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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 20, 2017 19:18:52 GMT
Have any of you seen this HBO documentary on Steven Spielberg yet? I keep missing it but I hope to see it soon. He famously refuses to do any sort of DVD commentary so fans have had to survive on the minuscule information derived from the occasional interview here and there. I need to hear what he has to say about some of his films, he seems pretty hard on himself sometimes.
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Post by petrolino on Oct 20, 2017 20:26:16 GMT
I read about this the other day on imdb2, I think on Film General. I thought the same thing as you - with the absence of commentary tracks and reluctance at times to pinpoint direct influences, this should be an interesting documentary. Then again, it might end up being a bland promotional film. Either way, I'm keen to see it.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 20, 2017 20:35:06 GMT
Listening to DVD comentart tracks, Some are interesting and some is downright awfull, saying that after listening to commentary track of Somebodt Up there likes me,
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 20, 2017 21:08:38 GMT
Best commentary tracks I have heard are John Carpenter on the Thing and They Live, Chris Lee and Roy Ward Baker on Scars of Dracula, and director-writer and star on The Blood on Satan's Claw. The Howling one isn't bad either.
I prefer ones that are informative and tell you something about the film-how it was made, etc. I hate the ones where the director or DOP is talking about how they did a shot set up.
There need to be more with the writer giving comments on films. Too often it is just the director and star. It helps when the writer is present too.
I have yet to hear Schwarzenegger's audio commentary for Conan the Barbarian. Supposed to be hilarious if not informative.
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Post by politicidal on Oct 25, 2017 15:06:08 GMT
he was entombed underground andhis flesh was almost uncorrupt That's certainly a unique epitaph.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 2, 2017 20:14:59 GMT
So, I've finally just seen this documentary. It covers all his main movies, pretty much skips the smaller ones, it's more about his personal life than I was led to believe. We have more in common than I would have thought: child of divorce, distant father, movie geek. The parallels to his movies and his own childhood are so obvious now that I have some backstory. I did enjoy the Jaws stuff, which was my main reason for seeing this. The Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan stuff reminded me just how powerful those movies are and I seriously need to see both again soon. I might need to revisit War of the Worlds again too, a movie I kinda dismissed at the time, but now I have some more insight.
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 2, 2017 22:07:30 GMT
Where did you see it? Is it in theaters or on TV?
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Post by petrolino on Dec 3, 2017 0:53:20 GMT
Where did you see it? Is it in theaters or on TV? Here in the U K, it was screened earlier in the week on the Sky subscription channel Sky Atlantic. I recorded it but I've not watched it yet.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 3, 2017 15:58:53 GMT
Where did you see it? Is it in theaters or on TV? It's an HBO documentary for TV, hopefully you'll be able to find it.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Dec 3, 2017 16:36:15 GMT
i have never understood why spielberg is considered to be a great filmaker. JAWS was a piece of crap. DUEL was good though. but somebody else wrote it.
what does spielberg really stand for? has he ever said anything interesting? he represents only the cloying humanitarism of our age.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Dec 3, 2017 19:01:28 GMT
i have never understood why spielberg is considered to be a great filmaker. JAWS was a piece of crap. DUEL was good though. but somebody else wrote it. what does spielberg really stand for? has he ever said anything interesting? he represents only the cloying humanitarism of our age. Not sure what interests you, but humanitarism should, if you're human.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 13, 2018 2:31:33 GMT
So, I've finally just seen this documentary. It covers all his main movies, pretty much skips the smaller ones, it's more about his personal life than I was led to believe. We have more in common than I would have thought: child of divorce, distant father, movie geek. The parallels to his movies and his own childhood are so obvious now that I have some backstory. I did enjoy the Jaws stuff, which was my main reason for seeing this. The Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan stuff reminded me just how powerful those movies are and I seriously need to see both again soon. I might need to revisit War of the Worlds again too, a movie I kinda dismissed at the time, but now I have some more insight. Hi Lebowskidoo. I really enjoyed watching 'Spielberg', ahead of the U K release of Steven Spielberg's latest picture 'The Post' (2017) I think my favourite moment was when Martin Scorsese described watching Spielberg walking around a set and picking out lenses, with all the correct specs, for each and every shot, literally acting as the perfect viewfinder within an editing suite. He's clearly always been a very special, unique talent in film. Thanks for alerting people here to the existence of this documentary. It's far from being the final word, but it does provide a nice overview of a great filmmaker's career that's (hopefully) far from over.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Jan 13, 2018 16:20:45 GMT
So, I've finally just seen this documentary. It covers all his main movies, pretty much skips the smaller ones, it's more about his personal life than I was led to believe. We have more in common than I would have thought: child of divorce, distant father, movie geek. The parallels to his movies and his own childhood are so obvious now that I have some backstory. I did enjoy the Jaws stuff, which was my main reason for seeing this. The Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan stuff reminded me just how powerful those movies are and I seriously need to see both again soon. I might need to revisit War of the Worlds again too, a movie I kinda dismissed at the time, but now I have some more insight. Hi Lebowskidoo. I really enjoyed watching 'Spielberg', ahead of the U K release of Steven Spielberg's latest picture 'The Post' (2017) I think my favourite moment was when Martin Scorsese described watching Spielberg walking around a set and picking out lenses, with all the correct specs, for each and every shot, literally acting as the perfect viewfinder within an editing suite. He's clearly always been a very special, unique talent in film. Thanks for alerting people here to the existence of this documentary. It's far from being the final word, but it does provide a nice overview of a great filmmaker's career that's (hopefully) far from over. The man was pretty much born to do what he does. He envisions so much of it all before it's even filmed, his mind is unique, and all the while imagining how the audience should experience a scene. Looking forward to The Post too.
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Post by jeffersoncody on Jan 13, 2018 19:24:39 GMT
Have any of you seen this HBO documentary on Steven Spielberg yet? I keep missing it but I hope to see it soon. He famously refuses to do any sort of DVD commentary so fans have had to survive on the minuscule information derived from the occasional interview here and there. I need to hear what he has to say about some of his films, he seems pretty hard on himself sometimes. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Post by petrolino on Jan 13, 2018 19:34:17 GMT
i have never understood why spielberg is considered to be a great filmaker. JAWS was a piece of crap. DUEL was good though. but somebody else wrote it. what does spielberg really stand for? has he ever said anything interesting? he represents only the cloying humanitarism of our age. Alex Cox has an agenda. I like him, enjoy some of his movies, but don't share his views on many aspects of film. I certainly don't agree that the last great American films were made in the 1970s, as this piece he wrote for 'The Guardian' indicates : "I tend to avoid American films, for obvious reasons. I was born in the 1950s and grew up during the 1960s and early 70s, when the last great American films, perhaps the last great films of the cinema - Dr Strangelove, Bonnie and Clyde, 2001, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider and The Wild Bunch - were made. During the mid-70s I watched as oil companies and other megacorporations took over the studios and began to dictate content. Living in Los Angeles in the early 80s, I observed the takeover of the last independent studio, 20th Century Fox, by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. I read the paid advertisements in Variety, signed by Steven Spielberg among others, protesting Murdoch's union-busting, monopolistic practices. And I watched as Spielberg and his Hollywood pals fell silent, and went to work for Murdoch after the 20th Century deal went through. I took this all as par for the multinational course, as I did in 2003 when the Film Council chose to give lottery money earmarked for British films to Murdoch instead. I focused on other stuff that seemed more important: strangely, most of this was in print, rather than at the pictures or on TV. Apart from Shrek, I went for several years without seeing a single American feature. But in 2000, aboard one of those long flights from London to Los Angeles, I saw an American film that, in the the light of subsequent events, seems worthy of mention."
- Alex Cox, 'Hollywood Propaganda'
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