The best Steven Spielberg films, chosen by directors, critics and super-fans: âpure popcorn perfectionâ
From franchise hits to historical epics, joyous musicals to autobiographical family sagas: Steven Spielberg has done it all. As his latest sci-fi film Disclosure Day
From franchise hits to historical epics, joyous musicals to autobiographical family sagas: Steven Spielberg has done it all. As his latest sci-fi film Disclosure Day is released, film-makers, authors and Guardian critics reveal which of his movies means the most to them Steven Spielberg is often described as the inventor of the âevent movieâ â or as the creator of our new age of IP supremacy, in which the genre property is more important than any above-the-title film star.
But that isnât quite it. He came of age in the American new wave era but in spirit belonged neither to that nor fully to Hollywoodâs golden age studio system that preceded it. In fact, he synthesised both into a directing style that was audacious and fluent. He availed himself of the subversiveness of the new wave, and yet was classically oriented, drawing upon his love of â and alienation from â the all-American suburb, making him the Edward Hopper or the Andrew Wyeth of the movies.
Tellingly, it was François Truffaut, the most emollient and Hollywood-friendly of Franceâs Nouvelle Vague masters, whom Spielberg cast in a cameo in Close Encounters of
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