Who is your favorite film composer? (horror, musical, classic, soundtrack)

[punkrocker27ka]

Maurice Jarre hands down. Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India. Some of the most beautiful scores of all time.

[FlashM]

Originally Posted by punkrocker27ka

Maurice Jarre hands down. Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, A Passage to India. Some of the most beautiful scores of all time.

I see you are the David Lean's fan?

[kpankulu]

Hans Zimmer (Gladiator, Batman-The Dark Knight)
Miklos Rozsa (Ben Hur)
Alexandre Azaria (Transporter 2)

[Jezer]

I love the story told by Dirk Bogard when they were trying to sell the film Death In Venice to the US market.

After watching it the film executives looked a bit puzzled but one asked who the composer was and was told it was Gustav Mahler.

We need to sign him up was the reply.

[MIKEETC]

Vangelis...Blade Runner

Danny Elfman...Nightmare Before Christmas

and John Williams for a bunch of stuff...

[xGrendelx]

Ennio Moricone, Bernard Herrmann, James Newton Howard, Clint Mansell, and Philip Glass are definitely my faves. I've watched films just to hear their score. I think the Qaatsi films wouldn't have nearly the impact they do without Philip Glass. I think the same goes for Aronofsky's The Fountain if it weren't for Clint Mansell. And, although I love Hitchcock AND San Francisco, Vertigo wouldn't be what it is without Bernard Herrmann.

[punkrocker27ka]

Originally Posted by FlashM

I see you are the David Lean's fan?

Big time! He's one of the best. Are you?

[FlashM]

Originally Posted by punkrocker27ka

Big time! He's one of the best. Are you?

He is a great director. I've seen onle a couple his movies and I like them all.
Here they are:

BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, 1957
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, 1962
DR. ZHIVAGO, 1965

[noela]

Philip Glass.
Clint Mansell (I agree that The Fountain owed a lot to his score -and to the cinematography-).
Maurice Jarre.
Michel Legrand.
Elmer Bernstein.

[dance_or_REBEL]

Mine's Angelo Badalamenti, he does most of the David Lynch films. Very haunting music.