mainstream nutrasweet like Cinema Paradisio suggests you don't know the music to which I'm referring.

As for Dexter Gordon and Round Midnight; again, your taste is your taste, and I wouldn't dispute Gordon's importance in any event. Only, he doesn't really do it for me. I'm more a fan of formalist jazz, hence my preference for Ellington's "Symphony in Black" (which is included on the New Orleans DVD).
I am sorry, but I hadn't read your list when I posted - I just saw the title and instantly I typed out the "Big Three" of the college set in my time - Cinema Paradiso, A Room With a View, and The Mission. Any time a fellow wanted to mack on a lady, he would blast one of these three soundtracks to "show his sensitive side," and therefore begin a score of a different type. It is unfortunate that Morricone got bundled into this unpleasant memory of mine, but the recollection was purely contextual, not musical. That particular soundtrack, on musical merit alone, cannot erase those dorm life years in my memory - I apologize for not being clear enough in my reasons for listing those soundtracks.

'Round Midnight, on the other hand, does deserve a better musical fate, and I believe a more accurate release of the movie's soundtrack would surely benefit many Blue Note Aficionados.
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post #94 of 97
9/27/04 at 3:26am
Oh, and "The Deer Hunter." when a jock wanted sensitive "alone time" he would blast this soundtrack. Argh.
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post #95 of 97
9/27/04 at 3:31am
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Originally Posted by scrypt
...The Shining (original version -- best use of modernist classical music in any film I've seen)...
Has this been remastered yet? Last thing I saw on Carlos's website was they were baking the master and were preparing to work on it.
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post #96 of 97
9/27/04 at 7:22am
'The Mission' is excellent and so is 'Gattaca' but my favourite that no one seems to have mentioned yet is 'Conspiracy Theory' by Carter Burwell. It even has something in it that sounds a bit Jazzy.

Some songs are hipnotic and chaotic while others are smooth orchestra like tracks 14 and 15. Give it a try!
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post #97 of 97
2/19/11 at 2:08am

Impossible to say the best of all when you're a huge score fan.

 

But I'll give you some of the great composer

 

Ladies first:

 

Anne Dudley

Rachel Portman

 

The Gentlemen:

 

Maurice Jarre

Georges Delerue

Enio Morricone

John Williams

James Newton Howard

Christopher  Gunnings

John Powell

Alexandre Desplat

 

Tell me if you're interested in one of them. And I 'll give you their best scores. 

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