1 Once Upon a Time in the West (Morricone)
2 On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Barry)
3 The Bourne Supremacy (Powell)

4 You Only Live Twice (Barry)
5 The Russia House (Goldsmith)
6 Schindler's List (Williams)
7 The Ninth Gate (Kilar)
8 Le Hasard et la Violence (Colombier)
9 High Noon (Tiomkin)
10 Captain Future (Bruhn)

WEST is, in my opinion, the ultimate Western opera, an oil painting so rich and touching I find it impossible to not be drawn into it. OHMSS is so full of power, melody and catchiness, Barry could have scored two or three movies from his ideas in this one. And SUPREMACY is the catchiest soundtrack album that I have heard during the last two decades - it almost hasn't worn off on me at all, although I haven't listened to anything else more than this one in the last five years; it's also great for travelling.

#4–10 are a bit arbitrary choices, but I still strongly recommend them.

Urs

handstand, November 10, 2009; 5:30 AM

- The Empire Strikes Back
- Star Trek The Motion picture
- Rudy
- Empire of the Sun
- Once Upon a Time in the West
- Blade Runner
- The Night Of The Hunter
- 28 weeks later
- Bandolero !
- Explorers
- La Femme d'à Côté
- Dances with Wolves
- Gloria

Amicalement à tous ...

michel, November 10, 2009; 8:44 AM

1. Hook
2. Krull
3. Independence Day
4. Conan the Barbarian
5. ET
6. Jaws
7. Dad
8. Cutthroat Island
9. Schindler's List
10. The Land Before Time

No Zimmer, no Goldsmith. Real orchestra's, 10 masterpieces

dirk.j.jansen, November 10, 2009; 8:51 AM

I never made up my mind about that. So I mention just a few that I like very much and that pop up in my mind this very second:

- COLUMBUS - THE DISCOVERY (Eidelman)
- CUTTHROAT ISLAND (Debney)
- GODS AND GENERALS (Frizzell)
- LAST OF THE DOGMEN (Arnold)
- LOVE ACTUALLY (Armstrong)
- THE MISSION (Morricone)
- THE MOLLY MAGUIRES (Mancini)


thb8, November 10, 2009; 10:51 AM

Quest For Fire (Sarde)
Spartacus (North)
Willow (Horner)
Last of the Mohicans (Jones & Edelman)
Lonesome Dove (Poledouris)
Hero (Dun)
Conan the Barbarian (Poledouris)
Lawrence of Arabia (Jarre)
High Road To China (Barry)
Silverado (Broughton)

hpmoorejr, November 10, 2009; 3:01 PM

Le Zbre - Jean-Claude Petit
Alphaville - Paul Misraki
Le MŽpris - Georges Delerue
How to steal a Million - John(ny) Williams
Robin & Marian - John Barry
Shade - Christopher Young
Solaris - Cliff Martinez
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - John Ottman
Hana-Bi - Joe Hisaishi
Christian Gaubert - Un printemps ˆ Paris

coma, November 10, 2009; 4:38 PM

1 Star Trek The Movie - Goldsmith
2 Superman - Williams
3 Final Conflict - Goldsmith
4 Ben-Hur - Rozsa
5 Body Heat - Barry
6 Ivan The Terrible - Prokofiev
7 The Last Valley - Barry
8 A Summer Story - Delerue
9 Glory - Horner
10 The Mission - Morricone

Probably next time my list is different because there is so much
good stuff.

hellomikegm, November 10, 2009; 5:11 PM

1. Tours Du Monde, Tours Du Ciel (Delerue)
2. Hammett (Barry)
3. The Last Valley (Barry)
4. Veruschka (Morricone)
5. Enter The Dragon (Schifrin)
6. The Final Conflict (Goldsmith)
7. Hellraiser (Young)
8. Himalaya (Coulais)
9. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Kilar)
10. Crimes of the Heart (Delerue)

ohmss, November 10, 2009; 5:41 PM

1...How The West Was Won..Newman
2...The Lion In Winter..Barry
3...Mary Queen of Scots..Barry
4...Lady Caroline Lamb..Bennett
5...Antony and Cleopatre..Scott
6..Arsene Lupin..Wiseman
7...OHMSS..Barry
8...The Sandpebbles..Goldsmith
9...Nostomo..Morricone
10...The Hallelujah Trail..Bernstein
Based on most played and constantly enjoyed...more BARRY could be included..lol.

tanemahuta, November 11, 2009; 3:09 AM

1. The sand pebbles
2. Man on fire (Scott)
3. Greystoke, the legend of Tarzan (Scott)
4. Inchon
5. Farwell to the king (Poledouris)
6. Guns of Navarone (Tiomkin)
7. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (Herrmann)
8. The reivers (Williams)
9. Obsession (Herrmann)
10. The wild bunch (Fielding)

peter-anselm, November 11, 2009; 3:16 PM

Les 400 coups - Jean Constantin
Wait until Dark - Henry Mancini
Metti una sera a cena - Ennio Morricone
Le casse - Ennio Morricone
Il grande silenzio - Ennio Morricone
Dirty Harry - Lalo Schifrin
Superfly - Curtis Mayfield
Citta violenta - Ennio Morricone
Les aventuriers - Francois de Roubiax
Turks fruit - Rogier van Otterloo
Assault on precinct 13 - John Carpenter
Rocky - Bill Conti



, November 11, 2009; 4:13 PM

These were just 10 that sprang to mind fairly quickly, and in no particular order. As with any
of us I could add and delete for days and it still wouldn't be definitive. But these get pretty
high rotation on my playlist. I make no claims that they are the best ever, though of course
some of them are :)

Star Wars IV: New Hope (but really just Star Wars)
Enter the Dragon (Schifrin)
Thunderball (Barry)
Jason and the Argonauts (Herrmann)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Williams)
Escape from New York (Carpenter)
Planet of the Apes (Goldsmith)
Wind and the Lion (Goldsmith)
Alien (Goldsmith)
Star Trek II: Wrath of Kahn (Horner)

whyaduck, November 11, 2009; 9:50 PM

The Last of the Mohicans (Jones)
Superman The Movie (Williams)
Gone with the Wind (Steiner)
Red River (Tiomkin)
Exodus (Gold)
Virginia City (Steiner)
Hanover Street (Barry)
Thief of Bagdad (Rozsa) + a dozen other Rozsas
and from TV:
Lonesome Dove (Poledouris)
Wagon Train (Moross)


m.jalava, November 14, 2009; 3:58 PM

- OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (Delerue)
- DEAD RINGER (Andre Previn)
- FLESH AND BLOOD (Poledouris)
- TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Bernstein)
- THE MISFITS (North)
- THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR (Delerue)
- THE BELSTONE FOX (Johnson)
- THE SILVER CHALICE (Waxman)
- POPE JOAN (Jarre)
- THE SPECIALIST (Barry)

powley, November 16, 2009; 10:47 AM