Notes from the sketch book
ET: An Unforgettable Journey, Celebrating the Enduring Magic of Spielberg's ET
Welcome to the last episode of Notes from a sketchbook for the Steven Spielberg Collection. Today we will be looking at his classic 80s film ET the extra terrestrial. After the success of Raiders of the lost Ark, The movie starts with a spaceship landing on Earth and some aliens getting out of it. They are on a mission to collect plants and other specimens from our planet. However, when they are about to leave, they realize that one of their crew members, a little alien, is missing but with Government agents arriving they have no choice but to leave....
Raiders of the Lost Ark: An Epic Adventure Like No Other
This and Spielberg's next project about a small squashy alien would be important films in my childhood diet of movies. I grew up on them and rewatched them over and over again. Indiana Jones inspired my dreams of travel, something that I have been very fortunate to do. Going through the jungles of Cambodia or visiting the Inca temples in Mexico I might have hummed the theme tune once or twice. Every year I still watch Raiders around the lazy days between the Christmas and new year holidays. Raiders of the Lost Ark was an important film for Steven Spielberg...
A Fable, Spielberg's Most Personal Film
A Fable, Spielberg's Most Personal Film I watched Steven Spielberg's latest film, "The Fabelmans", and I have to say, it was a powerful and thought-provoking experience. It's essentially a part fiction, part true tale of Spielberg's family. The film tells the story of a young boy named Sammy Fabelman, who is deeply affected by the train crash scene in Cecil B DeMille's "The Greatest Show on Earth" and becomes obsessed with recreating it at home using a toy train set and an 8mm camera. Spielberg may be referencing Orson Welles's famous quote that a movie studio is like the "biggest...
Close Encounter Of The Third Kind: Reliving Steven Spielberg's First Ten Years (1971-1982)
Well we are at the halfway point in the Spielberg collection and next week Spielberg's latest movie 'The Fabelman's' is released here in the UK. So we will be taking a week hiatus on the artwork before picking up again with the final two pieces and reviews of the collection. In his childhood, Spielberg's father took him to see a meteor shower which would leave a lasting impression. "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is a science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg based on a short film he shot called Firelight when he was only 17. Released in...
Jaws, the blockbuster blueprint: Reliving Steven Spielberg's First Ten Years (1971-1982)
Jaws, the blockbuster blueprint: Reliving Steven Spielberg's First Ten Years (1971-1982) This is the movie that gave Steven Spielberg the ability to have a free hit for his next few movies, including his next ambitious project that would take us into out of space. But first a close encounter of the ocean kind... The movie is quite simple, it's about a shark that becomes an ultimate killing machine and to quote Hooper (played by Richard Dreyfuss) “All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks, and that's all” The stories about the trials and tribulations of making...