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Post by spiderwort on Oct 6, 2019 2:25:48 GMT
Here are just a few of mine out of hundreds more:
"As Time Goes By" - Casablanca (1942) (as performed within a scene)
"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
"The Rose" - The Rose (1979)
"Everybody's Talkin'" - Midnight Cowboy (1969)
"The Windmills of Your Mind" - The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
"Maybe This Time" - Cabaret (1972)
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 6, 2019 2:51:25 GMT
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Post by TerryMontana on Oct 6, 2019 13:07:55 GMT
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 6, 2019 17:26:05 GMT
Some of my favorites. A lot of these have become jazz-standards since then, and have been covered by many different artists, that I think people forget they were even films in the first place.
And of course some old good Disney can't be forgotten.
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 6, 2019 23:16:26 GMT
This is so beautiful, martin! I saw the film when it was first released, but I didn't remember that it had anything like this in it. I like your other choice, too (and it's a great song for the opening sequence), but this one just breaks my heart. Thanks for the post. Here it is in context of the film. I specifically chose the lyric video because I wanted to showcase the song itself. I think it may be my favorite original movie song ever. Fun fact: The lyricist to this song also wrote... "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus." |
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Post by Martin Stett on Oct 7, 2019 2:40:44 GMT
OMG, this is so remarkable and yet I have no memory of it. Of course, I did see it 53 years ago! What a filmmaker Leone was with those "spaghetti" westerns. I saw all of them back in the day, but I remember little except that I admired them all. Now I want to see this one again. The contrast between that beautiful music and the extreme violence is the perfect counterpoint and adds so much to what otherwise would have just been a brutal, boring sequence. Thanks again for posting this. (And for the fun fact, too, hard as that is to believe.) Wow. Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West functions in much the same way, and they make an amazing duo. GBU as the sad one that looks on the waste of life, and OUATITW as the optimistic one that looks towards the future, with the hope that perhaps the next generation can do it better. Both use their very "genre" plots and badass characters as foregrounding to the "real" (for lack of a better word) story that happens around the characters. |
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