Intrada Soundtrack Forum

I've rarely noticed discussion of romantic music unless it's part of some other genre (the soaring love theme from some epic/fantasy/etc.)

So I'd like to hear what you-all love in the way of chick-flick-romantic-whatever-you-wanna-call-it scores. No spacecraft chases in Ultra-Stereo, no helicopter shots of advancing armies, no mutant monsters from another dimension in 3-D.

Extra points if it made you cry or swoon.

I'll open with THE WAY WE WERE and THE PROMISE.

_________________
DavidinBerkeley

"Ask [the director] where the camera comes from and I'll tell him where the music comes from" (David Raksin)

Boys On the side -- David Newman

_________________
"Questions are a burden to others; answers a prison for oneself"
"Unlike me, many of you have accepted the situation of your imprisonment and will die here like rotten cabbages."
"Everyone votes for a dictator."
THE PRISONER

Good luck getting this crowd to admit to much crying or swooning.

These make the handful that come most quickly to my sense memory. Each has raised a knot within my chest at least once, while I have sobbed at some repeatedly. All have exceptionally penetrating emotional power.

* A. Newman's WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939)
* Steiner's NOW, VOYAGER (1942)
* Herrmann's THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR (1947)
* A. Newman's A CERTAIN SMILE (1958) [my own favorite score for any film I've never seen]
* Goldsmith's ISLANDS IN THE STREAM (1977) [not conventional romance]
* Barry's SWEPT FROM THE SEA (1997)

However, while the following films are not romances (strictly speaking), all are blessed with a memorably moving, haunting "love theme:"

* Korngold's THE SEA HAWK (1940)
* A. Newman's A MAN CALLED PETER (1955)
* Herrmann's VERTIGO (1958)
* Rozsa's EL CID (1961)
* Barry's ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (1969)
* Herrmann's OBSESSION (1975)
* Goldsmith's THE RUSSIA HOUSE (1990)

(Hey, fellas -- take some advice and show these DVDs to your dates. Just match each movie to the right woman!)

_________________