FPA 386 |
film
music
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video
list by composer page |
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note: This list represents only a few of the many composers one might suggest. |
Elmer Bernstein | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Desire under the Elms | 58 | ||
God's Little Acre | 58 | ||
Great Santini | 80 | ||
Grifters, the | 90 | ||
Hud | 63 | ||
Magnificent Seven | 60 | One of the greatest themes of all time | |
Man with the Golden Arm | 55 | ||
My Left Foot | 89 | ||
To Kill a Mockingbird | 62 | Hauntingly beautiful score |
Carter Burwell | |||
No Country for Old Men | Coen Brothers | 2007 | Excellent score & film |
Barton Fink | Coen Brothers | 91 | |
Raising Arizona | Coen Brothers (Joel & Ethan) | 87 | Wonderfully quirky |
Three Kings | David O. Russel | 99 | |
(any Coen brother film) |
Ry Cooder | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Paris, Texas |
Wim
Wenders
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83 | |
The Border | 82 | ||
The Long Riders | 80 | ||
Dead Man Walking | 96 |
Stewart Copeland | |||
Rumblefish | Coppolla | 83 | |
Wall Street | 86 |
Mychael Danna | |||
Moonsoon Wedding [3] | Mira Nair | 01 | |
Exotica [2] | Atom Egoyan | ||
Ice Storm [2] | 97 | Note: use of the Indonesian Gamelan | |
any Egoyan film |
Georges Delerue | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Black Robe [3] | 91 | ||
Conformist [3] | 71 | ||
Day for Night [3] | 73 | ||
Hiroshima, Mon Amour [3] | Alain Resnais | 59 | |
Jules et jim [3] | 62 | ||
King of Hearts [2] | 66 | ||
True Confessions [2] | 81 |
Anne Dudley | |||
The Crying Game | Neil Jordan | 92 | |
Pushing Tin | Mike Newelle | 99 | |
The Walker | Paul Schrader | 07 |
Danny Elfman | |||
Edward Scissorhands | 90 | ||
The Nightmare Before Christmas | 93 |
Peter Gabriel | |||
The Last Temptation of Christ | Scorcese | 88 | |
Birdy | Alan Parker | 84 | |
Rabbit Proof Fence | Phillip Noyce | 02 |
Philip Glass | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Kundin [2] | Scorcese | 98 | |
Koyaanisqatsi [5] | Godfrey Reggio | 83 | Films set to music - a fairly unique occurence |
Powaqqatsi [5] | Godfrey Reggio | 88 | |
Thin Blue Line [5] | Errol Morris | 88 | Fascinating documentary |
The Illusionist [2] | Neil Burger | 06 | drama |
Elliot Goldenthal | |||
Alien 3 | David Fincher | 92 | |
Drugstore Cowboy | Gus Van Sant | 89 | Very quirky score |
Heat | Michael Mann | 97 | |
Titus | Julie Taymor | 99 | Brilliant work |
Across the Universe | Julie Taymor | 07 | If you love the Beatles... |
Jerry Goldsmith | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Alien | Ridley Scott | 79 | |
Chinatown | 74 | ||
Culpepper Cattle Co. | 72 | ||
Hoosiers | 86 | ||
Lonely are the Brave | 62 | ||
Planet of the Apes | 68 | ||
Seven Days in May | 64 |
Johnny Greenwood | |||
There Will be Blood | Paul Thomas Anderson | 2007 | Highly innovative score, very interesting composer |
Dave Grusin | |||
The Firm | 93 | ||
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter | 68 |
Bernard
Herrmann
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Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Cape Fear | 68 | ||
Citizen Kane [1] | Orson Welles | 41 | |
The Day the Earth Stood Still [1] | 51 | ||
Psycho | Alfred Hitchcock | 60 | |
Vertigo | Alfred Hitchcock | 58 | |
Taxi Driver | Scorcese | 76 |
Mark Isham | |||
The Beast | 88 | ||
Never Cry Wolf | 83 |
Maurice Jarre | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
The Collector | 65 | ||
Fearless | 93 | ||
Jacob's Ladder | 90 | ||
Lawrence of Arabia | 62 | ||
The Professionals | 66 |
Quincy Jones | |||
The Pawnbroker | 65 | ||
In the Heat of the Night | 67 |
Trevor Jones | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Angel Heart | 87 | ||
Dominick & Eugene | 88 | ||
In the Name of the Father | 93 | ||
Mississippi Burning | 88 | ||
Sea of Love | 89 |
Eleni Karaindrou | |||
Landscape in the Mist [3] | Theo Angelopoulos | 85 | |
any Angelopolis film [3] | |||
Ulysses' Gaze [3] | Angelopoulos | 97 |
Jurgen Knieper | |||
Wings of Desire [3] | Wim Wenders | 89 |
Mark Knopfler | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Cal | 84 | ||
Comfort and Joy | 84 | ||
Local Hero | 83 | ||
Princess Bride | 87 |
Henri Mancini | |||
Breakfast at Tiffany's | 61 | ||
Days of Wine and Roses | 62 | ||
Pink Panther | 64 | ||
Soldier in the Rain | 63 | ||
Touch of Evil | 58 | ||
White Dawn | 75 |
Cliff Martinez | |||
Contagion | Soderbergh | 2011 | |
Wonderland | James Cox | 2003 | |
Solaris | Soderbergh | 2002 | |
Traffic | Soderbergh | 2000 | |
The Limey | Soderbergh | 99 |
Ennio Morricone | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Battle of Algiers [3] | Costa Gravas | 66 | |
Burn! | 70 | ||
Cinema Paradisio [3] | 88 | ||
Fistful of Dollars [3] | Sergio Leone | 64 | |
For a Few Dollars More [3] | Sergio Leone | 65 | |
The Good, the Bad and the ugly [3] | Sergio Leone | 67 | |
The Mission | 86 | ||
Once Upon a Time in the West | Sergio Leone | 68 | |
State of Grace | 90 | ||
Randy Newman | |||
Avalon | Barry Levinson | 90 | |
Ragtime | 81 | ||
A Bug's Life | 98 | ||
Toy Story 1/2 | 95/ 98 |
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Awakenings | Penny Marshall | 90 |
Jack Nitzche | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest | 75 | ||
Performance | 70 | ||
Cutter's Way | 81 |
Alex North | |||
Children's Hour | 61 | ||
I'll Cry Tomorrow [1] | 55 | ||
The Long Hot Summer [1] | 58 | ||
The Misfits | 61 | ||
Prizzi's Honor | 85 | ||
The Rainmaker [1] | 56 | ||
A Streetcar named Desire [1] | 51 | ||
Wise Blood | 79 |
Rachel Portman | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Antonia and Jane | Beeban Kidron | 91 | |
Benny and Joon | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 93 | |
Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | 99 | |
Smoke | Wayne Wang | 95 | |
Manchurian Candidate | 04 | ||
The Human Stain | 05 | ||
Never Let Me Go | 10 |
Zbigniew
Preisner
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White [3] | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 89 | |
Blue [3] | Krzysztof Kieslowski | ||
Red [3] | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 94 | |
Damage [2] | Louis Malle | 92 | |
Decalog [3] | Krzysztof Kieslowski | 88 |
Andre Previn | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Elmer Gantry | 60 | ||
Irma la Douce | 63 |
Trent Reznor | |||
The Social Network | Fincher | 74 | |
Man on Fire | Tony Scott | 2004 | (Songs) |
Nina Rota | |||
8 & 1/2 [3] | Fellini | 63 | |
The Godfather [2] | Coppolla | 72 | |
La Dolce Vita [3] | Fellini | 60 | |
Any Fellini Film [3] |
Ann Ronell | |||
One Touch of Venus [1] | William A Seiter | 48 | I haven't seen this film. Ronell was an excellent songwriter who scored films at a time when very few women were credited as composers, though they worked in studios as composers. |
Miklos Rozsa | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Asphalt Jungle | 50 | ||
Double Indemnity | 44 | ||
The Lost Weekend | 45 | ||
Spellbound | Alfred Hitchcock | 45 | |
Providence | Alain Resnais | 77 |
Ravi Shankar | |||
Pather Panchali [3] | S. Ray | 54 | |
The World of Apu [3] | S. Ray | 59 | |
Ghandi [2] | Richard Attenborough | 82 |
David Shire | |||
The Conversation | Coppolla | 74 | |
Norma Rae | 79 |
Tôn-Thât Tiêt | |||
Scent of Green Papaya [3] | Anh Hung Tran | 93 |
John Williams | |||
Title | Director | Date | Comments |
Harry Potter | Various | 01-12 | The Theme! |
Empire of the Sun | Spielberg | 87 | |
Jaws | Spielberg | 75 | Dum dum, dum dum |
The Long Goodbye | Altman | 73 | Brilliant film. Score is just one song. |
Missouri Breaks | Arthur Penn | 76 | Worth watching for Marlon Brando's performance |
Schindler's List | Spielberg | 93 | |
Star Wars (any of the 5) | Spielberg | 76+ |
Hans Zimmer (& team) | |||
Black Rain | Ridley Scott | 89 | Classic all synth score |
Rain Man | Levinson | 88 | |
Thelma and Louise | Ridley Scott | 91 | |
Gladiator | Ridley Scott | 00 | |
Smilla's Sense of Snow | Bille August | 97 | |
Driving Miss Daisy | Bruce Beresford | 89 | Compare style & subject to Black Rain... |
Black Hawk Down | Riddley Scott | 02 | |
Dark Knight Rises | Christopher Nolan | 2012 | |
Inception | Christopher Nolan | 2010 |