Steven Spielberg's career wrestles with the power and meaning of image-making, and his sci-fi "Disclosure Day" makes this its very subject.
Steven Spielberg’s ‘Disclosure Day’ Turns Autofiction Into Thrilling Sci-Fi
The Hollywood maestro’s latest is filled with excitement and sentimentality.
An auteurist’s delight: ‘Disclosure Day’
A film assembled from recognizable spare parts, Disclosure Day has more craft than most big budget American films. The 79-year-old Steven Spielberg’s virtuosity is neither humble nor conceale…
The Speculative Empathy & Radical Hope of Disclosure Day
For most of Spielberg’s career, science fiction has been the mechanism through which he learns and teaches empathy. But in Disclosure Day, empathy itself is the speculative leap
Stephen Spielberg’s Reckless, Audacious “Disclosure Day”
“Disclosure Day,” a tale of aliens on Earth and the coverup of their presence, starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor, is a catalogue of Steven Spielberg’s obsessions, and a deeply personal vision.
Steven Spielberg Is Still Searching for Truth
With ‘Disclosure Day,’ the master director continues to understand the power of revelation, even if he doesn’t have much to disclose this time around
Spielberg’s ‘A.I.’ Divided Critics, but It’s the Ultimate Coming-of-Age Story 20 Years Later
Movies don't change, we do. And where you are in life may affect how you receive the heartbreaking vision of this film.
What Steven Spielberg Taught Me About Fear, Catharsis, and Being Human
Hollywood is struggling, but Spielberg insists that the big screen is still the best place to work out our collective dreams, joys and sorrows.
Disclosure Day
Across the films of Steven Spielberg, aliens have frequently been a vehicle to explore religiosity from a secular perspective. Institutions and dogma are elided in favor of dramatizing the ecstatic feeling of believing in something far beyond one�s station, and having that faith rewarded.
No Substitute for the Soul: 25 years of Steven Spielberg’s emotional sci-fi A.I. Artificial Intelligence • Journal
To mark 25 years of Steven Spielberg’s soulful sci-fi A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Robert Daniels looks back on the imaginative outlier in Hollywood, and what it can teach us about Earth today.
Refugees and Searchers Go to the Movies – First of the Month
Spielberg lets the screen go black for about five seconds. The communal experience of film-going then becomes a shared nightmare. With the screen unlit, the emergency lights in the theater are the only source of illumination. If you jump (as I did), you fear for a moment that the movie has stopped—the reel fallen off its plate, the fantasy interrupted by unfunny, drop-dead reality. “Are we still alive?” whispered by Farrier’s daughter Rachel (Dakota Fanning) is an inquiry that invokes our own doubts about our safety, our capacity to dream, our possible awakening to dire reality. It recalls how many people felt after 9/11. Are we dreaming? Are we still alive? Bringing everyday experience and existential contemplation together so forcefully, Spielberg joins the ranks of the most audacious avant-garde filmmakers: He turns the popcorn movie experience into a consideration of the abyss.
The Raider of a Lost Art
Over 30 actors, filmmakers, and close friends recount how Steven Spielberg infiltrated Hollywood and helped the Movie Brats take over.
Appreciating Alan Wake’s Adverb Apocalypse
Alan Wake wears the veil of pulp horror with all the silliness it entails, hiding a valuable message about art under its surface.
Weegee's Secrets Of Shooting With Photoflash
Weegee served an apprenticeship in the darkroom of Acme Newspictures, then went on to free lance with the street of New York as his studio.... In time the name Weegee became legendary, descriptive of a different kind of photograph...one that captured the exciting drama of life. Pathos, humour, tragedy --all these were senitively etched on film by one who love and understood people. After watching him work on several assignments, I suggested he write the story of how he takes his pictures and that's how this booklet was born. We both hope "Weegee's Secrets" will provide the formula for better pictures. (Mel Harris)
Gazing through a lens, I invent as much as I reveal | Psyche Turning Points
For years I watched people through cameras and screens, filling in the blanks and calling it truth
As UFOs go mainstream, the jury is out on what the existence of alien life might mean for religion
Steven Spielberg's new film “Disclosure Day” explores extraterrestrial life and its impact on religion. UFOs, now also called UAPs, are gaining mainstream attention.