Steve Spielberg and count em (10!) producers pay tribute to film composer John Williams in this so called documentary that is a very quick journey through Williams's professional life while an endless stream of talking heads sings his praises.
I don't think that anyone can argue that Williams isn’t important to film history. His orchestral scores for Jaws, E.T., Star Wars and Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark certainly contributed greatly to the classic status of these films. However I think there should probably be a limit to how many times someone should be called a genius and in this film he's called that over and over and over by the usual bunch of Hollywood hot shots. Spielberg, Lucas, Ron Howard and J.J. Abrams, ad nauseam. They seem to exhaust about every superlative they can think of in their praise of Williams. Spielberg can be justly proud of his collaboration with Williams, but after a while his fanboy blathering dilutes William's achievements.
This film would have probably been maybe a tad more interesting if usually competent documentary director Laurent Bouzereau spent a little time investigating some of the films he was involved in that weren't exactly a raging successes like 1941, Always, Amistad, Hook and The Terminal some of Spielberg's lesser films. Williams may have been a major player in many commercially and critically successful films but his music in these disappointing films is about the only reason to watch them and might be interesting to hear how he tried to improve them.
Probably the person who comes off best in Music by John Williams is John Williams himself. For all of his success he is a rather soft spoken and modest man. Williams seems like a talented craftsman doing his best in about any project he's involved in which in it self is plenty impressive.
The film's running time is 105 minutes.
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