Is Disclosure Day Spielberg’s Most Hopeful Film Or His Most Naive?

Steven Spielberg spent fifty years teaching us to look up. When the Pentagon released its real alien files, nobody blinked. His new film Disclosure Day marks the day the truth finally lands — this time his aliens look back at us, but the question is whether anyone still believes him.

Fresh from the Tuschinski premiere, Laura Gommans and producer Elliot Bloom get into late Spielberg — shortcuts, or message over quality — empathy as the ruling emotion of the universe, and whether cinema’s great sentimentalist can still earn the tears. One of them cried twice. The other counted seventy FBI agents with no peripheral vision.

With a voice note from BBC film critic Ali Plumb on the night Spielberg crashed his pub quiz, and a listener’s hot take on thirty wet years of Spielberg’s cinematographer Janusz Kamiński.

Spoilers from 18:06 — come back when you’ve seen it.

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A LAB111 production. Edited and produced by Elliot Bloom, co-produced by Laura Gommans. Music by Hugo Emmerzael. Artwork by Studio FFF.