AFI Fest will function a variety of music by John Williams.
Laurent Bouzereau’s new documentary, Music by John Williams, is ready to have its world premiere on opening night time of the 2024 version of the Los Angeles movie pageant, which will likely be introduced by new unique sponsor Canva with extra help from Fiji Water. The thirty eighth AFI Fest kicks off Oct. 23 and runs by means of Oct. 27 at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese language Theatres.
Hailing from Lucasfilm, Amblin Documentaries and Think about Documentaries, Music by John Williams is billed as complete have a look at the life and legendary profession of the prolific composer who has been nominated for 54 Oscars and received 5. In 2016, he was introduced with an AFI Life Achievement Award, which made him the primary composer to obtain the distinction. Williams, now 92, has so many credit on his resumé (tons of) that there’s not sufficient house to suit all of them right here. However he received his Oscars for Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars: Episode IV — A New Hope, E.T. the Further Terrestrial and Schindler’s Listing.
“Rising up in France, I found the soundtracks I purchased on vinyl forward of most American motion pictures that may come out months after the U.S. launch. John Williams was the composer I instantly recognized with; his scores made me fall in love with music, and made me understand at a really younger age, the facility {that a} rating had on cinematic storytelling,” stated Bouzereau. “This was an essential story to inform, not solely as a result of it’s about one of many best composers of all time, however due to the message it carries concerning the survival of orchestral music, and musicians.”
The doc group snagged sit-down interviews with a number of collaborators and admirers like Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, Kate Capshaw, Gustavo Dudamel, J.J. Abrams, Chris Martin, Ron Howard, Chris Columbus, George Lucas, Itzhak Perlman, Lawrence Kasdan, Yo-Yo Ma, Ke Huy Quan, James Mangold, Alan Silvestri, David Newman, Thomas Newman, Seth MacFarlane, Anne-Sophie Mutter and Branford Marsalis. Spielberg, Howard, Kennedy, Marshall, Brian Grazer, Darryl Frank, Justin Falvey, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, Meredith Kaulfers and Bouzereau produced the mission with Markus Keith and Michael Rosenberg serving as government producers.
“John Williams is an American icon with a real and timeless world affect,” stated AFI president and CEO Bob Gazzale. “One may say we’re ‘over the moon’ to host the World Premiere of the movie, however that sentiment would hardly soar with out the music of E.T. the Further-Terrestrial.”
Following its world premiere, Music by John Williams can have a restricted theatrical launch earlier than premiering on Disney+ on Nov. 1. The total AFI Fest lineup will likely be be revealed on Oct. 1.
