Despite his unique mastery of the form from a young age, Steven Spielberg has never been a particularly mysterious filmmaker. His success stories have been well-documented, from his early maverick successes like "Jaws" to his innovative blockbusters like "Jurassic Park." One other crucial ingredient to his filmmaking that Spielberg takes with him, no matter the scale, is a strong sense of identity.
Littered throughout his filmography are glimpses into his childhood psychology. "Close Encounters" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" find domestic drama within the framework of their alien sci-fi tales. Beneath the surface of his blockbusters are stories of fathers with fear of commitment, and sons looking for their place in a larger world without traditional guidance. But in Spielberg's newest, semi-autobiographical film, "The Fabelmans," the sentimentalist filmmaker will bare his soul in a way even he has never attempted before. "This film is, for me, a way of bringing my mom and dad back,...
Littered throughout his filmography are glimpses into his childhood psychology. "Close Encounters" and "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" find domestic drama within the framework of their alien sci-fi tales. Beneath the surface of his blockbusters are stories of fathers with fear of commitment, and sons looking for their place in a larger world without traditional guidance. But in Spielberg's newest, semi-autobiographical film, "The Fabelmans," the sentimentalist filmmaker will bare his soul in a way even he has never attempted before. "This film is, for me, a way of bringing my mom and dad back,...
- 10/24/2022
- by Tyler Llewyn Taing
- Slash Film
Over his nearly 50 years of filmmaking, Steven Spielberg has walked down too many red carpets to count.
From “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Bridge of Spies,” the legendary director’s PR-heavy vocation requires he trade in his characteristic baseball cap for a snappy suit just a few nights per year to strut his stuff in front of the press. He’s been the recognizable — if understated — centerpiece in countless iconic cast photos, boasting as many award winners as box-office dynamos.
But on Saturday night, Spielberg did something a bit new. He appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote “The Fabelmans”: a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama that’s mainly about him.
“When we were making ‘Munich’ together 20 years ago, [Spielberg] told me the story that is the core of ‘The Fabelmans,'” screenwriter Tony Kushner told IndieWire. “I said, ‘You’re going to have to make a movie about that someday.
From “Raiders of the Lost Ark” to “Bridge of Spies,” the legendary director’s PR-heavy vocation requires he trade in his characteristic baseball cap for a snappy suit just a few nights per year to strut his stuff in front of the press. He’s been the recognizable — if understated — centerpiece in countless iconic cast photos, boasting as many award winners as box-office dynamos.
But on Saturday night, Spielberg did something a bit new. He appeared at the Toronto International Film Festival to promote “The Fabelmans”: a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama that’s mainly about him.
“When we were making ‘Munich’ together 20 years ago, [Spielberg] told me the story that is the core of ‘The Fabelmans,'” screenwriter Tony Kushner told IndieWire. “I said, ‘You’re going to have to make a movie about that someday.
- 9/11/2022
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
Panic! at the Disco get their feelings all tangled up on “Middle of a Breakup,” the latest offering from their upcoming album, Viva Las Vengeance, out Aug. 19 via Fueled by Ramen/DCD2 Records.
“Middle of a Breakup” is a blast of high-energy power-pop (there’s even a little synth riff on the bridge that seems to nod to Cheap Trick’s “Surrender”) with lyrics that find Brendon Urie trying, but failing, to end a tumultuous relationship: “Keep your disco, gimme T. Rex,” goes the hook, “Makeup sex in the middle...
“Middle of a Breakup” is a blast of high-energy power-pop (there’s even a little synth riff on the bridge that seems to nod to Cheap Trick’s “Surrender”) with lyrics that find Brendon Urie trying, but failing, to end a tumultuous relationship: “Keep your disco, gimme T. Rex,” goes the hook, “Makeup sex in the middle...
- 7/20/2022
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Katy Perry recently came out with a perfume named Mad Love. But social media wags suspect that the name of the product is a jab at rival Taylor Swift. The feud between Perry and Swift began when three dancers – Lockhart Brownlie, Scott Myrick, and Leah Adler – touring with Swift quit in order to work with Perry, for a second time in […]
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- 6/22/2016
- by Khoreen Eccleston
- Uinterview
Appearing on "60 Minutes" Sunday night, Steven Spielberg revealed that his childhood -- a recurring subject of his films -- was less than perfect. On the topic of school, the 65-year-old director of early Oscar-contender "Lincoln" said that he had been bullied. "I was a nerd in those days. Outsider, like the kid that played the clarinet in the band and in orchestra, which I did."
The early childhood trauma didn't stop there. More disturbingly, both Spielberg and his mother revealed that anti-semitism ran rampant in their suburban Phoenix, Az., neighborhood. "People used to chant, the Spielbergs are dirty Jews," mom Leah Adler, age 92, said.
"I denied it for a long time, my Judaism," Spielberg admitted to "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl. "I often told people my last name was German, not Jewish. I'm sure my grandparents are rolling in their graves right now, hearing me say that. But I think that...
The early childhood trauma didn't stop there. More disturbingly, both Spielberg and his mother revealed that anti-semitism ran rampant in their suburban Phoenix, Az., neighborhood. "People used to chant, the Spielbergs are dirty Jews," mom Leah Adler, age 92, said.
"I denied it for a long time, my Judaism," Spielberg admitted to "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl. "I often told people my last name was German, not Jewish. I'm sure my grandparents are rolling in their graves right now, hearing me say that. But I think that...
- 10/22/2012
- by Youyoung Lee
- Huffington Post
Over the weekend director Steven Spielberg did an interview on '60 Minutes' to talk about his life and filmmaking career. There was a lot of interesting stuff revealed such as; the fact that he's a nervous wreck when he's directing a movie, he was bullied in school, the movie he thought no one would see, and why he's not interested in making action movies anymore.
Here's what he had to say about all of these points during the interview.
On being a nervous wreck:
Lesley Stahl: You're a nervous wreck.
Steven Spielberg: Yeah, it's true.
Lesley Stahl: Is it a fear?
Steven Spielberg: It's not really fear. It's just much more of an anticipation of the unknown. And you know, the unknown could be food poisoning. It's just the kind of level of anxiety not being able to write my life as well as I can write my movies.
Here's what he had to say about all of these points during the interview.
On being a nervous wreck:
Lesley Stahl: You're a nervous wreck.
Steven Spielberg: Yeah, it's true.
Lesley Stahl: Is it a fear?
Steven Spielberg: It's not really fear. It's just much more of an anticipation of the unknown. And you know, the unknown could be food poisoning. It's just the kind of level of anxiety not being able to write my life as well as I can write my movies.
- 10/22/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Steven Spielberg appeared on Sunday's edition of "60 Minutes" in support of the upcoming drama "Lincoln" and revealed how his relationship with his father, Arnold, has driven his creativity over the last five decades and 27 films.
"I did pin it on him," Spielberg told Lesley Stahl about his parent's divorce, which occurred when the director was just 19. In films like "E.T." and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the fathers leave their families behind, an unsubtle reference to how Spielberg felt after his parent's divorce. It was Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler, however, who fell in love with her husband's friend and pursued the divorce.
"I think I was just protecting her, because I was in love with her," Arnold Spielberg said when asked why he didn't set the record straight with his son.
As it turns out, that wouldn't have mattered: Spielberg still blamed his father even after the truth was revealed.
"I did pin it on him," Spielberg told Lesley Stahl about his parent's divorce, which occurred when the director was just 19. In films like "E.T." and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," the fathers leave their families behind, an unsubtle reference to how Spielberg felt after his parent's divorce. It was Spielberg's mother, Leah Adler, however, who fell in love with her husband's friend and pursued the divorce.
"I think I was just protecting her, because I was in love with her," Arnold Spielberg said when asked why he didn't set the record straight with his son.
As it turns out, that wouldn't have mattered: Spielberg still blamed his father even after the truth was revealed.
- 10/22/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
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