Something for Thursday

In honor of James Cameron’s 70th birthday–which was just a couple weeks ago–I’m going to share some selections from the scores to his movies over the next few weeks. I’ll start with my favorite Cameron film, the often overlooked The Abyss, which kinda-sorta takes Close Encounters of the Third Kind and puts it underwater, with some Cold War subtext and the paranoid military turned up to 11. It’s a riveting film that I haven’t seen in quite a few years, so maybe I should see if I can track it down…meanwhile, here is a short suite from the film’s score, by Alan Silvestri. And I’ll have more to say about Cameron over the next few weeks.