love all Mahler's works but my favorites would be the 2nd, 5th, 9th, 7th.

How nice to see yet another person who knows of Mahler's existance, and can even name some favorites!

Have you seen the film Death in Venice, which uses Mahler's 5th throughout? There is also the silly Ken Russell "bio" film Mahler. The music is the best thing about the film.

It was Alma Mahler who smuggled out Mahler's original composition manuscripts past the Nazi's with her then husband Franz Werfel. Who like Mahler was Jewish. Varian's War is a dull film made about the man that smuggled them and many other's like the painter Marc Chagall and Thomas Mann's brother Heinrich.

I've seen Mahler. You're right, it's silly. But it had a really great soundtrack...