In 1980 Jeff Lynne was asked to write for the soundtrack of the musical film Xanadu, with the other half written by John Farrar and performed by the film's star Olivia Newton-John.

The Guru and The 40-Year-Old Virgin also feature Indian-style song-and-dance sequences ; the Bollywood musical Lagaan ( 2001 ) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; two other Bollywood films Devdas ( 2002 ) and Rang De Basanti ( 2006 ) were nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film ; and Danny Boyle's Academy Award winning Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ) also features a Bollywood-style song-and-dance number during the film's end credits.

The film received positive reviews for the film's stop motion animation, musical score and original storyline and was a box office success, grossing $ 50 million.

* The film's musical score that plays during " the Wizard's Run " was recently used in a trailer for the Toy Story 3 videogame.

Brooks, who is also executive producer of The Simpsons, had cast Smith in his 1994 film I'll Do Anything ( in one of the film's musical numbers ) but her part was cut.

The film's musical score was among the first to feature the theremin, which was used to create the pathos of alcoholism.

In 1967, she reunited with director Demy for the musical Les Demoiselles de Rochefort with her sister Dorléac — who was killed in a car accident shortly before the film's release.

The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the film's musical score.

Despite the film's lack of home video release directly to consumers in the United States, audio from the film — both the musical soundtrack and dialogue — were made widely available to the public from the time of the film's debut up through the late 1970s.

" The New York Times praised the film's musical numbers, but criticized the story line, describing it as " a little on the thin side ," but also stating that " it is sprightly enough to plug those inevitable gaps between the shimmeringly gay dances.

As with Don Juan, the film's soundtrack consisted of a musical score and sound effects ( including, in a couple of crowd scenes, " wild ", nonspecific vocals ).

The film's musical score in minimal and mostly consists of Grant and Hepburn singing I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby.

Other music includes incidental music in the scene at the Ritz and an arrangement of I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby during the beginning and ending credits by the film's musical director Roy Webb.

Those who adopted a more negative view at the time of the film's release were mostly music critics who resisted the idea of presenting classical music with visual images, arguing that doing so would rob the musical pieces of their integrity.

The player controls Mickey Mouse, who must find missing musical notes scattered across four elemental worlds based upon the film's segments.

In 1942, Chaplin released a new version of The Gold Rush, taking the original silent 1925 film and composing and recording a musical score, adding a narration which he recorded himself, and tightening the editing which reduced the film's running time by several minutes.

* Richard Baskin, the film's musical supervisor, wrote several of the songs performed in the film.

The film's musical score, by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, was so popular with the public that the Warner Brothers Music Department drafted a form-letter response to queries concerning recordings or sheet music.

Byrne also wrote, directed, and starred in True Stories, a musical collage of discordant Americana released in 1986, as well as producing most of the film's music.

Cartman has a major role in South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the full-length film based on the series, and appeared on the film's soundtrack singing the same musical numbers performed in the movie.

In addition to its plot and musical score, the article noted: " The film's real highlight is its ability to demonstrate how a legal defense is developed in a difficult case.

( 1955 ), Zinnemann's version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, is noted for the wide screen format Todd-AO making its debut, as did the film's young star, Shirley Jones.

The film was also the last to be produced by the four " Godzilla fathers ", with Ishirō Honda directing, Eiji Tsuburaya supervising the special effects ( with Sadamasa Arikawa actually directing ), Tomoyuki Tanaka producing, and Akira Ifukube handling the film's score.

The film's electronic score was composed and performed by David Newman and a soundtrack CD was subsequently released.

He began acting and composing for film with Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence ( 1983 ), which he starred in and composed the score for ; the song " Forbidden Colours " which he composed for it became a worldwide hit and he won a BAFTA Award for the film's score.

Jerry Goldsmith and his son Joel collaborated to produce the film's score.

Todd McCarthy in Variety magazine wrote, " One of the film's indisputable triumphs is its soundtrack, which mixes Carter Burwell's original score with classic pop tunes and some fabulous covers.

The film's score is by Elmer Bernstein.

The score complements the film's American Civil War setting, containing the mournful ballad, " The Story of a Soldier ", which is sung by prisoners as Tuco is being tortured by Angel Eyes.

Klaus Badelt wrote the film's late-Romantic styled score.

Filmmaker considered the score to be one of Newman's best, saying it " the film's transcendentalist aspirations ".

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

By convention, a soundtrack record can contain all kinds of music including music " inspired by " but not actually appearing in the movie ; the score contains only music by the original film's composer ( s ).

Eight songs from the original score were discarded as they were not considered to advance the film's plot.

Laughton also narrated the story on the soundtrack album of the film that he directed, Night of the Hunter, accompanied by the film's score.

The film's score makes repeated use of the short composition Gassenhauer from Carl Orff's Schulwerk, and also uses other pieces from the Schulwerk.

The film's original score was composed by Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott.

The film's original score was composed by Edward H. Plumb, Paul J. Smith, and Charles Wolcott.

David Robinson writes that the film's failure was probably due to it seeming too old-fashioned compared to many of the other films released that year, such as the French New Wave films.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The film's lesbian eroticism was however significantly cut for its US release.

The Academy cited the film's genre of " non-fiction ", arguing that it was not actually a documentary.

The film's total budget was estimated to be US $ 6 million.

Avco-Embassy Pictures, the film's financial backer, preferred either Charles Bronson or Tommy Lee Jones to play the role of Snake Plissken to Carpenter's choice of Kurt Russell, who was trying to overcome the " lightweight " screen image conveyed by his roles in several Disney comedies.

The finished version of the film was significantly different from the original screenplay drafts as Bruce Lee revised much of the script himself, including having written and directed the film's opening Shaolin Monastery fight sequence.

The film's production was not nearly as chaotic or strange as the production of the original, largely because of Raimi, Tapert and Campbell's additional film making experience.

The film was overshadowed by the death of Coppola's eldest son Gian-Carlo Coppola during the film's production.

Life Without Zoe was mostly panned by critics and was generally considered the segment that brought the film's overall quality down.

Although a moderate box-office success, grossing $ 58 million domestically on an estimated $ 45 million budget, it was panned by critics, many of whom disliked the film's abrupt contrast between actual comedy and tragic melodrama.

Andy Garcia has since claimed the film's script was nearly produced.

Camille Claudel, directed by newcomer Bruno Nuytten and starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu, was a major commercial success in 1988, earning Adjani, who was also the film's co-producer, a César Award for best actress.

There has been a refocus onto celluloid film's ability to capture an " indexical " image of a moment in time by theorists like Mary Ann Doane, Philip Rosen and Laura Mulvey who was informed by psychoanalysis.

The film's cinematography | cinematographer was John Alton, the creator of many of film noir's stylized images.

Scarlet Street was a semi-independent — cosponsored by Universal and Lang's own Diana Productions, of which the film's costar, Joan Bennett, was the second biggest shareholder.

Time magazine writer Richard Corliss was less scathing, but agreed that it was forgettable, saying that people would " forget all about movie by the time they leave the multiplex ," even joking at the end of his review that he had forgotten the film's name.

Nonetheless, Capra's vision about the film's significance was clear:

The significance of the film's message was established further in France, shortly after World War II began.

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.