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 Time Article: Spielberg Takes on TerrorThe first and most important thing to say about Munich, Steven Spielberg's new film, is that it is a very good movie-good in a particularly Spielbergian way. By which one means that it has all the virtues we've come to expect when he is working at his highest levels. It's narratively clean, clear and perfectly punctuated by suspenseful and expertly staged action sequences. It's full of sympathetic.
 Full ArticleTime Interview: Spielberg's "Prayer for Peace"
Just after finishing his new movie about the aftermath of the massacre at the Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg talked with Time movie critic Richard Schickel, who collaborated with him on the TV documentary Shooting War, about his reasons for taking on Munich, his anger at the International Olympic Committee and his modest plan for improving Arab-Israeli relations.
The Myths and Reality of Munich
Golda Meir didn't want to believe the news. The Israeli Prime Minister had heard media reports that West German police had rescued the Israeli Olympic athletes taken hostage by terrorists in Munich. Now Zvi Zamir, head of the Mossad, was phoning from Germany at 3 a.m. to correct that account. "I saw it with my own eyes," he told her. "No one was left alive."
Full ArticleNY Times Article - Next: Spielberg's Biggest Gamble
On Wednesday, Steven Spielberg's apocalyptic thriller "War of the Worlds" invaded movie theaters worldwide. But the director had already moved on. That night in Malta, Mr. Spielberg quietly began filming the most politically charged project he has yet attempted: the tale of a secret Mossad hit squad ordered to assassinate Palestinian terrorists after the massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
Full Article The Publicity Poster for Spielberg's MunichThe only hints offered so far about Munich is the film's trailer that can be found on the internet and promotional material such as movie posters tucked away in cinemas. Both centre largely on Bana. In the posters he sits in near darkness, head bowed and his right hand holding a revolver. An Oscar would cap a startling rise to the top of Hollywood for Bana, who made his name in Australia in the 1990s in comedy skit shows.
Full ArticleNewsweek Article: Catch and Kill Them If You Can
The terrorist act that kicks off Steven Spielberg's "Munich" was seen as it unfolded on television around the world. The Palestinian group Black September invaded the Olympic Village in West Germany in 1972, killed two Israelis and took nine hostages, demanding the release of 234 Palestinian prisoners. All nine were subsequently slaughtered in a shoot-out at the Munich airport. This story was effectively told in the Oscar-winning documentary "One Day in September."
Hollywood Reporter Article
Besides their weighty historic subject matter, Universal Pictures' "Munich" and New Line Cinema's "The New World" have something else in common: Their respective directors, Steven Spielberg and Terrence Malick, aren't chasing after press.
Full ArticleDark Horizons Article on Munich
You have to give Steven Spielberg credit for efficiency, the cinematic master manages to churn out films faster than practically anyone else in the industry with this one in particular completed at a speed practically unheard of. Yet you wouldn't know it was rushed from the result, a 1970's set intriguing adult drama about the true price of vengeance which also happens to make a few interesting (albeit generic) points about the Middle Eastern conflict. Already being touted before its release as the film to beat at the Oscars, does the film live up to the hype? Mostly, yes it does.
Full ArticleMunich: A Thrilling Meditation on Violence
"Munich" is a crackling spy thriller, an epic morality play and director Steven Spielberg's most mature ("Saving Private Ryan" notwithstanding) work to date. It marks the first time Hollywood's champion of populist cinema has allowed significant traces of moral and stylistic doubt to creep onto his palette, and how better to distinguish..
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