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The Living Daylights by John Barry. The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams.
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The Living Daylights by John Barry. The Empire Strikes Back - John Williams. The Living Daylights is John Barry's best film? And his best score? The Empire Strikes Back is....?
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Bernard Herrmann - Vertigo That said, you could also make an argument for North by Northwest and Psycho.
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Jerry Goldsmith: CHINATOWN
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Bernstein -- To Kill a Mockingbird Friedhofer -- Best Years of Our Lives Barry -- The Lion in Winter Jones -- In Cold Blood Goldsmith -- Chinatown Schifrin -- Bullitt Rota -- La Dolce Vita Moross -- The Big Country Herrmann -- Citizen Kane Morricone -- Cinema Paradiso Williams -- The Reivers One could make an argument that the above scores are the best by that composer, and that those films were the best films scored by that composer. Of course, many alternative films/scores could work, as well.
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For Alexandre Desplat: GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING For Jerry Fielding: THE WILD BUNCH For James Horner: STAR TREK II - THE WRATH OF KHAN For Jerome Moross: THE BIG COUNTRY For Ennio Morricone: ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST For Max Steiner: THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE Three of the films above happen to be among my personal favorite movies as well as scores; but my favorite scores by my other favorite composers don't happen to have been created for the greatest films they worked on -- and vice versa. My favorite of Barry's is THE LAST VALLEY ... a still-underrated picture that has a number of wonderful qualities, but hardly the single best film that he ever scored. While NORTH BY NORTHWEST is my favorite Herrmann, it's not necessarily Hitchcock's best or the composer's. Goldsmith, my most favorite composer, already has been cited multiple times in this thread for CHINATOWN, yet I've never been a fan of either film or score. And while my three favorites of his scores are THE SAND PEBBLES, ISLANDS IN THE STREAM, and UNDER FIRE, all are very good films ... yet I would never claim they were the three best movies to which he was attached. Not even though the first two are both among my top-10 favorite pictures, and the last is my single favorite Goldsmith. I won't waste time trying to decide which I'd say was Alfred Newman's best score in order to tackle the question.
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Here's a sub-set from the list of my favorite films that also have their composers' finest works: Onibaba/Hikaru Hayashi Woman in the Dunes/Tôru Takemitsu Lady in a Cage/Paul Glass Les Biches/Pierre Jansen L'eclisse/Giovanni Fusco Tam Lin/Stanley Myers Pressure Point/Ernest Gold Nóz w wodzie/Komeda Night of the Eagle/William Alwyn The Fox/Lalo Schifrin Doctor Faustus/Mario Nascimbene Figures in a Landscape/Richard Rodney Bennett The Haunting/Humphrey Searle Eva/Michel Legrand 8½/Nino Rota I tre volti della paura/Roberto Nicolosi Don Juan 73/Michel Magne House on Telegraph Hill/Sol Kaplan Psyche 59/Kenneth V. Jones The Prisoner/Benjamin Frankel The Manchurian Candidate/David Amram Images/John Williams Séance on a Wet Afternoon/John Barry Herz aus Glas/Popol Vuh Lycanthropus/Armando Trovajoli The Night My Number Came Up/Malcolm Arnold Faces in the Dark/Mikis Theodorakis The Bedford Incident/Gerard Schurmann The Old Man and the Sea/Dimitri Tiomkin Town on Trial/Tristram Cary La última cena/Leo Brouwer La sirène du Mississipi/Antoine Duhamel Point Blank/Johnny Mandel The Snorkel/Francis Chagrin Mr. Klein/Egisto Macchi
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