Favorite Movie Soundtracks and Composers

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I love the soundtracks to:

Cinema Paradiso and Malena by Ennio Morricone
Dr. Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter by Maurice Jarre
Memoirs of a Geisha by John Williams.

What are your most memorable soundtracks.
 

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i like pino donaggio who wrote for movies CARRIE.....DRESSED TO KILL....BLOW OUT.....BODY DOUBLE. i like Ennio Morricone also....his western themes are unreal like.....ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. also THE THING was chilling. i also like robert colbert who wrote for an old tv show DARK SHADOWS and went on to write the haunting music for WAR AND REMEMBRANCE......WINDS OF WAR. john williams is great also as you all know the many scores he wrote.
 

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Soundtracks:

The Lost Boys
Dazed and Confused
Superfly (Thanks Mr. Mayfield)
Purple Rain (Duh)
Pulp Fiction
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Boogie Nights
This is Spinal Tap
Harold & Maude (The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens)
The Graduate (Simon & Garfunkel)
Good Will Hunting (Danny Elfman/Elliott Smith)

Scores:

To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein
Amelie - Yann Tiersen
Star Wars - John Williams
The Fountain - Clint Mansell w/ the Kronos Quartet
The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore
Fantasia - Various
 
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Soundtracks:

The Lost Boys
Dazed and Confused
Superfly (Thanks Mr. Mayfield)
Purple Rain (Duh)
Pulp Fiction
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Boogie Nights
This is Spinal Tap
Harold & Maude (The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens)
The Graduate (Simon & Garfunkel)
Good Will Hunting (Danny Elfman/Elliott Smith)

Scores:

To Kill a Mockingbird - Elmer Bernstein
Amelie - Yann Tiersen
Star Wars - John Williams
The Fountain - Clint Mansell w/ the Kronos Quartet
The Lord of the Rings - Howard Shore
Fantasia - Various

Good choices! I wasn't really thinking of soundtracks with songs when I saw the OP's question, but I love the soundtracks to O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Harold and Maude, and The Graduate. And of course The Rocky Horror Picture Show and This is Spinal Tap! All these are great movies with great soundtracks!

I like the songs from Purple Rain too, but I haven't seen the movie. I've just heard the songs.

My favorite movie score composers? Two stand out for me: Danny Elfman and John Williams. I also really like the score to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly as well.
 

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Oh come on! You all know what my favorite soundtrack is! Need I repeat my unending enthusiasm for Bernard Herrmann's masterpiece score for The Ghost and Mrs. Muir? So heartbreakingly beautiful; the definition of haunting. It's a huge fucking tragedy it wasn't even nominated back when the film debuted, but finally, FINALLY this score is beginning to get its due.

Fox thought the score so good that it is one of only a handful of 20th Century Fox films not to begin with the Fox fanfare.
 
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Alot of soundracks are great...in pieces. Most are hard to listen to as an lp b/ most pieces are bits from scenes and labeled Girl Go To Store or Audrey falls Down Cliff.
In terms of listening to a soundtrack as a great listen like a regular lp or geting involved in it I'd have to point out Yentl for it's great orchestrations and it moves along as a separate entity from the movie in terms of telling a story. I loved the soundtrack to the Rose too. Oingo boingo's Adventures in the Forbidden Zone is a hoot and a cuh-razy movie. I LOVE you Susan Tyrell!
 

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Alot of soundracks are great...in pieces. Most are hard to listen to as an lp b/ most pieces are bits from scenes and labeled Girl Go To Store or Audrey falls Down Cliff.

I love Audrey Falls Down Cliff! It's one of my favorite themes of that score! Couldn't have the film without it.
 
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Hans Zimmer - Da Vinci Code & Pirates of the Caribbean.
John Williams - Schindler's List & Star Wars.
Howard Shore - Lord of the Rings.