Ennio Morricone - Days of Heaven

[aquamoon22]

It is our deceptions and lies that have cast us out of Eden...

[sixtodecimo]

i remenber the music and the 70's film-its fantastic!

[MantiaRyche]

Days of Heaven is one of my favorite movies of all time.

It also has some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard.

Ennio Morricone is a master!

[sixtodecimo]

greath film.

[Seasurfjoy]

@sixtodecimo Do you lithp? :-)

[MegaOrwell1984]

OMD this music is so beautiful. I wish the original soundtrack was available on iTunes. :(

[theXNtric]

Anyone else catch the cricket at the end? Seriously, turn up the volume at the end; I swear I heard chirping.

[miko50474]

WONDERFUL A MASTERPIECE

[MonoAzul]

I wonder why Malick hasn't worked with Morricone since this film. I would have liked it if Malick worked with Morricone again on Tree of Life.

[Loki1982axala]

@MonoAzul maybe because Morricone didnt want to work with Mallick again?

[Treebard]

@MonoAzul It would have been nice. I would have loved it, too, if Morricone had worked on Tree of Life. However, I think the reason was, Malick didn't need any extra music, as he used mainly great classical music of the 19th century as that fit in with the storyline of the father being a classical music aspirant and afficiando.

[Noodles78CA]

Magnifica! Meravigliosa! Epica!

[1M005E1]

Why, I keep asking why? Does people think using foul, nasty language ?Cant you just 1 time not say filth, or type filth?Not all people like reading these nasty, filthy talking heatherns.Grow up, before you decide to post junk.

[Jabb3rwock3]

@1M005E1 or perhaps do not engage yourself in a forum that you find offensive? Should the world conform to you, or should you find your own place in a vastly wide and heterogeneous world?

[PrimaveraPictures]

Why the fuck hasn't Malick gotten any Oscars yet?

[blablaidontcarewhour]

@PrimaveraPictures You understand Malick, however, it seems you don't understand the Academy.

[janitorialprez]

This is two minutes and 38 seconds of harmonic perfection.

[theXNtric]

I think I may have doubled the views for this song in the last three days, unless there are other people who listen to this song as much as I do.

[shaneu1]

@theXNtric I searched for it here with little idea that I would find it. My gratitude to you for uploading it. I suspect I'm among those who have swollen the number of views. I remember sitting, as usual, through the credits of the film when I first saw it, and its effect on me could best be described as hypnotic.

[abbeykroeter]

This is gorgeous without a doubt, and i agree this movie does what all movies should strive for; take you right out of your world. Check out "Act of Faith" by the Morricone; it's the music behind Bugsy's death, and absolutely beautiful.

[shaneu1]

I saw "Days of Heaven" in a large theater in New Orleans in 1979. I felt enveloped by it, by the beauty of Nestor Almendros' cinematography, Malick's lyrical direction, Morricone's stunning score (with a bit of help from Camille Saint Saens, and Linda Manz. As I departed the theater after viewing the credits, which are run over the music depicted here, the feeling of bliss, the sense that I had just seen and heard perfection, was overwhelming. I've a ritual of watching this film once a year.

[MrRabbitskunk]

This is a film you must see on the big screen. What stuck me besides the music and cinematography was Linda Manz's narration. It just pulls you into the film.

[dmd3217]

Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down....That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth. Deuteronomy 11:18-21

[govpavlicek]

Beautiful and somewhat sad music expresses the feelings I had watching the movie. Together with the fantastic footage, I somehow longed to be there. In that era, among those people and a countryside that breaths something that seems so pure. Morricones music and Malicks cinematography are a perfect marriage. I've got the Criterion version and it is the best movie of its kind. Although it gives me some melacholia, I am also happy to live now so I can enjoy movies and music like this.

[TheCatgirl6]

I was 20 when this film came out--and I was overwhelmed by it! I went to see it over and over again, bought the soundtrack (vinyl of course) and wore it out as well. The most emotional cinematic experience of my life and I'm sure I'm not alone in this view.

[thisisnotzimbabwe]

this song sent chills down my spine. Makes you feel the beauty of the things in life you cannot understand.

[Jamesbharris2]

Malick is a genius and I believe the greatest artist of my lifetime. Let's all send him 10 dollars so he never has to struggle for funding again!

[Ele11090]

I love this song and Morricone is my favourite composer...where can I download this score? I tried on E-mule but I can't find it :(

[abbeykroeter]

@Ele11090 It's hard to find because it's too good. Truly original/special soundtracks, etc... are not emphasized by the very people in the distribution business; ironically their minds don't work like that. "Business" in all sense of the word, makes them lose their way and crank out shallow crap ten fold. Just like '90's video store inventory; no "Days of heaven" and tons of mindless action flicks. Amazon's confusing ad "Two mules / Days of Heaven" combines some selections from the movie.

[JackieBill123]

Ya gotta wonder how many other great STORIES are out there, waiting to be made into MOVIES, by Malick and others who see the world through the same prism, but the movies will never get made, because the Hollywood "all calories and no nutrition" junk factory continues to rely on simple, one-dimensional stories with car chases and foul language, to appeal to only the fourteen-year-olds in the audience.

[TheCatgirl6]

@JackieBill123 Depressingly true. "All calories and no nutrition"--well put.

[georgik1963]

Thanks for the reference to Sarah and Abraham -- I'll think about it! The movie is definitely rooted in Genesis. When I first saw it, I took it as a version of the Lillith legend -- only gender-reversed: Abby = Adam and Bill = Lillith. But it's not an allegory. It has its own symbolic power, which draws deeply on the Western tradition. Thank you Terrence!

[Xafred75]

Where can I find this? It can't be found on Amazon.

[GhostSnake]

Morricone should be remembered the way Mozart and Beethoven are.

[JackieBill123]

Yes, the book of Genesis and maybe Exodus ... I'm very rusty ... read it many years ago.

[JackieBill123]

This IS a "Biblical" movie - the story of Sarah and Abraham in the book of Genesis - Sam Shepard as the Pharoah, Sarah and Abraham pretending to be brother and sister, the pestilence, working as slaves, the Pharoah lusted after Sarah, etc. ... READ YOUR BIBLE. Yes, this is the fourth best movie of all time, in my opinion. Malick thinks on a different level from the rest of us. We share an alma mater.

[FuckWorkdays]

JackieBill123@

The Old Testament?

[MonoAzul]

Great piece. I can imagine it working in some kind of Biblical movie for some reason (of course, Morricone has actually scored a few of those).

[Transformers217]

Terrence Malick is a cinematic God! :)

[civwarbuff]

haunting soundtrack too a haunting and brilliant film. elegance is the word too describe this movie, love terrence malick.

[filmfanman65]

Haunting, haunting, haunting... lol.

[theprophet20]

Reluctant as I would be to name my most favourite movie, but if I were pressed, then I would have to say that without a doubt, "Days of Heaven" is, in my humble opinion, the greatest movie of them all, it's almost transcendent...

[Nightfall95]

this music is so beautiful and amazing, Ennio Morricone knows how to score a film. Love his style, I love the melancholy of his moods. Aside from the Dollars triolgy and Once Upon a Time in the West; Duck, You Sucker had another amazing soundtrack as well. Thank you so much for posting this, been looking all over for a long time.

[buckiemohawk]

The mission was amazing too

[chipichepe]

super lied , perfekt . danke

[kucharsk]

For those who may have lived in Madison, Wisconsin in the mid-1980s, WMTV TV (Channel 15) used to have a photo/video montage of the city named "Atmospheres," shot by station engineer James Higgins, set to this music that they played nightly at sign-off.

[quietlymocking]

That's so cool!

And really coincidental, of all the cities that could have been mentioned in the comments, to see mine.

But I wasn't alive in the mid-1980s to hear WMTV play it.

[merrick80]

I remember seeing "Atmospheres" nightly during the 80s. I always wondered where the music came from and now I know. Wish WMTV would bring this out of the vaults and show it again, it brings back memories.

[editczar1010]

@kucharsk That station sign off is now posted on You Tube

along with the other one Higgins made.

[editczar1010]

@kucharsk That station sign off is now posted on You Tube along with the other one James Higgins made.

[nagypicture]

Simply Beautiful...

[IngaMarr]

I have watched the end credits of this film countless times simply to hear this evocative, elusive piece which captures the melancholy of the film perfectly. I find it hard to believe that this score is not more widely known (and more celebrated among Morricone's works); I'm not sure it was ever released on CD. I didn't even know it existed as a soundtrack recording until a spotted a copy on vinyl at a vintage record shop about 18 years ago. I can't find it anywhere on the net: a true pity.

[5735740]

i have the music if u want conact me and i`ll send u to your mail

[kama316]

HOLY FUCK!!! this is the most beautiful song i`ve EVER heard!! what is he made of this man?? he wont die,he will just comtinue on and make heavenly music for eternity!! and than god for that!!!!!! his best since "ecstacy of gold" i love you ennio!

[5735740]

this song it was composed by ennio morricone thw best composer from the soundtracks

[theprophet20]

@kama316 Belately, I love your enthusiasm! Yes, the most beautiful music for most beautiful movie...