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I don’t know of any of these directors and most directors in general of having any musical sensibility whatsoever. The only exceptions I know of are Spielberg who loves music, maybe George Lucas who loves music, maybe Ridley Scott who repeatedly has had strong opinions about the music in his films with some musical knowledge, and Hayao Miyazaki who has a very clear love of music and philosophy about music’s role in his films. Otherwise, everyone else just has “working opinions” of the music made for them with very little input, which is most directors.
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Michael Mann Ridley Scott Bobby Roth David Anspaugh Craig R. Baxley Michael Bay Antoine Fuqua Roger Donaldson Denys Arcand Oliver Stone
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Ralph Senensky (b. 1923) Roger Corman (b. 1926) Masahiro Shinoda (b. 1931) Carlos Saura (b. 1932) John Boorman (b. 1933) Aldo Lado (b. 1934) Peter Sasdy (b. 1935) Pupi Avati (b. 1938) Marco Bellocchio (b. 1939) Dario Argento (b. 1940)
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01: STEVEN SPIELBERG 02: JAMES CAMERON 03: ROBERT ZEMECKIS 04: RICHARD DONNER 05: TIM BURTON 06: RON HOWARD 07: ROBERT WISE 08: ALFRED HITCHCOCK 09: CECIL B. DE MILLE 10: DAVID LEAN Only half of these names are amongst the living
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Ever since I saw THE NEW WORLD I think Terrence Malick has tin ears, how the music was abused there was awful, it was definitely impairing my enjoyment of the film. (I recently saw the TV series UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, with an excellent original score yet which also used some classical pieces as underscore, particularly by Claude Debussy in once scene, and that worked super well... so it's not as if I have something against the use of classical music in movies per se.) Not sure about Polanski, CHINATOWN is a great score, but the reason we have that score was Bob Evans, I don't even know if Polanski ever met Goldsmith, certainly not during the making of CHINATOWN, though Polanski later congratulated Goldsmith on the fine little score he's done for his film. But Polanksi worked with lots of great composers, so yes... he's probably quite musical. There are some directors which always work with a lot of good composers, but does that mean they are are particularly musical or does that mean they just work with good people who are. (Hitchcock, for example, wasn't particularly musical at all, but he knew that composers could add a lot to his pictures.) Steven Spielberg is definitely somebody who has a lot of musical sensibilities. He knows what type of music he wants, he knows film composers and what they do, and his movies usually get exactly the type of music they need. Ridley Scott has worked with some good composers, but the PSYCHO 2 stuff in LEGEND throws me out of the few times I ever saw the movie, and I'm not nuts about Hanson or FREUD in ALIEN, so I dunno... I would say living directors who are very musical in that they know what they want and get it to work are Steven Spielberg Michael Mann Peter Weir Steven Soderberg Quentin Tarantino (yeah, I'm not the biggest fan, but I agree he often gets his needle drop soundtracks to work very well and fit just the right tone... in some of his movies) Martin Scorcese (one of the directors most aware of film music, this guy just knows everything about film scores and film music, and has had great original scores for his movies (TAXI DRIVER, THE AGE OF INNOCENCE), song scores (GOODFELLAS, CASINO), adapted scores (CAPE FEAR), and it just usually worked very well. Brian De Palma would also make my list... Would have to think a bit about it.
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Jul 20, 2021 - 10:19 AM
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I would say that most directors still working who started in the 1960s, '70s, and '80s have very good to excellent taste in film music. However, many of these directors have had poor/mediocre music in their films in recent years, which is unfortunate (I thought Joe Dante's "The Hole" and "Burying the Ex" had mediocre/forgettable scores, for example). There are many directors who became well-known in the 1990s who seem to love film music - Quentin Tarantino, Todd Haynes, Francois Ozon, Paul Thomas Anderson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wong Kar-Wai, Pedro Almodovar, and Wes Anderson - though their taste doesn't always align with mine. David Fincher hiring David Shire for "Zodiac" and then later directing Reznor/Ross to compose a score like "Mank" shows that he cares about film music. Steven Soderbergh having scores like "The Good German" or "The Informant!" shows that he cares. He started making movies a bit later than them, but David Robert Mitchell also seems to care about film music. But these are all directors who grew up on a steady diet of films with great music, so of course it makes sense for that to occasionally (or often) influence them. I think a far more pressing/urgent question is who are the active "millennial" or "Generation Z" filmmakers who actually seem connected with traditional film scoring? Are there any? Damien Chazelle seems to love film music. Is there anybody else? From my vantage point, most younger filmmakers don't seem to care about traditional film music in the slightest. A list of the ones that actually seem to would be very helpful.
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