"Time Out: London" is doing it again with another one of their cool movie lists.
The 101 Best Movie Soundtracks of All Time https://www.timeout.com/film/best-soundtracks-of-all-time As always, they asked people who know their stuff to help out:
To help do the narrowing down, we’ve recruited iconic movie composers, directors and broadcasters like Philip Glass, Carter Burwell, Max Richter, Anne Dudley, AR Rahman, Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch, Edgar Wright and Mark Kermode to pick their favourites.Yes, there's lots of John Williams, and the usual suspects like Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann. But also Sergei Prokofiev and Curtis Mayfield.... And someone known as "Various Artists".... Also, please note that a "score" or a soundtrack is much more than just the title theme....
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"I’d never paid deep attention to film scores before sitting in a little room at Kent State University in 1969 watching the movie
Satyricon. My life took a major change that day, and I never thought of films in the same way again. Film music could be fine art." - Mark Mothersbaugh
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"People often ask me what the difference between writing film music and an opera. I tell them “not as much as you would think”. The task of the film composer is to provide much of the emotional content, pacing, and structure to the drama on screen. There have been a number of prominent composers with this ability who contributed much to the history of music. Among them is Rachel Portman, who has a wonderful ability to enhance and support the images of a film, often with a seemingly simple and beautiful melody, as she did for
The Cider House Rules." - Philip Glass
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"If I could ever get anywhere close to this level of film score perfection, I would be a very happy man. It was Karas’s only film score and it’s one of the most perfect and timeless ever written, with a banging main theme. It perfectly balances comedy, pathos, emotion and action. Karas was a zither player in a restaurant that director Carol Reed used to frequent, and with all the money he made from the music, and in a total mic-drop move, he bought the restaurant and went back to playing the zither there." - Daniel Pemberton
