05: FRANCIS LAI
BILILITIS
(WARNER, 1977)
Have I seen Bilitis? Oh yes, of course I have! Not that I’m a particularly huge fan of David Hamilton or 70s soft erotic movies in general. But I can clearly remember secretly watching late night flicks like Emmanuelle and Tendre Cousines on TV when I was very young. Apparently, this diffuse sensual sensation made me buy the Bilitis soundtrack in a flea market.
“I buy lots of soundtracks and some of them have become my all-time home listening favourites: Mancini, Badalamenti, the Simonettis, de Roubaix, Morricone, Carpenter, Elfman and so on…Francis Lai did some other great scores, most notably Love Story, a real tear-jerker! I especially like soundtracks as they trigger pictures from the movies in my mind. After watching a film, I can rarely remember much of the dialogues but a few bars of music bring back the whole plot.
“Do I remember any German TV themes from my childhood? There’s plenty of them engraved in my brain, not necessarily the best ones though: Schwarzwaldklinik, Traumschiff…terrible stuff. But the Tatort ident music by Klaus Doldinger is still great.”
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sherburne