Where it all began - the poster for Spielberg’s 1968 short Amblin’, the film that acted as a calling card for the budding director.
Adam Zanzie is a great up-and-coming critic and Spielberg fan who has written some brilliant in-depth pieces about the director’s films. The articles can be seen below and are well worth reading…
Taken from an interview at Cannes in 2008, this is a really nice little bit of footage covering Amblin’. One of the things I’m noticing as I build this blog is Spielberg’s constant desire to compliment the interviewer. In the Inside The Actor’s Studio episode from 1999, he says that he hadn’t noticed a significant point about Close Encounters of the Third Kind until James Lipton pointed it out, and here he is again, praising the interviewer for his Indiana Jones remark.
