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Mark Silvester
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- posted August 23, 2015 08:51 AM      Profile for Mark Silvester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hi all

another little post. This time around one of the most emphatic elements around fim...and certainly to the emotion... favourite filme music/themes..here is one of mine a brilliant "kitchen sink drama" :

"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" - Johnny Dankworth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xWAug1ESU

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Paul Barker
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fantastic film Mark. love films like this. fabulous track.

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Vidar Olavesen
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- posted August 23, 2015 09:48 AM      Profile for Vidar Olavesen   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
For me, anything John Williams, Ennio Morricone and the John Carpenter music is nice. Something about the soundtrack to Peggy Sue Got Married always gets to me

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Mark Silvester
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- posted August 23, 2015 09:53 AM      Profile for Mark Silvester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Paul - me and you need to meet up one day and if we can have "Mike Newell, the artful dodger himself...and "Toddy!"...what a day. P.M. me for my personal mobile Paul - Mark.
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Larry Arpin
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- posted August 23, 2015 10:40 AM      Profile for Larry Arpin   Author's Homepage   Email Larry Arpin   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Bernard Herrmann is the best. Hitchcock & 4 of Ray Harryhausen films. He's very creative in his music as there are only woodwinds in his score for JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, strings in PSYCHO, and his score for DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is just magnificent with the intro of the thiamine. Of course, I enjoy lots of music but he is my favorite.

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Paul Adsett
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No question in my mind that Bernard Herrmann's composition for Vertigo is the best ever film score, Absolutely brilliant.

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Jonathan Trevithick
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'The Untouchables' is a favourite of mine, especially the Al Capone theme.

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David Guest
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yes sat nite and sunday morn is good I also have it on 16mm but the best which I also have on 16mm is murder she said

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Paul Spinks
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The classic scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklos Rosza and Dimitri Tiomkin always work for me, as well as Max Steiner when he went to Warner Bros. Any Hammer Film without James Bernard's music just doesn't sound right, and Barry Gray's wonderful music truly enhanced all those excellent Gerry Anderson TV shows from the 1960's.
(Edit) David you are so right about "Murder She Said". Anything by Ron Goodwin is always just perfect.

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Trevor Adams
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Zhivago

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Mark Silvester
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- posted August 24, 2015 02:47 AM      Profile for Mark Silvester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I agree with your comment on the "Capone" theme Jonathan...another favourite of mine is Randy Newmans - "The Natural".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQ4ZIBoEd4

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Andrew Woodcock
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Porcelain by Moby, taken from "The Beach"
Fantastic atmospheric chill out track that emphatically captures the desired mood of that moment in the film.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=moby+the+beach&FORM=VIRE2#view=detail&mid=129C95B964ADE6B048B2129C95B964ADE6B048B2

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Kevin Clark
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- posted August 24, 2015 03:56 AM      Profile for Kevin Clark     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
A bit of a 'marmite' selection from me but I could happily listen to Anton Karas's zither all day long as featured in The Third Man.

Kevin

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Mark Silvester
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- posted August 24, 2015 04:04 AM      Profile for Mark Silvester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Hi Kevin

absolutely...so evocative and "thrilling" all at the same time...one of my favourite films...and themes...here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8jN1treRKQ [Smile]

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Gary Crawford
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- posted August 28, 2015 06:34 AM      Profile for Gary Crawford     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I have trouble separating the reasons why I like certain scores. I can listen to Bride of Frankenstein and King Kong cd's every day, but I think it's more because of my childhood love of the films, as much as the music itself, which brings back favorite scenes and moments of the film for me. I'd favor Bride as far as great music goes.

As to great music scores that stand alone, it's hard to pick one. Film scores are not written to stand alone from the film. They are written FOR the film. But that said, I'd have to agree that Vertigo or Psycho might be favorites. Along with the score for Farewell, My Lovely.

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Dave Groves
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- posted August 28, 2015 08:33 AM      Profile for Dave Groves     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
Almost anything from Kordas 'Thief of Bagdad'. Miklos Rozas music is entrancing but then, so is the film.

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Osi Osgood
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- posted August 29, 2015 12:55 PM      Profile for Osi Osgood   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
STAR WARS!! I know that it may be quite generic now to most people, but it was a perfect marriage image and sound and everytime I listen to it, I'm brought back to that first day.

The soundtrack from "BladeRunner" (and anything done by "Vangelis"

Runner's up ...

In the "classical" vein ...

"Born Free" Soundtrack, By the great John Barry (his soundtrack for "Somewhere in Time is magnificent!)

" Hawaii " (Elmer Bernstein, I think)

... and last but certainly not least ... soundtrack with vocals ..

Audrey Hepburn's rendition of "Moon River" from the soundtrack of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"! That song has a haunted lovely longing to it.

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Douglas Meltzer
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- posted August 30, 2015 08:42 AM      Profile for Douglas Meltzer   Email Douglas Meltzer   Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
John Addison's rousing music for Swashbuckler has long been one of my favorites. That same year (1976) he did another terrific score for The Seven-Per-Cent Solution.

Doug

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Steve Klare
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I love the music from "Dances With Wolves",

-actually more than the movie itself!

(Is it cheating to love the music from the Fantasias?)

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Jean-Christophe Deblock
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MIKLOS ROZSA, definitely!

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Tom Photiou
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Ennio morriconie for me.I dont think he's ever written bad score.also john barry, apart from the 007 scores he also did the excellent score for the last valley. John Williams ron goodwin and miklos roza

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Jonathan Trevithick
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John Barry could do little wrong except that ocassionally some of his scores echoed some of his others. He composed a very fitting score for 'Chaplin' which I particularly like.

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Mark Silvester
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- posted August 31, 2015 03:41 AM      Profile for Mark Silvester     Send New Private Message       Edit/Delete Post 
I loved the theme from "Somewhere in Time" by John Barry....a wonderful film too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SglaO9ywFSg [Smile]

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