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Muad'Dib reacted to chuck in Other 80 year olds still on top of their game and as irreplaceable as John Williams
Here's an 87 year old with a mind still sharp as a tack:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy18LZ5rXaE
top of the game and irreplaceable is still synoymous with busyness... If JW stopped making film scores back in 2008 and announced his retirement then would you still make this thread? I wonder...
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Muad'Dib reacted to chuck in Other 80 year olds still on top of their game and as irreplaceable as John Williams
Here's one 90 year old who's still busy as ever:
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Muad'Dib reacted to indy4 in Other 80 year olds still on top of their game and as irreplaceable as John Williams
How about 90 year olds?
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Muad'Dib got a reaction from russds in John Williams scoring all three new Star Wars films!!
Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen Johnny so excited and full of energy for a new project!
This is going to be great
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Muad'Dib reacted to Max in John Williams scoring all three new Star Wars films!!
Well, there's this, which confirms he'll at least be back for Episode VII.
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Muad'Dib got a reaction from Brónach in What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Dersu Uzala
Goddammit I just had to comment on how much I loved this film. I've watched and loved many Kurosawa films, but this one takes the cake so far. Before I considered Rhapsody in August to be his magnum opus, but this movie just moved me so deeply that it's now amongst my favorites of all times.
Beautifully shot (70mm!), exquisetly acted and with a perfect score, this is what going to the movies is all about. A tale of an unlikely friendship surrounded by the forces of nature, which can be both beautiful and deadly.
10/10
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Muad'Dib reacted to indy4 in What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
West Side Story - loved it for the music and dancing. Bernstein's/Sondheim's score is still one of my all time favorite works of art.
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Muad'Dib reacted to Marian Schedenig in What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Be sure to check out Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk and, most importantly, Scaramouche.
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Muad'Dib reacted to Incanus in What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Rear Window: What a delightfully entertaining film this is. Perfect for hot summer day fare. The script is witty, the direction sharp and the setting and story unique, befitting Alfred Hitchcock. James Stewart brings that low burning believable everyman hero charisma to his Jeffries character and Grace Kelly is at times ethereal yet sparky leading lady Lisa, at the same time extremely refined and lady-like and wonderfully brave and gutsy. Their banter is just a joy to watch and the chemistry very much at the heart of the story. Raymond Burr is expressive as Thorwald, whose actions we follow but he only gets to speak a scarce few times during the whole movie. Still he projects a lot of personality evern when we see him at a distance. The whole concept of watching the life of a neighbourhood from your window and seeing the multitude of small worlds open up before your eyes with drama, comedy and tragedy is a masterful creation. The suspense built throughout it subtle yet reaches nail biting conclusion, which derives from the rather mundane circumstances we can all relate to yet it is a fully cinematic experience in typical Hitchcock fashion from the (actual) curtain raising scene to the last frame.
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Muad'Dib reacted to chuck in John Williams conducting Bernard Hermann & Henry Mancini
I know this is an old program and there have been other videos like this one on Youtube over the years but I don't think there's been one where it's been uploaded in its entirety.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9qABNS9k0
If it's been uploaded already, I'm sorry. I didn't bother to find out.
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Muad'Dib reacted to JWfangirl1992 in John Williams at Symphony Hall, June 7-12, 2013 (Boston MA)
Aha, better than Facebook. I created a photo bucket album with all of the best photos here.
http://s1234.photobucket.com/user/karatekiernan/library/Facebook/Summer%202014%203?sort=3&page=1
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Muad'Dib reacted to Ollie in What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Older Films)
Rope is an underrated Hitchcock film not too many people talk about. I'd recommend that one.
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Muad'Dib reacted to BloodBoal in The Hobbit Film Trilogy Thread
I don't see any resemblance, to be honest...
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Muad'Dib reacted to mrbellamy in Celebrity Praise for John Williams
Came across this video interview with Paul Thomas Anderson. Somebody asked him about working with Jonny Greenwood and he spoke about the influence of the Spielberg/Williams collaboration on the use of music in his films (jump to 49:13 in the video):
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Muad'Dib got a reaction from Once in JW Interview on the Baltimore Sun
Let's not forget about Tintin 2, maybe Johnny was talking about that too...
And I guess this confirms he isn't doing any Pixar films. Expected, but still dissapointing.
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Muad'Dib reacted to Romão in Most controversial JW works
Concerning images: "People don't know what they like, they like what they know"
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Muad'Dib got a reaction from Incanus in Happy 100th to Stravinsky's "Le sacre du printemps"!
Wow, a century! Truly remarkable.
Happy birthday, Le Sacre!
If anybody's interested, here Bernstein goes into excellent detail about the piece (and other Stravinsky greats) and even plays some bits:
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Muad'Dib got a reaction from WilliamsStarShip2282 in Happy 100th to Stravinsky's "Le sacre du printemps"!
Wow, a century! Truly remarkable.
Happy birthday, Le Sacre!
If anybody's interested, here Bernstein goes into excellent detail about the piece (and other Stravinsky greats) and even plays some bits: