Capital Celluloid 2023 — Day 28: Sat Jan 28

Saving Private Ryan (Spielberg, 1994): Everyman Screen on the Green, 10.30pm


Those wonderful programmers at Everyman Screen on the Green are putting on a 35mm Steven Spielberg season (full details here) with the arrival of The Fabelmans due later in January. This film is also being screened on February 1st. Details here.

Guardian review:
With this movie
Steven Spielberg created one of his greatest films, an old-fashioned war picture to rule them all – gripping, utterly uncynical, with viscerally convincing and audacious battle sequences. It was a staggeringly effective action film with a potent orchestral score by John Williams, candidly inspired by Elgar’s Nimrod. And it was based on a redemptive, quietist premise: the point of the mission is not to engage the enemy but to rescue an American soldier and spirit him away out of danger. Yet when the time of great trial comes, of course, no one is ducking the fight.
Peter Bradshaw

Here (and above) is the trailer.

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