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Amazon now has a write-up about the release, despite no tracklisting: Over the 90-year history of sound film, there have been a handful of instances where a director and a composer have formed a longtime partnership that resulted in a series of classical scores, creating music that stands the test of time. None, however, have been as long or as fruitful as the 43-year collaboration of Steven Spielberg and John Williams. None have encompassed such a wide range of subject matter or, more significantly, have had such an enormous impact on worldwide popular culture. From the ominous shark signature of Jaws to the five-note alien greeting of Close Encounters of the Third Kind; from the heroic march of Raiders of the Lost Ark to the moving themes for Schindler's List the music Williams has written for more than two dozen Spielberg projects has not only served them brilliantly but entered the wider public consciousness.Twenty-five years ago, Sony Classical began charting the Spielberg-Williams collaboration, recording two discs of their greatest hits. For this new release, John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection, these two CDs, The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration and Williams on Williams: The Classic Spielberg Scores, are included along with newly arranged and recorded material from the past two decades of their additional movie scores, The Spielberg/Williams Collaboration Part III, and a newly filmed bonus DVD documentary film, Steven Spielberg & John Williams: The Adventure Continues.With a record fifty Academy Award® nominations (more than any other composer) Williams has demonstrated, again and again, his ability to connect with audiences, both in the movie theater and in the concert hall. Seventeen of those nominations, and three of Williams' five Oscar® wins (Jaws, E.T. and Schindler s List) have been for Spielberg films. The sheer variety of music, the depth of compositional skill on display, the powerful emotions that it evokes, makes John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection an extraordinary accomplishment. This is the work of one of America's greatest composers, inspired by the work of one of America s greatest filmmakers.

Yeah, that was my first thought, too! Could just mean "different from the film cues," though, which we already knew would be the case. Well, at the very least we now know that the documentary has some newly filmed elements. Yay! Technically, there was always the chance it could just be old interviews and footage. At least now we get Williams telling the Schindler's List story with a slightly different previously unreleased voice inflection and facial expression!

La La Land Well that just bowled me over. Amazing from beginning to end. The music was outstanding, gonna be listening to that OST a lot this year. Visually astounding, wonderful performances, unexpectedly beautiful ending. All the positive adjectives. For me, this is the kind of imaginative movie that must be seen in a theater. If I picked 'em I might give Manchester the edge, but this deserves every Oscar it may get. Bravo!!!

According to the 2017 Spring Pops brochure

"Are you incapable of talking without flapping your hands?"

I heard the live stream last weekend, and I loved the performance of the Lincoln suite in particular. This is a great program and Williams is were he belongs, the concert hall with this other giants of American music, performed by a great orchestra and conductor. By the way, this isn't the first time I've heard the suite with the Elegy in with "Malice Toward None" played without a pause. Wiliams himself conducted the suite in Boston without the Elegy. Medici.tv is indeed and awesome place for concerts. I've had a free membership there for ages.

RIP Mr. Hurt. He was one of my favourite actors.

So its is indeed a new DVD documentary instead of an interview!

I hope "newly arranged" means newly arranged!

A couple of my relatives are members of the orchestra so I got a heads up about this: http://www.medici.tv/#!/gianandrea-noseda-williams-copland-bernstein-gershwin Pretty cool! I'd never seen the Lincoln suite performed (only heard audio). In addition to the Williams suites, there are several other American pieces. I rather like Bernstein's JFK fanfare, which I'd never heard before. As a side note, this Medici site is actually rather cool.

It's been 84 years.

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Moulin Rouge wants to dazzle the viewer with its visuals. It probably should be watched and judged according to its strengths

Agreed, @Tom!! I'm hopeful but wouldn't put money on us getting anything more than a fluff piece comprised mostly of previously-released footage from DVD/BD featurettes, interspersed with new interview clips. Though the latter is always welcomed, despite the inevitable rehashing of the stories we've heard a million times over. Oh, I'd also welcome footage from the recording sessions of the new CD!

I hope I am wrong, but I am not expecting much from the DVD. While a real documentary with old recording footage and such would be fantastic, it would also require money and effort. I just don't see Sony going in that direction.

Kept in a lightless room listening to the complete Spartacus on repeat until he sees the (metaphorical) light would be appropriate.

'Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame'.

Why are you pointing your screwdrivers like that? They're scientific instruments, not water pistols.

Seems to be a thing with Luhrmann, weren't there modernised versions of Jazz Age songs in his version of The Great Gatsby?

His involvement was one of the things I was most excited with Indy 4. Just another reason people are so bitter about KOTCS; a complete waste of talent in every aspect. Anyway, I really need to binge on some John Hurt films. I still haven't seen The Elephant Man.

Hope the documentary is substantial (at least 1 hr). Really can't wait now!

Very sad news. ALIEN being one of my top 3 favourite films of all time, and his role in that having immense impact on me as a kid, for obvious reasons. But he did so many other great things as well. Such a fine, understated actor.

This has been going on since TFN was at the height of its SW internet cult dominance in the early 2000s. The fanboy search for meaning and significance in every pixel and creative choice has parallels with theologians who read into scriptures and come up with some outlandish interpretations. The modern trend in doing this in film has become commercialised with the rise of YouTube and the hunger for clicks and views, which need to be demonstrated to media agencies in exchange for advertising dollars.

Richard could be dead and buried by then. Get it asap!

Agreed!

Man I never knew you guys hated The Accidental Tourist so much!

I just finished watching it then and I'd highly recommend it. everything from the world building and the set-design to the characters and action I was very satisfied with. I wasn't expecting to be so emotionally moved by the movie either, and Rian Johnson's subtle directing made sure that I wasn't just turning my brain off but instead was very actively engaged with the film. I thoroughly enjoyed the conceit of the time looping which allowed for some wonderful sequences and to throw twists and turns along the way that felt more natural than contrived because of the great use of the Chekov's Gun technique. I loved the noir aspect to some of the movie and I felt that it blended seamlessly with the sci-fi genre - which in the case of Star Wars, the reason ANH worked so well was because of the flawless genre blending so that gives me some hope for TLJ. after just coming off watching Bladerunner for the first time as well, Looper in some ways felt like a modern-day Bladerunner because the environment realistically mirrored what the future would look like and still managed to be beautiful and mundane at the same time. gorgeous use of lighting at the beginning as well which accentuated the noir look. one final big compliment I'd have to give is that this is the first sci-fi movie where every single effect has looked and felt real. I'm sure there was some CGI used but I honestly didn't notice it at all, so I was thoroughly immersed in the world of the movie.

They're killin' it with the Nerd Crew.

We've come this far. We must go on. We have to go on.

Dizzy actually did experiment with bossa nova in the 60s. I love the song "One Note Samba" especially. Cool as an ice cold rum punch

This is a bootleg like all the other albums this seller offers! And I once bought one of them inadvertently and learned what is the quality difference between bootleg and official release. I would wait for the latter!

'Omega'. 'Beautiful'.

I listened to it this week.... Great discovery, but I need to make my ear on these. I'm a fan of vocal jazz and cool jazz, bossa nova at first. When it goes too intense, it annoys me a little bit!

If its sounds simplistic, milkfed and inadequate in the show itself, imagine how it will appear in a concert setting?

I might agree

Dear John Williams, I love the Always OST. Please release the film version of "The Never-Feast" or I'll find you and kill you. Why would you keep this from us? Thanks. Love, Justin

Memoirs is a top 5 Williams score.

I guess them choosing not to sell the SE albums at all could be interpreted as a sign that they will want to sell their own expanded releases sooner rather than later. But that would be a very optimistic interpretation. Might as well live as if the glass is half full!

The Prequels really didn't have one overarching villain (Palpatine was in hiding most of the time) so there was no chance for a single villain theme to emerge as every episode had different villain in the spotlight. TFA was a bit like ANH in that it had a villain with a motif or motifs (Imperial motif and Death Star in ANH and Kylon Ren's two distinct motifs in TFA) so JW could well expand Kylo's material into a new more elaborate theme or create completely new one for him. I'd love to hear a long lined melody forged out of the established two ideas, which might perhaps take a most Imperial March like guise to double as an idea for the First Order. Hope springs eternal.

I think the First Order will get a proper, expanded new theme (the signature bad guy theme for the trilogy) while Rey and Luke will end up with a new theme that derives from both their solo themes and possibly becomes the New Jedi Order theme by Episode IX.

I'd love to hear Kylo Ren's theme expanded into something militaristic and more fully developed in the sequels. Perhaps some new idea for the First Order would also be in order.

All 100,000+ entries of it!

If Jurassic World is any indication of what Trevorrow gets out of his composer, well... let's just say I hope Williams can elevate the material more than Giacchino could. But yes, Johnson for me. Very, very talented director with a brilliant eye for detail. His working relationship with Williams fascinates me and I think it'll be the closest we ever get to another Cuaron/Azkaban type collaboration. I just hope he's more precise with his vision than JJ 'Let's Try Everything!' Abrams. I get this lingering feeling that despite Williams calling the TFA schedule luxurious, he was pretty tired of the endless revisions by the end of it, mainly because Abrams couldn't decide what tone he wanted.

Yes, absolutely.

My joke was brilliant, creative, thrilling, and thought-provoking. Like the film.

I've never felt that JJ had much of a voice though. A very competent director with little to say.