A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

On February 19, 2019, La-La Land Records, in a massive collaborative effort with DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Entertainment, and Warner Music Group, unleashed Superman: The Movie - 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Remastered Soundtrack, a 3-CD album that features composer John Williams' complete  Academy Award-nominated score, including previously unreleased cues that were found in Warner Bros. archives many years after Warner Records and Rhino Entertainment dropped the Superman: The Movie: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack  2-CD set. According to La-La Land Records, producer Michael Matessino (who, with the late Nick Redman, produced many reconstructions of Maestro Williams' classic scores, including the ones from Superman, Star Wars, and Raiders of the Lost Ark ), this reissue was made possible by a super-discovery in the studio's vaults: A recent discovery of the score’s original 2-inch, 24-track music masters has led the way to a stellar, high-resolution tr...

He is always close at hand, in a very positive way, musically; he’s extremely fond of music. His greatest pleasure, he tells me…and I believe him…is the time when he can come sit on the stage and listen to the orchestra play as we accompany the film. – John Williams on Steven Spielberg, in an interview with Lukas Kendall Not too long ago in a country not so far away, adventurer-archeologist, Indiana Jones, embarked on a historically significant search for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. Joining him on this supernatural treasure hunt was the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of composer John Williams. Were it not for many crucial bursts of dramatic symphonic accompaniment, Indiana Jones would surely have perished in a forbidding temple in South America or in the oppressive silence of the great Sahara Desert. – Steven Spielberg in his director’s note for the 1981 album of the Raiders of the Lost Ark soundtrack In the spring of 1981, Columbia Records – which at the time...