Tag: Duel
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Five Nights At Freddy’s Director Drew Inspiration From A DC Supervillain – And Steven Spielberg
Once upon a time, it’s not inconceivable Steven Spielberg might have directed “Five Nights at Freddy’s” or a film just like it. Recall that the young Spielberg loved terrorizing audiences. His first feature-length directorial effort, the made-for-tv 1971 thriller “Duel,” was such an exhilarating blast that it eventually got a theatrical release. Then came his…
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Raiders Of The Lost Ark Had Steven Spielberg Doing Things He Swore He Wouldn’t Do Again
In 1981, Steven Spielberg admitted that filmmaking was a learning experience … in what you hate. Spielberg’s first feature was “Duel,” a horror movie based on a short story by Richard Matheson, and it was made on a budget of only $450,000, cheap even for 1971. He followed that with “The Sugarland Express” in 1973,…
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Cool Stuff: Spielberg: The First Ten Years Book Digs Into The Director’s Earliest Blockbusters
We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.No one can deny that Steven Spielberg is one of the most renowned and influential director’s in cinema history. From game-changing blockbusters like “Jaws” and “Jurassic Park” to devastating prestige Oscar-winning films like “Schindler’s List” and “Munich,” Spielberg is a master storyteller who has been turning…
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‘I’m Not Finished’: Steven Spielberg Delivers Barnstorming Berlin Lifetime Achievement Speech, Pays Homage to Jewish Heritage
Steven Spielberg, director of countless blockbusters, delivered a blockbuster speech accepting the Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival.The filmmaker said that despite directing for six decades, directing “Duel” and “Jaws” felt like “last year.” “I know a lot more about moviemaking than I did when I directed my first feature film…
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10 Movie Characters That Defined Steven Spielberg’s Filmography
Since the release of his first feature-length film, Duel, in 1971, Steven Spielberg has directed dozens of commercially-successful blockbuster hits; movies that have stood the test of time and have been burned into the DNA of modern Hollywood cinema. Spielberg has crafted cinematic tales for four decades, ranging from stories about killer sharks and dinosaurs…
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Duel at 50: Steven Spielberg’s debut remains a ferocious thriller
A monstrous truck pursues a motorist in the film-maker’s seat-edge 1971 feature-length debut that hinted at greatness to comeIt takes less than a minute of watching Duel, Steven Spielberg’s feature-length debut, to realize you’re in the hands of a master director. And it takes even less time than that to suspect as much, because the…
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‘Television Event’ Review: Thirty-Seven Years After ‘The Day After,’ a Documentary Looks Back at the ‘Citizen Nuke’ of TV-Movies
In the age of streaming, the phrase “TV-movie” has been rendered all but meaningless. It now encompasses everything from a Disney Channel musical like “Zombies 2” to “My Dinner with Hervé” to “Mank.” But 30 or 40 years ago, the phrase “TV-movie” meant something specific — a two-hour drama made for one of the big…
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‘Unhinged’ Trailer: Whatever You Do, Don’t Honk at Russell Crowe
What happens if you honk at a guy in traffic who’s having the worst day of his life? That’s the question answered in Unhinged, a new Russell Crowe thriller which, in the grand tradition of films like Duel, Joy Ride, and Falling Down, presents a worst case scenario for the protagonist and will maybe make…
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Edgar Wright Calls ‘Duel’ A “Masterclass For Young Filmmakers” In Interview With Spielberg
Since the release of “Ready Player One” is upon us, nostalgia seems to be the topic of choice when discussing director Steven Spielberg. And with a filmography as diverse and incredible as Spielberg, there’s a lot of films that people hold dear to them. For director Edgar Wright, when talking about what Spielberg is a…