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David Lynch Almost Didn’t Play John Ford In The Fabelmans, But Turns Out Cheetos Helped Convince Him To Take The Role

David Lynch was initially hesitant to play John Ford in The Fabelmans, but Cheetos played a key role in him agreeing to appear.

Cinemablend

The Fabelmans to Minority Report: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Steven Spielberg brings us his most personal movie yet, and Tom Cruise is terrific as the man forced to go on the run … for a murder he didn’t yet commit

The Guardian - UK

‘A pitch-perfect shot in the arm’: Guardian readers’ best films of 2023 so far

From The Fabelmans’ love letter to cinema to Rye Lane’s unbeatable romcom and John Wick 4’s five-star stimulation, readers champion their picks

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10 Great Movies And Documentaries Highlighting Jewish-American History To Watch

Celebrate Jewish-American Heritage month with these outstanding movies and documentaries that touch on world history, the arts, and brilliant coming-of-age experiences.

Cinemablend

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

Best picture spotlight: Which film will win big at 2023’s Oscars?

Ten nominees are vying for one of filmmaking’s top honours — but what are their strengths and weaknesses? Find out.

Al Jazeera

Family in focus

The Oscars is coming up soon. And while it should be an exciting time for any film lover, I can't help but feel a bit let down by this year's nominations, especially for the Best Picture category. I didn't particularly like the flashy biopic Elvis and I personally thought Everything…

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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

The Fabelmans review – Spielberg’s lavish love letter to cinema

Michelle Williams and Paul Dano are spot on as the budding film-maker’s parents, yet the director’s childhood memoir plays to the awards gallery rather than to his fans

The Guardian - UK

The Fabelmans review – Spielberg’s beguiling ode to a life made by movies will leave you on a high

The director’s 1950s-set semi-memoir brilliantly examines how we edit our own life stories, and the repercussions

The Guardian - UK

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

The Fabelmans: Glimpse into the life of a young Steven Spielberg

This sweet story of artistic discovery culminates in Sammy’s arrival in Hollywood, the city of dreams where Spielberg wrote movie history.

The New Daily

23 for 2023: Observer writers’ culture highlights for the year ahead

From Rachmaninov to pop reunions, Beyoncé’s tour to Greta Gerwig’s Barbie, Spielberg to Sam Smith, our critics guide you through the next 12 months

The Guardian - UK

The best films of 2023 to look forward to

New movies from Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Sam Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Florian Zeller, among others, mean there’s a feast of cinema to look forward to in the coming months

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Chicago Sun-Times

Richard Roeper’s best movies of 2022

Some of the most enjoyable viewing time this year was spent with a horse rancher, a fledgling director, a symphony conductor and The Grabber.

The Guardian - UK

‘There are truths that have to be told and they may upset people’: Tony Kushner on Spielberg, Ye and ‘the orange-covered mud devil’

The Angels in America writer talks about antisemitism, homophobia and working on The Fabelmans, Steven Spielberg’s loosely autobiographical film about a teenager obsessed with cinema

Chicago Sun-Times

‘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.

Los Angeles Times

Play Spielberg in a film directed by Spielberg? No pressure

When Gabriel LaBelle landed the role of Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg's autobiographical new film "The Fabelmans," playing a version of the filmmaker in his teenage years, he figured he'd probably show up in the movie's second act and then disappear after a handful of scenes.

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Reason

Review: The Fabelmans

Past imperfect.

Los Angeles Times

Review: Steven Spielberg comes close to a personal best in his luminous 'The Fabelmans'

More than once during his fabled career, Steven Spielberg has been dismissed as a technician masquerading as an artist; as the most popular of American filmmakers, the logic goes, he must also be the most impersonal. It's a judgment that doesn't quite explain the intensely personal connection a lot of…

The Independent UK

Steven Spielberg's 'Fabelmans' wins Toronto audience award

Steven Spielberg’s autobiographical coming-of-age drama “The Fabelmans” won the Toronto International Film Festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award, solidifying its early status as Academy Awards frontrunner

The Guardian - UK

Toronto film festival 2022 roundup – Spielberg, Mendes and a deep, joyous love of cinema

Steven Spielberg and Sam Mendes offered paeans to the silver screen, Viola Davis dazzled as a gung-ho warrior and Daniel Craig brought the house down

The Independent UK

A big break comes with a big task: Playing Steven Spielberg

What’s more intimidating than being a young actor cast in a Steven Spielberg movie

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. "The Fabelmans," which Spielberg wrote with Tony Kushner, draws extensively from the director's own childhood —…

AFP

Spielberg confronts his childhood as 'Fabelmans' premieres in Toronto

Toronto (Canada) (AFP) - Steven Spielberg finally turned the camera on his own childhood -- from his parents' troubled marriage to anti-Semitic bullying -- as his new movie "The Fabelmans" received its world premiere on a star-studded Saturday at the Toronto film festival.

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