What are some of your favourite ones & why? What element does it add to the film?
For me, Clint Mansell is my favourite composer. The Fountain is a brilliant sountrack and adds so much saddness and drama to the movie and the story. It ties everything together perfectly. I think Mogwai, another one of my favourite bands, helped them compose it which makes it that much better!
Requiem for a Dream was also a good soundtrack, but it didn't hit as many chords with me as The Fountain did.
Alexandre Desplat (The Painted Veil) and Cliff Martinez (Solaris) get honorable mentions as amazing scores as well. Cliff Martinez makes amazing ambient music as Alexandre Desplat just captures the scenery and the imagination of the story perfectly.
Stranger Than Fiction's soundtrack was composed entirely of Spoon, which was AMAZING. I love Spoon and I wasing the whole time cause it was an amazing movie and had Spoon!
Anyway, yours?