steven spielberg

Is Steven Spielberg washed up?

His films still make money, but is this the mind that gave us Jaws and E.T.?

Spielberg’s go-to guy for gravitas takes on The BFG

Why Mark Rylance left Shakespeare for Roald Dahl

Close encounter with Richard Dreyfuss: a Cannes video

Because of ‘Duddy Kravitz’ Dreyfuss did ‘Jaws’—but he couldn’t get a berth on Spielberg’s yacht in Cannes

So long, Hollywood

Why Cannes is a world away from Hollywood

Spielberg may be heading the festival’s jury, but the A-list stars, and the action, are very far from L.A.

Richard Dreyfuss owes ‘Jaws’ to Duddy Kravitz

After ‘Duddy,’ he feared he’d never work again, and begged Spielberg for the role

Cool Hand Look: Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward adorn Cannes poster

Cannes is casting a come-hither look at Hollywood this year. First it was announced that Steven Spielberg would head the jury of the Cannes Film Festival (May 15- 26). Then came news that Cannes will open with a Hollywood premiere, The Great Gatsby. Now the official poster has been unveiled, bearing a vintage photograph of actor/director Paul Newman and actress Joanne Woodward—the model Hollywood couple whose marriage lasted five decades, until Newman’s death in 2008. The picture was taken during the shoot of A New Kind of Love (1963). For the poster, it was enhanced with a Vertigo-like pop art swirl.

Can Spielberg bridge the abyss between Hollywood and Cannes?

Brian D. Johnson on what to expect from a Spielberg jury

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Steven Spielberg named as president of Cannes Film Festival jury

Director Steven Spielberg has been named as president of the jury at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Lessons from ‘Lincoln’

Preston Manning on the new Spielberg film, ‘Lincoln’—and what Obama could learn from it

The iconography of Indiana Jones, infograph-style

The hat, the whip, the scar: What does it all mean?

Spielberg’s creatures, great and small

Spielberg’s creatures, great and small

The producer tackles a comic-book hero and his dog in ‘Tintin’, and a heroic equine in ‘War Horse’

Opening Weekend: boyhood wonder in Tree of Life, Super 8 and Submarine

‘The Tree of Life’ is essential viewing, and not just because Brad Pitt does his best work since ‘Thelma and Louise’