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LISTEN: Our John Williams Playlist on Spotify

LISTEN: Our John Williams Playlist on Spotify

June 2, 2016

As AFI gets ready to salute John Williams for the 44th AFI Life Achievement Award Tribute on June 9, look back at the storied sounds from the great film composer. From classic tracks from the STAR WARS and INDIANA JONES films, to highlights from Williams’ E.T. The EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL, SCHINDLER’S LIST and SUPERMAN scores and themes conducted with the Boston Pops Orchestra, the playlist we’ve assembled below runs the gamut of his legendary career.

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From the Archives: George Lucas Tells the STAR WARS Origin Story

From the Archives: George Lucas Tells the STAR WARS Origin Story

December 14, 2015

With STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS hitting theaters this week, we dug up a vintage American Film™ magazine interview with George Lucas published just before the release of the first STAR WARS film in 1977. Long before the space opera franchise would land in the hands of director J.J. Abrams, Lucas started developing STAR WARS in the early 1970s, even before he piloted his sophomore feature AMERICAN GRAFFITI (1973) to worldwide success at age 28. When talking about STAR WARS in this interview, Lucas revealed he “wanted to do a modern fairy tale, a myth” that explores the “bigger, mysterious world in space that is more interesting…

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