Some great things here ... I like that old RH film ... and even its music, although its use in it is very conventional compared to many of the things you end up listing.

AMADEUS needs no comment. But I did not want to get into a lot of the classical music ones, since the French Film stuff has so many of these and they are all magnificent ... although they are not a film that shows off its humor and fun along with it!

VANGELIS needs no introdution, and BR is probably my number 1 film all time. Next to a Kieslowski film that many folks missed with Preissner music (Veronique), that has the music integrated into the story beautifully!

DR ZHIVAGO ... one should really have that CD nowadays ... its great music. And Maurice Jarre is the only composer that won an OSCAR with classical (regular) music and later with Electronic Music! Try that son ... see if you can best me!

JACK NITZSCHE ... his mark was made in the film PERFORMANCE, although the pieces we remember are always the one with Randy Newman and the one with Mick, and maybe the one with Merry Clayton. But his organization of music and material with Nicolas Roeg, made the film spectacular ... and one even gets so see some RAP ... and incendiary RAP at that ... play that today, and everyone will call you a racist!

LAST OF THE MOHICANS ... outstanding music and well used ... however, I think that too much of it was used to simply augment the visuals and show a juxtaposition between the beauty of the panoramic views of the pristine country at the time, and its savagery right in front of it. It was done tastefully and not "over done", but for me it was quite obvious a comment that was wanted to be made and fit the film and its romantic notions.

Of all of these composers, BERNARD HERRMAN is the one that deserves the greatest of all accolades ... his music in many films, FORCED the director to pay attention ... and a lot of the Sci-Fi films gladly allow the music to live and give you more monster moments that are really far out with some really neat and bombastic music! In Hitchcock film, I don't think that Bernard could do this as easily, but he would come up to Alfred and say ... listen to this and 3 odd instruments together would end up having a scene or two filmed around it a bit! And, of course, it helped the films be really scary because the work was so odd and different!

That album, btw, was one that literally came out with a higher price tag than all the other LP's ... it started the "greed" factory, if it can be said as if it was not there before.

I think all albums at the time were like $4.98 or something like that and from that album on, it became $5.98 ... and the 20% increase was, supposedly, on account of their stars and their percentages, and the champagne that they collected off it!

The movie? 

Sorry ... didn't bother! I was already involved with imports and music from Europe at the time, to enjoy something that literally hurt ... EVEN MORE ... a lot of music coming out of Europe! And then, some folks say that "prog died ... ".