Word: spielbergism
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...Schindler's List An unlikely, enigmatic hero -- a playboy industrialist -- rescues 1,100 Polish Jews from the Holocaust. In retelling this true story, Steven Spielberg's austere but monumental film re-creates, with chilling immediacy, a central horror of 20th century life and death. Epic cinema, tragic drama, it is also an act of remembrance and conscience that ultimately transcends the ordinary critical categories...
WINNERS STEVEN SPIELBERG In the summer, a billion-dollar popular hit: Jurassic Park. In the winter, an Oscar-contending critical coup: Schindler's List...
...Worlds”—Steven Spielberg, so knowledgeable about the “human condition,” our callous inner nature, and how to make gajillions and quadrazillions of dollars, knows about powerful questions. He’s asked us about slavery, the Holocaust, being kind to space aliens, and most importantly about the very fabric of our lives, and whether or not that fabric can be purchased with the “Indiana Jones” DVD box set. He certainly left me with a powerful question at the end of his current summer blockbuster...
...series hopscotches to so many locations (the Carolinas, the Antarctic, the ocean trenches) that you briefly forget that it gives you no reason to feel afraid or intrigued or anything else. It does aim, clumsily, at a sense of wonder, with so much faux Spielberg--a boy hiding a creature in his house, la E.T.; an average guy who becomes obsessed with the secret, la Close Encounters--that NBC might as well have called this Jaws: The Series. Instead it was called Fathom, then renamed the equally limp Surface. Now people can't say, "I cannot fathom...
...picture's comedy sketches tend to take a good idea and limp with it. The visual style will not send Steven Spielberg back to film school. But Townsend engages the viewer with a lot of cute fantasy-parodies. In a TV review show, Sneakin' in the Movies, the streetwise critics give thumbs up only to a sci-fi thriller called Attack of the Street Pimps. A TV commercial for the Black Acting School shows its (white) teachers providing the finer points of jive talking and stud strutting. Bobby stars in a Stallone-style epic, Rambro: First Young Blood, and wins...