Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

More than any of the Steven Spielberg's other films, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial depends on a childlike sense of wonder. The first of the director's works to predominantly feature a child in a major role, E.T.could be seen as a prequel to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, albeit in a far-out sense. In essence, the film is Close Encounters as told from the perspective of a child, and E.T. may be the only companion piece to present itself as a quasi-prequel by way of the infancy of the camera itself.

Spielberg uses scores of low-angle shots to capture the mise-en-scène, imbuing the early scenes, of the massive mother ship and a group of agents (always framed in such a way to mask their faces), with the heightened of the unknown, the unfathomable. Both the child protagonist and the highly evolved alien are small, and though only one comes from another planet, Earth holds crushing mysteries and exaggerated evils that neither can fully comprehend. I can think of no other Spielberg movie that makes such extraordinary use of light, light that constantly seeps into rooms, light that makes interiors seem stifling and cramped, dreaded light that threatens to expose the benign alien to the forces that which to torture and experiment upon him.

But this perspective also captures the flip-side of the unknown and incomprehensible, that of eye-popping wonder. The stranded alien has just the right amount of intelligence (or, more importantly, the ability to express that intelligence), neither a simpering idiot nor so advanced that you sit there waiting for him to telepathically crush his tormentors into flesh cubes. E.T. has telepathic powers and can learn language rapidly, but he's also been dumped in unfamiliar territory, and the customs and trinkets of this world delight and scare him as they do a child. With only a human kid to guide him, E.T. never travels to the world's monuments, never mulls over the Grand Canyon or the Parthenon or considers the creative glory Renaissance or the wanton waste of the Crusades. He doesn't need to; beer, TV and Reese's Pieces contain enough mystery.

http://armchairc.blogspot.com/2010/05/steven-spielberg-et-extra-terrestrial.html

Steven Spielberg is probably the most famous movie director in Hollywood. He is known for starting his movies with action sequences. This was groundbreaking for movies because before Spielberg most movies started with a slow build to a single climax. Because of Spielberg it is common for modern movies to include several exciting action sequences before reaching the end of the movie.

Chances are you've probably seen at least one of his movies without even knowing it. See if you recognize any of these titles:

Theatrical releases

Year	Film	Director	Producer	Writer	Other	Notes
1968	Amblin'	Yes		Yes
1971	Duel	Yes
1972	Something Evil	Yes
1974	The Sugarland Express	Yes		Yes
1975	Jaws	Yes
1977	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	Yes		Yes
1978	I Wanna Hold Your Hand				Yes	executive producer
1979	1941	Yes
1980	The Blues Brothers				Yes	Cook County Assessor's Office Clerk
	Used Cars				Yes	executive producer
1981	Continental Divide				Yes	executive producer
	Raiders of the Lost Ark	Yes
1982	E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial	Yes	Yes
	Poltergeist		Yes	Yes
1983	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Yes	Yes			segment "Kick the Can"
1984	Gremlins				Yes	Man in Electric Wheelchair, also executive producer
	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	Yes
	Room 666				Yes	Himself
1985	Fandango				Yes	executive producer
	Back to the Future				Yes	executive producer
	The Color Purple	Yes	Yes
	The Goonies			Yes	Yes	also executive producer
	Young Sherlock Holmes				Yes	executive producer
1986	An American Tail				Yes	executive producer
	The Money Pit				Yes	executive producer
1987	*batteries not included				Yes	executive producer
	Empire of the Sun	Yes	Yes
	Harry and the Hendersons				Yes	executive producer, uncredited
	Innerspace				Yes	executive producer
	Three O'Clock High				Yes	executive producer
1988	The Land Before Time				Yes	executive producer
	Who Framed Roger Rabbit				Yes	executive producer
1989	Always	Yes	Yes
	Back to the Future Part II				Yes	executive producer
	Dad				Yes	executive producer
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade	Yes
1990	Arachnophobia				Yes	executive producer
	Dreams				Yes	executive producer
	Back to the Future Part III				Yes	executive producer
	Gremlins 2: The New Batch				Yes	executive producer
	Joe Versus the Volcano				Yes	executive producer
	Roller Coaster Rabbit				Yes	executive producer
1991	A Wish for Wings That Work				Yes	executive producer
	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West		Yes
	Cape Fear				Yes	executive producer
	Hook	Yes
	Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation				Yes	executive producer
	A Brief History of Time				Yes	executive producer
1993	Jurassic Park	Yes	Yes
	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story				Yes	executive producer
	Schindler's List	Yes	Yes
1994	The Flintstones				Yes	executive producer
1995	Casper				Yes	executive producer
	Balto				Yes	executive producer
1996	Twister				Yes	executive producer
1997	The Lost World: Jurassic Park	Yes			Yes	Brief cameo in television reflection at the end of the film
	Men in Black				Yes	executive producer
	Amistad	Yes	Yes
1998	Saving Private Ryan	Yes	Yes
	The Last Days				Yes	executive producer
	The Mask of Zorro				Yes	executive producer
	Deep Impact				Yes	executive producer
1999	Wakko's Wish				Yes	executive producer
	Medal of Honor				Yes	Video game, original concept
2000	Shooting War				Yes	executive producer
2001	A.I. Artificial Intelligence	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Jurassic Park III				Yes	executive producer
	Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures				Yes	Himself
	Vanilla Sky				Yes	Guest at David Aames' Party
2002	Minority Report	Yes
	Men in Black II				Yes	executive producer
	Austin Powers in Goldmember				Yes	Himself
	Catch Me If You Can	Yes	Yes
2003	Double Dare				Yes	Himself
2004	The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing				Yes	Himself
	The Terminal	Yes	Yes
2005	Directed by John Ford				Yes	Himself
	War of the Worlds	Yes
	The Legend of Zorro				Yes	executive producer
	Memoirs of a Geisha		Yes
	Munich	Yes	Yes
2006	Flags of Our Fathers		Yes
	Letters from Iwo Jima		Yes
	Monster House				Yes	executive producer
	The Shark Is Still Working				Yes	Himself
2007	Transformers				Yes	executive producer
2008	Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull	Yes
	Eagle Eye				Yes	executive producer
2009	Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen				Yes	executive producer
	The Lovely Bones				Yes	executive producer
2010	Hollywood Don't Surf!				Yes	Himself
	Hereafter				Yes	executive producer
	True Grit				Yes	executive producer
2011	Paul				Yes	Himself
	Super 8		Yes
	Transformers: Dark of the Moon				Yes	executive producer
	Cowboys & Aliens				Yes	executive producer
	Real Steel				Yes	executive producer
	The Adventures of Tintin	Yes	Yes
	War Horse	Yes	Yes
2012	Men in Black 3				Yes	executive producer
	Lincoln	Yes	Yes
2013	The Delivery Man		Yes
2014	Jurassic Park IV				Yes	executive producer
	Transformers 4				Yes	executive producer
2015	The Adventures of Tintin sequel		Yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg_filmography