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Movies and the modern psyche

From Vanity Fair, between them, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have made 13 of the 100 top-grossing movies of all time; yet they struggled for more than a decade with the upcoming fourth installment of their billion-dollar Indiana Jones franchise, " Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" (and interviews with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg). A review of The Rough Guide to Film: An A-Z of Directors and Their Movies. A review of The Star Machine by Jeanine Basinger.  A review of Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. A review of Movies and the Modern Psyche by Sharon Packer. Un-Hollywood: In Russia, films promote the state.