Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theater group, which annually invites a pair of entertainment celebrities to Cambridge to publicize the all-male Hasty Pudding musical, also announced this week that Steven Spielberg, the nation's most successful movie director, will be 1983's Man of the Year...
Andrews will accept her award on February 16, after a parade through Harvard Square. Spielberg who directed the immensely popular film, "E. T.", will receive his ceremonial pudding pot at the February 22 premiere of the company's 135th annual all-male production, "Of Mines...
...Spielberg could not be reached yesterday, but an associate said his next project will probably be a sequel to "Raiders of the Lost...
...especially in the American market. The "art houses" of the 1960s, where a United Nations of cinema once reigned, now play host to mainstream movies from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Critics' groups, which had regularly knighted Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, now bestow their awards on Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack. With many American critics, moviemakers and moviegoers on a slumming spree, the intellectual cachet of European films has been broken. But there is still cinematic ingenuity to be found outside the U.S., and sometimes even in U.S. movie theaters. Three encouraging examples...
...drive on the wrong side of the road. Fred Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith) and Bruce Beresford (Breaker Morant) both emigrated to Texas to make western romances (Barbarosa and Tender Mercies). George Miller, daredevil director of the Mad Max movies, is now helming an episode of Steven Spielberg's The Twilight Zone. This is the big leagues, with a more restrictive set of rules. The successful Australian director could end up making lots of money and losing his distinct national voice...