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Raider of the Lost Art

28 March 2007

This month in The American Interest: Two new books put Steven Spielberg on an undeserved pedestal.

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Lester D. Friedman, Citizen Spielberg (University of Illinois Press, 2006), 361 pp., $24.95.

Warren Buckland, Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (Continuum, 2006), 242 pp., $19.95

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The Ernest Hemingway Film Collection

Today in Slant Magazine: Banking on an adventurous set of mythologies, Fox delivers a nice set of examples of what not to do in adapting a legendary writer for the screen.

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The Year of "The Departed": Oscar Stats 2007

BA 2006: .625 (15/24)

BA since 2004: .792 (76/96)

A big hit to the Oscar Batting Average as I picked a geniunely great film in Babel over a solidly American one: The Departed. Well done to Martin Scorsese, both for getting his Oscar and for thanking the makers of Infernal Affairs for the creative basis that saved him from continued snubbery. Indie upstart "Little Miss Sunshine" pulls a nice and fitting surpise in Arkin and screenplay. Good work to voters for getting foreign language right on "The Lives of Others." Shame they're still having trouble recognizing the far more interesting worldviews expressed in films from other countries when it comes to the other categories. All told, "The Departed"s proved again that these are America's awards.

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