So put on some headphones, kick back, relax, and enjoy these Sonic Dreams. Featuring toe-tapping pleasantries and auditory delights, these films make us feel what cannot be rendered visually and add to the cinematic experience in ways only music can. These films are mostly lyrical endeavors, pulling selections from artists in the real world or creating newly minted songs for the film itself, but they can also be compilation of symphonies or even occupying the beloved subgenre of concert films. There are so many varieties to this that we decided to keep our February-March theme open ended, only excluding specific instances of the aforementioned musical or score from our list. The best films with soundtracks do this over and over again, playing track after track that cultivates a rhythmic liminal state of euphoria where sound and image become greater than the sum of their part.
It’s transcendental, magical even, when a billboard-charting song kicks in at just the right moment and cultivates an acutely specific emotional response to cinematic events. Like a good mix tape, a soundtrack cherry picks songs from disparate sources and strings them together to create an auditory experience all its own. For this month’s theme, we’re focusing on the curation of music through soundtracks. We love endlessly repayable scores and musicals hold a special place near and dear to our hearts, but the writing team thinks those music categories are worthy of their own themes down the road. When deployed in the right setting, the pairing of sound and image can set the mood for a scene, evoke an emotional response, or provide detail where the image could not. Since the early days of vaudeville theater, music has been, and continues to be, a crucial element of the cinematic experience. “THIS MUSIC IS THE GLUE OF THE WORLD … WITHOUT THIS, LIFE WOULD BE MEANINGLESS”
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