doctoremmet
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First time I see Pierre Bachelet cited here.Pierre Bachelet:"Perils of Gwendoline", "Emmanuelle", "Story of O"
First time I see Pierre Bachelet cited here.
In France he’s mostly known for pop songs, one of them being super famous.
ExcaliburJust curious what my fellow VI controllers would choose as their favorite cinema soundtrack of all time. You may have a long list but just give me your top choice. I'll get things started. My favorite is...
Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones/Randy Edelman)
That film and its music made a huge impression on me. Bjork's performance in the lead role (as "Selma") of Dancer in the Dark is so raw, vulnerable, and emotionally naked it is hard to watch at times. And rarely has a performance of this power been combined with music and film editing of equal power in quite this way. The editing alone in this film is a masterclass in how to wring emotion out of the way you cut from one scene to the next (and when). At the time, it was so new to me that it practically felt avant-garde.The entire "Dancer In the Dark" soundtrack. It's just so beautiful - and it conveys so much.
I couldn't agree more. It is a masterpiece.That film and its music made a huge impression on me. Bjork's performance in the lead role (as "Selma") of Dancer in the Dark is so raw, vulnerable, and emotionally naked it is hard to watch at times. And rarely has a performance of this power been combined with music and film editing of equal power in quite this way. The editing alone in this film is a masterclass in how to wring emotion out of the way you cut from one scene to the next (and when). At the time, it was so new to me that it practically felt avant-garde.
And the contrast between stationary-only tripod-mounted camerawork during the fantasy sequences and hand-held only camerawork during the "reality" sequences, having been established throughout the film, gives director Lars von Trier an incredible new tool for communicating just how dire Selma's circumstances become by combining her music with the semantic meaning of his different camera modes. When she sings "My Favorite Things" a capella near the end, the camera eventually switches to static/tripod-mounted, letting the audience know (even if just subconsciously) that she has escaped into her fantasy world. Yet, two songs later, in even more desperate circumstances, she begins singing "107 Steps" and the camera refuses to switch to the static/tripod-mounted fantasy mode. Finally, in the end, even music cannot overcome reality! It's a staggering moment created through a careful combination of song and camerawork.
I love that score. Another HZ one you don’t hear a lot about but that I listen to all that time is The Last Samurai. Never gets old for me.I think Man of Steel is a really underrated score...no one ever mentions in lists like this.
One of my all time favorites.