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,

Few figures in modern movies are more important—or greater—than John Williams, the legendary composer whose work has not just thrilled, enchanted, and moved generations, but has become ingrained in our personal and cultural DNA.

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