Word: spielbergisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also a magical money machine. As the unbilled star of Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial , the little botanist from outer space has beguiled $310 million worth of U.S. movie goers since June, easily outpacing the previous front runner, Star Wars. With December openings in foreign capitals, he is starting to duplicate that triumph around the globe. A novelization of Melissa Mathison's script has sold more than 3 million copies, an illustrated storybook another million. Heartlight, Neil Diamond's musical homage to E.T, has sold more than a million albums since September. And, even in this recession-blitzed...
...fairy tale set in the most mundane of contemporary realities: a typical California suburb. The creature appears to his friend Elliott in a pizza-strewn back yard; he lives in a child's closet. As E.T. built his "phone home" device from old toys and household castaways, so Spielberg fashioned a dream world from the Formica-and-vinyl tatters of the American dream...
...important to remember that E.T. is also a movie, crafted as expertly as if it had come off the NASA assembly line. Every character has his own quirky resonance; each scene is energized by grace notes that reward all those subsequent viewings. But Spielberg had proved his directorial skill before ? with Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders of the Lost Ark ?while tapping the moviegoer's sense of fear and excitement. This time, though, he touched something more than a nerve ending. With E.T. he proved that the everyday could be unique, and that the science...
...Extra-Terrestrial. The most successful movie ever is also the best film of the year-an effortless display of cinematic ingenuity that buoys the spirit. Bravos to Steven Spielberg, Screenwriter Melissa Mathison and a remarkably mature young actor, Henry Thomas, as E.T.'s best friend. Peter Pan is alive and well and commuting to Southern California...
Poltergeist. The hell-mouth side of Spielberg's suburban diptych: vengeful spirits drive a middle-class family beyond bananas. The film delivers honest special-effects shocks without forfeiting its good nature. Under Tobe Hooper's direction Jobeth Williams and Craig T. Nelson shine as the dogged mom and the heroic-in-spite-of-himself...