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Steven Spielberg |
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Director / Producer / Screenwriter |
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1946 - |
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Born December 18,
Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |
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Key
Production Country: USA
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Key Genres:
Science Fiction, Drama, Adventure, Action, Sci-Fi Action,
Chase Movie, , Costume Adventure, War, Period Film |
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Key
Collaborators: John
Williams (Composer), Michael Kahn (Editor), Janusz Kaminski
(Cinematographer), Kathleen Kennedy (Producer), Frank Marshall
(Producer), Gerald
R. Molen (Producer), Rick Carter (Production Designer),
Harrison Ford (Leading Player),
David
Koepp (Screenwriter), Tom Hanks (Leading Player) |
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Highly Recommended: Duel (1971)*, Raiders of the
Lost Ark (1981)*, The Color Purple (1985), Schindler's List (1993)*,
Saving Private Ryan (1998)* |
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Recommended: Jaws
(1975)*, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)*, E.T. The Extra
Terrestrial (1982)*, Catch Me if You Can (2002) |
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Worth
a Look: The
Sugarland Express (1974), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984),
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989),
Jurassic Park (1993), The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), Amistad
(1997), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)*^, Minority Report (2002)^, War
of the Worlds (2005), Munich (2005)^ |
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Approach with Caution:
1941 (1979), Empire of the Sun (1987), Hook (1991), The Terminal (2004),
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) |
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Duds: Always (1989) |
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* Listed in TSPDT's
1,000 Greatest Films
section; ^
Listed in TSPDT's
21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films
section. |
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Links:
[
Amazon
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IMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
TCMDB ] [
Senses of Cinema: Great Directors ] [
Film Reference ]
[
Spielberg
Films.Com ] [
Tiscali Biography ] [
Time
Feature ] [
DGA
Interview ] [
Inside
Film Magazine Interview: Schindler's List ] [
BBC
Audio Interviews (1984) ] [
The
Steven Spielberg Directory ] [
Steven
Spielberg Jewish Film Archive ] [
The Steven Spielberg
Fanlisting ] [
Spero News Article (2006) ]
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Books: [
Steven
Spielberg: Interviews ] [
Steven
Spielberg: A Biography ] [
Spielberg:
The Man, The Movies, The Mythology ] [
Steven Spielberg: Crazy for Movies ] [
Steven Spielberg ] [
Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood
Blockbuster ] [
The Films of Steven Spielberg ] [
Steven Spielberg: Hollywood Filmmaker ] |
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"As
America in the 1990s moves slowly away from the Reagan era,
will Spielberg find new materials and adult themes, or will
he seek continuing refuge in tried and true formulas? And
will those formulas continue to work? And finally, will
Spielberg manage to successfully mediate his apparent dual
interests - being a modern day mogul in the style of Walt
Disney or Cecil B. De Mille as well as being a respected
artist whose work requires no apology?" -
Charles
Derry (International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers,
1991) |
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"In
bringing a distinctly personal sensibility to the
traditional genres of mass entertainment, Steven Spielberg
rapidly became the most commercially successful director in
cinema history. While it is impossible to deny either his
Midas touch or his extraordinary technical proficiency, it
has nonetheless become increasingly clear in recent years
that he is perhaps more at home with sentimental 'family'
fodder than with more sophisticated material." -
Geoff
Andrew (The Film Handbook, 1989) |
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"One of
the most famous Hollywood directors, Steven Spielberg has an
intuitive sense of the hopes and fears of his audience. This
quality and his showmanship have made him one of the greats,
in the league of
Cecil B.
DeMille,
Frank Capra, and
Alfred Hitchcock."
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Ronald Bergan (Film - Eyewitness Companions, 2006) |
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"One
of the things
Henry Hathaway
told me is that you just have to know what you're doing
every single minute of the day. His advice was: even if you
don't know what the hell you're doing, pretend you do."
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Steven
Spielberg (Directing the Film, 1976) |
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"A lot
of the films I've made probably could have worked just as
well 50 years ago, and that's just because I have a lot of
old-fashion values." -
Steven Spielberg |
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