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...SAVING PRIVATE RYAN and 15) PAULINE AT THE BEACH If there's anything worse than a beach, it's a French beach. In Ryan, Spielberg's American soldiers are slaughtered as they de-boat on D-day in a rain of enemy fire. In Pauline a la plage, Eric Rohmer's protagonist probably wishes for shrapnel to off her, if only to spare her the pointless banter of her tacky, divorce cousin...
...fervent nonswimmers like me, Steven Spielberg's JAWS is a cinematic manifesto. We identify with Roy Scheider's hydrophobic police chief--mocked for his fear of water until that hungry shark shows up. This summer marks Jaws' 25th anniversary, and as a tribute to the No. 1 nonswimmer's film of all time, a list follows of the other Top 24 films living up to the motto "Don't go in the water." Seeing movie stars drown is especially comforting between June and August, the season of peer pressure, when the swimming class harangues the rest of us with nonsense...
...Normandy for the massive assault against the Germans occupying France. Yet somehow Ford's footage was lost until 1998, when Melvyn R. Paisley, a World War II aviator and Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of the Navy, found a few canisters of the missing film deep within the National Archives. Spielberg, whose father had also served in the U.S. Army Air Corps and who would win the Best Director Oscar for his own D-day movie, Saving Private Ryan, was intrigued when he read about Paisley's find in the New Yorker...
Narrated by Tom Hanks and scored by composer Arthur B. Rubinstein, Shooting War--which is due to air on ABC late this summer--is not for the fainthearted. It is the great WW II documentary Ford never got to make. "Don't pretty it up," Spielberg insisted to Schickel, who directed and wrote the film. "I want to see the wounded and the dying. I want people to understand that's what war is about...
...Spielberg, Schickel and Hanks will discuss the making of Shooting War before an audience of 3,000 World War II veterans this week in New Orleans. At a small prescreening of the documentary, a handful of "greatest generation" heroes cried throughout it, knowing, as they had learned when they gave their all for democracy a half-century ago, that freedom from tyranny remains the highest aspiration of mankind...