There's a reason why Steven Spielberg didn't call this autobiographically inspired film some variation of Portrait of the Director as a Young Man For all that this is a coming of age tale for his alter ego Sammy, the Fabelman parents, Mitzi and Burt, are the other heart of this tale. (The first one being the "falling in love with the movies" story ( Read more... )

Watched it yesterday, with one lone other person in the cinema, since in Germany you currently don't have to be only vaccinated, you also have to have a negative test for the day in addition to this to visit museums, concerts, and movies. I loved it. Hats off to Spielberg and Tony Kushner and the entire creative team.

( Spoilers for this movie's specific choices in telling the story abound )

Courtesy of Amazon Prime, I had the chance to watch two movies I missed during their original release, to wit:

The Post: aka Steven Spielberg does the Pentagon Papers as "The Education of Katherine Graham". It's a well-made movie (duh!) with an excellent cast both in major and minor roles, including Matthew Rhys, evoking missing-The-Americans- ( Read more... )

The one advantage if you don't feel passionately about something is that it makes following controversies voyeuristic fun, as opposed to hurtful "but why don't they see....!?!" battle for oneself. My current example is the ongoing reaction to The Iron Lady. (Which I still haven't watched), i.e. the one beyond the "Meryl great, film mediocre" ( Read more... )

I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is one of Spielberg's best, unjustly neglected. Perhaps it would have done better at the box office if he had made it a few years later, after Schindler's List, not before, but I don't think so. Of his three WWII movies, this one is the most unusual and the one that defies expectations the most. Based on ( Read more... )

Firstly, I'm just a bit peeved that some people - you know who you are - were very indiscreet about the last Angel episode in their comments above the lj cut. Some of us are still waiting for the download, folks ( Read more... )