Saturday, January 28, 2012

Magic Moments: film directors and pop songs

The use of pop and rock songs in cinema is common nowadays. In many films the movie soundtrack consists merely of such songs, with very little or no original score whatsoever.
The first film of such kind was of course The Graduate (1967) with the
Simon and Garfunkel songs and the experiment was a success. Other films in the 70's followed, such as Harold and Maude (1971) with Cat Stevens songs, and McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) with Leonard Cohen songs.
The posts to follow are not a general best-use-of-songs-in-a movie list, but a homage to five directors who I think have established a very close and successful connection with pop and rock music in their filmography.


No comments:

Post a Comment