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The Best Movies of the Composers

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      CommentAuthorkeky
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
    This thread is about the best movies of certain composers. So it's not about their best scores but rather about the best movies they wrote music for. Here is my list for a start:

    Ennio Morricone: Cinema Paradiso
    James Horner: Braveheart
    James Newton Howard: Grand Canyon
    Hans Zimmer: The Last Samurai
    Alan Silvestri: Forrest Gump
    Miklós Rózsa: Ben Hur
    Maurice Jarre: Dead Poets Society
    Jerry Goldsmith: Forever Young

    Well...suddenly I cannot think of other composers...Maybe later I will continue
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
    Hmmmm, very subjective.

    Walkabout - John Barry

    Chinatown - Jerry Goldsmith

    Laurnce of Arabia - Maurice Jarre

    E.T. The Extraterrestrial - John Williams

    Aliens - James Horner

    The Great Escape - Elmer Bernstein

    Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann

    Once Upon A Time In The West - Ennio Morricone

    The Shawshank Redemption - Thomas Newman

    The Godfather Part II - Nino Rota

    Ben-Hur - Miklos Rozsa

    The Treasure of The Sierra Madre - Max Steiner



    And I could still change some of those choices.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
  3. Best movies? Interesting angle.

    Ennio Morricone: Days of Heaven or Once Upon a Time in the West or The Good the Bad and the Ugly.
    Hans Zimmer: The Thin Red Line.
    Elliot Goldenthal: Heat.
    Jerry Goldsmith: Patton or Chinatown. Or Alien. Or The Sand Pebbles.
    Miklos Rozsa: Double Indemnity or Providence?
    Alexandre Desplat: Read My Lips is probably my favourite.
    Zbigniew Preisner: Trois Coleurs Bleu.
    John Williams: The Empire Strikes Back. Raiders. Munich.
    Maurice Jarre: Lawrence of Arabia.
    Bernard Herrmann: Citizen Kane.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
    franz_conrad wrote
    Hans Zimmer: The Thin Red Line.


    Completely agree! Oh and Braveheart? uh-uh wink
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  5. Interesting choices, Michael, but I would say that Rouge is better than Bleu. That's my personal preference only though.
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      CommentAuthorDemetris
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
    I'd too choose Bleu.
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      CommentAuthorSteven
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
    I'd say that Schindler's List is the best film Williams has ever scored (again, subjective isn't it?). It was the first film (including documentaries) I'd ever watched about the Holocaust that really allowed me to appreciate its importance. Most film geeks will probably argue there's an obscure, European film out there which hammers it home even more effectively, but for me that takes little away about how much I appreciate this film. So there, fuck you. biggrin
    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
    Steven wrote
    I'd say that Schindler's List is the best film Williams has ever scored (again, subjective isn't it?). It was the first film (including documentaries) I'd ever watched about the Holocaust that really allowed me to appreciate its importance. Most film geeks will probably argue there's an obscure, European film out there which hammers it home even more effectively, but for me that takes little away about how much I appreciate this film. So there, fuck you. biggrin


    I'm all for a film that reaches a mass audience and has the importance of a film like this. A film like Schindlers can deliver a powerful emotional message that old newsreal sometimes can't.

    I think films like this and a visit to Auschwitz should be on every school curriculum.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorSouthall
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008
    While Schindler's List is not the best film about the holocaust by a long stretch, it is surely the most important - having the world's most famous, and most bankable, film director make such a film was very important.

    My own choices:

    Goldsmith - Patton
    Williams - Jaws
    Bernstein - To Kill a Mockingbird
    Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
    Barry - Dances with Wolves
    Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia
    Zimmer - The Thin Red Line
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    • CommentAuthorTimmer
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
    Southall wrote
    While Schindler's List is not the best film about the holocaust by a long stretch, it is surely the most important - having the world's most famous, and most bankable, film director make such a film was very important.

    My own choices:

    Goldsmith - Patton
    Williams - Jaws
    Bernstein - To Kill a Mockingbird
    Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West
    Barry - Dances with Wolves
    Jarre - Lawrence of Arabia
    Zimmer - The Thin Red Line


    JAWS!? of course! I've changed my mind already. cool

    James, What IYO are the best movies dealing with the Holocaust?

    IMO the best was actually a TV series, simply called HOLOCAUST. Had a great cast including Tom Bell, Ian Holm, James Woods, Meryl Streep & Marius Goering plus a truly fine score by Morton Gould.
    On Friday I ate a lot of dust and appeared orange near the end of the day ~ Bregt
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      CommentAuthorRalph Kruhm
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2008 edited
    Timmer wrote
    James, What IYO are the best movies dealing with the Holocaust?


    Feel free to talk about it here:
    http://www.maintitles.net/forum/discuss … on/#Item_1

    Of course you can talk about it wherever you want, I just thought it´s a great topic that came up here, certainly worth a discussion of its own.

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