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‘Music By John Williams’ Review: The Legendary Film Composer May Be The GOAT And This Compelling Docu Confirms It – AFI Fest
A review of 'Music By John Williams' a new feature documentary on the career of legendary composer John Williams which opened the AFI Fest 2024.
Bouzereau, who has done countless other show business docus such as the poignant Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind; 5 Came Back; Timeless Heroes: Indiana Jones & Harrison Ford; and the current and splendid docu, Faye, on the life and times of Faye Dunaway, has benefitted from his access as a filmmaker of so many Making Of featurettes over the past 30 years that he has a comfort and up close knowledge of his subject here and makes great use of some terrific archival material, scoring sessions, and film clips. Stories about how his immortal themes for Jaws, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Star Wars, Raiders Of The Lost Ark and so many others are also priceless, and fortunately Bouzereau lets the work and how it evolved take center stage. : The Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan,Empire Of The Sun, Lincoln, The Fabelmans, among the endless list of collaborations with Spielberg which makes up a good chunk of the movie.
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