Real Name:  Lou Goldberg

Location:  Ann Arbor, MI

Favorite composers/artists:  I like 12 composers over all others: Herrmann (at the very top), Rozsa, Tiomkin, Waxman, Moross, E. Bernstein, M. Arnold, Delerue, Jarre, Goldsmith, Barry, and Morricone. These are the real greats. Nearly every score these men compose is worth listening to. Of course, that acknowledged, there are many other composers and individual scores I admire.

Favorite soundtrack(s):  MOROSS: The Big Country, The War Lord. GOLDSMITH: The Twilight Zone (TV), Thriller (TV), The Blue Max, In Harm's Way, Islands in the Stream, Star Trek-TMP. ARNOLD: The Key, The Roots of Heaven, The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, David Copperfield, The Lion. ROZSA: The Thief of Bagdad '40, Lust For Life, Ben-Hur, Time After Time. WAXMAN: Destination Tokyo, The Spirit of St. Louis, Peyton Place. HERRMANN: The 3 Worlds of Gulliver, Vertigo, Marnie, North By Northwest, Obsession. TIOMKIN: Lost Horizon, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Thing From Another World, Search for Paradise. BARRY: You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Dances With Wolves, Across the Sea of Time, The Living Daylights. MORRICONE: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon A Time in the West, A Fistful of Dynamite. DELERUE: Two English Girls, Jules and Jim. JARRE: Lawrence of Arabia, Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter, Grand Prix, The Professionals, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. BERNSTEIN: Tops, House, Man With The Golden Arm, Heavy Metal, The Ten Commandments. OTHERS: Air Power (TV), On The Waterfront, Louisiana Story, Mishima, Rebel Without A Cause, Star Trek-TOS (TV), The Master of the World, Rumble Fish, The White Dawn, To Catch A Thief, The Bad and the Beautiful, The Razor's Edge '84, Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Victory at Sea (TV), The Robe, The Song of Bernadette, Jane Eyre '72 (TV), Jaws, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Wild Bunch, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Spartacus, When Worlds Collide, Damn the Defiant!, Antony and Cleopatra, The Overlanders, Things to Come, Scott of the Antarctic, The Red Shoes, Modesty Blaise, The Avengers (TV), The Passionate Friends, Henry V '44, Anna Karenina '48, Where Eagles Dare, The Battle of the Bulge, Moby Dick '56, Ice Station Zebra, The 3 Musketeers '73, The Fox, The 4 Musketeers, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk, The Big Sleep '46, Now Voyager, The Sheltering Sky, The Wings of Honnaimise, Green Snake, Tokyo Olympiad, Village of 8 Gravestones, The Saga of Anatahan, The Leopard, Dressed to Kill, Tess, Le Train, L'Atalante, Last Tango in Paris, Mutiny on the Bounty '62, Genghis Khan.

Why I like Movie Music:  I've been thinking about the reasons why film music works as great music to listen to for years and have come up with a number of theories which are ultimately unimportant. When you find a joy, don't question it, just be glad it's there. Film music and I have been 'going steady' since I was 12 and when everything else has faded I'll probably still be listening to it to the delight of my heart.

Additional Comments:  As you can see, I would have a hard time boiling all my favorites down to a top ten list of scores, but I've managed to do it with a top ten list of films. The list is eclectic. It contains obscure films and leaves out a lot of great titles and directors. However, these films have the uncanny power to move me emotionally time and time again which makes them, for me, perennials. They are as follows: TOKYO OLYMPIAD (1965, Kon Ichikawa), REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE (1955, Nicholas Ray), PORTRAIT OF JENNIE (1949, William Dieterle), A TIME TO LOVE AND A TIME TO DIE (1958, Douglas Sirk), TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT (1944, Howard Hawks), THE RED SHOES (1948, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger), ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS (1939, Howard Hawks), PIERROT LE FOU (1965, Jean-Luc Godard), MARNIE (1964, Alfred Hitchcock), and THE END OF SUMMER (1961, Yasujiro Ozu).

Profile last updated on:  7/7/2009 10:46:18 PM (Mountain Time)