Favourite film score?

[Danger Co]

A thread inspired by ludicrousNATION's thread about active/passive listening.

Whats your favourite film score ever and why? There seems to be sooo much talent and cash spent on quality film scores, I reckon they have to be a great learning point.

My favorite has to be the 'Book of Eli' score by Atticus Ross - farkin dark man. Really deep layers, useful pallette of instruments and to me it makes the whole post apocalyptic theme of the film. The film is fairly minimal so the sound design gets heaps of attention.

Yours?

[back2onett]

Not sure about my absolute favourite but Ocean's Eleven had a pretty good score, David Holmes is awesome

[mks]

I don't know if I could just pick one, there are so many. Off the top of my head:

Death Wish (Herbie Hancock)
Dynamite Brothers (Charles Earland)
3 Nights of the Condor (Dave Grusin)
Midnight Express (Georgio Moroder)

[Hurtdeer]

anything John Carpenter scored on his own movies. The Fog and the Thing particularly

it sounds old and slightly archaic now, but damn if it doesn't drop you into the atmosphere of his movies so perfectly straight away. The guy knew how to make little reverby saw waves sound both amazing and slightly nerve wrecking

[lewk]

Anything by Thomas Newman.





I really dig old school soundtrack too. Stuff in john carpenter films are usually awesome.

[JemGrover]

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis do some amazing things in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Road
And this is taken from No Country for old men

Seriously good stuff.

Crash (the more recent one, not the one about people having sex in car crashes) is sublime.
Road to Perdition is beautifully bleak
The K-Pax score is also great.
The recent Batman films, from Hans ZImmer are awesome
The Doc. on zinedine zidane is soundtracked by Mogwai, so automaticly kills
Oh, and another that springs to mind is from the film Solaris by Cliff Martinez
Vaccine samples it and I was blown away to recognise it

Amazing.

[Capture pt]

1. "πr²" Clint Mansell 1:29
2. "P.E.T.R.O.L." Orbital 6:22
3. "Kalpol Intro" Autechre 3:30
4. "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" Aphex Twin 6:02
5. "Watching Windows" (Ed Rush & Optical remix) Roni Size 6:35
6. "Angel" Massive Attack 6:10
7. "We Got the Gun" Clint Mansell 4:52
8. "No Man's Land" David Holmes 6:18
9. "Anthem" GusGus 4:52
10. "Drippy" Banco de Gaia 8:37
11. "Third from the Sun" Psilonaut 5:10
12. "A Low Frequency Inversion Field" Spacetime Continuum 6:58
13. "2πr" Clint Mansell 3:05



Fucking sick score, all electronica stuff

[Danger Co]

Cool heaps of flicks I haven't seen yet.

Also loved natural born killers

[NRHc]

Main Theme in requiem for a dream..So beautiful and moving,one of my favorite tracks ever

[Hurtdeer]

1. "πr²" Clint Mansell 1:29
2. "P.E.T.R.O.L." Orbital 6:22
3. "Kalpol Intro" Autechre 3:30
4. "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball" Aphex Twin 6:02
5. "Watching Windows" (Ed Rush & Optical remix) Roni Size 6:35
6. "Angel" Massive Attack 6:10
7. "We Got the Gun" Clint Mansell 4:52
8. "No Man's Land" David Holmes 6:18
9. "Anthem" GusGus 4:52
10. "Drippy" Banco de Gaia 8:37
11. "Third from the Sun" Psilonaut 5:10
12. "A Low Frequency Inversion Field" Spacetime Continuum 6:58
13. "2πr" Clint Mansell 3:05



Fucking sick score, all electronica stuff

i need to see this film so much it hurts

[Pedro Sánchez]

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis do some amazing things in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Road
Solaris by Cliff Martinez

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[deadly_habit]

anything mansell has done, requiem for a dream in particular
bladerunner (vangelis)
the fifth element (eric serra)
donnie darko (michael andrews)

[3za]

anything mansell has done, requiem for a dream in particular
bladerunner (vangelis)
the fifth element (eric serra)
donnie darko (michael andrews)

deadly killed it!

my fav must be donnie darko

love the bit at 0.53

[antics]

Up

[SunkLo]

+1 on Requiem for a Dream
I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind too

[djake]

Blackhawk Down
Silent Hill
The Good The Bad And The Ugly

[frizzwah]

I liked Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind too

[samurai]

whoever scored pokemon the first movie. ill shit. ths sound in that was way more in your face and punchy when compared to the series. made the experience that much more intense.

[paradigm_x]

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis do some amazing things in The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and The Road
And this is taken from No Country for old men

Seriously good stuff.

Carter Burwell. Was just going to post Blood Simple myself. Awesome.

Edit - dubstep relick?



Just found out he did adaptation, in bruges, as well as all the coen bros(teppas) films.

Also 2001, full metal jacket. Loads!

[Kochari]

State of Play is pretty good, damn intense!


Plus the obvious ones like Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Batman etc etc

Oh and +1 for Pi! Thought I heard some Autechre in there...