John Williams, red thread of the Ciné Notes festival in Bordeaux

• The Ciné Notes festival, from March 7 to 22 in Bordeaux, will have two highlights with the film-concert of

  ET, the extra-terrestrial

  , and the symphonic concert with music from films such as

  Jaws

  ,

  Dracula

  ,

  The Fly

  …

• The works of American composer John Williams, who has just celebrated his 90th birthday, will be omnipresent during the event.

• For Benoît Daldin,

  ET

  is almost the perfect work for a cine-concert.

After being canceled in 2020, then in 2021, the edition of Ciné Notes on the theme of

is inevitably eagerly awaited at the Opéra de Bordeaux.

It is to take place this year from March 7 to 22.

Several great moments are scheduled at the Auditorium and at partner sites, including a film concert of Steven Spielberg's film 

, and a symphonic concert that will take us to explore the universe of

, of

or

.

With the red thread, the essential American composer John Williams.

Benoît Daldin, artistic director of the festival, tells us about it.

By choosing this theme "Monsters and Creatures", we realize that the composer John Williams is omnipresent in the music of fantastic films...

John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith are the two major composers of American genre cinema.

Williams had a crazy career, and he became an icon, like an American pop star, thanks to his film scores.

But he also has recognition from the classical world, he now directs the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, that is to say the greatest orchestras in the world that the greatest conductors dream of directing.

He succeeded where many have failed, that is to say, to pass his film music in concert, and to make his symphonic suites suites that are played everywhere.

Every orchestra in the world has played the

sequels ...

And he still composes...

Yes, since he announced that he would write the music for

, as well as another Spielberg film.

He also announced that he would write the music for the

series [scheduled for May on Disney +].

He has at least those three projects going on as he just turned 90.

Why does he like it so much?

He is a genius melodist, but he also has a science of the visual.

He's someone who adapts his style of writing to the films he has to illustrate.

In concert, this gives giant contrasts between the music of

, which is more jazzy, and 

with its great gripping Wagner-like themes, or 

, which is contemporary music almost difficult to to listen.

Why did you choose “ET” for the film-concert of the festival?

Is it his most emblematic work?

It is one of his most emblematic works.

But it is above all one of the best music by John Williams for a concert, because 90% of the film is covered by the music.

So there is almost no time in the evening when the orchestra is not playing.

For a movie-concert, it's ideal.

The last fifteen minutes of

, is a single piece of music that is uncut.

It is extremely rare in the cinema.

He wrote this last piece while watching the film, but since he had a little trouble finding exactly the moment in the scene where the music should change tempo, it was finally Spielberg who decided to bring up the end of

.

on the music.

So it's better to see "ET" in a cine-concert than "Star Wars" or "Jaws"?

For this edition of Ciné Notes, we felt that

responded more to the theme,

, and that the nice monster aspect had a family side that

for example does not have.

And if we take

, there are moments without music.

Let's not forget that people come to see a concert first, so if it's to have an orchestra that only plays one hour out of two hours of film, it doesn't really matter.

ticks all the boxes.

The other highlight of the festival will be the symphonic concert, in which we will still find John Williams, unmissable?

With Diego Navarro, the conductor, we looked for the most beautiful scores for this theme, and there is necessarily John Williams, yes, but also Jerry Goldsmith with 

and

We will also make the music of

,

,

… And we will explore French cinema, with Philippe Sarde in particular.

Ciné Notes Festival, from March 7 to 22 in Bordeaux.

The cine-concert will take place in the Auditorium on Friday March 11 at 8 p.m. and Sunday March 13 at 3 p.m. (from 8 euros to 35 euros, film in VOST) and the symphony concert on Thursday March 17 and Friday 8 euro to 35 euro).

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