10. Nino RotaSoundtrack to Fellini’s ‘Casanova’
When I was young I became a huge Fellini fan and realised there was just one person doing the music for all his films. Casanova is one of the lesser known Fellini films I’d say. I hadn’t seen it until my girlfriend and I watched it about five years ago. It blew me away because it’s one of the spookiest; it’s a very bizarre film, and the visual and musical landscape are both edgy and weird, as well as sexy. It’s one of my favourites now.
Nino Rota is perhaps my favourite composer now. I feel like something happened in the 60s with film scores where these classically trained composers were suddenly expanding their palettes to include synths, electric harpsichords and guitars. Nino Rota has really influenced me a lot, he chooses spooky notes and disturbing sounds, although I never knew about the Casanova score until 6 or 7 years ago. My girlfriend started watching the film with Donald Sutherland and we couldn’t believe the soundtrack, it was so interesting and moody. It turned out to be my favourite Nino Rota score, even though I hadn’t heard it until then.
