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The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 11 (The Final Day) 29 Dec 2010 | 04:55 am
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): A Film by Steven Spielberg by Carson Lund Frankly, A.I. possesses qualities of the termite and the elephant: on the one hand, there is the haphazard, messy prese...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 10 28 Dec 2010 | 12:07 am
E.T. The Sacred Cow by Andreas All of this is not to say that I find E.T. totally worthless. I just don’t think it deserves the enthusiastic critical accolades it’s received since its release, setti...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 9 27 Dec 2010 | 05:05 am
Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal or Before the Age of Spielberg by Greg Ferrara Steven Spielberg doesn't take part in the documentary (but is thanked in the closing credits) although I'm sure if th...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 8 (Christmas Day Edition!) 26 Dec 2010 | 09:00 am
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001): Look Again by Adam Gentry See, the ending is anything but a happy one. It is impossible to recreate all that an individual human being is from a single strand of...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 7 25 Dec 2010 | 10:41 am
Making Contact: Spielberg's Close Encounters and E.T. by Jim Emerson Spielberg's (and "E.T." screenwriter Melissa Mathison's) characters use every conceivable means to make contact: gestures, symbol...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 6 24 Dec 2010 | 12:10 am
Saving Private Ryan (1998): What Is Happening? by Adam Zanzie I think Samuel Fuller is really the only filmmaker, out of all the filmmakers Rosenbaum mentioned in his review, who had a significant i...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 5 23 Dec 2010 | 04:13 am
Minority Report by Ed Howard The film's literalization of seeing the future is so potent because it's a metaphor or a model for the cinema, but even more poignantly it's compared to home movies. And...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 4 21 Dec 2010 | 09:20 pm
Schindler's List (1993): Control Is Power by Adam Zanzie How, oh how, did Schindler not recognize the gravity of the racism and the genocide occuring within the confines of his own party all this ti...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 3 20 Dec 2010 | 10:01 pm
Jurassic Park (1993) by Adam Zanzie No question about it: Jurassic Park will stand the test of time as one of Spielberg’s more technically dazzling films. But as a character study, will it compare w...
The Spielberg Blogathon: Day 2 20 Dec 2010 | 06:52 am
Hook by Jake Cole These intelligent touches keep me coming back to Hook long after I should have grown out of it, but they remain frustrating when taken with the film's many missteps. There's a terr...
