Criterion Picks: Noteworthy Scores (5 videos)

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Some of the world’s greatest film composers brought their gifts to these films; in all of them, the music itself is a main character.

(5 videos) |

	Title	Description
1.	Three Colors: Blue Movie (1:37:57) go to video page	In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic deaths of her husband and young daughter.
2.	Elevator to the Gallows Movie (1:31:12) go to video page	In his mesmerizing debut feature, twenty-four-year-old director Louis Malle brought together the beauty of Jeanne Moreau, the camerawork of Henri Decaë, and a now legendary score by Miles Davis.
3.	Amarcord Movie (2:03:48) go to video page	This carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the fascist period satirizes the director’s youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge.
4.	Harakiri Movie (2:12:40) go to video page	Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property.
5.	Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Movie (2:01:14) go to video page	Taking place on Mishima’s last day, when he famously committed public seppuku, the film is punctuated by extended flashbacks to the writer’s life as well as by gloriously stylized evocations of his fictional works.