Spielberg also has the screenplay credit for A.I.: Artificial Intelligence but I believe that is mostly a polite fiction.

I'd forgotten he wrote Poltergeist.

You're not counting Amblin' then?

According to imdb, you appear to be right. The only other thing is that he's got a screenplay credit for AI, but I've always heard he was a late addition to that one, so he probably didn't have much to do with the screenplay.

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What Alex said.

And to pick up on Alex's comment, most people see Spielberg's participation in Poltergeist as similar to Orson Welles' in Journey Into Fear. In other words, he's the director in everything but title.

For anyone who wants a slightly different look at the behind-the-scenes stuff that happened while filming Close Encounters, read Julia Philips book 'You'll Never Eat Lunch In This Town Again'. Ms. Philips was one of the producers on the film and pulls no punches when describing the chaos, diva-drama and egostraphes that occured during production. Good stuff.

Philips book is very good for the rest of the stuff in it too. So I'll second the recommendation.

I hope so, too. I believe I was in the minority, I came awy from Match Point with a meh, so what. Hints of Crimes and Misdemenors and not the brilliance of C&M to me. I hope Scoop is as promising as it seems to be

I'm not sure if it is a good thing I just saw Manhattan or not.

If it has Scarlett Johannson, I'll be happy

I just got done watching Ghost World. I love it so much.

I really enjoyed Match Point. It is by no means near the best of Allen (and Crimes and Misdemeanors is certainly better) but it is the best he's done in more than a decade. I'm hoping that the move to Europe frees him of his baggage (and I was pleased to get an Allen movie without an Allen character and that is definitely not true for Scoop).

But I won't be reading any reviews and I'll probably see it next Wednesday.