The Last Picture Show? Spielberg, The Fabelmans, and the Schlemiel

When it first came out, I went with my parents to the legendary Delaware Theater (formerly the Spectrum) in Albany, New York, to see Steven Spielberg’s newest film, The Fabelmans, which takes Spielberg himself—the genealogical story of his love of film and his family—as its subject. What struck me first, even before seeing the film, […]