It’s probably cheating to mention this, but Walk the Line had a great selection of Johnny Cash tunes.

My interest in movie music is orchestral works, so take that under advisement. Here are some of my favorites:

? Wojciech Kilar‘s score for Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The music crawls with Slavic menace, dark and sensual. Kilar is perhaps my favorite composer of film scores; I own several recordings, including some of his work for Polish films. His music has become the only memorable part of some films, such as The Ninth Gate (a completely forgettable Johnny Depp horror flick; the score shares some similarities to that for Dracula) and The Portrait of a Lady (a very beautiful score, including one entrancing theme using a trio of recorders). Kilar had been approached to do the score for The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but he didn’t want to make such a large commitment.

? Jerry Goldsmith for Rudy. What I like about this score, other than its uplifting quality, is that the disc plays like an orchestral suite. The music works in the context of the film but also stands alone as a coherent collection of short pieces.

I’ve not purchased the scores, but I was really impressed with Philip Glass‘s work for The Illusionist and James Newton Howard‘s music for The Village.