Soundtrack Spotlight: Disclosure Day

An overview and a personal commentary on the historical 30th feature film collaboration between Steven Spielberg and John Williams Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto

The collaboration between director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams has been staple of modern cinema for more than fifty years. Disclosure Day is the 30th feature film collaboration between Spielberg and Williams. It’s also the first science-fiction film they’re doing since War of the Worlds (2005), a genre in which they’ve done some of their best and most cherished work. It’s also a return to themes and motifs at the basis of two of Spielberg’s most personal and successful films, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial. Beyond the fact that this project would’ve marked a nice round number of film collaborations, both Spielberg and Williams knew that this could’ve also been an ideal round-up, or summation, of their best work in the genre.

Editor Maurizio Caschetto offers a personal commentary about what makes the 30th – and possibly final – collaboration between Steven Spielberg and John Williams a moving statement about who they are and what they believe in as artists, reflecting on decades of awe, wonder and magic created by this unparalled duo.

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