The Spielberg Face

Originally published on Fandor, December 2011

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Featured in the New York Times, 2011, 2012 and 2020 

“A brilliant video essay.“ A.O. Scott, The New York Times, Dec 26 2012

“The master of the desktop video essay, Lee samples and annotates close-ups from at least a dozen Spielberg films. His point: Steven Spielberg’s trademark, typically emphasized by a slow dolly-in, is a distinctive reaction shot. It shows what Lee describes as an expression of wide-eyed, wordless wonder, a “childlike surrender to the act of watching” — as though seeing a movie for the first time.”

– J. Hoberman The New York Times, April 2 2020