Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine in Notting Hill.

It's A Long Road at the end of First Blood

Steve V. wrote:

sparky wrote:As RIII has stolen in with a little rule-break, I'll take this opportunity to post the haunting main theme to Le Mépris by Georges Delerue, which is also used to great effect in Casino. Not a song, but some of you might like it.

Well done, sir.

I had a double-take when watching Casino again after seeing Le Mépris. The usage is a striking change of context isn't it? I wish that I could mourn and regret with such grace.

Rimbaud III wrote:not strictly a great film...

Ivans XTC.

I'll fight you

sparky wrote:

Steve V. wrote:

sparky wrote:As RIII has stolen in with a little rule-break, I'll take this opportunity to post the haunting main theme to Le Mépris by Georges Delerue, which is also used to great effect in Casino. Not a song, but some of you might like it.

Well done, sir.

I had a double-take when watching Casino again after seeing Le Mépris. The usage is a striking change of context isn't it? I wish that I could mourn and regret with such grace.

Gorgeous turn of pace. That song set against the afternoon desert where no one is invincible. Scorsese is a master of emotional manipulations.

In Le Mépris the song's subtlety was enforced, but in Casino it was the signal for collapse. Versatility at its finest, in the right hands.

The Code is Almighty wrote:That reminds me, Bonnie Tyler's Holding Out For A Hero in Footloose

Don't forget in Short Circuit 2!

"The Seeker" in American Beauty
"I Touch Myself" in Austin Powers: IMM
"Flowers on the Wall" in Pulp Fiction -- along with "You Never Can Tell" in the same movie
You'll all hate me, but "Bohemian Rhapsody" in Wayne's World

Andrew from tasmania wrote:Sleep's Dragonaut in Gummo as the two 'heros' ride BMX bikes downhill. Gummo has a pretty fine soundtrack.

Hell yeah.

This one's pretty obscure. Strange Behavior is a spooky sci-fi horror from 1981 that has an unexpected dance sequence in the middle to Lightnin' Strikes by Lou Christie.

burun wrote:

newberry wrote:And as long as Donovan keeps getting mentioned, how about Season of the Witch at the end of To Die For?

+1

Season of the Witch. The 1971 George Romero movie "Hungry Wives" was released on video as "Season of the Witch" because there's a sequence with the Donovan song that 's a great example of music placement. Hard to find movie, under appreciated, but great.

Ike wrote:"Hurdy-Gurdy Man" in Zodiac creeped me out. CREEPY song anyway.

I found the Three Dog Night song 'Easy to Be Hard' to be equally creepy.

Ike wrote:Say what you want, but that faux-Irish band in The Departed, that one song? When it's all crazy? That was pretty good. That song with Boston in it. That's pretty damn good.

The song is 'I'm Shipping Up to Boston' by The Dropkick Murphys. I also hate this band but its usage in those scenes was highly appropriate.

"Dare To Be Stupid" in Transformers: The Movie