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...breeze blowing in off the sea. But there's something just slightly off about the image. Old Glory looks, well, old in this backlighted image--thin, faded, antique, like the unambiguous emotions it used to stir in an age less given to irony and selfishness than our own. Steven Spielberg, in his new film, Saving Private Ryan, wants us to think about that, about how "the deep pride we once felt in our flag" has given way "to cynicism about our colors...
...that sound you hear is Oscar buzz for Steven Spielberg, whose 'Saving Private Ryan' opens nationwide...
...success of films with more exposition than explosions suggests that the days of special effects first, script second, may be over. "Audiences want more than just computer-generated effects," says box office analyst Jae Kim, who predicts that the next film to watch is Steven Spielberg's WWII drama "Saving Private Ryan," which opens July 24. "The movie's going to be filled with high-end special effects, but Spielberg is letting the story do the heavy lifting...
Among the guests: John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, David Geffen, Streisand's mother, songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman (the only invitees who knew the wedding date well in advance; all others were invited on short notice over the phone), "Tootsie" director Sidney Pollack, designer Donna Karan (who made the wedding dress), music producer Quincy Jones and composer Marvin Hamlisch, who conducted a 16-piece orchestra playing "Here Comes the Bride." Despite one L.A. newscast's report that Streisand's close friend President Clinton planned to cut short his China visit in order to attend...
...Spielberg did give us Empire of the Sun, and Bertolucci made The Last Emperor. But these fall just a little short because they are movies from the inside out; they understand. The excitement of China comes from the puzzlement, from the head-scratching wonder of an outsider to whom China is a great blood-oiled machine with no rules...