Legacy Conversations: A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 25th Anniversary

Hosted by Maurizio Caschetto Special Guests: Filippo Ulivieri (Author/Film Historian), Tim Greiving (Author/Journalist)

Also available as video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o64j6kNX4I

The Legacy of John Williams presents a new installment of its “Legacy Conversations” series: a look back to Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi epic A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, the project long-gestated for decades by genius director Stanley Kubrick and that was meant to be a collaboration between the two legendary filmmakers.

In 2026, A.I. Artificial Intelligence celebrates its 25th anniversary since the release in theaters and it’s time for a proper re-evaluation of both the film and the music score composed by John Williams.

In this in-depth conversation hosted by editor Maurizio Caschetto, film historian and Kubrick expert Filippo Ulivieri (ArchivioKubrick.it) and author/journalist Tim Greiving (John Williams: A Composer's Life) delve into the film’s incredibly complex genesis and development, while assessing the final film’s own merits and the key role of John Williams' score. Both Ulivieri and Greiving are scholars on the subject and dived deep down the immense amount of material housed at the Stanley Kubrick Archives in London in order to recreate the most accurate chronology of the overall creative process by Kubrick and Spielberg and research deeply a project that brought together two masters of modern cinema.

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Watch the 2-part conversation with Maurizio Caschetto and Filippo Ulivieri about the usage of music in Stanley Kubrick’s films and a previous reflection on A.I. Artificial Intelligence at Archivio Kubrick YouTube channel:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/A-8tmTH4lok Part 2: https://youtu.be/s5177jfpl0o