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The Best Music in Film
Ken Russell
(The Music Lovers, Tommy)
- S&S: What is your favourite film soundtrack music and why do you like it so much?
- "Strangers on a Train! (1951), Dimitri Tiomkin: Who else could write such great music depicting two-toned shoes."
- S&S: In what ways does music best enhance a film?
- "By bringing the image into super-sharp focus."
- S&S: Which film either has music that you wished you'd written or is one you would like to rescore and why?
- "The music John Corigliano wrote for the Mexican hallucination sequence in Altered States (1980)."