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I like all the Tarantino ones but the Judgement Night movie soundtrack is damn good too.

 

Tarantino typically uses pre-recorded music. John Powell is at the top of his game right now (Bourne). Carter Burwell can do brilliant stuff (Coens). And Cliff Martinez (Soderbergh) delivers. But all of them and more owe a debt of one kind or another to Nino Rota (Godfather, but also the films of Fellini, Zefferelli, Visconti)

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Ennio Morricone....

 

Really enjoyed that. A wonderful voice and there is something about the oboe that really creates emotion in a piece of music. I also used to love the oboe in the Sweeney closing theme tune.

 

But it has to be Miller's Crossing for me - which also happens to be my favourite film too - so I guess I might be biased.

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Maurice Jarre: he wrote the original music for over 50 movies, including Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago.

 

+1, some fantastic scores.

 

But it has to be Miller's Crossing for me

 

So good, it was stolen wholesale for the Lord of the Rings films...

 

My favourites are...

 

Three Colours: Blue - A film about a woman coming to terms with the death of her husband, who was a composer, so the soundtrack becomes an integral part of the narrative and is beautiful.

 

Dutch Harbor - A documentary about an Alaskan fishing town, the soundtrack was initially improvised live at every showing by a band calling themselves Boxhead Ensemble, featuring people like Jim O'Rourke, David Grubbs and Will Oldham. The released OST and DVD feature one of those improvised takes. Really mesmerically desolate, all slow guitar and scraped strings.

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He may be very mainstream and an obvious choice, but I am surprised that nobody has mentioned John Williams yet. After all, he has been responsible for some of the most memorable movie theme tunes ever composed; notably Star Wars, Jaws, Close Encounters, Indiana Jones, ET and Jurassic Park.

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