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Sounds on Screen: Mothers
30.03.25

Sounds on Screen: Mothers

Celebrating Mother's Day with a two-hour journey through soundtracks and moments from films featuring some of the most memorable mums in cinema, good and bad.

Selected and mixed by Florence Scott-Anderton.

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Tracklist

  • Excerpt Stories We Tell
    Stories We Tell (Dir. Sarah Polley, 2012) (Edit)
  • All I Want Is You
    Barry Louis Pollar
  • Excerpt Serial Mom
    Serial Mom (Dir. John Waters, 1994) (Edit)
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  • Excerpt Sansho The Bailiff
    Sansho The Bailiff (Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1954)
  • Excerpt Stella Dallas
    Stella Dallas (Dir. King Vidor, 1937) (Edit)
  • Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
    David Newman

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  • Tajabone
    Ismael Lô
  • Excerpt Thirteen
    Thirteen (Dir. Catherine Hardwicke, 2003) (Edit)
  • Rejected
    Frank Skinner And Joseph Gershenson
  • Excerpt Stepmom
    Stepmom (Dir. Chris Columbus, 1998) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Autumn Sonata
    Autumn Sonata (Dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1978)
  • Excerpt Hereditary
    Hereditary (Dir. Ari Aster, 2018) (Edit)
  • Reborn
    Colin Stetson
  • Crooklyn
    Crooklyn Dodgers (Special Ed, Masta Ace, Buckshot)
  • Excerpt The Princess Diaries
    The Princess Diaries (Dir. Garry Marshall, 2001) (Edit)
  • Main Title
    Alan Parker And Björn Isfält
  • Excerpt Grey Gardens
    Grey Gardens (Dir. Albert Maysles, David Maysles, Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer, 1976) (Edit)
  • Round And Round
    Libana
  • Excerpt The Florida Project
    The Florida Project (Dir. Sean Baker, 2017) (Edit)
  • About Her
    Malcolm McLaren
  • Excerpt Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
    Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1974) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Kung-Fu Master!
    Kung-Fu Master! (Dir. Agnès Varda, 1988)
  • Amelia’s Dream / Swing
    Jed Kurzel
  • Excerpt Erin Brockovich
    Erin Brockovich (Dir. Steven Soderbergh, 2000) (Edit)
  • The Heart Asks Pleasure First / The Promise
    Michael Nyman
  • Excerpt The Grapes Of Wrath
    The Grapes Of Wrath (Dir. John Ford, 1940) (Edit)
  • Dream Of The Future
    Carter Burwell
  • Excerpt Suddenly, Last Summer
    Suddenly, Last Summer (Dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1959) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Ordinary People
    Ordinary People (Dir. Robert Redford, 1980) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Mean Girls
    Mean Girls (Dir. Mark Waters, 2004) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Wanda
    Wanda (Dir. Barbara Loden, 1970) (Edit)
  • Driving Back Home
    Rob Simonsen
  • Gut Feeling / (Slap Your Mammy)
    Devo
  • Excerpt 8 Mile
    8 Mile (Dir. Curtis Hanson, 2002) (Edit)
  • Main Titles
    Danny Elfman
  • Excerpt Ma Mère
    Ma Mère (Dir. Christophe Honoré, 2004) (Edit)
  • Excerpt News From Home
    News From Home (Dir. Chantal Akerman, 1976) (Edit)
  • Time To Say Goodbye (Mermaid Scene)
    Tully (Dir. Jason Reitman, 2018) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Precious
    Precious (Dir. Lee Daniels, 2009) (Edit)
  • Conditor Alme Siderum
    Elsa Papatanasios, Emmanuelle Huteau, Marie-George Monet, Nathalie Liess & Grégoire Hetzel
  • Panic
    Krzysztof Komeda
  • Excerpt Strait-Jacket
    Strait-Jacket (Dir. William Castle, 1964) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Lady Bird
    Lady Bird (Dir. Greta Gerwig, 2017) (Edit)
  • Excerpt The Parent Trap
    The Parent Trap (Dir. Nancy Meyers, 1998) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Wasp
    Wasp (Dir. Andrea Arnold, 2003) (Edit)
  • Tripping
    Body/Head
  • Excerpt Postcards From The Edge
    Postcards From The Edge (Dir. Mike Nichols, 1990) (Edit)
  • Excerpt
    Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead
  • Excerpt The Sixth Sense
    The Sixth Sense (Dir. M. Night Shyamalan, 1999) (Edit)
  • Excerpt We Need To Talk About Kevin
    We Need To Talk About Kevin (Dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2011) (Edit)
  • Excerpt The Babadook
    The Babadook (Dir. Jennifer Kent, 2014) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Requiem For A Dream
    Requiem For A Dream (Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2000) (Edit)
  • I’ll Always Be
    Kelsey Lu
  • Excerpt The Grifters
    The Grifters (Dir. Stephen Frears, 1990) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Black Swan
    Black Swan (Dir. Darren Aronofsky, 2010) (Edit)
  • Marion
    Bernard Herrmann
  • Talking About Aliens
    Aska Matsumiya
  • Excerpt Mermaids
    Mermaids (Dir. Richard Benjamin, 1990) (Edit)
  • Dance (Prologue)
    Clint Mansell
  • Excerpt Matilda
    Matilda (Dir. Danny DeVito, 1996) (Edit)
  • Everywhere
    Michelle Branch
  • Excerpt A.I. Artificial Intelligence
    A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Dir. Steven Spielberg, 2001) (Edit)
  • Dear Mama
    2Pac
  • Excerpt The Anniversary
    The Anniversary (Dir. Roy Ward Baker, 1968) (Edit)
  • Excerpt The Piano Teacher
    The Piano Teacher (Dir. Michael Haneke, 2001) (Edit)
  • End Credits
    Pino Donaggio
  • Excerpt Daughter Rite
    Daughter Rite (Dir. Michelle Citron, 1980) (Edit)
  • Ashtray
    Pino Donaggio
  • Excerpt Mommy
    Mommy (Dir. Xavier Dolan, 2014) (Edit)
  • Excerpt Animal Kingdom
    Animal Kingdom (Dir. David Michôd, 2010) (Edit)
  • Excerpt The Tree Of Life
    The Tree Of Life (Dir. Terrence Malick, 2011) (Edit)
  • New World
    Björk