After he made Empire of the Sun, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg remained extremely invested in telling more stories from World War II, going on to produce two fantastic mini-series' for HBO called Band of Brothers and The Pacific, as well as having a hand in Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and TV docs like We Stand Alone Together, Eyes of the Holocaust and The Lost Children of Berlin. This month Spielberg unveils his adaptation of the mesmerizing novel (and play) War Horse, which marks the filmmaker's first encounter with World War I (or The Great War). Spielberg will be the first one to admit that he does not consider War Horse to be one of his "war pictures," because it's much...
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- 12/6/2011
- by Erik Davis
- Movies.com
The veteran director Steven Spielberg is still a force to be reckoned with
Director: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Et: The Extra Terrestrial
Producer: Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers
Steven Spielberg, 62, is an undisputed giant of cinema. He has delivered milestone films every decade he has been directing: in the 70s, Jaws and Close Encounters; in the 80s, the Indiana Jones trilogy and Et; in the 90s, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan; in the noughties, Catch Me if You Can and Minority Report. Perhaps more than any other member of his Hollywood generation the one known as the "movie brats" he has kept working at a breakneck pace. Next year, he releases the first of his Tintin series and the first world war epic War Horse. And that's just his directing work. If you take into account his role as a producer, Spielberg's output is staggering.
Director: Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Et: The Extra Terrestrial
Producer: Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers
Steven Spielberg, 62, is an undisputed giant of cinema. He has delivered milestone films every decade he has been directing: in the 70s, Jaws and Close Encounters; in the 80s, the Indiana Jones trilogy and Et; in the 90s, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan; in the noughties, Catch Me if You Can and Minority Report. Perhaps more than any other member of his Hollywood generation the one known as the "movie brats" he has kept working at a breakneck pace. Next year, he releases the first of his Tintin series and the first world war epic War Horse. And that's just his directing work. If you take into account his role as a producer, Spielberg's output is staggering.
- 9/24/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
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