100 Modern Soundtracks (BFI Screen Guide)

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Philip Brophy's book provides a soundmap to a hundred films that engage the ears. Covering titles as diverse as "Way of the Dragon" and "Apocalypse Now," "Le Samourai" and "Stalker," "Angel Dust" and "Citizen Kane," each entry outlines the film's distinctive contribution to the hitherto underexplored world of sound and music in cinema.

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  1. 20 new

    A Clockwork Orange

    1971, in 37 top lists Check
  2. 34 new

    Doctor Dolittle

    1998, in 2 top lists Check
  3. 10 new

    Blade Runner

    1982, in 36 top lists Check
  4. 36 new

    The Exorcist

    1973, in 27 top lists Check
  5. 82 new

    Scarface

    1983, in 19 top lists Check
  6. 77 new

    Resident Evil

    2002, in 1 top list Check
  7. 19 new

    Citizen Kane

    1941, in 39 top lists Check
  8. 86 new

    The Shining

    1980, in 28 top lists Check
  9. 37 new

    Face/Off

    1997, in 7 top lists Check
  10. 61 new

    Magnolia

    1999, in 17 top lists Check
  11. 75 new

    Punch-Drunk Love

    2002, in 12 top lists Check
  12. 4 new

    Apocalypse Now

    1979, in 38 top lists Check
  13. 95 new

    Taxi Driver

    1976, in 34 top lists Check
  14. 18 new

    Cast Away

    2000, in 3 top lists Check
  15. 21 new

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    1977, in 23 top lists Check
  16. 47 new

    Heat

    1995, in 23 top lists Check
  17. 38 new

    Fantasia

    1940, in 20 top lists Check
  18. 1 new

    Akira

    1988, in 22 top lists Check
  19. 46 new

    The Haunting

    1999, in 2 top lists Check
  20. 42 new

    Goodfellas

    1990, in 31 top lists Check
  21. 8 new

    The Birds

    1963, in 18 top lists Check
  22. 89 new

    Stalker

    1979, in 22 top lists Check
  23. 28 new

    Crash

    1996, in 9 top lists Check
  24. 98 new

    Tron

    1982, in 5 top lists Check
  25. 25 new

    Contact

    1997, in 2 top lists Check
  26. 71 new

    Planet of the Apes

    1968, in 16 top lists Check
  27. 59 new

    Lost Highway

    1997, in 10 top lists Check
  28. 63 new

    Metropolis

    1927, in 36 top lists Check
  29. 92 new

    Suspiria

    1977, in 17 top lists Check
  30. 44 new

    Gummo

    1997, in 4 top lists Check
  31. 14 new

    Boogie Nights

    1997, in 12 top lists Check
  32. 74 new

    Psycho

    1960, in 39 top lists Check
  33. 100 new

    Videodrome

    1983, in 18 top lists Check
  34. 33 new

    Do the Right Thing

    1989, in 25 top lists Check
  35. 90 new

    Stand by Me

    1986, in 11 top lists Check
  36. 58 new

    L'année dernière à Marienbad

    1961 — a.k.a. Last Year at Marienbad, in 23 top lists Check
  37. 2 new

    American Graffiti

    1973, in 17 top lists Check
  38. 31 new

    Dead Man

    1995, in 12 top lists Check
  39. 65 new

    C'era una volta il West

    1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check
  40. 35 new

    Escape from New York

    1981, in 5 top lists Check
  41. 72 new

    Playtime

    1967, in 19 top lists Check
  42. 81 new

    Fellini - Satyricon

    1969 — a.k.a. Fellini Satyricon, in 10 top lists Check
  43. 60 new

    M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder

    1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check
  44. 53 new

    Day of the Woman

    1978 — a.k.a. I Spit on Your Grave, in 3 top lists Check
  45. 27 new

    The Conversation

    1974, in 23 top lists Check
  46. 83 new

    Scorpio Rising

    1963, in 9 top lists Check
  47. 11 new

    Blood Simple

    1984, in 10 top lists Check
  48. 57 new

    Koyaanisqatsi

    1982, in 12 top lists Check
  49. 24 new

    Sayat Nova

    1969 — a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates, in 12 top lists Check
  50. 50 new

    India Song

    1975, in 8 top lists Check
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