Summer Movies: Indiana Jones and the Savior of a Lost Art

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Santogold: Not the Ideal Dog Sitter
Published 5/5/2008 at Vulture
... "John Williams and I have a word we use when we have something we think the audience will love. Maybe it'll be a little over the top, and we ask each other, 'Are we being too shameless?' In a way I think we've both grown kind of proud of being shameless." —Steven Spielberg [NYT] ...

No Cuts in the Circus
Published 5/6/2008 at Hollywood Elsewhere
No Cuts in the Circus Indy 4 director Steven Spielberg recently told N.Y. Times contributor Terrence Rafferty that "he tries to cut as little as possible" in the Indy action sequences because "every time the camera changes dynamic angles, you feel there's something wrong, that there's some cheating going on ." Precisely. Too many movies feel like visual cheats from the get-go. So Spielberg's goal is "to do the shots the way Chaplin or Keaton would, everything happening before the eyes of the audience, without a cut." Sounding a little bit like Werner Herzog , ...

Lucas wanted Indy 4 to be more "wacky"
Published 5/9/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Peter T Chattaway) at FilmChat
... In related news, the New York Times has an interview with Spielberg that includes this interesting quote on the movie's style: ...