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  • Dec 11, 2025 · 36 min

    Interview Laurent Bouzereau

    Laurent Bouzereau is an award-winning filmmaker and best-selling author. Laurent Bouzereau and his producing partner/husband, Markus Keith, run Nedland Media, a production company based in Los Angeles. He is the author of several books on cinema, including Steven Spielberg: The First Ten Years (2023), De Palma Decade (2024), Hitchcock: Piece by Piece, The Art of Bond, and others. As a filmmaker he made the documentaries such as “Faye,” a feature documentary on legendary actor Faye Dunaway for HBO/Amblin which premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. This year he made “Jaws @ 50,” a feature documentary for NatGeo/Amblin. Last year Disney+ released the documentary Music by John Williams where Laurent Bouzereau gave us the story of a lifetime, that of legendary composer John Williams. John’s music is known all around the world. In this episode of Composer Talk director Laurent Bouzereau gives more insights on the creation of his feature documentary Music by John Williams. We talk about John Williams and his music. He’s also the director of Jaws @ 50 on which we also zoom in. Enjoy listening this new episode of Composer Talk!

  • Dec 5, 2025 · 34 min

    Interview Simon Franglen

    Simon Franglen is a multi-award-winning composer and record producer whose work spans some of the most acclaimed films of the recent decades. Franglen composed the celebrated score for James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water, for which he received a 2023 World Soundtrack Award. His score was praised for expanding the sonic world of Pandora with both epic scale and profound intimacy, and was a global hit with the soundtrack album surpassing 750 million global streams. Over the past two years, he has continued his collaboration with Cameron on the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash, composing over three hours of music that introduces major new themes, textures, new instruments and groundbreaking electronica to the Avatar musical universe. Previous scores include multiple projects with directors such as Terrence Malick, Antoine Fuqua, and Jean-Jacques Annaud. In this new episode of Composer Talk Simon Franglen gives us an in-depth look at his composing process for the third Avatar movie Fire and Ash. How he succeeded in writing 1900 pages of music for this film. He gives us some insights on the soundtrack releases.

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