Amazing Soundtracks

James Stewart, in the darkest, most profound and sad performance of his career, falls in love with the alluring, distant, unattainable and mesmerizing Kim Novak.
Bernard Herrmann composes a heavenly, breathtaking wagnerian symphony.
and Alfred Hitchcock, in the absolute peak of his powers, materializes the most beautiful, haunting, compelling and heart breaking tale of love that transcended any cinematic or human barrier.
my all time favorite motion picture.

visually, the most breath-taking film ever created. Anthological.

The quintaessential mafia film. the powerful almighty Don and his sons will always be at the top of the game. an exquisite film with operatic grandeur.

Terry Gilliam's masterpiece of lyrical and ethereal imagination. Unique take on Orwell's 1984 totalitarian regime. devastating and yet uplifting ending, I tremble every time I see it.

Epitome of the spaghetti-western. phenomenal acting trio; epic, raw, operatic grand direction by the unique Sergio Leone, sublimed by Ennio Morricone's score, a quintaessential, perfect film-music marriage. fantastic at every level.

To live inside a fable, where we can play with time, places and sentiments, a perfect sphere of existence that can only be reached in dreams is a pleasant thought we all cinephiles love to have. As mere mortals, or the infants we still are, we have two ways to conquer that fantasy world, we can either sleep, or we can enter and sit in a dark room, operate a machine and enjoy the ride while we are awake.
That is the theme of one of the most beautiful fairy tales ever portrayed on the silver screen.
The adjectives to describe such amazing story are endless, the truth is that every image and musical note open a path to culminate in one of the most exhilarating, nostalgic, tender, uplifting, colossal and everlasting gems in film history.

Tim Burton's masterpiece. an immensely beautiful, charming, poignant cinematic jewel. images full of lyricism embellished by an almost celestial score by Danny Elfman.

A seminal neo-noir, one of the most powerful and violent psychologic dramas. Scorsese's master direction and Herrman's jazzy score bring a new meaning to god's lonely man...

Sergio Leone closed his short but fruitful career with a last masterpiece. Morricone plays one of the best soundtracks of film history and Leone accomplishes a lyrical, nostalgic, violent and touching gangster epic. an ode to friendship and true love. immense duo Robert De Niro-James Woods.

horror/suspense masterpiece. Hitchcock hits the spot once again, creating one of his most eerie and captivating films. full on twists, memorable performances, as well as the best murder ever captured on screen!

Massimo Troisi's last big goodbye. great soundtrack by Luis Bacalov. the simplicity and beauty of Italy at its best. A lovely, touching, marvel of a film

Cult classic emerged from 70s demonic craze. Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and the boy Harvey Stephens deliver powerful & nerve-racking performances, All led by Richard Donner's haunting take on Satan's child rise.

State of the art direction by Polanski. A homage that surpases a lot of Film-noirs and hard-boiled detective thrillers. one of the best and most bitter endings ever captured.

Fellini re visits his home town and the peculiar people living there. a magical and hilarious stay, an everlasting "festa per la dolce vita"

Best Bond film of all time!!! Sean Connery played the greatest character in film history around the best mission he has had so far. superb train fight and gorgeous leading lady.

the most sensible, touching and special 007 film. Bond's more human side ever potrayed on screen. the only film Lazenby starred as 007, with no less than AMAZING results...

The greatest cinematic transition of a comic book ever done. Richard Donner's vigorous narrative pulse, Christopher Reeve's perfect incarnation and John Williams' majestic score made this movie an instant everlasting classic. Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman and the legendary Marlon Brando are some of the other additions to a perfect equation. An epic and exhilarating tale about the themes we the mere mortals constantly love to revive. The one and only superhero movie.

One of those that defied cinematic conventionalisms. stylish and memorable, superb enfant-terrible's direction, Martial Solal's jazzy score, and Belmondo's tough guy rol. Jean Seberg's beauty left me literally breathless.

very funny and nostalgic film about an Italian-american gang in the early 60s. awesome soundtrack.

Vastly underrated. beautifully shot by Vilmos Zsigmond, haunting score by the great Bernard Herrmann. the ultimate De Palma homage to Hitchcock. a thriller that follows the same line of Vertigo. ending up in a truly heartbreaking way.

Scorsese helms the absolute epitome of wiseguy films. the mob was never potrayed with such eclecticism, coldness, hilarity and coolness.

One of Cronenberg's most comercial and yet superb films. gruesome, gory, raw and yet touching. one of the best sci-fi/horror films, better than the original.

Nothing new could be added to describe the greatness of this 90s genuine cinematic milestone. a cunning, diabolicaly cool experience.

Takes away the dark atmosphere and lyricism of the Karl Freund classic and goes for fun, with an affable "Raiders of the lost ark" tonality, full of humour and rambunctious excitement. Jerry Goldsmith's score is brilliant.

DePalma's last masterpiece. Pacino accomplished one of his most memorable, touching and heart warming characters.
A film that goes relentlessly to the top of crime/neo-noir films of all time.

A milestone of 60s cinema re-birth, one way ticket to the the decandence and misery of NYC, Voight and Hoffman are two hustlers with hope, innocence and compassion for each other. Raw, brutal, bitter and fascinating.

San francisco, California. where some of the greatest thrillers in film history have taken place, is the location of one of the most haunting and painstaking character studies in the genre. Gene Hackman is simply brilliant in his personification of a surveillance expert sunk by guilt, who gradually succumbs to the insidious and intricate scheme he is struggling to find out. Profoundly insightful and conspicuous.

Connery played effortlesstly the coolest, hard edged character in movie history. indeleble masterpiece of 007 series, the best villain and one of the coolest plots.

Gene Tierney is Laura, an angel immortalized in a portrait, who enthralled the soul of three men, and my humble self as well. David Raksin's beautiful and haunting score and the utmost exactness of skill, both in screenplay and direction take this film up high as an enchanting love story and as a dark and complex mystery. Now I know why Otto Preminger, allegedly, destroyed all of the original director Rouben Mamoulian's footage. Another pinnacle of noir, and an obvious precursor, along with Luis Buñuel's Él, of my favorite film, Vertigo.

A mixture between Coppola's The conversation and Antonioni's Blow up, Brian De Palma weaves a compelling thriller, with a surprisingly good performance by a young John Travolta. Pino Donaggio's score and De Palma's stylish camera work really make the film a worthy experience. devastating ending, shocking and full of dark humour.

Sordid and mean spirited pulp with a classic score, and probably the british gangster film par excellence. Michael Caine, in a brutal but cool performance, plays the avenger Jack Carter, a London racketeer who goes to the foggy Newcastle trying to get the people who killed his brother. Seriously nihilistic, bleak and vividly detailed.

Delightful caper movie, made by the legendary triad Newman-Redford-Roy Hill. magnificent screenplay and score. superb twist at the end.

slap-stick comedy is not Polanski's forte but he manages to combine a sultry dark mood, a witty mise-en-scène, great performances and an insanely good soundtrack. Nostalgia and affection is what I feel for this film and for the gorgeous Sharon Tate, before her tragic fate, rest in peace.

Anthologic, mythical, epic war film directed with the grand-scale, flawless eye of David Lean. magnificent photography, cast, screenplay, soundtrack. extraordinary ending.

Ridley Scott's best film. visually stunning and suspenseful all the way.

A beautiful picture, thanks to the photographer David Watkin, and composer John Barry. Redford and Streep are also neat in their roles. It drags a bit at some parts, but the overall impression is captivating, and the dilemmas and arguments it raises are quite fascinating as well, like solitude versus compromise, adultery, illness, death, ostracism.

mighty spectacular.

An engrossing western epic with intimate and poetical sensitivity and a wonderful score by John Barry. Kevin Costner is very good in his role and behind the cameras. Excellent directorial debut for this outstanding human drama.

If Hitch ever directed a Bond film, this is it. a marvelous trip all over america's most eye-catching landscapes by the hand of the always cool Cary Grant and the angelical beauty Eva Marie Saint.

beautiful, nostalgic and touching masterpiece. best performance by Gregory Peck ever.

The ever cool McQueen is the leader of a formidable bunch that includes Charles Bronson, Richard Attenborough, James Coburn, Donald Pleasence and James Garner. the german war prisons were never this fun.

Wacky and witty caper comedy with the charm of real film stars like David Niven, Peter Sellers, and the beautiful Claudia Cardinale.
The clumsy inspector Clouseau was more like a secondary character here, but he was explored with more detail and with more hilarious results in the sequel.
Henry Mancini's score is remarkable.

The birth of a nation. as seen through the eyes of Sergio Leone, in his greatest opera of the west.
The genius of Leone and Morricone, in their respective visual and sonorous treatment, is mesmerizing.
A larger than life, solemn, almost sacred elegy that presents a remarkable group of characters and compels them to move to the rhythm of a waltz of death. Henry Fonda, tears down his heroic cinematic persona, to incarnate the devil; Jason Robards as a sympathetic outlaw who yearns for settle down; Charles Bronson as Harmonica, an impervious man with no name; and the fully blossomed gorgeousness of Claudia Cardinale, as never seen before.
What other filmmakers cemented for the genre, Sergio Leone lifted it to the stars, and beyond. He abandoned what made him popular, the nihilistic and frenetic nature of his work; for a gradual, more introspective and rhetorical masterpiece that increases its power with each passing minute, exudes vitality and spiritual depth, and rightfully placed him among the grand myths of cinema.

I know Elia Kazan did something wrong, but it doesn't have anything to do with this powerful, moving, indisputable masterpiece. Marlon Brando stands out in the role of his life.

Anthony Minghella recovered the exotic romanticism of his compatriot David Lean. Insightful, poetic and strikingly sensitive epic tale.

Fabulous brit noir with great prose by novelist Graham Greene, some other ad libbed by Orson Welles himself (cuckoo clock). Expresionistic state of the art photography. Immense duo Welles-Cotten. Baroque and poetry in black and white.

A surreal and mesmerizing trip through the conflicts surrounding the deranged life of a filmmaker, none other than Fellini himself...

According to some scholars, the last work of the film-noir golden age. Orson Welles takes Whit Masterson's simple story of murder and corruption on the mexican-american border and improves it, making it a feast for the eyes, starting with a lenghty travelling shot. Russel Metty's striking photography and Henry Mancini's snappy score are major points, as well as the acting department, led by none other than Welles, as the crooked cop, funny appearences by Dennis Weaver and Akim Tamiroff and Charlton Heston as a mexican, which might be odd, but he did a very good job. A cinematic tour de force.

Boyle's eclectic narration perfectly suits this uproarious trip to anarchy, frenzy and mayhem. wonderful wicked experience.