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...Despite his protestations Miyazaki is as much Spielberg?audience-pleasing and moneymaking?as he is Kurosawa, with whom he is often compared. His current hit, Spirited Away, is a case in point. Set in modern-day Japan, the film begins with a family's wrong turn during a move to a mountainside town. Passing through a tunnel, they arrive in a strange land where a spell turns the parents into pigs. That leaves their 10-year-old daughter, Chihiro, to save them. Nothing is as it seems here?a boy turns into a flying dragon, a paper bird into...
...STEVEN SPIELBERG, film director Every Sept. 11, at 8:45 a.m, the nation should pause for as many seconds as the number of souls who lost their lives--perhaps 5,000 seconds of silence, contemplation and prayer. We should erect memorials from some of the fragmented remains of masonry and steel. Schools should declare it World Tolerance Education...
...film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; and celebrated the appeal of pop American moviemaking, where "trash" (a favorite term of praise) often gave more pleasure than "art." In the process, she set the tone...
...18th century to Abraham Lincoln in the 19th to Lionel Trilling in the 20th, inspire Americans to revisit some of our oldest ideas and remember a time when we could speak of a "civil religion" without irony, when the notion of sacrifice for country didn't seem confined to Spielberg-Hanks movies...
There you have pretty much the blurbs one suspects HBO and producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg were aiming for with this 10-hr. World War II mini-series (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.). Judged on apparent realism, it earns them. It effectively borrows the jerky, chaotic camera techniques that Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (which Hanks starred in) used to mimic the soldiers' confused, terrified perspective. It is based closely on historian Stephen Ambrose's book about Easy Company, an elite paratroop unit that had the dubious luck to land knee-deep in key moments of the war in Europe...