John Williams “has made a gigantic contribution to the world of music at large, beginning with making film music legitimate but also his concert work.” For our recent webchat, director and producer Laurent Bouzereau makes that claim about the subject of his new documentary “Music by John Williams,

John Williams is obviously and without question one of the greatest film composers who's ever lived, but that still feels like something of an understatement. The case could be made that no one in his field - from Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann to Ennio Morricone and Toru Takemitsu - has come remotely close to matching the sheer breadth,

John Williams “has made a gigantic contribution to the world of music at large, beginning with making film music legitimate but also his concert work.” For our recent webchat, director and producer Laurent Bouzereau makes that claim about the subject of his new documentary “Music by John Williams,

Director Laurent Bouzereau ('Five Came Back') serves up an affectionate portrait of the man behind the much-loved scores for 'Jaws,' 'Star Wars' and many, many more.

At 92, composer-conductor John Williams is more than worthy of an admiring documentary portrait like the just-released “Music by John Williams.”

From the deep, quickening heartbeat of “Jaws” to the astral opening blast of “Star Wars,” the music of John Williams not only earns its place among the most iconic film scores of all time, but it also proves memorable enough to carry with us out of the cinema.