Prog bands into film

...a rather hilarious mis-use of prog music in film was the use of King Crimson's "The Devil's Triangle" in the movie of the same name, starring narration by the late, great Vincent Price!!   The poster said "Music by King Crimson," and I was expecting quite a bit more!! 

Rednight wrote: BaldJean wrote: Guru Guru even starred in a German TV-movie called "Notwehr" ("Self-Defense"), and I mean starred; they had major roles, especially Mani Neumeier who played one of the male leads. the other male leads were played by Günter Lamprecht, one of the very best German actors, and Friedrich von Thun. of course Guru Guru supplied the soundtrack as well Are we talking about German cinema. If we are, WHO CARES??

oho, there are many excellent German movies. currently there is "Toni Erdmann", the 3rd movie by female German director Maren Ade. in the view of many film critics (and in my opinion too) a movie with an excellent chance to win the "Best Foreign Language Movie" Oscar next year. it has already won several awards, including the FIPRESCI award at the Cannes film festival (it was also nominated for the Palme d'Or there), an honor never before bestowed on a female movie director.the movie will be released in the USA on Dec 25th this year.

don't underestimate German movies; there have been so many excellent ones. just think of "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" which has pretty high rankings in many "best movies of all time" lists, often even getting a top ten spot in them.

another brilliant German movie with similar reputation and rankings is Fritz Lang's "M" (actually it is Friede's favorite movie of all times). though it is 84 years old meanwhile it still is an excellent and gripping movie (and much better than Lang's "Metropolis".

I usually prefer European movies to US movies. there are of course some exceptions, but as a rule of thumbs they are much more audacious and therefore in my opinion much more interesting than the generally much too streamlined US movies




Edited by BaldJean - September 03 2016 at 05:21

BaldJean wrote: Guru Guru even starred in a German TV-movie called "Notwehr" ("Self-Defense"), and I mean starred; they had major roles, especially Mani Neumeier who played one of the male leads. the other male leads were played by Günter Lamprecht, one of the very best German actors, and Friedrich von Thun. of course Guru Guru supplied the soundtrack as well

Are we talking about German cinema. If we are, WHO CARES??

Journey did Dream After Dream. 

Edited by Jeffro - September 01 2016 at 10:29

Vangelis has made quite a few film soundtracks. Bladerunner, 1492 Conquest Of Paradise, Chariots Of Fire, Antarctica, El Greco, Opera Sauvage, Les Apocalypse Des Animaux, The Bounty, Bitter Moon, Missing.

Popol Vuh did a lot of soundtracks, most notably for the Werner Herzog movies "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" and his remake of "Nosferatu"

The best known of Emerson's soundtracks is for the Sylvester Stallone film, "Nighthawks". "Best Revenge" is another US movie he did. He also did some Italian and Japanese movies, including one of the Godzilla movies.

The 2 Wakeman movies I know about are "Lisztomania", a crappy movie with Roger Daltrey in the starring role, and Wakeman in a funny cameo. The other I saw was "The Burning", a blatant "Friday the 13th" ripoff. Wakeman's music in Lisztomania was great. The Burning, not so much.

I can't remember which movies Rabin scored, but I know I've seen him frequently in credits.

Gabriel did "Birdy" and "The Last Temptation of Christ".

Evolver wrote: Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Trevor Rabin have all composed soundtracks.