Steven Spielberg

Tom Hanks With WWII Veterans on D-Day

source: Knoxville News Sentinel

 TN After all, he was the star of "Saving Private Ryan," the World War II movie about the D-Day landing in Normandy. And, he co-produced "Band of Brothers," the television min-series, with Steven Spielberg, who won Best Director and Best Film honors for ...

Published Tue, Jun 16

Tom Hanks travels with D-Day veterans to Normandy

source: Los Angeles Times

 CA It was an emotional journey for the actor, who has spent a great deal of time meeting war veterans since playing a soldier himself in the Steven Spielberg movie "Saving Private Ryan." On a train ride from Paris to Normandy, eight surviving members of ...

Published Wed, Jun 10

Choate graduates 229

source: Meriden Record

 CT He then recounted the narrative of "Saving Private Ryan," the Stephen Spielberg World War II movie in which Tom Hanks' character leads a platoon of soldiers charged with rescuing a single solider named James Francis Ryan - played by Matt Damon ...

Published Sun, Jun 7

So why isn't your mother here, Sir? Veteran quizzes Charles over ...

source: Daily Mail - UK

 UK as a 'Franco-American occasion', preferring to invite Tom Hanks, the star of the Hollywood movie Saving Private Ryan. a cinematic history at odds with the truth through epics such as Band Of Brothers, which Hanks co-produced with Steven Spielberg. ...

Published Sat, Jun 6

Obama and Sarkozy face their own D-Day today

source: irishtimes.com

WA today  Ireland There, director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks will relive the making of Saving Private Ryan, along with 7000 guests, including US war veterans who experienced the real thing. Any factotum at the Élysée or Quai d'Orsay will tell you that ...

Published Fri, Jun 5

US vet Dabney among WWII vets honored by France

source: eTaiwan News

 Taiwan The American actor, who famously played an officer in the 1998 movie "Saving Private Ryan," chatted with Dabney, who sets tiles for a living. Hanks and the movie's director, Steven Spielberg, were expected to attend D-Day commemorations in Normandy on ...

Published Fri, Jun 5

Interview with Tom Hanks for Angels & Demons

source: Movies.ie

Working with the Coen brothers on something like The Ladykillers, or working with Steven Spielberg again on The Terminal is the same exact, one damn thing after another. How are we going to make sense of this process? As it is with working on The Da ...

Published Thu, May 14

Movie review: Heavy mettle with 'Anvil!'

source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

 MN Directed by their onetime roadie Sacha Gervasi (who went on to write "The Terminal" for Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks), it's an affectionate portrait of performers starving for applause, achingly funny as only real life can be. ...

Published Fri, May 8