>Who are your favorite film composers? >favorite film composition genre? >favorite era?
I really enjoy the Italians from the 60s and 70s, they made a bunch of Jazzy sensual music for their romantic films, Piero Piccioni is great and has a lot of non film related music as well. Pino Donaggio is good too and did a lot of work with Brian De Palma that fits nicely into the movies and sets the mood. The Italian vibes come through, and it shows in De Palma's movies I think.
I thought Moonrise was his weakest but GBH is probably his second worst film. It look nice and I like the OST but it just felt like a parody of his older films.
Though Birth is worth watching if your open to the weirdness in it.
I'm definitely open to any weirdness. This one's worth checking out if you like Italian futurekino. Had some foresight with the reality tv aspect of the movie.
>It seems to be a meme on letterpleb Letterbox? Don't use it, so I'm not familiar.
I think that W. S. is hit or miss, some of the Resident Evil stuff has interesting camera work, and his films don't strive towards any greater political opinion, while fulfilling their goal of being entertaining action movies. Whereas Paul Thomas Anderson has a clear agenda with his movies, and wants to shape the minds of his audience. Changing opinions on porn coincided with Boogie Nights, at a critical time in the 90s when the Internet was becoming popular, and the "Communications Decency Act" was being considered to prohibit the spread of pornography, but did little to stop it. The anti-capitalist theme, which wouldn't be bad in itself considering the era it was set in, and the time it came out, but also anti-Christian themes in his most acclaimed There Will Be Blood, are also shallow. I try to consider the intentions of the directors. Yesterday I watched the last Resident Evil movie, and I didn't see why so many people were complaining, it was a pretty entertaining movie for what it is, and had a fitting and actually good conclusion to the series.
Ian Ward
Alright, then. Though I agree with about PTA. Like with The Master I can tell he wanted to do something big on scientology but because of the censorship it got waterdown and suffer because of that.
Adrian Martinez
Like I said, if I had to put them in a non meme order, I quite like Wes Anderson's style and the brotherly relationship in Darjeeling Limited are well done, what do you think of them user?
Ian Martinez
I think Wes's best film is probably Life Aquatic. It's got his usual style but it doesn't become to point of parody like in Moonrise and GBH and I enjoy Ned going through a mid crisis while trying to form a relationship with his son.
Jackson Torres
Yeah, that's a good one too. >I enjoy Ned going through a mid crisis while trying to form a relationship with his son.
This is a strength in his movies and movies in general, having good characters working on their relationships. That felt lacking from what I remember in Grand Budapest Hotel.
Thomas Jones
Yea, I think thats the problem. Like Zero's whole relationship with Agatha.
He did justify it by saying Zero didn't want to talk about it since it made him sad but still she felt kind of bland as a result.
Also I gotta go now but keeping posting music recs.
Aaron Baker
I'm a huge fan of Wagner, so I like scores with a lot of thematic material. Howard Shore's stuff for Lord of the Rings is the closest I think we've ever gotten to a modern Wagnerian work.
TV shows though, I think more than anything, give an opportunity to write a lot of intricate music. Bear McCreary's soundtrack for Battlestar Galactica was ace, and there were a lot of nuance's to Michael Giacchino's writing for Lost.
Going back a bit, I loved the stuff Shirley Walker and her team did for Batman: The Animated Series. Really took Danny Elfman's theme tune, and style, and made a whole world out of it.
If you're into the jazzier stuff, I'd say take a look at Angelo Badalamenti's work for Twin Peaks. It mixes character themes, really catchy pop tunes, and jazz improv all together. Lynch loves music and sound, so you'll see it play a big part in all his shows and films.
Elijah Sullivan
>mentioning all these people
Post some user! I can't remember any notable music from tv shows, but I don't really watch too much tv, but I liked some of the stuff True Detective had going for it. I really need to get around to watching Twin Peaks before the new season comes out.
Here's some Vangelis, his non film stuff with Aphrodite's child is great.
youtube.com/watch?v=_nH1rCXv36A One of the more iconic tunes from Lost. There are whole playlists on youtube that compile all the different themes together into suites. It's pretty neat.
youtube.com/watch?v=dTp6d7Bw79A The entire first Twin Peaks album is worth a listen to. Only 50 minutes long, but they're all good tracks. Really gives you a feel for the sound of the show. Literally every piece of music for the show though has been put online at this point, though. David Lynch's site released everything, even demos. It's extensive.
youtube.com/watch?v=rgXLEM8MhJo This video is just great, too. Shows you how Angelo and David thought up the music. Glad they're getting a reunion together for the final season.
Cooper Anderson
>Yeah sorry. Kek, I didn't mean it like that, more encouraging, like "You can do it user!" Thanks anyways I'll give it a listen. I remember the Batman music from when I was a kid.
Henry Davis
It's all good, man. Glad to see someone excited by this stuff. Gonna dropa few more soundtracks I'm really big on.
youtube.com/watch?v=QpavWyGW--I I'd also suggest taking a look at the stuff Andrew Lockington does. He's kind of stuck writing music for a lot of hokey kids films, but what he does is pretty top notch.
Aaron Williams
Great thread, already liking a lot of these ive never heard before.
I really like the soundtrack to merry christmas mr lawrence, particularly this song:
There are a bunch of blogs out there too, that have old albums up for download, I can't find them in my bookmarks, but you can find them pretty easily if you search for these guys.
Jaxson Stewart
Carter Burwell
John Torres
I'm a pleb when it comes to this shit. I like Ennio and Joe Hisaishi.
Adam Lopez
Donaggio's Body Double soundtrack is so good. you could set that lapdance song on loop forever and it'd never get boring.
Mason Walker
GOBLIN O B L I N
Aiden Morales
>I'm a pleb
that's why I made the thread user, post some of that Asian guy, I don't know too much about their movies desu.
Yeah, I've been trying to find more movies that are as sensual as De Palma's with similar themes or settings, but it's hard looking cause he has a certain vibe that isn't replicable (is this a word?)
Lucas Lewis
De Palma is one of my favs. He cribs literally everything from Hitchcock but it works.
I don't think many are working in that specific mould (highly stylized genre films with a fetishistic sensibility). Tarantino's House of Blue Leaves sequence was probably the closest anyone has come to doing De Palma.
That and the latest Mission Impossible.
Kevin Perez
>De Palma is one of my favs. Same, he's a great director. I think he also takes a lot from Antonioni, but I've only seen one movie from him.
>Tarantino's House of Blue Leaves Which scene is this? Tarantino lacks originality, which is a shame cause he has a knack for dialogue, his "fetishistic" angle is always a sham. It's not natural like De Palma's which is much more human, and sensual. I like how De Palma can transcend genre too, he's a versatile director. Wish he would still make good stuff like the old days, I haven't seen Passion yet, but I heard it was lackluster.
Justin Cox
Shilling more from Javier Navarrete and Georges Delerue
There's a Ghibli music collection torrent on bakabt if you want a lot of it.
Parker Parker
House of Blue Leaves is the Crazy 88s scene from Kill Bill, where he does a single expositional tracking shot that ends up in a bathroom. It's pretty much lifted from Femme Fatale.
>I haven't seen Passion yet whew boy... ignore all the reviews, it contains some of his best stuff.
much like his beloved split screens, it's kind of bifurcated right down the middle; the first half is TV soap opera quality, but it's totally worth trudging through because of what comes after. it might blow your brain, to be honest.
I don't want to hype it up too much but what happens in the middle of the movie is one of my all time favourite De Palma sequences.
Josiah Lewis
Sounds good, I was skeptical when I saw Armond White didn't like it, because he's a massive De Palma fan. One of his strengths too is the personal relationships he shows in his movies, like Wes Anderson, if you're the same user. Even if it's not great, his directing is always worth a watch.
Samuel Davis
Pauline Kael was one of De Palma's biggest and most well-known defenders and she hated Body Double. you can't win em all I guess.
Passion rightly deserves criticism because a lot of it is boilerplate soap opera, but it serves a purpose in the end so it's quite excusable.
I pretty much like every De Palma movie. Even his failures (The Fury, Black Dahlia) are one hundred times more interesting than most Hollywood films deemed "good."
>if you're the same user not me, sorry.
How familiar are you with Pedro Almodovar? he's pretty much the modern Spanish Hitchcock and is entirely concerned with sensuality.
