theplatypus wrote:"Get Thee Behind Me, Satan" at the top of The Master was genius.
"Innocent When You Dream" in Smoke.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating in Space" and "Fourth Time Around" in Vanilla Sky (the entire movie is great for music).
"Both Sides Now" in Love Actually (a really powerful moment in an otherwise lighthearted movie).
"Staralfur" in The Life Aquatic.
"Poison Cup" at the end of Wellness.
"Six Different Ways" in The Rules of Attraction (and, in a sick way, their use of Harry Nilsson's "Without You" too).
I know you specified "modern music", but I really love the use of Bach's Goldberg Variations in that scene in Silence of the Lambs when Lecter savages the prison guards.
And uhhhh "New Town" by Life Without Buildings in the film I'm shooting in December!
I actually really liked this moment. But I'm crazy about the movie that surrounds it.
I like her "save me" song that closes the movie.
I have never had a bigger change of heart with a movie than with "Magnolia". I fucking hated it when I saw it in the theater. I guess I had crazy high expectations after "Boogie Nights". A couple of years later, I watched it again and loved it. I originally had a problem with how the movie was structured, but later, appreciated it as a sprawling mess of unhappy people.
Watching Fight Club when I was 12 years old introduced me to the Pixies. So, that.
Self wrote:Every time I get to be a bachelor, I order Chinese. Twice a year, I gorge on broccoli 'n beef and crab rangoons. The guilt reminds me of masturbation. So does the rice.
i especially like the following directors (with obvious notable movies) for their music pairings w/ their scenes.
quentin tarantino: pulp fiction, django, kill bill
martin scorsese: goodfellas, the departed
wes anderson: royal tannebaums, rushmore
cameron crowe: jerry maguire, vanilla sky
the coen brothers: oh brother where art thou, big lebowski
BurtReynolds wrote:Just watched a movie called Legends of the Fall. Probably the worst use of music in a movie I've ever heard. terrible.
You know what movie was terrible like that? Watchmen. Aside from the intro montage set to "The Times They Are a-Changin'", everything else was just awkward and ill-fitting.
Anders wrote:I do not have a «neoliberal assessment of geopolitics», so please stop writing that I do.
That's cool.