Fine Movie Classics - 11 JULY 25

As it’s the 4th of July there’s an Overture to Huckleberry Finn, we visit Downton Abbey and reveal John Williams’ amazing ability with jazz with the Cantina Band from Star Wars. Don’t miss Steve Martin singing a terrific song from “Only Murders In The Building”.

Hear music from “Minari”, “Around The World In 80 Days”, “The Elephant Man” and David Cronenberg’s “Naked Lunch”. There’s the Main Title from “The Towering Inferno”, one of John Williams’ earlier scores, a medley from “The Fantasticks” by Harvey Schmidt and Billy Crystal teams up with John Goodman for a…

There’s music from the video game series “Elder Scroll”, along with a Woody Allen comedy set and filmed entirely in Paris, the remake of “The Fly”, a great medley paying tribute to Fred Astaire and music by Volker Bertelmann  from the film which Pope Leo XIV is alleged to have…

Steven Spielberg puts in 2 appearances – with excerpts from John Williams’ score to his film “Close Encounters Of the Third Kind” and with a story about a famous Bach melody which his father used to whistle. This appears in his semi-autobiographical film “The Fabelmans”. There’s also music from “Monsters…

There are TV themes from “Only Murders In The Building” and “Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey”, along with music from “A Minecraft Movie”, a medley of hit tunes from “Mary Poppins”, and there’s music from “The Big Blue”, “The Danish Girl”, “Paddington” and “The Producers”.