Top Original Film Scores

Submitted by Zacharyyy on Thu, 09/23/2010 - 18:54
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  1. Vertigo-- Bernard Herrmann (Alfred Hitchcock)-- 1958.
  2. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly-- Ennio Morricone (Sergio Leone)-- 1966.
  3. The Cremaster Cycle-- Jonathon Bepler (Matthew Barney)-- 1996-2002.
  4. 8 ½-- Nino Rota (Federico Fellini)-- 1963.
  5. Top Hat-- Irving Berlin, Max Steiner (Mark Sandrich)-- 1935.
  6. La Dolce Vita-- Nino Rota (Federico Fellini)-- 1960.
  7. North By Northwest-- Bernard Herrmann (Alfred Hitchcock)-- 1959.
  8. Dancer In The Dark-- Björk (Lars von Trier)-- 2000.
  9. All The Vermeers In New York-- Jon A English (Jon Jost)-- 1990.
  10. Something Wild-- Aaron Copland (Jack Garfein)-- 1960.
  11. Love Streams-- Bo Harwood (John Cassavetes)-- 1986.
  12. One From The Heart-- Tom Waits, Crystal Gayle (Francis Ford Coppola)-- 1982.
  13. Psycho-- Bernard Herrmann (Alfred Hitchcock)-- 1960.
  14. Awaara/Vagabond-- Shankar Jaikishan (Raj Kapoor)-- 1951.
  15. Battle Of Algiers-- Ennio Morricone, Gillo Pontecorvo (Gillo Pontecorvo)-- 1966.
  16. La Strada-- Nino Rota (Federico Fellini)-- 1954.
  17. Castle in the Sky--Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki)-- 1986.
  18. Barsaat/Monsoon-- Shankar Jaikishan (Raj Kapoor)-- 1949.
  19. The Wicker Man-- Paul Giovanni (Robin Hardy)-- 1973.
  20. Swing Time-- Jerome Kern (George Stevens)-- 1936.
  21. The Leopard-- Nino Rota (Luchino Visconti)-- 1963.
  22. We Can't Go Home Again-- I can't find their names (Nicholas Ray)-- 1976.
  23. Mononoke-Hime-- Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki)-- 1997.
  24. Alexander Nevsky-- Sergei Prokofiev (Sergei Eisenstein)-- 1938.
  25. The Bride Wore Black-- Bernard Herrmann (Francois Truffaut)-- 1968.
  26. The Artist-- Ludovic Bource (Michel Hazanavicius)-- 2011.
  27. Spirited Away-- Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki)-- 2001.
  28. A Hard Day's Night-- The Beatles & George Martin (Richard Lester)-- 1964.
  29. Breathless-- Martial Solal (Jean-Luc Godard)-- 1960.
  30. Throne Of Blood-- Masaru Sato (Akira Kurosawa)-- 1957.
  31. Citizen Kane-- Bernard Herrmann (Orson Welles)-- 1941.
  32. Amelie-- Yann Tiersen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)-- 2001.
  33. i ♥ huckabees-- Jon Brion (David O Russell)-- 2004.
  34. Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind-- Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki)-- 1984.
  35. Limelight-- Charlie Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin)-- 1952.
  36. Red Desert-- Giovanni Fusco, Vittorio Gelmetti, Carlo Savina (Michelangelo Antonioni)-- 1964.
  37. Songs From The Second Floor-- Benny Andersson (Roy Andersson)-- 2000.
  38. October-- Dmitri Shostakovitch (Sergei Eistenstein)-- 1966 (1928).
  39. South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut-- Trey Parker, Mark Shaiman (Trey Parker, Matt Stone)-- 1999.
  40. My Neighbor Totoro-- Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki)-- 1988.
  41. Ocean Waves/I Can Hear The Sea-- Shigeru Nagata (Tomomi Mochizuki)-- 1993.
  42. The Incredible Shrinking Man-- Irving Gertz, Earl E. Lawrence, Hans J. Salter, Herman Stein (Jack Arnold)-- 1957.
  43. Blow-Up-- Herbie Hancock (Michelangelo Antonioni)-- 1966.
  44. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind-- Jon Brion (Michel Gondry)-- 2004.
  45. The Brave Little Toaster-- Van Dyke Parks, David Newman (Jerry Rees)-- 1987.
  46. The Red Shoes-- Brian Easdale (Powell & Pressburger)-- 1948.
  47. Punch-Drunk Love-- Jon Brion (Paul Thomas Anderson)-- 2002.
  48. Opera Jawa: A Requiem-- Rahayu Supanggah (Garin Nugroho)--2006.
  49. Blue Velvet-- Angelo Badalamenti (David Lynch)-- 1986.
  50. Eyes Without A Face-- Maurice Jarre (Georges Franju)-- 1960.
  51. The Face Of Another-- Toru Takemitsu (Hiroshi Teshigahara)-- 1966.
  52. Kiki's Delivery Service-- Joe Hisaishi (Hayao Miyazaki)-- 1989.
  53. Saute Ma Ville-- Chantal Akerman (Chantal Akerman)-- 1968.
  54. Goldfinger-- John Barry (Guy Hamilton)-- 1964.
  55. Star Wars-- John Williams (George Lucas)-- 1977.
  56. Allonsanfan-- Ennio Morricone (Paolo and Vittorio Taviani)-- 1974.
  57. The Matrix-- Don Davis (Andy/Larry Wachowski)-- 1999.
  58. The Hours-- Philip Glass (Stephen Daldry)-- 2002.
  59. Batman: Mask of Phantasm-- Shirley Walker (Eric Radomski, Bruce W. Timm)-- 1993.
  60. Synecdoche, New York-- Jon Brion (Charlie Kaufman)-- 2008.
  61. Lost Horizon-- Dimitri Tiomkin (Frank Capra)-- 1937.
Author Comments: 

I probably forgot SO MANY... Suggestions? I still gotta watch Once Upon A Time In The West, and Anatomy Of A Murder, for some...

RULES: no musicals that were previously stage-plays.... I am still considering whether or not to include films that use predominantly or only music from other sources (thinking of, rather, putting movies like that which design the sound around older musical pieces (2001, A Man Escaped, The Graduate, Singin in the Rain) in the realm of sound design rather than soundtrack)

Parablesque09/24/2010

Is the Cremaster Cycle worth seeing? My local arthouse theater is going to be showing it later this month, but I can't decide if it's really worth time investment.

Zacharyyy09/25/2010

Yes. Make sure to watch them in numerical order, not production order. Flow is better that way. It' s possible to find 1,2,3, and 4 good quality on the internet, but I've yet to find a quality rip of 5, which is bunk.
They're better in the theatre anyway. Just be prepared to constantly have to figure out what's going on.

Plotguide for general purposes/overview:
1- Conception and Birth // Conception, no male presence
2- Adolescence // Testosterone starts to have influence over fetus
3- Career days // Fetus becomes male
4- Mid-Life-Crisis // Male fetus finishes forming
5- Death // Birth

or something like that. That's really vague and there's a lot more to it but yeah. Something like that.

Marquee11/23/2010

The Conversation, The Thing, Exotica, Pierrot le fou, Werckmeister Harmonies, Antonio Gaudi...

Zacharyyy11/23/2010

I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY OF THOSE I AM SO SORRY.

callanyvegetable09/10/2011

Gotta get on that Once Upon a Time in the West soundtrack man ;)

Zacharyyy09/10/2011

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
:"c

Soon.
I promise.