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Fly, yes! Land? No!

Well! They don't come any closher than that! *whistle* *BOOM!*

1 E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 2 Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 3 Home Alone 4 Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 5 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 6 Jurassic Park 7 A.I. Artificial Intelligence 8 Saving Private Ryan 9 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom 10 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

I like it when the humorous banter has a visual punchline - It's alright, Dad, we're well out of range... BOOM!

Track 67. The Phantom Menace Editing Room Scene

Drax?

When that bass ostinato comes in at 0:48...

The finales to TFA, Lincoln, and War Horse musically represent the Holy Trinity of post-2010 Williams.

It's not unheard of. My other idol is David Attenborough, who's still going strong at nearly 91. He's even touring Australia right now doing speaking tours, so he's not even slowing down! I'd be lying if I didn't admit I'm anxious about JW, but at this stage I'm just grateful for every new score we're lucky to hear. That he's even writing any scores in his mid-80s is truly remarkable and a gift.

Hello everybody, I am a Brazilian film composer and admirer of Jonh's music. I am proud to be here among you and to release my new blog in such a forum. During the past few years I have been studing the compositions of the man which I consider the best film composer of all times. As a result I have gained some knowledge and skills which I beleive should be explored as a resource for others, and, thinking about this, I decided to write a book which I call The John Williams Compositional Techniques. This book is a dream that is becoming true as the project progress towards the many ideas I have been given by the people interested in learning more about Jonh's ability to compose. Today, besides the book, I am preparing a series of lectures as well and for a good start, I decided to put available part of the book in my new blog. In the next few weeks I will be posting once a week something interesting about the book. Mostly they will be exercices and analisys about short fragments of the best scores the composer has written. The first two exercises can be seen here: Creation of Texture 1 Creation of Texture 2 For more details about how they were created and stay updated please visit: http://www.leandrogardini.com/blog Please let me know your requests and opinion about this project. Thank you for you support!

And music from Star Wars is the 2nd most performed contemporary concert work: https://bachtrack.com/statistics-more-top-tens-january-2017

Whoever did that video forgot to remove the loop in the stinger.

For me it's a few seconds in Clash of Lightsabers that ever since I first heard it clicks in the mind. Don't know what or why but: 2.36 to about 2.44 not long before the love theme. (Accompanies Artoo saving the day: "Wonderful! I never doubted it for a second!") but as I say on some level it's always done something for us, then again the whole track does. From just after the duel, with our heroes fleeing knowing Han's lost (or possibly), stormtroopers chasing, the Yoda theme and finally getting off Cloud City by the skin of the proverbials.

This seems to be a more serious list, so I salute your selection of PAPER CHASE, Strangways!

Nice try, Harrison Ford!

Hey this is a serious thread, please don't submit fake Top 10 please!!!

Zimmer was on The Late Show last night:

I don't know if this has been already posted elsewhere, but I link it here for the sake of tidiness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v96PpTf6DzY (embed is disabled, sorry) "With Malice Toward None" for Trumpet and Piano (arranged by JW), performed by Christopher Martin (the soloist who plays in the film score as well). Lovely.

It's ridiculous and should not be encouraged! Buy from Europe!

If that were the case, the main roles would've been played by Italian actors.

I reckon Tom Stoppard was responsible for most of those wonderful dialogue exchanges in TLC. There's a plethora of them

That's not a LLL thing, that's an everyone thing. International shipping rates increased drastically in recent times. Here are some threads discussing it http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=94225&forumID=1&archive=0 http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/board/posts.cfm?threadID=113495&forumID=1&archive=0 Oviously, huge corporations like Amazon or whatever can cut deals to have lower rates, but all the specialty labels have had to increase their shipping rates. Despite the price, its very worthwhile to buy directly from the labels whenever you can, as that directly gives them income to fund future releases.

Never seen it to this day.

It's nothing compared to maintaining the tempo of Rescue from Cloud City's string ostinato.

That our favourite movies are better than everything?

You literally just put one of Williams' weakest scores (THE BOOK THIEF) next to one of his strongest (ANGELA'S ASHES). But yeah -- I'm also curious about how he would approach this. If there's any religiousity in it, that would be tremendous -- it is, after all, my favourite "sound" of his.

Clearly Cantina Band is the answer to his erectile disfunction issues.

We should do a separate thread on John Williams' best music for sex scenes!

My copy has shipped! Estimated delivery date: next Monday. Woohoo! In other news: samples are up!

Let's just say that it's not just music that is keeping Williams young...

That sinister brass fanfare...and the unsteady cadence at 4:40-ish There are so many delicious moments littered all over this score!

You need to learn to make better meals so you look forward to leftovers more. Maybe you can't cook. But John Williams can.

My copy has teeth.

The new IMAX poster for Logan looks amazing.

I'm betting on this. Or at least it's what I've been imagining. I doubt Spielberg would settle for a "regular" drama score. He may request a religious flavor.

I think the inclusion of De Niro is a mix-up.

Star Wars and the Empire Strikes Back

Williams probably won't "officially" be brought on board until they've actually begun filming and the film will actually happen

It would probably be the most momentous achievement in film score history to have one composer write 9 scores for one film series over a span of 42 years. Take that, John Barry! In fact, I'll bet money on it now: the Oscars will give him his 6th Oscar for Episode IX, if he finishes 3 trilogies of trilogies. It'll basically be his "lifetime achievement" award in disguise, and warmly bookend the Oscar he scored for the first film.

Every time this gets bumped I still can't believe we're getting another one of these scores so soon, shit. New director, new approach, same old Johnny. Kinda weird to think that we're now closer in time to Last Jedi's release date than to Force Awakens'....

Total LIES and LIES! John Williams is American. And it's America first NOT second. The LAME media gets it WRONG again!

It's written entirely for strings, and the bell. His layered writing here is a common characteristic of his work.

Indeed. Absurd sentiment. Fix that!

Big, big, big... The BFG complete score release confirmed!

It really is a perfect score. Maybe I'm just being grumpy but it sometimes seems the young up-and-coming Williams fans don't give it the respect and adulation it deserves. Sure, Harry Potter and Jurassic Park are amazing, but this is where it all started!

Lately it's The Mecha World Before that The Lost World I get addicted to pieces sometimes that I just want to play all the time that reinforce for me how Williams is better than all the rest