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Hollywood, memory and family: how The Fabelmans and Babylon both use music to evoke nostalgia
This year has seen the release of a varied collection of nostalgic films about film making. Damien Chazelle’s Babylon looks at the excesses of 1920s and 30s Hollywood; Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans explores the position of film in the director’s own childhood in the 1960s, and Sam Mendes’ Empire of…
The Conversation
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The Fabelmans fact and fiction: Steven Spielberg’s childhood
In The Fabelmans Spielberg tells the story of his early life
Evening Standard
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The Fabelmans: Steven Spielberg spins his origin story into a warm, witty, wonderfully moving fable of family and filmmaking
The Fabelmans gives a sense of the fraught family dynamics and childhood experiences that shaped the director’s talent for spectacle, terror and delight in movies such as Jaws, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park.
ABC News
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‘The Fabelmans’: Steven Spielberg, master of the spectacular, gets personal with a magical opus depicting a childhood like his
The director’s alter ego grows up with despairing parents, inspirational mentors and a yearning to make movies.
Chicago Sun-Times
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Q&A: Tony Kushner on playing therapist to Steven Spielberg
“The Fabelmans” is Steven Spielberg’s most autobiographical movie, but the introspection it required wasn’t done in isolation
The Independent UK
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Movie review: Steven Spielberg turns lens on his childhood in 'The Fabelmans'
“I need to see them crash.” These are the first fated words of a future filmmaker, Sammy Fabelman (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord), whispered to his mother, Mitzi (Michelle Williams) after he’s crashed his toy train after bedtime, inspired by his very first big-screen cinematic experience, “The Greatest Show on Earth.” Mitzi…
Tribune News Service
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The Fabelmans movie review: Spielberg’s cinematic superpower gets its origin story at Toronto
The semi-autobiographical self-portrait premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rapturous applause
Evening Standard
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