Spalding Gray sits alone at a table and speaks for eighty-five minutes about filming The Killing Fields, the Khmer Rouge’s rise, and his own search for meaning amid atrocity. Directed by Jonathan Demme and scored by Laurie Anderson, it is a formally austere essay-film built on voice, silence, and the moral weight of first-person recollection—neither documentary nor drama, but something stricter and stranger.
Steven Spielberg's 1982 film, written by Melissa Mathison from a rejected Columbia Pictures script, follows a boy named Elliott who hides and befriends a stranded alien while government agents close in. Shot in sequence over four months on a $10.5 million budget, with a Carlo Rambaldi animatronic creature voiced by a chain-smoking retiree, it overtook Star Wars to become the highest-grossing film ever made and held that record for eleven years, until Spielberg's own Jurassic Park surpassed it.