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‘It’s a way to bring my mum and dad back’: Steven Spielberg on the new wave of cine-memoirs

After Branagh’s Belfast, Spielberg’s The Fabelmans – a tale of a childhood in Arizona – is winning acclaim. Is it legacy or therapy that’s motivating these autobiographies?

The Guardian - UK

Life through a lens: Spielberg’s latest leads triple-whammy of movies about movies

It’s the subgenre beloved by insiders but often shunned by audiences. Can new films from Sam Mandes, Damien Chazelle and Steven Spielberg satisfy cinemagoers and awards voters?

The Guardian - UK

From Spielberg to Inarritu: Evaluating the season's many styles of personal filmmaking

TORONTO — There's a terrifically self-reflexive gag in Steven Spielberg's new picture, "The Fabelmans," that is hard to imagine anyone but Steven Spielberg pulling off. This might not be saying much, since the entire movie, a rollicking and ruminative look at the director's childhood and teenage years, could hardly have…

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What you need to know about Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans': 'This was my way of bringing my mom and dad back'

"The Fabelmans" is being billed as Steven Spielberg's most personal film, tracing (through a fictional version of his family) his cinema-sotted youth in Arizona and Northern California. But just how "personal" is it, really? How true is it to Spielberg's formative experiences, including encounters with antisemitism and his parents' profound…

Los Angeles Times

The Fabelmans review – Steven Spielberg’s sweet but sanitised personal drama

Toronto film festival: the director goes back to his childhood for an endearing, if overlong, film with an Oscar-tipped Michelle Williams as his mother

The Guardian - US

Steven Spielberg Debuts His Movie Memoir ‘The Fabelmans’

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated "The Fabelmans" to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he's been building toward his whole life. "The Fabelmans," which Spielberg wrote with Tony Kushner, draws extensively from the director's own childhood —…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Steven Spielberg debuts his movie memoir 'The Fabelmans'

Steven Spielberg premiered his much-anticipated “The Fabelmans” to thunderous applause at the Toronto International Film Festival, debuting his most autobiographical film and one the 75-year-old filmmaker said he’s been building toward his whole life

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Steven Spielberg, Viola Davis and Daniel Craig head to Toronto film festival

Star-packed lineup, including Jennifer Lawrence, Jessica Chastain and Harry Styles, greets full return of event after Covid disruption

The Guardian - US

Cha Cha Real Smooth to House of Gucci: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

A witty romantic comedy that will win you over, plus Lady Gaga powers Ridley Scott’s camp melodrama about the Italian fashion family

The Guardian - UK

Don't read into "The Batman" Joker scene

Matt Reeves raves about that scene, which he explains was essential for the finale to resonate

Salon

TV tonight: the Manchester Arena attack victim who grew up 10 miles from bomber Salman Abedi

Worlds Collide looks at the aftermath of the Ariana Grande concert bombing. Plus: Joe Lycett gets cooking with Aisling Bea in Split. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

Dune to All the Old Knives: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Denis Villeneuve turns Frank Herbert’s novel into a sumptuous space opera with Timothée Chalamet as the archetypal hero, while Thandiwe Newton and Chris Pine get tangled up in Janus Metz’s stylish spy thriller

The Guardian - UK

Rating Paul Dano as The Batman’s Riddler

There's a depth to Paul Dano's Riddler that may outshine Jim Carrey and Cory Michael Smith's iterations

Salon

Who plays the Riddler in 'The Batman'? How Paul Dano surpasses Joaquin Phoenix's Joker

Paul Dano’s Riddler isn’t just an agent of chaos. Here's why the villain in 'The Batman' actually has more in common with Joaquin Phoenix's 'Joker' than he does Heath Ledger's Clown Prince of Crime in 'The Dark Knight.'

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The Independent UK

Paul Dano says he listened to Nirvana to get into character as The Riddler

Nirvana’s ‘Something in the Way’ was particularly important for Dano

Evening Standard

Batman’s Paul Dano: ‘I thought I’d only be playing dorky guys with glasses’

Paul Dano is about to graduate from ‘that guy from that thing’ status to bona fide scene stealer in The Batman. Susannah Butter meets him

The Independent UK

The Batman: Phone conversation between Paul Dano’s Riddler and Batman took 200 takes to film

Many of the takes were done ‘at the behest’ of Dano

Evening Standard

The Batman’s Paul Dano says he was horrified by research for villain role

The Batman star said he was horrified by his research into the world of toxic masculinity for the part

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The Independent UK

The Batman: Paul Dano had difficulty sleeping after playing the ‘terrifying’ Riddler

‘It was hard to come down from this character,’ said the actor

Evening Standard

Love & Mercy review: Bad vibes for the Beach Boys

The life of tortured genius Brian Wilson is played by two actors with varying success in this tribute to one of pop’s great talents

The Independent UK

The Batman poster has secret message that requires a blacklight to read

Film stars Paul Dano as The Riddler and Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne

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