RSS Feeds  History comes to life in Spielberg's 'Lincoln'
Friday - 11/16/2012, 9:38am  ET  Daniel Day Lewis (AP)  Living
with "Lincoln"  WTOP Film Critic Jason Fraley says "Lincoln" is
a shot in the arm for Americans disillusioned with our political
process.   Jason Fraley, WTOP film critic  WASHINGTON - Lord, he
was born an Amblin man, and his career has been a tale of two
directors ever since.  The Steven Spielberg pendulum has
repeatedly swung between supernatural fantasy - "Raiders of the
Lost Ark" (1981), "E.T." (1982), "Jurassic Park" (1993) - and
gritty war history - "Schindler's List" (1993), "Saving Private
Ryan" (1998), "Munich" (2005).  How fittingly ironic that
"Lincoln" hits theaters on the 25th anniversary of "Close
Encounters of the Third Kind," which arrived on this exact date
in 1977. Just 130 miles separate Wyoming's Devil's Tower from
South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, where the face of our greatest
president is carved into the mountainside.  Indeed, Abraham
Lincoln was a mountain of a man, an