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4 Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit from Spirits of the Dead (1968) ''Listen to one 15-second cue [of Nino Rota's score] and you know it's from a Fellini film.''

5 Any Woody Allen movie ''His approach is, 'Okay, let me dig into my record collection and pull out some Gershwin.' It's always his favorite jazz. His music's always interested me.''

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