While director Steven Spielberg has sometimes termed his blockbuster hit E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial a loose sequel to his similarly themed Close Encounters of the Third Kind, that notion only underscores the breadth of John Williams' talents as a composer and tempts the listener to consider this score a sort of second, more nakedly emotional movement to his Close Encounters ...
Based on real events, director Jean-Jacques Annaud's Seven Years in Tibet tells the story of the Austrian athlete Heinrich Harrer, played by Brad Pitt, who in the late 1930s escaped British interment to cross the Tibetan plateau to Lhasa, the Forbidden City. There, over a period of seven years, his life was transformed by a culture utterly alien to anything he had experienced in Europe. The ...