My Left Foot (1989 Film) / Da (1988 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks [Soundtrack]

my left foot (1989 film) / da (1988 film): original motion picture soundtracks [soundtrack]

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Daniel Day-Lewis won a much-deserved Oscar for his wily, passionate performance as Irish artist and writer Christy Brown, whose cerebral palsy kept him confined to a wheelchair. Filmmaker Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father) adapts Brown's own autobiography for this spirited piece, focusing on the sometimes-difficult fellow's formative years in his large family and in love with sundry women. Day-Lewis is inspired, and Brenda Fricker (also a recipient of an Oscar for her part in this movie) is almost luminous as Christy's dedicated mother. So, too, are Ray McAnally as the hero's stormy father, and Hugh O'Conor (The Young Poisoner's Handbook) as the child Christy. All in all, this is a complete pleasure for viewers. --Tom Keogh

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My Left Foot (1989 Film) / Da (1988 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks [Soundtrack]

Varese Sarabande 25th Anniversary Celebration

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A good value
The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann
Good mix of film music
A mixed collection of movie music
Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens

Varese Sarabande 25th Anniversary Celebration

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Paramount 90th Anniversary Collection: Scores
In Session: Film Music Celebration
The Essential Elmer Bernstein Film Music Collection
Jerry Goldsmith: 40 Years of Film Music
Music In Film (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium)

ASIN: B00008WI90
Release Date: 2003-04-22

Tracks:

The Man from Snowy River (Bruce Rowland)
The Winds of War (Bob Cobert)
Blue Velvet (Angelo Badalamenti)
Witness (Maurice Jarre)
Raising Arizona (Carter Burwell)
Pee Wees Big Adventure (Danny Elfman)
Halloween (John Carpenter)
A Nightmare On Elm Street (Charles Bernstein)
The Fly (Howard Shore)
RoboCop (Basil Poledouris)
The Empire Strikes Back (John Williams)
The Right Stuff (Bill Conti)
The Final Conflict (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Abyss (Alan Silvestri)
Brainstorm (James Horner)
Peggy Sue Got Married (John Barry)
My Left Foot (Elmer Bernstein)
The Dead (Alex North)
Stanley & Iris (John Williams)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Dave Grusin)
Driving Miss Daisy (Hans Zimmer)

Tracks:

Steel Magnolias (Georges Delerue)
Unforgiven (Lennie Niehaus and Clint Eastwood)
Raggedy Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
The Grifters (Elmer Bernstein)
Green Card (Hans Zimmer)
City Slickers (Marc Shaiman)
Father Of The Bride (Alan Silvestri)
While You Were Sleeping (Randy Edelman)
Babe (Nigel Westlake)
The Adventures Of The Great Mouse Detective (Henry Mancini)
The Adventures of Robin Hood (Erich Wolfgang Korngold)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (Laurence Rosenthal)
The Secret Garden (Zbigniew Preisner)
A Little Princess (Patrick Doyle)
Rudy (Jerry Goldsmith)
Iron Will (Joel McNeely)
Memphis Belle (George Fenton)
Eye Of The Needle (Mikl)
Total Recall (Jerry Goldsmith)
Back To The Future Part III (Alan Silvestri)

Tracks:

To Die For (Danny Elfman)
The Player (Thomas Newman)
Black Robe (Georges Delerue)
Medicine Man (Jerry Goldsmith)
2001 (Alex North)
Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire (Joel McNeely)
The Crow (Graeme Revell)
Blade (Mark Isham)
The Omen (Jerry Goldsmith)
Vertigo (Bernard Herrmann)
Scream (Marco Beltrami)
The Sixth Sense (James Newton Howard)
Xena: Warrior Princess (Joseph LoDuca)
Air Force One (Jerry Goldsmith)
Starship Troopers (Basil Poledouris)
The Matrix (Don Davis)
The Iron Giant (Michael Kamen)
Youve Got Mail (George Fenton)
A Little Romance (Georges Delerue)
Pleasantville (Randy Newman)

Tracks:

Sunset Boulevard (Franz Waxman)
L.A. Confidential (Jerry Goldsmith)
Rounders (Christopher Young)
The Score (Howard Shore)
The Replacements (John Debney)
Gone In 60 Seconds (Trevor Rabin)
The Bourne Identity (John Powell)
Rush Hour 2 (Lalo Schifrin)
XXX (Randy Edelman)
Die Hard (Michael Kamen)
The Last of the Mohicans (Trevor Jones)
Moby Dick (Christopher Gordon)
The Mists Of Avalon (Lee Holdridge)
Cleopatra (Alex North)
Life As A House (Mark Isham)
Emma (Rachel Portman)
In The Bedroom (Thomas Newman)
Cast Away (Alan Silvestri)
One True Thing (Cliff Eidelman)
Unfaithful (Jan A.P. Kaczmarek)
Far From Heaven (Elmer Bernstein)
Ice Age (David Newman)
Shrek (Harry Gregson-Williams and John Powell)

Customer Reviews:

A good value.......2007-05-17

I wasn't expecting to have 4 discs for this price, and the music is a quality selection of film music, giving a good scope of the genre, and a very listenable transfer.

The Sound Track Since Bernard Hermann.......2006-07-25

This collection is bound to capture your heart and evoke a tin ear on successive tracks. I found much to like and some duds - easy to skip over.
Very good value.

Good mix of film music.......2006-07-02

Good mix of films!
I'm a big fan of this soundtrack music and will be looking for more CD's like this.

A mixed collection of movie music.......2006-02-23

For the price, this CD is a great bargain. The musical selections, as you might expect, are mixed in quality ranging from extraordinary to so so, the balance being worthwhile and interesting. Sonically the CD is excellent.

Uplifts your soul, takes your mind into the heavens.......2006-01-06

I have been listening to great scores for many years and this collection is truly inspirational in so far as the choice of different scores takes you on a journey of listening pleasure matched by only a few collections.The price is incredibly reasonable for hours of listening pleasure. Don't pass this one up

Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein (Film Score Compilation)

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Enormously Disappointing
Fantastic!!!
Sit Up and Listen
The Best Bernstein Sampler Yet!

Great Composers: Elmer Bernstein (Film Score Compilation)

Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00002DDPE
Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

Magnificent Seven
Great Escape
To Kill a Mockingbird
Wild Wild West
Age of Innocence
True Grit
My Left Foot
Them Commandments
Gifters
Comancheros
Shootist
Frankie Starlight
Lost in Yonkers
Rage in Harlem
Black Cauldorn

Customer Reviews:

Enormously Disappointing.......2004-10-01

As a big Bernstein fan, I was looking forward to this comp. But I couldn't even make it through one listen. I found it insipid, saccharine. The main idea behind this comp seems to be to stuff every recognizable theme Bernstein ever wrote into one set while cutting out all other sections including any variations or development. They've cut the meat out of the music and left only the fat. The playing is stiff, the tempos are rushed, the arrangements are terrible. Don't waste your time.

Fantastic!!!.......2002-06-07

Fabulous recording. Puts you right in the saddle with the Duke, The Magnificent Seven or Charlton Heston's sandals! Power, scope, range, variety and total magnificence - this has it all. By far the best movie sound-track recording of all!

Sit Up and Listen.......2001-06-28

You pop this CD in to your player and the glorios Magnificent Seven theme knocks you off your feet. I'd forgotten how good it was, an icon of testerone flowing unchecked. Then there is the touching innocent To Kill a Mockingbird theme. Starting with a simple music box theme, the music builds to a dramatic climax, as if all the emotion suddenly exploded. The Great Escape track is, I think, one of the very best march compositions of all time. With the tuba providing the baseline with its own melody, then the light brass, perky and upbeat, providing the second melody, this theme instantly evokes both the fatigue and robotic obedience required of prisoners and the brassy indomitable spirit characteristic of the RAF flyers. If you listen carefully you hear the deeper brass (French Horns) take up the theme and give it a more somber character, as yet another melody is sustained in the background. The Ten Commandments stands alone as a wonderful heroic piece. Buy the CD for any one track and you will be pleasantly surprised by the remainder.

The Best Bernstein Sampler Yet!.......2000-05-21

Varese Sarabande has cheery picked from some of the finest (and most famous) film scores ever composed (and some of the best performances thereof yet recorded) in the second half of the last century. There are samples from sixteen film scores by Mr. Bernstein presented here (and since this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg for this prolific, spectacularly-talented composer, let's hope there will be many more Bernstein compositions to come!). It's beyond great to have all 16 film scores represented on one CD, even though most/all of these tracks are available off other CDs (CD-burner freaks, you've been left at the gate, or, rather, the CD-R/W drive on this one!). It does get a bit confusing trying to figure out all the source material (there's Bernstein right off the film sound track, Bernstein conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra, Bernstein conducting the Royal Scottish Orchestra, Mr. Joel McNeely conducting the Royal Scottish Orchestra, McNeely conducting Seattle Symphony orchestra, Mr. Cliff Eidelman conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and so it goes). But quit making your brain ache; just spin up this CD and let your ears do their thing. And what a wonderful thing those ears will do. Mr. Bernstein, a master of tonality (like Erich Wolfgang Korngold before him), is probably best enjoyed in spurts or in selective film-score "cues"--mainly his opening/closing credit cues, since his scores tend to sag and become less dramatic in between. This CD focuses on the composer's strengths: mostly those opening/closing credit cues you can't help hearing in your mind over and over again. Although the performances are (as previously noted) from many sources, I can't find fault with a single one. The same goes with the recording/mastering/re-mastering. All first rate. One question remains: why are you still reading this write up when you could be buying the CD to empower your ears!

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MUSIC TO OUR EARS!

Mozart: Popular Music from Film

Manufacturer: EMI Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000AY2JZK
Release Date: 2006-01-10

Tracks:

Amadeus: Symphony No.25 In G Minor K183-I. Allegro Con Brio (Opening) - Sir Neville Marriner
Elvira Madigan: Piano Concerto No.21 In C Major K467-II. Andante - Halle Orchestra
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective: Serenade In G Major K525 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'-I. Allegro - Sir Neville Marriner
Out Of Africa: Clarinet Concerto In A Major K622-II. Adagio - Staatskapelle Dresden
Trading Places: Le Nozze Di Figaro K492-'Non Piu Andrai' - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Star Trek: Insurrection: String Quartet No.17 In B Flat Major 'The Hunt' K458-IV. Allegro Assai - Alban Berg Quartett
Closer: Cosi Fan Tutte K588-'Soave Sia Il Vento' - Wiener Philharmoniker
The Truman Show: Piano Sonata In A Minor K331-III. Rondo Alla Turca: Allegretto - Andrei Gavrilov
I Dreamed Of Africa: Le Nozze Di Figaro K492-'Voi Che Sapete' - Philharmonia Orchestra
Alien: Serenade In G Major K525 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'-II. Romance: Andante - Sir Neville Marriner
XXX: Don Giovanni K527-'Finch'han Dal Vino' - Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Joy Luck Club: Concerto For Flute And Harp In C Major K299-II. Andantino (Extract) - Berliner Philharmoniker
Amadeus: Requiem In D Minor K626-Lacrimosa - Franz Welser-Most
The Associate: Piano Concerto No.25 In C Major K503-II. Andante - David Zinman
Amadeus: Don Giovanni-'Don Giovanni, A Cenar Teco' - Philharmonia Orchestra
JFK: Horn Concerto No.2 In E Flat Major K417-III. Rondo - Sir Neville Marriner
Amadeus: Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail K384-Chorus Of Janissaries - Wiener Philharmoniker

Tracks:

Runaway Bride: Le Nozze Di Figaro K492-Overture - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
The Living Daylights: Symphony No.40 In G Minor K550-I. Molto Allegro (Extract) - Sir Neville Marriner
My Left Foot: Cosi Fan Tutte K588-'Un'Aura Amorosa' - John Aler
A Beautiful Mind: Piano Sonata No.11 In A Major K331-I. Andante Grazioso - Andrei Gavrilov
Miss Congeniality: Die Zauberflote K620-'Queen Of Night' - Edita Gruberova
Funny Games: Clarinet Quintet In A Major K581-II. Larghetto - Sabine Meyer
Babette's Feast: Don Giovanni K527-'La Ci Darem La Mano' - Graziella Sciutti
Amadeus: Piano Concerto No.20 In D Minor K466-II. Romance (Extract) - Philharmonia Orchestra
Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World: Violin Concerto No.3 In A Major K216-III. Rondeau - English Chamber Orchestra
Eyes Wide Shut: Requiem In D Minor K626-Rex Tremendae - Franz Welser-Most
Amadeus: Serenade No.10 In B Flat Major K361 'Gran Partita'-III. Adagio - London Philharmonic Orchestra Wind Ensemble
The Shawshank Redemption: Le Nozze Di Figaro K492-Canzonetta Sull'Aria - London Philharmonic Orchestra
Amadeus: Concerto For Two Pianos In E Flat Major K339-III. Rondo: Allegro - Andre Previn
Philadelphia: Vesperae Solennes De Confessore K339-Laudate Dominum - Eugen Jochum
Mission Impossible: Divertimento For String Trio In E Flat Major K563-III. Menuetto: Allegretto; Trio - Gary Hoffman
Lorenzo's Oil: Ave Verum Corpus K618 - Berliner Philharmoniker
There's Something About Mary: Serenade In G Major K525 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik'-IV. Rondo: Allegro - Sir Neville Marriner

Customer Reviews:

MUSIC TO OUR EARS!.......2006-02-27

The tribute to the 250th anniversary of Wolfgang's birth continues, and this two-disc set is perfect for those who want to like classical music and insist they can't. The 34 tracks sound familiar because they have been used in popular films, either as incidental music or as an important component of the score. And we're not just talking Amadeus, but films that you may be surprised used such memorable music ... Mission Impossible, There's Something About Mary, Runaway Bride, Trading Places, Miss Congeniality, The Living Daylights. The works are performed by the finest, including James Galway, Alban Berg Quartett, Riccardo Muti, Dame Felicity Lott, Sir Neville Marriner, Herbert Von Karajan and Martha Vineyard's Andre Previn. Pretty classy indeed.

My Left Foot (1989 Film) / Da (1988 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks

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My Left Foot
My Left Foot Review
Very moving story about overcoming all odds
One of the greatest screen performances
Feeling sorry for yourself?

My Left Foot (1989 Film) / Da (1988 Film): Original Motion Picture Soundtracks
Elmer Bernstein
Manufacturer: Varese Sarabande
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000003TE0
Release Date: 1989-10-13

Customer Reviews:

My Left Foot.......2007-06-02

I was very pleased with my dvd. The cost was not to high. I've gotten a lot of items from Amazon in the past year and a half, I have not been disappointed once. I will continue to buy from them in the future. I have found everthing that I was looking for also. they just about have it all.

My Left Foot Review.......2007-05-07

Deservedly renowned movie with stellar performances throughout, led of course by Daniel Day Lewis. Great chance to see the late Ray McNally's best work.

Very moving story about overcoming all odds.......2007-04-13

My Left Foot is one of those films you hear about and always plan to see at some point, but never get around to. I'm glad I finally found the time, because it was worth it. Daniel Day-Lewis had been one of my favorite actors, but I've never seen the performance that won him an Oscar. And I can see why he got it now. I can also see why Brenda Fricker won Best Supporting Actress, although I still see her as the pigeon lady from Home Alone 2.

The film was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It's clear to see why it got all these nominations. My Left Foot is an Irish film that tells a very Irish story, but at its heart it is a story of hope and encouragement for all of humanity.

Wathcing Christy Brown's struggles with cerebral palsy that make him unable to move any part of his body except for his left foot is moving and endearing at the same time. Despite his physical handicap, Christy goes on to become a writer, publishing 6 novels and a book of poetry, as well as a great artist.

The special features on this special edition are very interesting because they show footage of the real Christy Brown, as well as discuss Daniel Day-Lewis's transformation and dedication to the role. The producer also talks about their surprise at how much critical acclaim the film got considering they used Irish actors, film crew, director, and everything. It deserves all the acclaim it got, and almost 20 years later it's still just as enjoyable.

One of the greatest screen performances.......2007-02-28

Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors of our time and one of my favorites. It is amazing how much he throws himself in each of the characters he plays making them real.

I remember, many years ago, we had a party in our house - the friends came over, we were sitting around the table, eating, drinking the wine, talking, laughing - having a good time. The TV was on - there was a movie which we did not pay much attention to. Then, suddenly, all of us stopped talking and laughing. The glasses did not clink, the forks did not move, the food was getting cold on the plates. We could not take our eyes off the screen where the young crippled man whose entire body was against him and who only had a control over his left foot, picked up a piece of chalk with his foot and for what seemed the eternity tried to write just one word on the floor. When he finished writing that one word, we all knew that we had witnessed not one but three triumphs - the triumph of a human will and spirit, the triumph of the cinema which was able to capture the moment like this on the film, and the triumph of an actor who did not act but who became his character.

Jim Sheridan's "My Left Foot" is an riveting, unsentimental bio-drama about Christy Brown, the man who was born with cerebral palsy in a Dublin slum; who became an artist and a writer and who found a love of his life.

I like every one of Day Lewis's performances (I have mixed feelings about his performance in GONY) but I believe that his greatest role was Christy Brown in "My Left Foot".

Feeling sorry for yourself?.......2006-11-11

Ever feel like life is getting you down? This is the movie that will make you realize that you have NOTHING to complain about.
Feeling sorry for yourself? Watch "My Left Foot" You may see your troubles are not so bad after all.
Worth getting the Special Edition for all the extra stuff.

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My Left Foot
Original Soundtrack
Manufacturer: V2
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0006B7JJI
Release Date: 2004-09-27

Tracks:

Mother
Unspoken Fear
Theraphy
Church And Witches
Study For Christy
Happy Moment
Gift For Mother/ Cold
Struggle And Frustation
Love Spoken
Da And Memories
Temptress
Drown The Dog!
Secrets
Old Matters
Goodbyes
Resolution

Album Description

1989 soundtrack for the Oscar winning movie by Elmer Bernstein and starring Daniel Day Lewis. Varese.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Vol. 3

Manufacturer: Film Score Monthly
ProductGroup: Music
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ASIN: B0006SSQ8O
Release Date: 2005-01-11

Tracks:

First Season Main Title [Revised/Extended]
Jerry Goldsmith Medley: The Deadly Games Affair/The Vulcan ...
Quadripartite Affair
Double Affair, Suite No. 2
Belly Laughs
Finny Foot Affair
Fiddlesticks Affair, Suite No. 2
Yellow Scarf Affair
Meet Mr. Solo
Spy With My Face
Discotheque Affair, Suite No. 2
Nowhere Affair
U.N.C.L.E. A Go Go
Bat Cave Affair
One of Our Spies Is Missing
Monks of St. Thomas Affair, Suite No. 2
Spy in the Green Hat
Gerald Fried Medley: The Foreign Legion Affair/The Apple a Day Affair
Karate Killers
Richard Shores Medley: The Summit-Five Affair/The "J" for Judas Affair

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Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Main Title
Dog-Gone Affair
Prisoner of Zalamar Affair
Mother Muffin Affair
Mata Hari Affair
Montori Device Affair
Horns-of-the-Dilemma Affair
Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (End Title)
Deadly Quest Affair: Teaser
Deadly Quest Affair: Act 1
Deadly Quest Affair: Act 2
Deadly Quest Affair: Act 3
Deadly Quest Affair: Act 4

Movie Classics: 2001 A Space Odyssey; Excalibur; Apocalypse Now; My Left Foot

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Movie Classics: 2001 A Space Odyssey; Excalibur; Apocalypse Now; My Left Foot
Various
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DOFH
Release Date: 1991-07-05

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