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Cinema Treasures Poll
What is your favorite use of existing classical music in a movie?
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Favorite Movies
(and movie scores)
VERTIGO (1958) -- Bernard Herrmann -- American (1911-1975)
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (1960) -- Elmer Bernstein -- American (1922-2004)
ALTERED STATES (1980) -- John Corigliano -- American (1938-)
THE PLOW THAT BROKE THE PLAINS -- Virgil Thomson American (1896-1989)
KOYAANISQATSI (1983) -- Philip Glass (b.1937 )
Second Five
THE CHRONICLE HISTORY OF KING HENRY THE FIFT WITH HIS BATTELL FOUGHT AT AGINCOURT IN FRANCE (1944) -- William Walton--English (1902-1983)
THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951) -- Bernard Herrmann--American (1911-1975)
LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE -- Leo Brouwer--Afro-Cuban (b. 1939)
HENRY V (1989) Patrick Doyle--British (1953-)(caveat: minus the “Agincourt Song”)
2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Romanian (b.1923) (originally uncredited, and plagiarized--he had to sue because his music was used without permission!)
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (1962) -- Elmer Bernstein--American (1922-2004)
2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) -- Gyorgy Ligeti -- Romanian (b.1923)
Anything at all written by GEORGE AND IRA GERSHWIN, ever (esp. music used in “An American in Paris”) (1951)
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) -- Harold Arlen--American (1905-1986). Academy Award winner for “Over The Rainbow” (Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg--American (1896-1981)
DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965) -- Maurice Jarre--French (b.1924)
LAURA (1944) -- David Raksin--American 1912-2004 (Lyrics to title song, Johnny Mercer, 1909-1976. Only used as instrumental in the film, however)
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON (2000) -- Tan Dun--Chinese. (b. 1957)
SOMEWHERE IN TIME (1980) -- John Barry -- English (b. 1933) Also uses Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” Op. 43, Variation XVIII
OUR TOWN (1940) and THE HEIRESS (1949) --Aaron Copland -- American (1900-1990)
MOVIES, MOVIES, MOVIES with or without the score "figured in"
Bringing Up Baby
Casablanca
Gone With the Wind
Betrayal
Body Heat
The Big Chill
Almost anything at all from the 1930s and 1940s
there's more...of course...
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