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A30    PEOPLE & ARTS
                  Saturday 28 april 2018
            In emotional reunion, Spielberg revisits 'Schindler's List'




            By JAKE COYLE                                                                          was dangerous and unfor-     were,  Spielberg  said,  very
            NEW  YORK  (AP)  —  Ste-                                                               gettable," Neeson said.      difficult  for  most  of  those
            ven  Spielberg  says  no  film                                                         "Schindler's  List,"  made  for  involved. Two young Israeli
            has  affected  him  the  way                                                           just  $22  million  (Spielberg  actors, he said, had break-
            "Schindler's List" did.                                                                declined  a  pay  check),  downs  after  shooting  a
            Spielberg,  Liam  Neeson,                                                              grossed $321 million world-  shower  scene  at  the  con-
            Ben Kingsley and others re-                                                            wide and won seven Acad-     centration camp.
            united for a 25th anniversa-                                                           emy Awards, including best  “That  aesthetic  distance
            ry  screening  of  "Schindler's                                                        picture and best director. It  we  always  talk  about  be-
            List"  at  the  Tribeca  Film                                                          also did much to educate  tween  audience  and  ex-
            Festival  on  Thursday,  in  an                                                        the American public on the  perience?  That  was  gone.
            evening  that  had  obvious                                                            Holocaust.  After  the  film,  And that was trauma,” said
            meaning  to  Spielberg  and                                                            Spielberg  established  the  Spielberg. “There was trau-
            the  hushed,  awed  crowd                                                              Shoah  Foundation,  which  ma  everywhere.  And  we
            that  packed  New  York's                                                              took the testimony of 52,000  captured  the  trauma.  You
            Beacon Theater. In a Q&A                                                               Holocaust survivors.         can’t fake that. (The scene)
            following the film, Spielberg                                                          More  needs  to  be  done  where  everyone  takes  off
            said it was the first time he                                                          for  Holocaust  education,  their  clothes  was  probably
            had  watched  "Schindler's                                                             Spielberg  said:  "It's  not  a  the most traumatic day of
            List" with an audience since                                                           pre-requisite  to  graduate  my entire career — having
            it was released in 1993.                                                               high school, as it should be.  to see what it meant to strip
            "I  have  never  felt  since                                                           It should be part of the so-  down to nothing and then
            'Schindler's  List'  the  kind  of                                                     cial  science,  social  studies  completely  imagine  this
            pride  and  satisfaction  and                                                          curriculum  in  every  public  could  be  your  last  day  on
            sense  of  real,  meaning-                                                             high school in this country."  earth.
            ful  accomplishment  —  I    Director  Steven  Spielberg,  left,  and  actors  Liam  Neeson  and   Making   "Schindler's   List"  “There were whole sections
                                         Ben Kingsley, right, attend the "Schindler's List" 25th anniversary
            haven't felt that in any film   screening during the Tribeca Film Festival at Beacon Theatre on   was a profound, emotional  that  go  beyond  anything
            post-'Schindler's  List,'"  Spiel-  Thursday, April 26, 2018, in New York.             and fraught experience for  I’ve  ever  experienced  or
            berg said.                                                            Associated Press  many  of  those  involved.  seen people in front of the
            The reunion was a chance                                                               Kingsley  recalled  confront-  camera  experience,”  the
            for  Spielberg  and  the  cast  years  ago,"  Spielberg  said  create  a  more  documen-  ing a man for anti-Semitism  71-year-old filmmaker add-
            to reflect on the singular ex-  of making the film.       tary-like realism. Neeson re-  during  production.  Spiel-  ed.
            perience of making an ac-    Spielberg  shot  the  film  in  membered  Spielberg  run-  berg  said  swastikas  were  Spielberg actually released
            knowledged      masterwork  Krakow,  Poland,  in  black-  ning  with  a  camera  and,  sometimes  painted  over-    two movies in 1993. “Juras-
            that  time  has  done  little  and-white and without sto-  on  the  fly,  directing  him  night.  Recreating  scenes  sic Park” came out in June,
            to dull the horror of, nor its  ryboards, instead often us-  and Kingsley down Krakow  like  those  in  the  Krakow  and  “Schindler’s  List”  fol-
            necessity.  "It  feels  like  five  ing  hand-held  cameras  to  streets.  "It  was  exciting.  It  ghetto  and  at  Auschwitz  lowed in November.q

                                                                      New 'Avengers' film nabs 4th



                                                                      biggest preview gross ever




                                                                                                                                film and the fourth biggest
                                                                                                                                preview gross ever.
                                                                                                                                The film earned more on a
                                                                                                                                Thursday  than  "Avengers:
                                                                                                                                Age  of  Ultron"  ($27.6  mil-
                                                                                                                                lion)  and  "Black  Panther"
                                                                                                                                ($25.2 million), but was be-
                                                                                                                                hind  "Star  Wars:  The  Force
                                                                                                                                Awakens" ($57 million), "Star
                                                                                                                                Wars:  The  Last  Jedi"  ($45
                                                                                                                                million)  and  "Harry  Potter
                                                                                                                                and  the  Deathly  Hallows-
                                                                                                                                Part 2" ($43 million).
                                                                      This image released by Marvel Studios shows Chris Hemsworth
                                                                      as  Thor.  with  characters  Rocket,  voiced  by  Bradley  Cooper,   It  also  has  so  far  earned
                                                                      seated center, and Groot, voiced by Vin Diesel, in a scene from   $11.4  million  in  South  Ko-
                                                                      "Avengers: Infinity War."                                 rea, $10 million in Australia
                                                                                                                                and $9 million in the United
                                                                      By MARK KENNEDY              breaking  debut  in  North  Kingdom, as well as scoring
                                                                      NEW  YORK  (AP)  —  The  su-  America.                    the highest movie opening
                                                                      perhero-stuffed  "Avengers:  Marvel  Studios  reported  in countries including Brazil,
                                                                      Infinity War" is off to a super  Friday   that   the   cross-  the  Philippines,  Thailand,
                                                                      start,  nabbing  the  fourth  over  event  "Infinity  War"  Indonesia,  Malaysia,  Hong
                                                                      biggest preview gross ever  scooped up $39 million do-    Kong, Vietnam and Chile. It
                                                                      and  earning  $95  million  mestically  from  Thursday-   opened in 21 countries on
                                                                      in  43  countries  ahead  of  night previews, the highest  Wednesday and added 22
                                                                      what  could  be  a  record-  preview  title  for  a  Marvel  on Thursday.q
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