Background Scores for Motion Pictures : News,Titbits,Reviews

[Hulkster]

Hi guys, we shall use this to discuss background scores for films based from hollywood and others. You can use this thread to post your favourite BGM piece, a discussion on contemporary composers and stuff.

Lets start off with my favourite composer currently, thomas newman who is well known for scores in finding nemo and walle.

Finding Nemo Theme Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM4ITX_4qy0&feature=related)

Bits of the Finding Nemo soundtrack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZdXoJw6hSE&feature=related)

[ajaybaskar]

Where can i download Andrea Guerra's score for Pursuit of happyness?

[VENKIRAJA]

Requiem for a dream
Being John Malkovich
Gladiator by Enya
Pulp Fiction / Kill Bill I
Ennio Morricone's complete discography

AB, all tracks are available on either 4shared or cooltoad.

[littlemaster1982]

Ajay,

See here (http://katz.cd/download/2005718/Music/The-Pursuit-of-Happyness-OST-2007/).

[ajaybaskar]

Thank you VR and LM...

[Hulkster]

Havee not been taking care of my own thread. :curse:


A very famous piece by Hans Zimmer in The Da Vinci Code.

Chevalier De Sangreal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5FyRZbqfeM)

[Hulkster]

Danny Elfman - Spiderman Theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKbdLBTgots)

If i am not wrong Danny Elfman once mentioned that he listens to indian music for inspiration at times. Quite a number of his themes have strong influence of these and more towards RD Burman side.

[ajaybaskar]

Pure magic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z885F2p_rUo

Morricone deserved an Oscar for this score...... :oops:

[P_R]

Elephant stomping (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3wDHnd-QY) - thank you Venki :ty:

[VENKIRAJA]

Elephant stomping (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3wDHnd-QY) - thank you Venki :ty:

padam paarunga.. enakku 2 days bothaiyila irukkura madhirye irundhu.. same feelings with ACWO as well! :redjump:

[raghavendran]

Elephant stomping (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQ3wDHnd-QY) - thank you Venki :ty:

padam paarunga.. enakku 2 days bothaiyila irukkura madhirye irundhu.. same feelings with ACWO as well! :redjump:
oh.... :o

[ajaybaskar]

Thomas Newman's score or Scent of a woman

[VENKIRAJA]

RfaD theme. Dubb's remix is worth listening. Lux Aeterna's acoustic version is very good strumming. Watched it yesterday and re-watched the film today just for experiencing this piece. Stunning!

[ajaybaskar]

Sherlock Holmes scored by Hans Zimmer.

Terrific. Pity that Zimmer didn't win an Oscar for such an outstanding work. He lost to 'Up'.

[littlemaster1982]

Got addicted to the OST of How to Train Your Dragon :musicsmile:

[V_S]

Master of Suspense and his Maestro's of suspense

Today morning, as usual listening to my favorite FM station, where they featured one of the best movie score of all time, Vertigo, which reminded me of all Hitchcock's movies I enjoyed and the scores. Just thought of compiling a few which are my very special to me.

Vertigo (1958) - Theme - Bernard Herrmann (chilling score!). Bernard - Amazing composer and genius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6YgvhkCJu4

Rebecca (my top favorite of all Hitchcock movies) starring Lawrence Olivier, Joan Fontaine & Judith Anderson. Especially the lady villain Judith, what a performance! First time I watched this movie on my trip to India in 2006. After I came back here, I watched this movie several times, still this movie has not faded even an inch (imagine this film was done 70 years before). Such is this classic!
Listen to this breathtaking score from Franz Waxman. Can we forget his score for Sunset Boulevard (1950)?
Rebecca (1940) - Theme - Franz Waxman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QangvYJNc3U Stunning score!

Rebecca (1940) - Title - Franz Waxman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RsOMwX9unA&feature=related

Psycho (1960) - Main theme - Bernard Herrmann (Bernard Again, this time too scary!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOsgZWmvW50&feature=related

North by Northwest (1959) - Titles - Bernard Herrmann (this time totally freaked out)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIlqatMQSgI

The Birds (1963) - Chris Frost (Another great movie by the Master, and grand score by Chris)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMxbNSVPkJQ&feature=related

Spellbound(1945) - Miklos Rozsa (pioneer of film music) Who can forget his score for BenHur (1959)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv_f26Aw-As (A haunting score!)

Maestro's of suspense (summary, interesting video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYPYgFBDiqk&feature=related

Truly great composers!

Finally all the credit goes to Master of suspense Mr. Alfred Hitchcock, talented genius, who demands music in its very detailed form for every emotion! Unfortunately, he was not awarded by the Academy (inspite of Rebecca getting Best Picture in 1940) not even once, what a shame! :oops:

[kid-glove]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB4aEKRSijQ&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEo7FGkmRx0

David Shire.

[kid-glove]

Oh Talia Coppola = Talia Shire ! Coppola family tree remba perusa irukkum pOla. Francis Coppola really knows to get the job done from his relatives.

[KV]

kid, thanks for bringing up The Conversation, FFC masterpiece :bow:. One of my all time favorite films and IMO, probably FFC's best, second only to Apocalypse Now. Genius :bow:

[kid-glove]

He made a lot of duds later. It's tough to beat him in 70's, with The Conversation, Apocalypse now, TG I , TG II.

[KV]

Yes, sadly his magic of the 70s kinda went missing after that, but I found Rainmaker and Tetro quite enjoyable. Yet to see the other ones, but the feeling one gets from reading the opinions on RT and IMDB isn't that great. Nonetheless, I still plan to get hold and watch as many as possible for I'm pretty sure there'l be some flashes of brilliance, which I'll be glad to accept.
And speaking of passing on the legacy, boy, Sofia is one heck of a director in her own right. Though she's made only a handful of films, their subtlety and reflective nature, mostly working on a very personal level, is something that not many contemporary filmmakers have managed to capture.

[kid-glove]

Rumble Fish & Dracula are pretty good. The latter is a high point for Olman.

Sofia Coppola is someone I'd readily acknowledge & like, but a wee bit suspicious of art-house posturing off-late..

[kid-glove]

Saw Lynne Ramsay's 'We Need To Talk About Kevin'. Like Coppola's Somewhere, made in 7 millions. Johnny Greenwood score is so subliminal here. Ramsay always strives for a particular aural-visual design that serves the thematic & psychological plane.

[littlemaster1982]

From the OST of A Beautiful Mind.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWpwZf3jebw

First 35 seconds :notworthy:

[kid-glove]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtqviCGcHc

[ajaybaskar]

Zimmer,you beauty!! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWzcCA-kFy8&feature=related)