#Mr bean holiday sountrack movie#

Every time I saw his name on a movie, I paid attention. It made me aware that a person actually wrote these things – that they didn't come from clouds or from space! After this I noticed Herrmann’s name on all of my favourite films, from Jason And The Argonauts, The 7th Voyage Of Sinbad and other fantasy films he did. 'This was the first film score I ever really noticed, aged about 10. I’m not sure how happy he was about that!' I met Gareth Edwards at Empire’s Big Screen event and told him that I discovered his film through the soundtrack. There are some soundtracks that are almost too visual to work away from the film, but this definitely isn’t one of them. I like scores that use unusualy techniques and instruments and just really paint pictures for you.

I love the variety of it, how visual that soundtrack is, how perfectly it fits what you’re seeing, and how unusual it is. I love his music and discovered the film – which is fantastic, too – by listening to the soundtrack. 'It’s the soundtrack to Monsters by a musician called Jon Hopkins. More recently the score for Batman Returns… or Batman Has Breakfast!' The music from French Connection was amazing the score for Apocalypse Now was extraordinary. Howard Goodall’s music is a remarkable piece of film scoring. But another piece of music I love is Mr Bean’s Holiday – and you can quote me on that on! It’s a little strange - it’s not Hans Zimmer or Inception as you’d expect – but not really if you watch the film as much as I have. 'As a younger man and onwards, it was Blade Runner, which is a remarkable piece of score from a remarkable film, a labour of love. The other one is Drugstore Cowboy, which is a fantastic soundtrack.' Morricone performed it at the Royal Albert Hall and it was amazing – they had the choir and all those mad sound effects.

The first is Morricone’s Once Upon A Time In The West I went and saw it live about ten years ago. 'There are two soundtracks that spring to mind. It made me realise that the very thing that might frighten you about musicals – the fact that the singing doesn’t fit – creates a very interesting tension at the heart of what you’re doing.' It’s a through-sung musical that starts with a garage mechanic going into a changing room and getting changed for a date. I found that incredibly exciting and energising. Along with Tommy and Evita, it’s one of only three sung-through musicals that I’m aware of, and I like it because it has this disjunct between the singing form and the ordinary realism of the setting.

'The Umbrellas Of Cherbourg was a key inspiration for Les Misérables. With Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours and now on Trance, we’ve tried to maintain that instinct for boldness and front.' Usually film composition has to hide in the background and often you’re unaware of it, but I like it when it’s on the front foot and you play it loud, when it’s strong and self-conscious. But A Clockwork Orange has been a huge influence on me. Kubrick did that, and then Scorsese became very particular in using pop songs as a particular evocation of a period or a mood, so we follow very much in that tradition. I bought it when the film came out and it’s an astonishing soundtrack in its eclecticism and the risks it takes in terms of tone. My first was A Clockwork Orange on vinyl. 'My dad had High Noon in his record collection, but that was his purchase not mine. From stirring symphonies to magical motifs, here's what Danny Boyle, Tom Hooper, Danny Elfman, Hans Zimmer, Jude Law and others picked.

#Mr bean holiday sountrack movie#

So, back to us in Paris.With clipboard in hand and clad in finest doorbell-ringing attire, Empire's soundtracks celebration has gone door-to-door with some of our favourite actor, filmmakers and composer to find out which scores, soundtracks and movie music have most inspired them down the years. And so we - Keith, Kathy, my wife and I - thought it would be marvellous if we could try the same mountain of seafood for lunch. Bean order the gigantic seafood platter, including whole langoustines and oysters that Mr. In the restaurant scene, Jean Rochefort helps the hopeless Mr. Including a priceless performance by Willem Dafoe (yes, really, as a completely self-absorbed director) and the scene in Le Train Bleu. Bean stuff, but a lovely, romantic and hilarious take on France, the French railway system, movies, the Cannes festival, with a great soundtrack, and much more.

Bean’s Holiday? Give me a break.” But really, if you haven’t seen this flick, please do. For the Friday lunch, we settled on Le Train Bleu, a grandiose restaurant in la Gare de Lyon - one of the busiest railway stations in Paris, and the site of one of the funniest extended scenes in the 2007 movie Mr. For Saturday lunch, we chose Hélene Darroze, a Michelin-starred restaurant in the 6th, not far from the apartment we had rented. In Paris last week, with good friends Keith and Kathy, we were determined to do some serious eating.