"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.
Bad Santa
Seriously, it's full of classical music.
Prokofief's "Lt Kije Suite" in Woddy Allen's Love and Death.
Shostakovich's music composed for a Soviet film, entitled "The Gadfly" has also been used in numerous other films.
I was watching Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World again yesterday (cinematographically beautiful, but otherwise a sad mish-mash), and noticed that for several of the dramatic passages they used the music of Alan Hovhaness.
The music from The Gadfly is very beautiful, very lyrically, and quite a departure from Shostakovich's "serious" work, especially his symphonies.
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
The music from The Gadfly is very beautiful, very lyrically, and quite a departure from Shostakovich's "serious" work, especially his symphonies.
True... but still a favorite of mine: I never tire of it. His Jazz suite is, like Gadfly, a departure from much of his other work, but also very good. I suspwct he may have alternated between service to his state masters and his muse.
I was once mad for the movie Song without End re Franz Liszt. It had the - to me - supremo actor, Dirk Bogarde, and Genevieve Page, whom I took as a cypher at the time. The piano was by Jorge Bolet.
I still have the video, not that I've looked at it.
