“Autumn Leaves” is one of the most re recorded songs. Originally this charming French melody sounded in 1945, then it was introduced by Yves Montand for the film Les Portes de la Nuit, in 1946. The music of “Les feuilles mortes” (literally “The Dead Leaves”) was written by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by the french surrealist poet Jacques Prévert.

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Oh, je voudais tant que tu te souviennes
Des jours heureux où nous étions amis
En ce temps-là la vie était plus belle
Et le soleil plus brûlant qu’aujourd’hui.

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle
Tu vois, je n’ai pas oublié
Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle
Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi.

Et le vent du Nord les emporte,
Dans la nuit froide de l’oubli.
Tu vois je n’ai pas oublié,
La chanson que tu me chantais…

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle
Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi,
Mais mon amour silencieux et fidèle
Sourit toujours et remercie la vie.

Je t’aimais tant, tu étais si jolie,
Comment veux-tu que je t’oublie?
En ce temps-là la vie était plus belle
Et le soleil plus brûlant qu’aujourd’hui.

Tu étais ma plus douce amie
Mais je n’ai que faire des regrets.
Et la chanson que tu chantais,
Toujours, toujours je l’entendrai.

C’est une chanson qui nous ressemble,
Toi tu m’aimais, moi je t’aimais
Et nous vivions, tous deux ensemble,
Toi qui m’aimais, moi qui t’aimais.

Mais la vie sépare ceux qui s’aiment,
Tout doucement, sans faire de bruit
Et la mer efface sur le sable
Les pas des amants désunis.

C’est une chanson qui nous ressemble,
Toi tu m’aimais et je t’aimais
Et nous vivions tous deux ensemble,
Toi qui m’aimais, moi qui t’aimais.

Some later in 1947 the “Les feuilles mortes” was translated into the english by American songwriter Johnny Mercer. Since Roger Williams made the song a number one hit in the United States in 1955, the song is remaining in that position for ever:-)

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The falling leaves drift by my window
The falling leaves of red and gold
I see your lips, the summer kisses
The sunburned hands I used to hold

Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song
But I miss you most of all, my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

Since you went away the days grow long
And soon I’ll hear old winter’s song
But I miss you most of all, my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

I miss you most of all, my darling
When autumn leaves start to fall

This is my favorite Christmas song. The lyrics and melody of this charming song were written and composed by Irving Berlin. The song was first introduced in the 1942 musical Holiday Inn starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Twelve years later Crosby did a semi-remake of the film “White Christmas” and it has remained as quite possibly the most enduring rendition to the White Christmas
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Irving Berlin wrote over 400 songs, such as No Business Like Show Business, Easter Parade, and the widely popular God Bless America. But of course, the song White Christmas still remains as this songwriter’s most beloved melody.

Most people reckon that Irving Berlin had written this song while being inspired during his Beverly Hills trip. He was doing a movie at this place, and he got probably homesick enough that he had written the words that now make up the White Christmas song. Below is the lyrical content of this song:

“I’m dreaming of a White Christmas
Just like the ones I used to know
Where the treetops glisten
and children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.

I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
With every Christmas card I write
May your days be merry and bright
And may all your Christmases be white.”

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I love this picture by François Ozon. By the way I love all his movies, but every time when I feel unwell I just take this movie as an effective remedy against any melancholy. Beautiful women, beautiful music, beautiful worrld.

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“Lynch’s films are tragedies about the overwhelming tendency for people to condemn themselves to a world of darkness and confusion, by succumbing to violence and the desire to control others. The characters in Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive create fragile illusions to escape from reality; find happiness only through death in Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me; or are cynically portrayed as finding improbable contrived happiness in Blue Velvet and Wild At Heart.
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However, the search for true love and beauty is a dominant theme in all of Lynch’s work, and The Straight Story suggests that it is possible for people to repair the mistakes of their past and find peace. Moments of humour and joy are expressed in Lynch’s films and he truly believes in the powerful bonds of friendship and family. By abandoning objective realism, and making visuals and music dominant over narrative, Lynch has generated a body of work that captures a unique emotional reality, reflecting dread, sorrow, and, sometimes, hope.” Thomas Caldwell wrote.
Music by Angelo Badalamenti.

I did’t find my favorite theme from “Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover”
This is theme from “Piano” movie that I like too
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This fragment is from “The Hours” directed by Stephen Daldry where sounding the sad and beautiful music of Philipp Glas.
There was neither nonexistence nor then, there was neither realm of space nor the sky which is beyong. What stirred? Was there water, bottomlessly deep?
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The song “The Finish” is performed by Toni Collette.

This is the most famous theme from “The Godfather Waltz” by Nino Rota
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But my favorite melody is from the picture of Federico Fellini
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Nino Rota collaborated with a greatest filmmakers, he was one of the most prolific and acclaimed film composers of his time. Nino Rota wrote music for the all Fellini’s films from The White Sheik in 1952 to The Orchestra Rehearsal in 1979. His list of soundtracks credits ranging from La Dolce Vita to Franco Zeffirelli’s Romeo and Juliet to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather.