Posts Tagged ‘Steven Spielberg’

‘One more person. A person, Stern.’

There are some films that bypass critical carping and can lay claim to being perhaps the greatest ever made. Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993) is one such work, and it is my privilege to talk to you about it.

The legend began back in 1982, when Australian author Thomas Keneally finally succeeded in publishing his account of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who managed to save some 1,100 Jews from the death camps in The Holocaust, or Shoah, as the Jewish race refers to mankind’s darkest hour.

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‘Butcher’s hands, gentle souls’

Feeling slightly guilty about tearing into Steven Spielberg’s latest, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (not because I’ve changed my mind but because normally I love Spielberg’s work, it being one of the reasons why it’s great to critique film), it seemed an appropriate time to go back to his previous, Munich (2005), a troubling work from a director (just about) at the top of his game.

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So long, Doctor Jones…

You’re all expecting a rave, aren’t you? Shades of ‘your reviewer arrived flushed and breathless, gentle reader, after thrilling once more to the exploits of Indiana Jones in the latest action-packed installment, and couldn’t wait to share his joy with world’. Sorry, but think again, and prepare yourself for a rude awakening. The magic is over, and all we’re left with, in chapter four, is an historical artefact of bygone glories.

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