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The Best Music in Film
The Handsome Family
(Husband and wife alt-country stars Brett and Rennie Sparks. Provided additional music for Bullet on a Wire)
- S&S: What is your favourite film soundtrack music and why do you like it so much?
- "It would be a toss up between the music of Morricone and Rota. But I guess I'd have to go with Morricone. He is such a deft orchestrator, he uses such a varied and enormous tonal palette - whips, whistles, guttural vocalizations, electric guitar, etc. He uses pastiche and caricature without descending to banality. And, bottom line, the music from the spaghetti westerns is so evocative of the west. It has actually influenced western American music. Bands like Calexico and others have been so influenced by this music that is has become a sub-genre of country."
- S&S: In what ways does music best enhance a film?
- "By functioning as another character."
- S&S: Which film either has music that you wished you'd written or is one you would like to rescore and why?
- "Amarcord (1973) - the main theme is such a beautiful evocation of the central theme of the film - the floating, ethereal nature of existence (as represented by the fluff that floats though the air of the town). The curvature of the melody is comprised of gently leaping Luftpausen and contrasting falling chromatic lines - like a feather bobbing in a gentle spring wind. Play this for someone who has never heard it and watch what their face does."