Post your favorite film scores, themes and moments where the music plays an integral role.

1. Favorite entire film scores:
Some of ours include Ben Hur andKing of Kings (we’re big Rozsa fans), The Shining (imaginative use of classic works by Berlioz, Bartok and Penderecki), Themes: Mike Oldfield’s The Exorcist (Tubular Bells), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (what more can be said about Ennio Morricone’s perfect, brilliantly simple musical icon?) Jaws,Star Wars, Raiders and virtually everything John Williams has put his pen to.
Others: Don Davis’ imaginative score for The Matrix, Elmer Bernstein’s brilliant music for To Kill a Mockingbird, Howard Shore’s classic The Lord of the Rings scores, Hans Zimmer’s ominous Hannibal score, etc.

2. Favorite moments in film music:
(some of ours) The Matrix Reloaded Chateau Fight Scene (integration of orchestral and groove elements, use of filters), the exhilaration of the flying bicycle scene in E.T., the chillingly ironic use of the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations” in Vanilla Sky, Marco Beltrami’s spare, poignant solo piano treatment of the “family” theme during the funeral in The Omen remake, the quotation of Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture as Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams plow through the university library on a motorcycle (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), etc., etc.

We look forward to hearing yours–

Tony and Chris