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Not to mention PT

Wes Anderson finally has an Oscar

Nice John Williams shout-out from Kris Bowers

The Holdovers was my personal favorite of the nominees, just thoroughly enjoyed it. Killers of the Flower Moon and Oppenheimer, I feel sort of similarly about both, very impressive but a lot to deal with lol. I've seen KotFM twice, would like to see Oppy again. I have no problem with it sweeping. Past Lives was very sweet and sad, Barbie was a good time. I actually liked American Fiction and Maestro, even though I get why they've been easy to make fun of, especially the latter, but idk, I kinda loved a lot of it. Felt a little detached from Anatomy of a Fall but Sandra Huller and that dog were amazing. Zone of Interest, I felt like it would have made a more compelling short film in a way...I'm not actually sure I got more out of it as a sensory experience than just from reading and imagining the concept. Powerful ending, though. Poor Things, Lanthimos just isn't really my cup of tea, since Dogtooth I've always found his whole thing more distracting than enthralling but I get it. It is pretty funny and looks cool and everything. Honestly I'm mostly just sick of watching animals absolutely eat shit in his movies!

Or the lead singer

That is pretty cool about Robson's origins! That point about him "falling into lesser fare" just as he hooked up with Williams is also a big part of what has always made this early period a bit daunting. It's definitely not uninteresting but the further back from 1975 I go, the less relevant Williams's work really was to film history as a whole, and the less gravitas he had as a composer. So it starts to feel like a more purely educational exercise in learning all about John Williams, specifically, even though of course there are various threads connecting him to the larger scope of Hollywood at the time. I can only take so much of doing my own research at once, though, and there have always been so many more notable films from the period to watch. But I enjoy discovering the music from time to time. I really have a lot of hope that the biography could be game-changing in terms of how I'm able to frame his early career in my head and retain these kinds of narratives and the various "characters" who faded into obscurity or died out as Williams ascended in stature. It'll probably inspire me to look more into this stuff, for sure. True! You know what, when you had started sharing it, I was waiting for you to finish the series so I could listen to the whole thing and then I forgot to check after all those months but I found them in my podcast app so I will 100% listen.

The problem with some of those is that fewer of the movies or TV shows really have much of a shelf life, so interest is low and/or availability is scarce. And also less is known through interviews about the partnership to supplement what we can observe. It's always easier to comment and run deeper on the things we're all already familiar with and lived through. There's so much extra context with the older stuff that it gets difficult to parse, even though I have a broad idea of the history. Which is partly why I'm really looking forward to a proper Williams biography and documentary. Delbert Mann is a key figure in Williams's trajectory, though. I mean someone could listen to Fitzwilly, Heidi, and Jane Eyre and that alone is a solid primer on "pre-Jaws" Williams. And of course Jane Eyre is a very highly regarded score around here. I haven't gotten around to the movies yet, though, so can't say what they have that makes this partnership distinct from others, aesthetically. Martin Ritt is also kind of an interesting one because he made some relatively notable movies, including Hud, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, Sounder, and Norma Rae, but the Williams collabs don't really seem to rate in his career and the scores are not JWFan favorites. But I didn't realize looking at it that they had Pete N Tillie and Conrack close together, and then a long gap until Stanley & Iris which ended up being Ritt's final film; he died that year. Wendkos seems interesting for being a first, at least. The Robson movies seem to have some range and Earthquake gives you Irwin Allen crossover. I have no comment otherwise. I wonder about Pollack and Kershner, because they only did one film with Williams but I guess there's TV? I have no idea which were episodes they actually worked together on, IMDb doesn't make this easy. Or how much interaction Williams had with his directors for episodic television, in general. Or what these collaborations might illuminate about The Empire Strikes Back or Sabrina. That is another thing about the TV work. I don't know if we have a master thread on this but there should probably be a catalog of all the shows and episodes Williams did tbh. And which can be found online. Again, I've always found this info too spread out and incomplete to be much fun exploring....

When Ford said it at Williams's AFI ceremony, it just struck me as one of those lame quips they always have at awards shows. It's hilarious to think of Ford in the doctor's office realizing he is in a showbiz nightmare. I guess if it was in Los Angeles, there's an above average chance one of the receptionists was also a Hollywood comedy writer. Abrams, Johnson, and Mangold have to be making their friends jealous. It does read like an open invitation. Hope Williams gets an offer he likes, or Spielberg rushes something out by Christmas. Or just saying, Robert Eggers' upcoming Nosferatu movie is produced by Chris Columbus He's always claimed he "writes something" every day but I wonder what that means when he's not actively working on anything in particular. Does he count improvising at the piano without ever picking up a pencil? Does he write love songs for Samantha?

It would definitely be funnier if it's true This is the kind of summarizing that drives me absolutely bonkers in these mass media pieces. LET US READ THIS!!!

I genuinely can't tell anymore if the Indiana Jones theme playing during Harrison Ford's colonoscopy is a joke or something that really happened

Not his own movies but hilarious Spielberg cameos in Blues Brothers, Goldmember, and Vanilla Sky

Has he had a cameo in any movie besides Rise of Skywalker?

Me neither. Maybe Sin? That would be my guess based on this Gary Oldman quote from the Wikipedia:

That's an Ari Aster film

The actual timestamp is 1:39:29 They are sort of asking him as a joke and obviously he is cagey about it but he does really seem to have one in mind! They ask him for a score and it's unclear to me if that's what he's responding to or just saying the project in general he could have done without. Maybe the artistic quality or something else about it he doesn't like or just a bad experience.

Doesn't look like anybody shared this appearance, for me the highlight was this story of working with Albert Brooks on Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World: Not 100% an interview but a fun watch. It's a livestream where they were crowdfunding for shows in Edinburgh so it is a lot of "George" and "Watto" killing time with improv comedy bits, mainly a "Describe-A-Thon" where they describe the plot of Rogue One. Giacchino was on for the first 100 minutes and he shows off sheet music from Alias and Muppet Monster Adventure, a Sasquatch head from Werewolf by Night, and a fake logo for a "Lobot" Disney+ show he made to amuse Brad Bird. They also discuss the goofy track names, and some Rogue One and Star Tours talk, of course. He also calls out Monte Carlo as an underrated favorite of his scores and reveals there is an unnamed score/film that he would pull out of his filmography if he could.

It's really only telling of the fact that we are talking about a Top 10 list for a guy who wrote like 15-20 (?) "classic evergreens" fighting to get in there as it is. Seven Years in Tibet making the top 20 is probably the biggest surprise to me over the likes of Home Alone and The Phantom Menace. You should be happy with that 31-40 block over two Star Wars and a Harry Potter. AI and The Lost World probably show up higher on our list than they would in a general poll. I feel like JWFan kinda underrates Schindler's List, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Catch Me If You Can relative to the praise I see elsewhere else, even though they're obviously well-appreciated here.

"Nail" is also a synonym for "score" in some contexts...

Definitely not while they're both alive

Or JP III...

Was there ever any comment from Davis or Lana Wachowski about why he didn't do Matrix Resurrections? If he didn't do that I don't know why he'd do this.

Even weirder than that, this thread had been used exclusively in March up until now, so we're either 11 months late or a few days early depending on how you look at it