Alexandra (Alex) Schwartz

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352 appearances 14 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 21 Aug

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · From Critics at Large: Steve Spielberg's Blockbusters · 23 Jun 2026 podcast

human life and extra human life with great earnestness and religion with great earnestness there's a nun has a very prominent role it's the second big movie in recent memory the other one is Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another where a nunnery a convent is treated as a place of refuge and political resistance that was kind of interesting to me that that idea came up for both of these filmmakers and

But all that said, I just didn't feel the human element in the way that I really want to in a movie, and particularly in a Spielberg movie.

And I felt Spielberg trying for it, but...

I just wasn't touched by it.

And the intellectual ideas about what it would be like to make contact with another species, I feel that Spielberg has treated another, more than species, I feel that Spielberg has treated more interestingly before.

Which is itself interesting to me because Spielberg has given interviews lately in which he makes it very clear that he does believe that alien life exists and that he would like to meet it.

This is all coming from a very real place for him.

Um...

Vincent, what did you think?

Set in the wilds of Alaska.

I'm like, we're so bad.

In a harsh landscape that would likely kill any other man or dog.

I think that's so right, Vincent.

I think that one of the paths that Spielberg blazed was being a kind of auteur within the big capitalist commercial framework.

And he's gotten shit from both sides for the fact that he straddles this divide, you know, whether it's being called not an artist or –

What have you.

But when you talk about blockbusters and movies that are getting people in their seats, beyond a question, the movies to be talking about right now are Obsession and Backrooms.

And those are what makes this an interesting story of the blockbuster where Spielberg fits in is that we have 79-year-old Spielberg going up against two guys who are roughly the same age he was when Jaws came out.

So we have someone – he's not done making movies.

I hear he's about to make his first Western.

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