What are your favourite film/music moments?

[delto95]

Vangelis theme in Bladerunner
Morricone's The Mission
Reservoir Dogs Steeler's wheel stuck in the middle... so cool!

[stairpost]

It has to be said that the shark scenes in jaws with that now universally recognised music has got to be one of the most famous and most fitting pieces ever written for a film.

[nrwatson]

Vangelis
Chariots of Fire

[Blackmass]

Donnie Darko.The opening scene when Echo and the Bunnymen's 'The Killing Moon' kicks in.As soon as I heard it I knew it was going to be a great film.

Lost In Translation.Bill Murray singing Roxy Music's 'More Than This' in a Karaoke bar,heartbreaking.Also the closing scene with The Jesus and Mary Chain's 'Just like Honey'.A perfect film.

Blue Velvet.Dean Stockwell and Dennis Hopper miming Roy Orbison's 'In Dreams'.Sometimes in life you end up in a place where you know you shouldn't be or don't know how you ended up there.This scene captures that moment.

This Is England.The final scene with Clayhill's cover of The Smiths 'Please Please Please let me get what I want'.

[giladt Linn Staff]

Can't believe no-one's mentioned Midnight Cowboy, both Everybody's Talking by Nilsson and the haunting John Barry harmonica theme!

Not to mention the advert for Real Florida Orange Juice whilst they freeze to death in New York winter, and Ratso's Florida Fantasy theme.

Surely the best movie / music combo ever.

[stairpost]

(2011-05-24 17:27)giladt Wrote:  Can't believe no-one's mentioned Midnight Cowboy, both Everybody's Talking by Nilsson and the haunting John Barry harmonica theme!

Not to mention the advert for Real Florida Orange Juice whilst they freeze to death in New York winter, and Ratso's Florida Fantasy theme.

Surely the best movie / music combo ever.

i think it's definitely safe to say that john barry knew how to write music for film

[giladt Linn Staff]

Wait a minute, I might have changed my mind...

What about The Wicker Man???

Corn Riggs to start with, The Landlord's Daughter, the one with Britt Eckland banging on the wall, and the one that goes "And on that tree, there was a branch, and on that branch there was a leaf".

That's blimmin' brilliant, that is. Possibly the best music / movie combo ever.

[afewbeers]

Or more recently, Otis Taylor, 10,000 slaves (i think) at the beginning of Public Enemies. I quite like the music from one of the dog fights in the Battle of Britain, extraordinarily moving and captures the loneliness and fear of the moment. Always haunted me since I first saw it as a kid.

Never could stand the Rocky themes but they're a good example of the power of image and music in film.

[oliverh Linn Staff]

Here's 10 favourites mostly off the top of my head:

The chase finale in Last of the Mohicans
Ride of the Gunship Valkyries in Apocalypse Now
Star Wars intro into spaceship swooshing over
God is trying to tell you something in The Color Purple
Indiana Jones climbing on top of the submarine in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Shadow sword-boxing on the roof in Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai
Derezzed bar fight scene in Tron Legacy
Bang Bang my nurse shot me up in Kill Bill Vol. 1
Tiny Dancer bus journey in Almost Famous (try not to smile)
Wise Up heartache with Aimee Mann in Magnolia
Man in the Long Black Coat as camera pans away from Zak in Use of Weapons

+ 1 for the Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid mentions too

[murrays Linn Staff]

Arthur Simms singing 'It's Only Mystery' in Luc Besson's Subway.