films with great cinematography and musical scores?

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• Eddie Badger Posts: 6,005

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  07/01/14 - 15:06 #2

  Not quite in the same genre but Once Upon a Time in The West gets my vote. Plus anything by Stanley Kubrick.

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• ihatemarmite Posts: 5,605

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  07/01/14 - 16:10 #3

  David Lean. The classics - Lawrence of Arabia and Dr Zhivago.
  Any of the Ennio Morricone westerns, if westerns are your thing.

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• TCD1975 Posts: 3,039

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  07/01/14 - 16:22 #4

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
  
  A lost masterpiece, with great acting, direction, cinematography and musical score.

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• circlebro2019 Posts: 17,560

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  07/01/14 - 20:14 #5

  thanks for the replies, i will check out The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford first off.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 124

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  07/01/14 - 20:21 #6

  Once Upon a Time in The West - absolute classic

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• mike65 Posts: 11,386

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  07/01/14 - 21:33 #7

  A rather broad subject
  
  Blade Runner
  The Straight Story
  Lawrence of Arabia
  Black Narcissus

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• circlebro2019 Posts: 17,560

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  07/01/14 - 21:48 #8

  mike65 wrote: »

  A rather broad subject
  
  Blade Runner
  The Straight Story
  Lawrence of Arabia
  Black Narcissus

  
  yeh sorry, i didnt know how to describe exactly what i meant i guess
  
  i have seen blade runner and loved it.

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• Takae Posts: 13,555

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  07/01/14 - 21:50 #9

  That's one of my favourite types of film. Not sure if these work for you, but I might as well to suggest them:
  
  3-Iron (2004) (Ki-duk Kim's other films are similar, but this is the only one I truly liked)
  Paris, Texas (1984)
  Dersu Uzala [The Hunter] (1975) (Akira Kurosawa's Russian-language film)
  Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
  Never Cry Wolf (1983)
  The Thin Blue Line (1988) (documentary)
  The Straight Story (1999)
  Departures (2008)
  Sansho the Bailiff (1954)
  Pathfinder (1997)
  Any Terence Malick film.
  Edit: All About Lily Chou-Chou.
  Edit: A Bittersweet Life
  
  Although not quite what you're asking for, but you might like Terrence Davies's Liverpool trilogy - Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988), The Long Day Closes (1992) and unfortunately, the weakest of the trilogy: The Neon Bible (1995), so don't bother watching this one
  
  tokyo.sora [Tokyo.Skies] (2002) has little dialogue and music and pretty much no plot, but in spite of my minor issues with it, I couldn't forget this film for a while. I don't know if that's a good thing.
  
  I didn't like Ashes of Time (1994), but this crops up a lot in others' lists of similar films from above. There is also Ashes of Time Redux, which is the re-edited and re-scored version, but I haven't seen it yet. I liked two of Kar Wa Wong's other films - In the Mood For Love and Chungking Express - more, though.
  
  This is getting long, so I'd better stop listing more films. :sheepish:

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• TCD1975 Posts: 3,039

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  07/01/14 - 21:59 #10

  whedon247 wrote: »

  thanks for the replies, i will check out The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford first off.

  
  Well I hope you like it. It's quite a slow haunting film, and the soundtrack fits the mood perfectly.
  
  Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si0m1H2Hmqk

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• Eddie Badger Posts: 6,005

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  08/01/14 - 14:16 #11

  Michael Mann is a director worth looking at too. Especially Thief, Manhunter, Heat and Last of the Mohicans. When I saw Drive I was reminded a lot of Thief.

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• circlebro2019 Posts: 17,560

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  08/01/14 - 14:24 #12

  i watched heat when i was 14 i think! i remember being dissapointed and finding it boring.
  
  i am now 31, think its time to watch again.

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• burton07 Posts: 10,871

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  08/01/14 - 17:28 #13

  My favourite film for cinematography and musical score is Gattaca starring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. It is actually my favourite film.

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• Takae Posts: 13,555

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  08/01/14 - 17:49 #14

  burton07 wrote: »

  My favourite film for cinematography and musical score is Gattaca starring Ethan Hawke, Jude Law and Uma Thurman. It is actually my favourite film.

  
  I second that! One of my favourites, too.

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• degsyhufc Posts: 59,251

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  08/01/14 - 17:52 #15

  This may be a bit off kilter for this thread but The Man Who Wasn't There is a good athmospheric film imo.
  
  A lovely soundtrack and nice film noir cinematography.

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• Johnny Clay Posts: 5,326

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  09/01/14 - 22:35 #16

  For cinematography you need to see Barry Lyndon.
  
  After that, well, you work your way down...

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• Gordie1 Posts: 6,993

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  10/01/14 - 04:51 #17

  I thought dances with wolves looks and sounded great.

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• Eddie Badger Posts: 6,005

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  10/01/14 - 14:06 #18

  Gordie1 wrote: »

  I thought dances with wolves looks and sounded great.

  
  John Barry was such a great composer, he really enhanced every film he worked on.

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• Darthchaffinch Posts: 7,558

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  10/01/14 - 14:44 #19

  Eddie Badger wrote: »

  John Barry was such a great composer, he really enhanced every film he worked on.

  
  also Out of Africa!
  
  Just rewatched Moon and the Clint Mansell soundtrack is great on that.
  
  Others worth checking out are Requiem for a dream & Sunshine

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• Eddie Badger Posts: 6,005

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  10/01/14 - 15:57 #20

  Darthchaffinch wrote: »

  also Out of Africa!
  
  Just rewatched Moon and the Clint Mansell soundtrack is great on that.
  
  Others worth checking out are Requiem for a dream & Sunshine

  
  I was at an airshow and the French aerobatic team La Patrouille De France did their display to the theme from Out of Africa. Brilliant stuff.
  
  If you like Barry's music his album The Beyondness of Things is worth listening to.

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• gashead Posts: 13,809

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  10/01/14 - 16:23 #21

  For cinematography, look up Janusz Kaminski in imdb and pick any film in the list. For music, look up John Williams. Cross-reference the two, and you've got pretty much every Spielberg film from the last twenty years for a tripple-whammy of excellence, but particulary Schindler's List, Amistad and Saving Private Ryan.

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• Barbra Posts: 15,581

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  10/01/14 - 16:28 #22

  My Fair Lady comes to mind.

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• Johnny Clay Posts: 5,326

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  10/01/14 - 17:59 #23

  gashead wrote: »

  For cinematography, look up Janusz Kaminski in imdb and pick any film in the list.

  Some of his work with Spielberg reminds you that a good cinematographer can apply a very classy varnish to a rather cheap painting.

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• gashead Posts: 13,809

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  10/01/14 - 19:37 #24

  Johnny Clay wrote: »

  Some of his work with Spielberg reminds you that a good cinematographer can apply a very classy varnish to a rather cheap painting.

  That's a good way of putting it. Overall I didn't really like Lincoln, but Kaminski's (and Day-Lewis's) work on it is outstanding. The film, I feel, is less than the sum of its parts.

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• neo_wales Posts: 13,625

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  10/01/14 - 21:01 #25

  There are a lot, films like Zulu, Dances with Wolves, 2001, anything John Barry wrote is worth looking at.

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• Eddie Badger Posts: 6,005

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  10/01/14 - 21:08 #26

  Alien with Ridley Scott's atmospheric photography and the great Jerry Goldsmith's score. Like Barry, Morricone, Williams and Bernstein he's one of the greats who really add something special to any movie they've scored.

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