"Les demoiselles de Rochefort" made me want to hear everything that Michel Legrand had written.
He´s done a lot.
I also appreciate everything Legrand including his evocative albums for Columbia records in the 50's -- unfortunately all in Mono sound. I've never really looked for them on DVD. This is, of course, not classical music (which I suspect the "Metropolis" is an original score and not classical music) so doesn't exactly address Phoenix's original question about movie that use classical music.
You are quite right LW.
Shouldn´t jump in and digress like that.
Not really a big deal -- I would like to see a thread on Legrand's career. Have you ever heard his Columbia albums? The Cole Porter album is incredible and not on CD.
Correction, I found the Cole Porter CD and thanks to hebba, the "I Love Paris" CD. But we are off track --
Classical music used in films!
Received the restored Kino Video "Metropolis" DVD and it is a new orchestra recorded in 5.1 if the original Gottfied Huppertz score. Haven't found out anything about the composer buy if memory serves me I believe he was an organist. The score is very good by soundtrack standards and it does augment the film which is as comprehensive a restoration as could be obtained (from the print at MOMA). Of course, on this thread it is not classical music used as scoring.
