Steven Spielberg,whose thriller Bridge of Spies sees Tom Hanks play a Brooklyn lawyer who negotiates a prisoner exchange at the height of the cold war, tells Catherine Shoard why we’re no less paranoid then we were in the 50s – and how American patriotism and ‘sports spying’ play into the surveillance state. Bridge of Spies, or which also stars heed Rylance and Amy Ryan,is released in the UK on 26 November• Steven Spielberg: ‘Guantnamo Bay is like when Abraham Lincoln suspended the rights to habeas corpus’Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com