[HB]

This doesn't fit into any of the other boards below and I doubt there are many film music fans here, but film composer John Williams is 80 tomorrow, Feb 8th.  You know his music even if you don't realize it.

Star Wars  ( all of the Star Wars films ), Jaws, Superman, the Indiana Jones films ,  Harry Potter, Jurrassic Park,
Close Encounters Of the Third Kind,
The Poseidon Adventure ,  The Towering Inferno,   
Empire of the Sun 
The Witches of Eastwick
The Accidental Tourist
Born on the Fourth of July
Home Alone
Schindler's List
The Patriot
A.I. Artificial Intelligence   
War Horse






Just to name a few...the guy has a heck of a legacy

[HB]

My Goodness!  A movie music enthusiast AND a girl fight fan. We must talk more my friend. My taste is for Jerry Goldsmith and the likes of Luzia and Nadege.

PS.  Thanks for that lovely FLATLINERS theme by James Newton Howard (another favorite).

My outlook is - there's Jerry Goldsmith.

Then there's everyone else. 

I would have posted a thread for JG's birthday this week but figured it'd be of even LESS interest here.

Drop me a PM if you'd like, or Yahoo, my yahoo ID should be on my profile. Now if you'll excuse me I'm listening to Goldsmith's Legend score as we speak... as for the femmes, I am old school it seems, so Maylay and Andi from the old Crystal films are my tastes..

[jagman49]

hi, can i throw the name of Ennio Morricone into the hat too, his music score for the movie The Mission, is superb, as are his scores for those memorable spaghetti westerns, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, A Fist Full Of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More. I think he also composed the music for the movies, Once Upon A Time In America, and The Untouchables.

[HB]

hi, can i throw the name of Ennio Morricone into the hat too, his music score for the movie The Mission, is superb, as are his scores for those memorable spaghetti westerns, Once Upon A Time In The West, The Good The Bad And The Ugly, A Fist Full Of Dollars, and For A Few Dollars More. I think he also composed the music for the movies, Once Upon A Time In America, and The Untouchables.

You're right abt America/Untouchables.  Yes Morricone is great.  There's a great inexpensive 2 CD sampler of his stuff :

http://www.amazon.com/Once-Upon-Time-Essential-Collection/dp/B0002V4YTU/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1329056405&sr=1-2

EM I turn to for his lush romantic music, great themes.  But yes I love stuff like Man With the Harmonica from Once Upon A Time In The West...that whole score is brilliant.