Film Music Recommendations

[gamba]

' Louisiana Story ' a semi- documentary directed by Robert Flaherty with a Pulitzer prize-winning score based on original Cajun songs by Virgil Thomson. This shows , with great great poetic vision & sound, the impact of a group of oil prospectors invading the idyllic life of a young boy & his pet racoon living amongst the rich natural environment of the area.

Totally unforgettable music & pictures, as if born together.

[BBMmk2]

Well, fancy that, BBC to celebrate film music in autumn season.

Edit: further info at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/lat...of-cinema.html

Russ

Out of Africa - Main theme, simply gorgeous!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Out of Africa - Main theme, simply gorgeous!

I agree - but there's a whole (quarter-hour - twenty minute) concert suite can be made from that film score.

[BBMmk2]

Ah, Ferney, wouldn't that be great if someone could make a concert suite from that?

[Oliver]

Don't forget European films from the 60s and 70s....in those days there were cinemas in London (Academy, Continentale, Paris Pullman,Cameo Poly etc) which specialised in "art" films.
Here are two with outstanding scores.
1) Truffaut's Jules et Jim (Georges Delarue)
2) Fellini's Eight and a half (Nino Rota)

It was also a time when directors utilised existing works effectively.
Pasolini's Accetone (Bach's St Matthew) and Mama Roma (Vivaldi Concerto in D Minor)
Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly (Bach's Cello Suite in D Minor)

[gamba]

Don't forget European films from the 60s and 70s....in those days there were cinemas in London (Academy, Continentale, Paris Pullman,Cameo Poly etc) which specialised in "art" films.
Here are two with outstanding scores.
1) Truffaut's Jules et Jim (Georges Delarue)
2) Fellini's Eight and a half (Nino Rota)

It was also a time when directors utilised existing works effectively.
Pasolini's Accetone (Bach's St Matthew) and Mama Roma (Vivaldi Concerto in D Minor)
Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly (Bach's Cello Suite in D Minor)

Oliver,

If I remember rightly Fellini in 8 1/2 used a movement from the magnificent set of variations in Beethoven's qt. op.131 in C#min. whilst panning slowly over the naked body of a woman - not sexy at all, such music gave her a timeless, statuesque quality & so appropriate, enough to make one hold one's breathe throughout the shot.

Thanks for the reminder !

[gamba]

Oliver,

How could you NOT remember the ' Everyman ' Hampstead !! Shame on you !!

[Oliver]

I'm a "sarf" Londoner! For people like me, London stops at Euston Road.

[gamba]

Oh Oliver, what you have missed ! Not to have stood in the queue for a seat at the ' Everyman.'

Twice did my girlfriend have her bottom ' pinched ' whilst standing in the queue & on each occasion by someone well-known & of high repute ( supposedly ) - you won't get exciting happenings like that anywhere around the Euston Road. It all started happening once I moved to Muswell Hill - never regretted it.