Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's 1981 resurrection of the Saturday-matinee adventure genre was deservedly popular, and kicked off a successful trilogy. Set in 1936, this first feature introduces Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, an archaeologist and adventurer whose quests for rare antiquities frequently find him running from one menace or another. Raiders finds Dr. Jones in the middle of ...
Manufacturer: ParamountStarring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-DaviesDirected By: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, D.W. Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film controversial, but also a popular hit. You can argue with the appropriateness of Spielberg's decision, but his astonishing facility with images is ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Oprah Winfrey, Margaret Avery, Willard E. PughDirected By: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg's 1982 hit about a stranded alien and his loving relationship with a fatherless boy (Henry Thomas) struck a chord with audiences everywhere, and it furthered Spielberg's reputation as a director of equally strong commercial sensibilities and classical leanings. Henry Thomas gives a strong, emotional performance as E.T.'s young friend, Robert MacNaughton and Drew Barrymore make a ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, Erika Eleniak, Dee WallaceDirected By: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg had a banner year in 1993. He scored one of his biggest commercial hits that summer with the mega-hit Jurassic Park, but it was the artistic and critical triumph of Schindler's List that Spielberg called "the most satisfying experience of my career." Adapted from the best-selling book by Thomas Keneally and filmed in Poland with an emphasis on absolute authenticity, ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Ben Kingsley, Caroline Goodall, Jonathan SagallDirected By: Steven Spielberg
It’s hard to imagine that a film with worldwide box office receipts topping $300 million worldwide could be labeled a disappointment, but some moviegoers considered Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second installment in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas’ 1980s adventure trilogy, to be just that. That doesn’t mean it’s a bad effort; any collaboration between these two cinema ...
Manufacturer: ParamountStarring: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Kate CapshawDirected By: Steven Spielberg
When Steven Spielberg was an adolescent, his first home movie was a backyard war film. When he toured Europe with Duel in his 20s, he saw old men crumble in front of headstones at Omaha Beach. That image became the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan, his film of a mission following the D-day invasion that many have called the most realistic--and maybe the best--war film ever. ...
Manufacturer: Dreamworks VideoStarring: Tom Hanks, Matt Damon, Tom Sizemore, Edward Burns, Barry PepperDirected By: Steven Spielberg
The Collector's Edition (CE) represents Steven Spielberg's third version of Close Encounters. Created in 1998, this sequence contains most of the judicial edits made for the Special Edition (SE) in 1980, speeding up Roy Neary's first contact with the UFOs and adding a scene of a discovery in the Mongolian desert. The Collector's Edition also reinstates the comical madness of Neary tearing ...
Manufacturer: Sony PicturesStarring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob BalabanDirected By: Steven Spielberg
The third episode in Steven Spielberg's rousing Indiana Jones saga, this film recaptures the best elements of Raiders of the Lost Ark while exploring new territory with wonderfully satisfying results. Indy is back battling the Nazis, who have launched an expedition to uncover the whereabouts of the Holy Grail. And it's not just Indy this time--his father (played with great acerbic wit by ...
Manufacturer: ParamountStarring: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott, John Rhys-DaviesDirected By: Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Richard Attenborough, Bob PeckDirected By: Steven Spielberg
Oh, just one more thing, mystery mavens--get ready to be mystified and entertained by the award-winning third season of Columbo, starring Peter Falk as the rumpled but unbeatable Lieutenant. Having taken home Emmys for outstanding limited drama and lead actor in its '71-'72 debut season, Columbo was again named best drama for its third season ('73-'74). The reason for the repeat ...
Manufacturer: Universal StudiosStarring: Peter Falk, Jack Cassidy, Rosemary Forsyth, Martin Milner, Barbara ColbyDirected By: Steven Spielberg
