<p>I just watched parts of Moonstruck. It’s a movie i enjoy, yet…i have always watched it in pieces. I have never seen it from start to finish. But maybe that is the subject for another thread.</p>
<p>Anyway, i love the music in that movie.</p>
<p>And a couple of Woody Allen movies…stand out for me…Manhattan…with the Gershwin soundtrack, and Sweet and Lowdown…with Howard Alden playing the guitar. I am sure there are more, but those movies stand out for me at this minute.</p>
<p>So…which movies have you seen where you love the music?</p>
<p>Do you mean soundtrack or do you mean the original score? I love music composed by Hans Zimmer. Lion King is my favorite soundtrack of all times.</p>
<p>At the moment I am listening to a lot from O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the recent Sherlock Holmes movie.</p>
<p>I also like Hans Zimmer. I believe he wrote the original music for the Sherlock Holmes film I am listening to. And I like Klaus Badelt, he did the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie.</p>
<p>Out of Africa. John Barry’s Oscar winning score is lush and beautiful. He wrote original music, and the music when they’re riding in the plane holding hands looking at the African veldt is stunning. I can hear it in my head as I write. Barry also used Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, surely one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.</p>
<p>Truly Madly Deeply. The soundtrack is mostly Bach Celo pieces, and more than the very gorgeous Cello Suite in G, now sadly “commercial” music selling obnoxious products. The score is so lovely, and in the film played by a ghost.</p>
<p>Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. East meets West and Yo-yo Ma. Percussion and cello. Original music.</p>
<p>Shakespeare in Love. Not Renaissance music. Modern music that nevertheless captures the mood and orchestrates the emotions portrayed perfectly.</p>
<p>The Songcatcher. Same territory as O Brother, but sadder and a deeper, more authentic vein. All Appalachian ballads (love songs as one character explains) except for the stunning dialogue with death that many of the musically sophisticated mountain people sing at a dance. The plot of the movie, as the title indicates, is about preserving this music which was still alive in the US long after the songs ceased to be sung in England.</p>
<p>Okay. Just to please my darling S. Anything by John Williams. Stars Wars theme, Indiana Jones theme. Iconic.</p>
<p>Hannah and her Sisters. Gershwin again plus Bach.</p>
<p>You Can Count On Me-wonderful movie with wonderful music ranging from the prelude to Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G-major (again) to Steve Earle’s Pilgrim</p>
<p>Million Dollar Baby has some really good music.
Also Bridges of Madison County…
I love all the music in Sleepless in Seattle too.
And John Williams is the man. How incredible to be able to compose such great music so prolifically.</p>
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