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...Team of Rivals, her 2005 doorstop on Lincoln and his cabinet, also served as the basis for the 2012 Steven Spielberg film, which captured the autodidact Lincoln’s erudition as well as his penchant for dirty...
...’, directed by Steven Spielberg – Raph is a fan of Pablo Larrain’s ‘Jackie,’ from 2016, and the Leonard Bernstein biopic ‘Maestro’, directed by Bradley Cooper and available on Netflix on December 20 –...
...In 2012, the pair made the admired biopic Lincoln. Kushner’s research was exhaustive. “For five seconds, I could have passed for the real thing at an academic conference.”...
...And that was Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, which is an amazing thing to watch. It had a staggering performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, and it asks very profound questions....
...A bigger pity is the presumption, belied by movies such as Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, that provoking an audience to reflect on history’s big questions must necessarily be a drag on entertainment....
...In the five decades since, Lacombe has photographed behind the scenes of films being made by Martin Scorsese, with whom she has a longstanding friendship, Federico Fellini, Steven Spielberg, Sofia Coppola...
...Thanks to an early mentor, she was producing recordings in Nashville at a young age, giving her the skills she needed as vocal producer for Steven Spielberg’s recent film of West Side Story....
...Now all around are wrecking balls, San Juan Hill to be torn down for swish apartments and the Lincoln Center. This glimpse of New York history holds dramatic irony....
...You could type in four-year-olds drawing of the Gettysburg Address, and it’ll show a clumsy crayon drawing of Abraham Lincoln at a podium....
...Steven Spielberg, the Hollywood director, remarked that it would be impossible to create a film set like that....
...Meanwhile in Lincoln Square, a few miles south, another Latinx neighbourhood is soon to be found singing and dancing in West Side Story....
...Lincoln was better, mainly because Daniel Day-Lewis did not stand around as a poster boy for American integrity but acted the role — of Lincoln, of integrity, of the inner conflicts and wrestlings that compose...
...What are the first four words of Walt Whitman’s elegy to Abraham Lincoln that ends, “Fallen cold and dead”?...
...The best line in Steven Spielberg’s otherwise inert biopic of Abraham Lincoln comes from one of the president’s dodgy middlemen....
...Quentin Tarantino is incongruously joined with Steven Spielberg on one point: the superiority of celluloid, whose warmth of image, they say, exposes digital as sterile....
...Mr Obama spoke to a snow-filled scene of up to 2m people — something that Steven Spielberg said would have been impossible to set up for a movie....
...Bridge of Spies is solid, gleaming stuff from Steven Spielberg. The Old Master lighting and grandmaster plot moves are virtues almost identical to those of Lincoln....
...Gazing at the 1.5m people who braved the cold to witness Mr Obama’s inauguration, Steven Spielberg said it would have been impossible to stage for a movie. That was then....
...Even Lincoln (2012), directed by Spielberg with a budget of around $65m, came “this close” to being an HBO movie, the director confided in 2013....
...Second, it has become the uncoolest thing in the world to like Steven Spielberg. But fact is fact. Lincoln is a marvellous American screen drama about politicking and presidency....
...Steven Spielberg, 2012 20th Century Fox Spielberg’s Oscar-laden hymn to the great emancipator is worthy, wordy and as star-spangled as Old Glory....
...In Lincoln director Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Tony Kushner – reluctant to lose the myth while chasing the man – achieve what may be cinema’s most accomplished bid to have it both ways....
...Take four recent events: the release of Steven Spielberg’s film Lincoln; Tuesday’s gay marriage vote in the UK House of Commons; Foxconn’s recognition of independent unions at its Chinese electronics factories...
...Daniel Day-Lewis won his third Oscar for his performance as Abraham Lincoln in Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln....
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