Movies employing music in a great way.


I find certain directors are more aware of great music, and of how to integrate it into their films, than are others. Jim Jarmusch, Martin Scorsese, The Coen Brothers, and David Lynch come to mind. But maybe my favorite use of music is in the movie The Last Picture Show; lots of Hank Williams on the radio in the old pickup truck driven in the movie, perfectly reflecting the grim, dying small-town and sepia-hued Texas landscape.
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Great nominees, fellas! Another favorite of mine is American Graffiti, which perfectly depicts the era immediately before the arrival of the British Invasion, which changed everything. The band playing at the Jr. Prom is exactly what the Frat Bands (as the great Rock ’n’ Roll historian Greg Shaw called them. Different than the Garage Bands which emerged in the wake of that invasion.) of the early-60’s were like. I oughta know, I was in one!
Absolutely agree with The Last Picture Show for an introduction to Hank Williams. A Clockwork Orange for Beethoven and Excalibur for Wagner.