Wim Wenders' choices for best soundtracks:

TOUCH OF EVIL
An awesome choice for Orson Welles to pick Henry Mancini for this groundbreaking movie. It's still an electrifying and unique score.

Louis Malle's ASCENSEUR POUR L'ECHAFAUD (FRANTIC)
Each time I hear this soundtrack I imagine Miles Davis improvising the music just standing in front of the screen, watching the movie and playing his horn. Talking about Miles Davis: I might just as well have picked SIESTA.

PULP FICTION
Impeccable choices by Quentin Tarantino. One of the classic compilations.

DEAD MAN WALKING
One great song after another. Tim Robbins did a great job. I especially liked Eddie Vedder's song with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. And then there were Bruce Springsteen, Suzanne Vega, Lyle Lovett, Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, Tom Waits, you name it.

THE END OF VIOLENCE
Yes, I know you think it's tacky if I chose a film of my own. But Ry Cooder's score was extraordinary, and the original songs by Bono and Sinead O'Connor, Tom Waits, The Eels, Spain, Michael Stipe and Vic Chesnut, oh, I'm just naming half of them, were all great. And then there was an original unreleased song by Roy Orbison! Well, nobody saw the film, because MGM didn't care much for it. So nobody got to know the music. Which was really too bad.

(Not many people sawUNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD either, but at least the soundtrack got heard widely.) I feel bad that I didn't mention any of Georges de la Rue's films with Truffaut. One jewel after another. Heartbreaking stuff. And none by Quincy Jones, neither PAWNBROKER, nor WALK, DON'T RUN, nor IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT. What else?

CITY OF ANGELS had a good soundtrack, GOOD WILL HUNTING; too. Man, how could I ever forget the best: Bernhard Herman! MARNIE and VERTIGO are my favorite's of his.

The best song from a movie, in my mind, is still the theme from THE BRIDGE OF THE RIVER KWAI (how do you spell that?) I was too young to see the movie when it came out, but my parents were whistling that tune forever. Me, too, years later, when I finally saw the film.