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A.I. Artificial Intelligence

Sunday, May 9 at 4:00 pm

Part of See It Big: The Return!

Dir. Steven Spielberg. 2001, 146 mins. 35mm. With Haley Joel Osment, Jude Law, Frances O’Connor, Brendan Gleeson, William Hurt. Steven Spielberg’s monumental production of Stanley Kubrick’s unrealized science-fiction dream project is a bold, humanistic vision that pays tribute to Kubrick’s aesthetic while also remaining a quintessential Spielberg film. This high-tech Pinocchio story—about a robot child (a brilliant Haley Joel Osment) on a quest to become a real boy after being abandoned by his adopted parents—is one of Spielberg’s most challenging and visually astonishing films, featuring one unforgettable sight after another, and an ending that will forever lodge in your memory drive.

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A.I. was named Reverse Shot’s sixth best movie of the decade.

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All these years later we are still thinking about A.I. And one of the questions that inevitably comes up is just how the film manages to engender so much profound human empathy while remaining an essentially cold, remote work largely told from the point of view of robots. In this original Reverse Shot movie, we examine the radical empathy Spielberg creates.

Watch Reverse Shot’s video essay.