Does Your Favourite Film Feature Your Favourite Score?

Interesting question! All the more because I recently realized (again) how I look for completely different things in a score to appreciate, then I do with films. For example, this is my top 10 list in film:

1. Schindler's List (1993)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
3. Psycho (1960)
4. Amadeus (1984)
5. Barry Lyndon (1975)
6. Artificial Intelligence: AI (2001)
7. Clockwork Orange, A (1971)
8. Apocalypse Now (1979)
9. Saving Private Ryan (1998)
10. M (1931)

How many of them even have an original score? Only Schindler's List, A.I. and Saving Private Ryan (sure, and Apocalypse Now, but who listens to that outside of the film?). While, on the other hand, my current list of top 10 scores:

1. Howard Shore - The Lord of the Rings (2005)
2. Hans Zimmer - The Thin Red Line (1999)
3. Howard Shore - Looking for Richard (1996)
4. John Williams - Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
5. Bernard Herrmann - Psycho (1997)
6. James Newton Howard - Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
7. John Williams - Schindler's List (1994)
8. Javier Navarrete - El Laberinto del Fauno (2006)
9. Basil Poledouris - Flesh + Blood (1985)
10. Elliot Goldenthal - Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Right. So Schindler's List and Psycho make reappearances, and The Lord of the Rings has been in my Top 10 film for quite a while. The Thin Red Line comes close as well (maybe it will soon come in my top 10). But, Flesh + Blood, as a film, will never come anywhere near my top 10 list, I've never seen Looking for Richard nor Snow Falling on Cedars (and doubt if I want to) and Interview With the Vampire and Raiders of the Lost Ark are pretty to very good indeed but are simply in another league then the Kubrick masterpieces or Fritz Lang's M.

The more I'm 'maturing' in film, the more the lists seem to be separating. Maybe it's because we all love our scores to have clear themes, adventure, romance, orchestral sounds, and those simply feature in the 'fun' films that do not feature in those hefty Top 10 Films Of All Time lists? I know I have a whole list of Criterion Collection films I'd love to see in the coming months that don't even have (well known) scores.

I am no film-watching toff so my selection is likely to be of films I can watch time and time again. Period. Just looking through my 100 or so DVDs...

This is a good topic and one that got me to thinking. The answer to the question is no. My favorite film score is The Best Years of Our Lives/Friedhofer and the movie is on no favorite viewing list. Scott of the Antarctic/Vaughan Williams is another and again the film is not on a list.
Tom

My top13 films of all-time would look something like this:

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
An American Werewolf in London
The Shining
The Thing (1982 version)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978 version)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Matrix
The Terminator
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
C'era una volta il West
Aliens
Airplane!
Life of Brian

I had to make it a top13 since I couldn't cut it down to a top10.

Some of the scores I adore, some do nothing for me. For me there's no correlation between quality of movie and quality of music.

Peter

If i were to choose THE THIN RED LINE, i'd say so, yes. But not into "favorite this" and "favorite that" thingies in general, too hard to define.

BTW, it should be noted that James Horner scored 3 of the above.

Yes. They often goes hand in hand. For me anyway.

You really think so?
Tom

It's pretty damn close. JURASSIC PARK is my alltime favourite score, and it is at the very least in my top 3 movies of all time. It's battling it out with ALIEN and ALIENS on a regular basis. Seen all of these 60+ times each. And I NEVER grow tired of them.

The Thin Red Line. Yes, it does.