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First Look: Spielberg’s Lincoln

By Cynthia Hawkins

Movies

When the first glimpses of Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln surfaced, I thought, is there anything Day-Lewis can’t do?  Now that the first full trailer of Lincoln is here, I know the answer is nope.  Lincoln, directed by Stephen Spielberg and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Harris, Sally Field, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, opens in select theaters on November 9 and nationwide on November 16.

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TNB Arts and Culture Editor CYNTHIA HAWKINS teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Most of what she thinks she knows comes from movies, including how to tango, how to take someone down with a ballpoint pen, how to curse in French, and how to catch a moving train. Her work, on movies and otherwise, has appeared in literary journals and magazines such as ESPN the Magazine, Parent:Wise Magazine, The Good Men Project, New World Writing, Strange Horizons, and numerous alternative weeklies and anthologies. You can find Cynthia on Twitter and at cynthiahawkins.net.

One response to “First Look: Spielberg’s Lincoln”

  1. Steven Augustine says:
    October 3, 2012 at 5:27 am

    You either have to be profoundly naive or rather stupid to fall for American propaganda, its technical proficiency notwithstanding. Any adult with a functioning brain and experience of the world knows that politicians who rise any higher than city council are power-hungry bastards, not morally-advanced saviors… and that Abraham Lincoln was no friend of Blacks.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8319858/Abraham-Lincoln-wanted-to-deport-slaves-to-new-colonies.html

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