A I Artificial Intelligence- Music From The Motion Picture A.I.: Music From The Motion Picture Artifical Intelligence Soundtrack DVD Audio

This DVD-Audio features the soundtrack from the motion picture "Artificial Intelligence" by John Williams. Features 13 tracks such as "The Mecha World," "Hide and Seek," "Where Dreams Are Born" and much more!

Original score composed by John Williams.
Includes liner notes by Stephen Spielberg.
A.I. was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album For A Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media.
This is a DVD-Audio disc. The DVD-Audio content can only be read by a DVD-Audio player. The Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS audio tracks provided on this disc will play on a standard DVD player.
For his 17th collaboration with director Steven Spielberg, film composer John Williams finds himself in familiar territory. Though drawn from the unmade project pile of director Stanley Kubrick, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, with its science-fiction theme and central character of a child, is strongly reminiscent of previous Spielberg/Williams works, none more than E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, with which it even shares a similarity of title. Once again, Williams is able to explore his gentler and more lyrical musical nature, though he doesn't have as much of an opportunity for the kind of lush, heroic melodies he has enjoyed in the Star Wars and Indiana Jones movies. Here, his major influences seem to be contemporary classical composer Philip Glass and new age music. Glass' style is heard in the film's main theme, "The Mecha World," which employs short, quickly repeated notes in percussive patterns running up and down the scale. Williams adds other elements to the pattern in "Abandoned in the Woods," and by the third track, "Replicas," has gone to an ambient sound that recalls much new age music. "Hide and Seek" is delicate and charming, and after the more demonstrative "The Moon Rising," there are several cues featuring the wordless vocals of Barbara Bonney. "For Always," a song with lyrics by Cynthia Weil that is presented in both a solo version sung by Lara Fabian and a duet version by Fabian and Josh Groban, is attractive but emotionally distant and unlikely to score a hit for the composer. Nevertheless, this is one of Williams' better scores, and all the better for managing to find such an appealing tone while remaining true to the film's remote, wistful themes. ~ William Ruhlmann
Composer John Williams has penned the scores for some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters ever. It is nearly impossible to imagine the gripping emotion of E.T. or the terrifying tension of JAWS without recalling, at least in part, the perfectly appropriate score by Williams. For the science-fiction drama A.I. (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE), Williams presents frequent collaborator Steven Spielberg with another winning soundtrack--here, symphonic drama meets with futuristic electronic sounds to convey the man/machine-themed narrative.
DVD Features:
Region 0
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
MLP 6-Channel - 96 kHz - 24 bit
Dolby Digital 5.1