Your favourite music movie?

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Alexander Nevsky is one of the best, absolutely entrancing without the film at all, provides complete accompaniment to the story. West Side Story doesn’t count as it began as a broadway musical, just like Porgy and Bess, another fantastic score but not composed specifically for film. Mary Poppins was composed specifically for film (not at the level of Nevsky, just an example). I would pick Bernard Herrmann as the number one composer of film score music for the depth and breath of his compositions. My favorite composers of film scores include both Bernsteins, Steiner, Waxman, Korngold, Tiomkin, Goldsmith, Mancini, Rosza, Newman to name those who wrote many great scores. Even the little known Erich Zeisl wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice, a great score. How about Victor Young for the Wizard of Oz? Many great songs and score in that one. I forgot to mention all original movie scores and songs Gershwin wrote in Shall We Dance and Damsel in Distress (not broadway musicals). All those great Disney movie original scores and songs. 10 best is tough to pick, 200 best is more like it (Rocky Horror Picture show-also a musical not written for film).

Finally! Someone who knows something about film music. The overwhelming majority of responses to this thread sadly prove the movie executives correct in their move from professional movie composers to pop music. 

Alexander Nevsky is one of the best, absolutely entrancing without the film at all, provides complete accompaniment to the story. West Side Story doesn’t count as it began as a broadway musical, just like Porgy and Bess, another fantastic score but not composed specifically for film. 

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