[School of Movies 2021]
We round off the year of Spielberg by going back to his roots as a filmmaker. And while this is a 2011 movie, directed by J.J. Abrams which Steve produced, I mean far more than it simply evoking Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial.
There's more cinematic alchemy at play here than even we realised, when we took on this project, and we are very happy to share our findings with you all. Suffice to say this is Abrams' most personal movie, and it feels odd that it was largely dismissed and overlooked at release, despite its qualities, while the similarly flavoured (and also fantastic) Stranger Things became a global phenomenon five years later. And I go into the fundamental differences in creator backgrounds there.
This movie is fairly simple, and moves in broad strokes, but there are many subtleties and elements that it's easy to miss. We hope we can encourage you to open your eyes for a second look.
Catch Me if You Can
10 Possible Futures
Deep Impact vs. Armageddon
Minority Report & War of the Worlds
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Schindler's List (Hook & Jurassic Park Revisited)
Jurassic Park
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Empire of the Sun
Mary and Max
Labyrinth
Knives Out
Flight of the Navigator
Stardust
Big Fish
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Gremlins
A Few Good Men
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
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