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Just have a huge smile on my face listening to this. Thanks to everyone involved in working on this Holy Grail project. 

Just have a huge smile on my face listening to this. Thanks to everyone involved in working on this Holy Grail project. 

Just have a huge smile on my face listening to this. Thanks to everyone involved in working on this Holy Grail project. 

Just have a huge smile on my face listening to this. Thanks to everyone involved in working on this Holy Grail project. 

Just have a huge smile on my face listening to this. Thanks to everyone involved in working on this Holy Grail project. 

Just have a huge smile on my face listening to this. Thanks to everyone involved in working on this Holy Grail project. 

I think A.I. is Williams' best score of the 21st century and I would trade it for nothing!

Coming December 23 at The Legacy of John Williams, an exclusive video event with the great Los Angeles studio musicians reuniting for the first time in years to celebrate John Williams.
 
https://thelegacyofjohnwilliams.com/2021/12/16/announcing-la-studio-legends/
 
 
This is going to be very special. I hope you will tune in to watch this

2021 is exactly as far from Williams' first film score (1958) as that score was from the beginning of motion pictures as a commercial industry (1895, when the Lumiere brothers first showed their films and charged admission).

Man, what a loss.  The last truly great American theater composer.
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/26/theater/stephen-sondheim-dead.html
 
Two of my favorite performances of two of my favorite Sondheim songs
 
 

June 2nd, 2020, 6:00 P.M.
 
G.D.: You know why we are here, John.
J.W.: Absolutely.
G.D.: So tell me John, what are your favorite recordings?
J.W.: Well... I've got to tell you, Gustavo, that I never have the time to listen to music.
G.D. Oh.
 

1933: King Kong (Steiner)
1934: The Lost Patrol (Steiner)
1935: Bride of Frankenstein (Waxman)
1936: The Plow That Broke the Plains (Thomson)
1937: Snow White (Harline, et al)
1938: Alexander Nevsky (Prokofiev)
1939: Gone with the Wind (Steiner)
1940: Our Town (Copland)
1941: Citizen Kane (Herrmann)
1942: Bambi (Churchill, Plumb)
1943: The Song of Bernadette (Newman)
1944: Laura (Raksin)
1945: Spellbound (Rozsa) 
1946: The Best Years of Our Lives (Friedhofer) 
1947: Captain from Castile (Newman)
1948: Louisiana Story (Thomson)
1949: The Adventures of Don Juan (Steiner)
1950: Sunset Blvd. (Waxman)
1951: The Day the Earth Stood Still (Herrmann)
1952: The Bad and the Beautiful (Raksin)
1953: The Robe (Newman)
1954: On the Waterfront (Bernstein)
1955: ?
1956: The Ten Commandments (Bernstein)
1957: ?
1958: Vertigo (Herrmann)
1959: The Nun's Story (Waxman)
1960: Spartacus (North)
1961: King of Kings (Rozsa)
1962: To Kill a Mockingbird (Bernstein)
1963: The Leopard (Rota)
1964: Mary Poppins (Sherman Bros, Kostal) 
1965: Doctor Zhivago (Jarre)
1966: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Morricone)
1967: You Only Live Twice (Barry)
1968: The Lion in Winter (Barry)
1969: The Wild Bunch (Fielding)
1970: Patton (Goldsmith)
1971: The Horsemen (Delerue) 
1972: images (Williams)
1973: Enter the Dragon (Schifrin)
1974: Chinatown (Goldsmith)
1975: Jaws (Williams)
1976: Taxi Driver (Herrmann)
1977: Star Wars (Williams)
1978: The Boys from Brazil (Goldsmith)
1979: Star Trek (Goldsmith)
1980: ESB (Williams)
1981: Raiders (Williams)
1982: Conan the Barbarian (Poledouris) 
1983: Under Fire (Goldsmith)
1984: Temple of Doom (Williams)
1985: Ran (Takemitsu)
1986: The Mission (Morricone)
1987: Lionheart (Goldsmith)
1988: ?
1989: The Last Crusade (Williams)
1990: Dances with Wolves (Barry)
1991: Hook (Williams)
1992: Dracula (Kilar)
1993: The Nightmare before Christmas (Elfman)
1994: The Lion King (Zimmer)
1995: Braveheart (Horner)
1996: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Menken)
1997: Titanic (Horner)
1998: Shakespeare in Love (Warbeck) 
1999: The Red Violin (Corigliano)
2000: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Tan Dun)
2001: LOTR: FOTR (Shore)
2002: Road to Perdition (Newman)
2003: LOTR: ROTK (Shore)
2004: The Village (JNH)
2005: Revenge of the Sith (Williams)
2006: The Queen (Desplat)
2007: Ratatouille (Giacchino) 
2008: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (Desplat) 
2009: Ponyo (Hisaishi) 
2010: TRON Legacy (Daft Punk)
2011: War Horse (Williams)
2012: Life of Pi (Danna)
2013: Escape from Tomorrow (Korzeniowski) 
2014: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (Powell) 
2015: It Follows (Disasterpeace) 
2016: The Red Turtle (L Perez del Mar) 
2017: Phantom Thread (Greenwood) 

"Rian baby, this is the theme I wrote for the porgs. I call it Parade of the Ewoks"

Anyone who says that Rogue One is better than TFA needs their head examined.

We've all been fooled.  The Post will be fanfares and fugues and TLJ will be subtle Americana.  

I think you could be onto something here...

Ratatouille is the greatest Pixar film.  A masterpiece.

He counted it as part of the orchestra. It's a chamber orchestra with an 80 piece choir.

Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Pete's Dragon, please! 

Would that it were so simple...

That Hollywood Reporter article says that there are DGA rules that forbid replacing a fired director with another member of the existing crew, so presumably they'd have to find a way to get around that if they want Kasdan. 

The time has come!
 

What if he's just preparing to play a character who retires from acting? 

A lot of fun. That first scene on the airplane is hilarious!