23.īurt’s technical know-how and Mitzi’s emotional intuitiveness - she’s the one who tells young Sammy that 'movies are dreams' - both contribute to their son’s development.

(DeMille’s film, one of the worst Best Picture winners in history, isn’t that kind of movie.) Instead, he’s transfixed by the spectacular carnage of a circus trainwreck scene.Ī scene from 'The Fablemans,' starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Julia Butters and Judd Hirsch. DeMille’s 'The Greatest Show on Earth.' But what catches Sammy’s eye is not the transporting emotional splendor of cinema. 'The Fabelmans' does open with a sequence where young Sammy Fabelman (Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord) goes to the movies for the first time, and yes, he does goggle up at Cecil B. It’s such a well-known part of his visual vocabulary that the idea of Spielberg making a semi-autobiographical nostalgia piece about the wonder of cinema seems like gilding the lily: Must we endure a young Steven Spielberg equivalent staring up at beams of cinema projection in moist-eyed awe? Trailer for 'The Fablemans,' starring Gabriel LaBelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Julia Butters and Judd Hirsch.īROOKLYN, NY - There’s a signature Steven Spielberg shot so familiar it’s practically a cliché: Characters staring off at something, often (though not always) involving streams or beams of light, in some kind of wonder, horror or otherwise paralyzing emotion. Steven Spielberg's 'The Fablemans,' in theaters everywhere Nov.

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