In filmmaking mise-en-scene refers to “everything in front of the camera” (mostly), and that’s what we’re doing with Film and TV music on Picture This tonight. We’re putting as much of everything in front of you as two hours will allow with lots of great contributions from the world of rock,. Also we’re doing more with music from some of 2025’s best scores.
Coming Attractions from Matinee, composed by Jerry Goldsmith
That’s A Move Song of the Week
May I? from Shooting the Moon, composed and performed by Kevin Ayres and the Whole World
Semi-Fraudulent/Direct from Hollywood and This Town is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich from 200 Motels, composed by Frank Zappa, performed by Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
Money Trouble/The Schwabadero from Sunset Boulevard composed by Franz Waxman
Motorboy’s Fate and Don’t Box Me In from Rumblefish, composed by Stewart Copeland, Don’t Box Me In performed by Stan Ridgeway, who also contributed lyrics, voice and harmonica
It Came from Outer Space/Stardust from Individually Twisted, performed by the Jazz Passengers
Your Brains’ll Fall Out from Soupy Sales Sez Do the Mouse and Other Teen Hits composed by Denny Randell and Sandy Linzner, performed by Soupy Sales
Witch Doctor from The Rugrats Movie, composed by Ross Bagdasarian (David Seville), performed by Devo
Nut on the Roof/End Title Music from Barefoot in the Park, composed by Neal Hefti
Promised Land from 28 Years Later, composed and performed by Young Fathers
Pluribus Theme from Pluribus, composed and performed by Dave Porter
Love You So Bad from Sex Education, composed and performed by Ezra Furman
Title Theme from Only Murders in the Building, composed by Siddhartha Khosla
Cousin Django from Le Gitan or The Gypsy, composed by Claude Bolling and performed by Bolling and Django Rinehart
Incurably Romantic from Let’s Make Love, composed by Jimmy Van Huesen and Sammy Kahn, performed by Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe
La Madrague from Bonne année Brigitte, composed by Jean-Max Rivière and Gérard Bourgeois, performed by Brigitte Bardot
Blue Moon from New York, New York, composed by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, performed by Robert De Niro and Mary Kay Place
Leda from Lost Daughter, composed by Dickon Hinchliffe
My Sister from Nenette and Bonnie, composed and performed by Tindersticks
Moon Boat from Leave No Trace, composed and performed by Kendra Smith
Theme from The Conversation, composed by David Shire
Saigon 1952 from The Quiet American, composed by Craig Armstrong, performed by Hong Nhung and the Metro Choir
Train Dreams from Train Dreams, co-written by Bryce Dessner and Nick Cave, and performed by Cave
Negative Impact and Inclination is Flattening from House of Dynamite, composed by Volker Bertelmann
Lay-Z Boy, Kids and Title Theme from Stranger Things, composed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein
Materia Primoris: The X Files Theme from The X-Files, composed by Mark Snow
NEXT WEEK’S ‘PICTURE THIS”
Our next show’s theme is Jonathan Demme’s Storefront Hitchcock (1998) as well as more rounding up of the best scores of 2025.