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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19 new
Citizen Kane
1941, in 39 top lists Check -
74 new
Psycho
1960, in 39 top lists Check -
4 new
Apocalypse Now
1979, in 37 top lists Check -
20 new
A Clockwork Orange
1971, in 37 top lists Check -
10 new
Blade Runner
1982, in 36 top lists Check -
63 new
Metropolis
1927, in 36 top lists Check -
60 new
M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder
1931 — a.k.a. M, in 35 top lists Check -
95 new
Taxi Driver
1976, in 34 top lists Check -
42 new
Goodfellas
1990, in 31 top lists Check -
65 new
C'era una volta il West
1968 — a.k.a. Once Upon a Time in the West, in 28 top lists Check -
86 new
The Shining
1980, in 28 top lists Check -
36 new
The Exorcist
1973, in 27 top lists Check -
33 new
Do the Right Thing
1989, in 25 top lists Check -
21 new
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977, in 23 top lists Check -
27 new
The Conversation
1974, in 23 top lists Check -
47 new
Heat
1995, in 23 top lists Check -
58 new
L'année dernière à Marienbad
1961 — a.k.a. Last Year at Marienbad, in 23 top lists Check -
1 new
Akira
1988, in 22 top lists Check -
89 new
Stalker
1979, in 22 top lists Check -
88 new
El espíritu de la colmena
1973 — a.k.a. The Spirit of the Beehive, in 21 top lists Check -
38 new
Fantasia
1940, in 20 top lists Check -
80 new
Le samouraï
1967 — a.k.a. Le Samouraï, in 20 top lists Check -
72 new
Playtime
1967, in 19 top lists Check -
82 new
Scarface
1983, in 19 top lists Check -
8 new
The Birds
1963, in 18 top lists Check -
100 new
Videodrome
1983, in 18 top lists Check -
2 new
American Graffiti
1973, in 17 top lists Check -
61 new
Magnolia
1999, in 17 top lists Check -
92 new
Suspiria
1977, in 17 top lists Check -
71 new
Planet of the Apes
1968, in 16 top lists Check -
55 new
Kaidan
1964 — a.k.a. Kwaidan, in 13 top lists Check -
14 new
Boogie Nights
1997, in 12 top lists Check -
31 new
Dead Man
1995, in 12 top lists Check -
41 new
Gojira
1954 — a.k.a. Godzilla, in 12 top lists Check -
51 new
The Innocents
1961, in 12 top lists Check -
57 new
Koyaanisqatsi
1982, in 12 top lists Check -
75 new
Punch-Drunk Love
2002, in 12 top lists Check -
24 new
Sayat Nova
1969 — a.k.a. The Color of Pomegranates, in 12 top lists Check -
90 new
Stand by Me
1986, in 11 top lists Check -
11 new
Blood Simple
1984, in 10 top lists Check -
81 new
Fellini - Satyricon
1969 — a.k.a. Fellini Satyricon, in 10 top lists Check -
59 new
Lost Highway
1997, in 10 top lists Check -
99 new
Sans toit ni loi
1985 — a.k.a. Vagabond, in 10 top lists Check -
85 new
Shaft
1971, in 10 top lists Check -
91 new
The Straight Story
1999, in 10 top lists Check -
70 new
The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes
1971, in 9 top lists Check -
28 new
Crash
1996, in 9 top lists Check -
39 new
Forbidden Planet
1956, in 9 top lists Check -
78 new
Rosetta
1999, in 9 top lists Check -
83 new
Scorpio Rising
1963, in 9 top lists Check
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