STOP – and be friendly: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August 1978] As everyone must know by now, the title of Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction extravaganza refers to an actual meeting with an...
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[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] The recurrence of certain thematic ideas clues us to a consistency of vision at work in Steven Spielberg’s last three films. For one thing, all...
View ArticleReview: Jaws
[Originally published in Movietone News 42, July 1975] Jaws begins with a chillingly realistic sequence of shots that are at the same time metaphysically portentous and eerily beautiful. The camera...
View ArticleThe Realist Renaissance
[Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] Ever since the Lumière brothers first fascinated audiences with cinematic recreations of trains entering stations, waves breaking on shores,...
View ArticleReview: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
[Originally published in Movietone News 32, June 1974] “Hey look, it floats!” cries Duddy Kravitz, from the bathtub. Duddy’s fellow Jew and fellow admirer of the bathtub buoyancy phenomenon, the...
View ArticleReview: Dillinger
[Originally published in Movietone News 24, July-August 1973] That our final glimpse of John Dillinger should be out of focus is appropriate. Dillinger promised to be an exciting directorial debut for...
View ArticleSTOP – and be friendly: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August 1978] As everyone must know by now, the title of Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction extravaganza refers to an actual meeting with an...
View ArticleThe Great American Eating Machine
[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] The recurrence of certain thematic ideas clues us to a consistency of vision at work in Steven Spielberg’s last three films. For one thing, all...
View ArticleReview: Jaws
[Originally published in Movietone News 42, July 1975] Jaws begins with a chillingly realistic sequence of shots that are at the same time metaphysically portentous and eerily beautiful. The camera...
View ArticleThe Realist Renaissance
[Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] Ever since the Lumière brothers first fascinated audiences with cinematic recreations of trains entering stations, waves breaking on shores,...
View ArticleReview: American Graffiti
[Originally published in Movietone News 27, November 1973] American Graffiti begins with a shot of Curt, a recent high school graduate, driving up to Mel’s Drive-in, and it ends with Curt watching a...
View ArticleReview: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[Originally published in The Weekly (Seattle), December 14, 1977] It’s getting harder and harder for a movie to just happen anymore. I’m not talking about the ways movies get made (although, to be...
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STOP – and be friendly: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[Originally published in Movietone News 58-59, August 1978] As everyone must know by now, the title of Steven Spielberg’s science-fiction extravaganza refers to an actual meeting with an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Great American Eating Machine
[Originally published in Movietone News 52, October 1976] The recurrence of certain thematic ideas clues us to a consistency of vision at work in Steven Spielberg’s last three films. For one thing, all...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Jaws
[Originally published in Movietone News 42, July 1975] Jaws begins with a chillingly realistic sequence of shots that are at the same time metaphysically portentous and eerily beautiful. The camera...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Realist Renaissance
[Originally published in Movietone News 36, October 1974] Ever since the Lumière brothers first fascinated audiences with cinematic recreations of trains entering stations, waves breaking on shores,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
[Originally published in Movietone News 32, June 1974] “Hey look, it floats!” cries Duddy Kravitz, from the bathtub. Duddy’s fellow Jew and fellow admirer of the bathtub buoyancy phenomenon, the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: Dillinger
[Originally published in Movietone News 24, July-August 1973] That our final glimpse of John Dillinger should be out of focus is appropriate. Dillinger promised to be an exciting directorial debut for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Review: American Graffiti
[Originally published in Movietone News 27, November 1973] American Graffiti begins with a shot of Curt, a recent high school graduate, driving up to Mel’s Drive-in, and it ends with Curt watching a...
View ArticleReview: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
[Originally published in The Weekly (Seattle), December 14, 1977] It’s getting harder and harder for a movie to just happen anymore. I’m not talking about the ways movies get made (although, to be...
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