Tag: E.T.

  • “Disclosure Day” Disclosed on “Picture Perfect”

    “Disclosure Day” Disclosed on “Picture Perfect”

    This week on “Picture Perfect” we disclose John Williams’ latest.

    “Disclosure Day” will be at the heart of the program, which will feature music from all four of Steven Spielberg’s cinematic musings on intelligent life from other worlds. Has there been another director so fixated on extraterrestrials? Regardless of what one may think of the latest film – for a movie pushing unity, reactions have been unusually polarized – new music by John Williams is always cause for celebration.

    We’ll hear 18 minutes from this, his 30th score for Spielberg (composed at the age of 93 & 94!), alongside musical selections from the director’s other otherworldly films, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “War of the Worlds,” and “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.”

    “Disclosure Day” proves you can’t go home – unless, of course, you’re E.T. – but the music can still be out of this world on “Picture Perfect,” now in syndication on KWAX Classical Oregon!

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    Clip and save the start times for all three of my recorded shows:

    PICTURE PERFECT, the movie music show – Friday at 8:00 PM EDT/5:00 PM PDT

    SWEETNESS AND LIGHT, the light music program – Saturday at 11:00 AM EDT/8:00 AM PDT

    THE LOST CHORD, unusual and neglected rep – Saturday at 7:00 PM EDT/4:00 PM PDT

    Stream them, wherever you are, at the link!

    https://kwax.uoregon.edu

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    PHOTO: Williams and Spielberg with soprano Holly Sedillos

  • E.T. Deep Dive & Christopher Lee Tribute

    E.T. Deep Dive & Christopher Lee Tribute

    Is it a religious parable? An environmental allegory? A paean to friendship? A critique of institutions? A story about a boy and his dog? A yearning for family? A fable about letting go and growing up?

    Maybe all of these things.

    A lot of ideas circulating during last night’s discussion of “E.T.” But it’s always a struggle to articulate. A different kind of movie and sometimes a difficult one to talk about. Watch the struggle here.

    Next week, it’s a 100th birthday tribute to Christopher Lee (who was born May 22, 1922). Over the course of a very long and fortunate life, Lee enjoyed some unusual connections (he was a cousin of Ian Fleming and claimed to be a descendent of Charlemagne), exhibited some unexpected talents (Jussi Björling overheard him singing in a pub in Stockholm and wanted to take him on as a student) and partook in some extraordinary real-life adventures (what exactly he did during World War II remains shrouded in mystery, but it was not to the Nazis’ benefit). And of course, he churned out hundreds of movies.

    Count Dracula. Lord Summerisle. Duke de Richleau. Comte de Rochefort. Count Dooku. Scaramanga. Rasputin. Saruman the White.

    It will be a free-form chat around the wicker man on the next “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.” Bring a stake and some garlic to the comments section… and don’t look at the eyes, Rex! Hammer aficionado and lifelong chum Paul Miller will join us, when we livestream on Facebook, next Friday evening at 7:30 EDT!

    https://www.facebook.com/roystiedyescificorner

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