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Come June, Steven Spielberg will return to science fiction with Disclosure Day. Before that, New York’s Jacob Burns Film Center wants to celebrate the filmmaker with a screening series celebrating his genre work focused on video games, technology, and of course, aliens.
Starting Saturday, May 9, the Center will have weekend showings of a different Spielberg sci-fi film. Things begin with A.I. Artificial Intelligence (May 9 and 10), then Minority Report (May 16 and 17), E.T. (May 23-25), War of the Worlds (May 30 and 31), and Ready Player One (June 6 and 7). For the format fans, screenings for War, A.I., and Minority will be presented in 35mm.
After skipping Disclosure Day’s opening week (June 12-14), the series wraps on June 20 and 21 with Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Each screening will have a discussion led by prominent film scholars who’ll take the audience through an individual movie’s themes and cultural impact. As the Center put it, Spielberg uses the sci-fi genre to “couple his fundamental strengths as a filmmaker with the peerless sense of imagination that makes him such a truly singular storyteller.”
For anyone in the area, the screenings are as good a reason as any to go through that part of Spielberg’s filmography and see how those reflect on Disclosure, while non-New Yorkers can have a marathon of their own with these movies at home.
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