autobiographical

There’s a now infamous moment from Steven Spielberg’s appearance on Inside the Actor’s Studio. The host James Lipton poses a question to the filmmaker about the climax of Close Encounters of the Third Kind that suggests it was inspired by…

The Souvenir. Pain And Glory. This has been some year for excellent, semi-autobiographical works. The best of the lot however, might just be Lulu Wang’s sophomore effort The Farewell, a perfectly-pitched family drama about tradition and the…