[Thor Joachim Haga]

What jumped to my eye was just, no matter how much I like Waxman’s Rebecca, to me it can’t surpass Rózsa’s Thief of Bagdad.
And if I ever wrote such a list, then The Treasure Of Sierra Madre won over Bycicle Thieves and E.T. won over Bladerunner.

THIEF OF BAGDAD is great, but the alluring sensuality of REBECCA is to die for. THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE is one of the few Steiner scores I actually like, but can’t hold a candle to the life-affirming beauty of THE BICYCLE THIEVES. And E.T. Well, it’s one of my top 10 favourite John Williams scores. Both E.T. and BLADE RUNNER constituted analysis chapters in my thesis. But if push comes to shove, it has to be BLADE RUNNER. It’s like nectar from the gods. 1982 was a great year.