A son's relationship with his estranged father is a common theme in Spielberg's films, including E. T.

In his interview with Spielberg on Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton suggested Close Encounters had another, more personal theme for Spielberg: " Your father was a computer engineer ; your mother was a concert pianist, and when the spaceship lands, they make music together on the computer ", suggesting that Roy Neary's boarding the spaceship is Spielberg's wish to be reunited with his parents.

He was a contributor, performer and vocal arranger on the Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night 1987 concert and video, sang The Platters ' " Smoke Gets In Your Eyes " in Steven Spielberg's 1989 movie Always, and wrote the theme song to the 1989-1992 sitcom Anything But Love.

* The Ark of the Covenant is the main focus of Steven Spielberg's 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the same prop also appears in a cameo in a later sequel in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

In 1968, he screened Spielberg's early film, Amblin ' and told his students, " That's what filmmaking is all about.

As the film is the sole source of most people's knowledge of Schindler, he is generally perceived much as Spielberg's film depicts him: as a man who was instinctively driven by profit-driven amorality, but who at some point made a silent but conscious decision that preserving the lives of his Jewish employees was imperative, even if requiring massive payments to induce Nazis to turn a blind eye.

In Steven Spielberg's remake of War of the Worlds, in an early scene the children of Tom Cruise's character are seen channel-surfing on their television, and the train-wreck scene from The Greatest Show On Earth is being broadcast.

Some critics have suggested that Spielberg's portrayal of suburbia is very dark, contrary to popular belief.

encircled by the moon is now the symbol for Spielberg's film and television company Amblin Entertainment.

Antin is remembered as Troy, the bad-guy preppie jock in Steven Spielberg's The Goonies and as a co-lead in the film The Last American Virgin.

" Spielberg's greatest achievement is to make a warm, likable sci-fi feature, deviating in spirit, tone and ideology from the dark, noirish sci-fi films that dominated the 1950s and Cold War mentality.

Steven Spielberg's first ever animated feature film, An American Tail, is released, and breaks the record once held by Disney's The Rescuers for the largest financial amount made for an animated film on opening weekend.

To Indian audiences he is most remembered for his role as Mogambo in Shekhar Kapur's Hindi film Mr. India ( 1987 ), and to Western audiences he is best known as Mola Ram in Steven Spielberg's Hollywood film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( 1984 ).

He is best known for his role as Mogambo in the 1987 blockbuster, Mr. India and for his portrayal of Mola Ram, the antagonist in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

He is known to international audiences for his roles as Khan in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi ( 1982 ) and as the main antagonist Mola Ram in the Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom ( 1984 ).

The film is one of only two of Spielberg's films where John Williams did not create the score.

Mary Todd Lincoln is portrayed on TV and in movies by many actresses, including Sally Field in Steven Spielberg's 2012 film Lincoln, and Penelope Ann Miller for 2012's Saving Lincoln, set during the Civil War.

Jaws 2 is a 1978 horror / thriller film and the first sequel to Steven Spielberg's Jaws ( 1975 ), which was based on Peter Benchley's novel of the same name.

Against Spielberg's original, " it is an inferior sequel to a classic ", but the reviewing the subsequent films Jaws 3-D and Jaws the Revenge shows the Szwarc's film to be " a decent sequel, and one produced before the franchise hit troubled waters.

" Similarly, John Simon felt that the " shark's waning is caused by a decline in direction: Jeannot Szwarc has none of Steven Spielberg's manipulative cleverness.

He is popularly known for playing through motion capture to animate and voice computer-generated characters: Gollum in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its upcoming Hobbit prequels, King Kong in the eponymous 2005 film, Caesar in Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and Captain Haddock in Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin.

An opposing view is taken by film critic Tom Shone, who considers that Lucas and Spielberg's reinvention of blockbusters as fast-paced entertainment reinvigorated the US film industry and deserves greater artistic and critical recognition.

" Despite Spielberg's support, DreamWorks and Mendes fought constantly over the schedule and budget — although the studio interfered little with the film's content.

That same year, Steven Spielberg's film Close Encounters of the Third Kind boasted a finale with impressive special effects by 2001 veteran Douglas Trumbull.

He also had a small role in Steven Spielberg's 1941 ( 1979 ) in scenes with Toshirō Mifune and Christopher Lee ; during one scene, he names the objects that he has with himself, and sounds like he does in Dr. Strangelove during the " Survival Kit Contents Check " scene.

References to Spielberg's childhood occur throughout: Elliott feigns illness by holding his thermometer to a light bulb while covering his face with a heating pad, a trick frequently employed by the young Spielberg.

In 2002, von Sydow had one of his largest commercial successes, co-starring with Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's science fiction thriller Minority Report.

Jolt Cola was featured in Steven Spielberg's film Jurassic Park in a scene which shows computer programmer Dennis Nedry's work station covered with Jolt Cola cans & bottles.

Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Interactive, which just started in that time, needed fresh and unusual projects, and TenNapel approached Spielberg with the idea of claymation game, with Spielberg accepting it for publication.

She next starred in Steven Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as the villainous KGB agent Col. Dr. Irina Spalko, and in David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, appearing on screen with Brad Pitt for a second time.

The year 1975 in film involved some significant events, with Steven Spielberg's thriller Jaws topping the box office.

The following year, Bana co-starred with Daniel Craig and Geoffrey Rush in Steven Spielberg's controversial film Munich.

ABC replaced MacGyver with The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, a series based on George Lucas's film series and coproduced by Lucas and Steven Spielberg's production companies for Paramount Television.

After the publication of Schindler's Ark in 1982, Pfefferberg worked to persuade Steven Spielberg to film Keneally's book, using his acquaintance with Spielberg's mother to gain access.

Spiegelman said he was eager to have the book come out early, even if incomplete, in order to avoid comparisons with the animated film An American Tail from Stephen Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, which he believed was inspired by Maus.

Despite Spielberg's rejection the studio went ahead with plans to make the sequel, leading to an arduous 18 month pre-production process.

One review says: " it's obviously not a patch on Spielberg's classic, but it's about as good as could be hoped for, with some excellent sequences, almost worthy of the original, several genuine shocks, a different enough story and some pretty decent characters.

“ Prass Israel ” winner, actress and director Gila Almagor ( Salach Shabati, Hachayim al pi Agfa, Hakayitz shel Avia, Spielberg's Munich ), who hosted Itzik Kol ’ s memorial evening and worked with him since his days as general manager of the Cameri Theater, said at the occasion that aside for Kol's huge contribution to Israeli culture, he will be remembered for his unique persona.

* Duel — Shortly before his death, Wentworth is overtaken by a large freighter truck in a manner similar to David Mann's first encounter with the tanker in Spielberg's film.

Young Sherlock Holmes ( 1985 ), produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, puts the teenage sleuth in an action-adventure story replete with computer-generated special effects.

They then later start arguing ( along with The Brain from Pinky and the Brain ) about whose show is Steven Spielberg's favorite show.