I really liked the music from One Hour Photo, especially Sy’s Theme.
I know a lot of people found it heavy handed overkill but Hans Zimmer’s work on Nolan’s Batman trilogy is powerful stuff.
Maybe it’s because I just watched the pair of them again, last week, but I found the scores for both of the Sherlocke Holmes films with Robert Downey Jr. absolutely perfect, also by Zimmer.
The scores for Road to Perdition and Friday Night Lights (the original movie) were quite moving.
How did I forget “Edward Scissorhands?!” So poignant, poetic and wistful. LOVE Danny Elfman.
There Will Be Blood
Amadeus, especially the Requiem when Mozart’s body is tossed into a grave in his shroud.
This one’s a bit odd: I’ve never seen the movie but I absolutely adore Thomas Newman’s score for “The Horse Whisperer.”
The Fountain is probably the worst movie with the best soundtrack that I’ve seen.
The Apartment - both the Best Movie ever and the Best Soundtrack
Conan the Barbarian, 80’s version.
The soundtrack is mind blowing. Really.
I watched the Star Wars original trilogy over vacation. Still extremely powerful stuff. Watched Indiana Jones too - also powerful. And I remember being blown away by the new stuff in Episode 1.
So…all of John Williams’ stuff.
I also watched The Muppet Movie (now streaming on Netflix!) Fantastic music for just some kids’ film.
Silly movie, but “Somewhere In Time.”
Echoing “Dances With Wolves” and “Glory”
twin peaks
the pilot was released as a self contained movie plus there is the (pretty terrible) firewalk with me movie which uses the same themes and motifs. get the soundtrack immediately.
+1 for Dances With Wolves and Excalibur, and also for John Williams’ works in the original Star Wars trilogy. Williams created two other good soundtracks, for Jaws and E.T.
Can I nominate one piece and not necessarily the entire soundtrack? I’m not a big opera fan but in The Shawshank Redemption, the two sopranos singing Mozart’s Sull 'Aria from The Marriage of Figaro was uplifting and inspiring.
I’ll quote from Morgan Freeman’s character, narrating while they sang: “I have no idea to this day what those two Italian ladies were singing about. Truth is, I don’t want to know. Some things are best left unsaid. I’d like to think they were singing about something so beautiful, it can’t be expressed in words, and makes your heart ache because of it. I tell you, those voices soared higher and farther than anybody in a gray place dares to dream. It was like some beautiful bird flapped into our drab little cage and made those walls dissolve away, and for the briefest of moments, every last man in Shawshank felt free.”
Superman (composed by John Williams)
I was going to say this- both TV show & movie. Any Julee Cruise song & the final instrumental for FWWM can reduce me to tears.
Beauty and the Beast (1991), Howard Ashman and Alan Menken is my favorite soundtrack of all time.
This.
Even though it hadn’t been what I would have considered “get you pumped up” music, Explosions in the Sky are now and forever my go-to band for doing anything even remotely athletic.
The soundtrack for The Descendants is a recent favorite.
Who wrote the score for that?
