Has music ever been used in film more powerfully than this?

[Sir Velo]

For admirers of Claudia Cardinale, see 3:07 into the OUATITW clip above.

[gingerjon]

Dangerously high-brow this thread so allow me to bring it down to a Classic FM level the masses can follow. In no particular order, some thoughts on times when I think music has been core to understanding what's going on but not in the way:

- Vangelis's music for Blade Runner: this is how 2019 should look and sound from the perspective of 1981
- Beiderbecke in Beiderbecke (obviously): Alan Plater's Beiderbecke trilogy made Leeds the 1920s jazz capital of the world
- Overture from the Marriage of Figaro to begin Trading Places: how to get across, magnificently, the conflicted world of New York in a jaunty sort of way

But the film which I think best integrates music, vision, sound, 'action' and words and to create an emotional impact is Three Colours: Red. Music sample below:

[Nick Armstrong]

But the film which I think best integrates music, vision, sound, 'action' and words and to create an emotional impact is Three Colours: Red.

What a cracking film!! I'd forgotten about that. I occasionally browse for the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge trilogy in a box at a sensible price, and consequently have been waiting for years to see them again having seen them eagerly when they came out.

[keithbraidwood2]

For me, the scene in Silence of the Lambs where Lecter is in his 'cage', has killed one policeman, has de-faced the other before spraying mace in his eyes and then standing in a blood-spattered t-shirt conducting a cassette recording of Bach's Goldbergs.

Although not films, I was also moved by the choice of music in 'Auschwitz, the Nazis and the 'Final Solution'' and 'The Nazis - A Warning from History, both by Laurence Rees, in which parts of Brahms' German Requiem, Mozart's Requiem and Arvo Part's Fratres were used.

[gingerjon]

What a cracking film!! I'd forgotten about that. I occasionally browse for the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge trilogy in a box at a sensible price, and consequently have been waiting for years to see them again having seen them eagerly when they came out.

I hate the whole "what's your favourite X,Y,Z" type argument but if I had to say what film had stayed with me the most it would be Rouge and not just because as a teenager I fell hopelessly in love with Irene Jakob.

I believe that if you want to watch them again and don't mind the quality that YouTube has them all in segments.

[Stanley Stewart]

What a cracking film!! I'd forgotten about that. I occasionally browse for the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge trilogy in a box at a sensible price, and consequently have been waiting for years to see them again having seen them eagerly when they came out.

Coincidentally, I've just ordered the DVD trilogy of "Three Colours..." @ £16 99, post free, from a reliable contact: info@moviemail.com