Vinson Cunningham

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230 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 23 Jun

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

Doing like Sinners, but then also having Fruitvale Station is like it's like having Jurassic Park and Schindler's List, you know.

Right.

He's this very versatile, but also very commercially minded filmmaker who is nonetheless trying to really speak in language we can comprehend on the level of society or whatever.

Are there other people doing the thing, this thing?

Nope is very, very much in the vein of this film.

To me, it seems like if there's a legacy there, it's almost like what we call poptimism and music criticism, that, like, the assurance that you can make art in the context of...

not only genre, but sort of... The market.

The market.

The other person that I was thinking about in this vein was Greta Gerwig, who, you know, Barbie next is Narnia, but also has, you know, very indie-seeming films at the onset of her career, and seems unashamed to say, yeah, I can do all of that and put forward a vision, whether it's literally, how could you get more commercial than Barbie, or something else.

So that's

What do you think, Vincent?

I think that's probably right.

Again, I do think it's trying to—

It's almost like Spielberg is trying to bring sort of a space of like, I don't know, almost discourse about belief.

This is, to me, the whole thing about the nunnery and the—

The conversations... Get Z to a nunnery.

I insist on going to the nunnery.

Laura asking these questions, but like, but by what right would you bring it to light?

And all these, you know, I do think he's trying to do something else, which I think is interesting to do in the space of the blockbuster.

It's almost like Spielberg created the blockbuster, but then also created a space within the blockbuster to not parody the blockbuster, but comment on it.

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