Long before ChatGPT, Spielberg’s A.I. explored love, loneliness and what it really means to be human.
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Jaws was only the second feature film for the 28-year-old Steven Spielberg – and it would become a cultural smash.
Jaws was a film shaped by Jewish writers, ideas and a very personal connection to the shark.
Jaws may have unfairly monstered sharks forever, but it helped fix Hollywood’s broken studio system and create the blockbuster.
With blockbuster films costing hundreds of millions of dollars, the way two musical notes manipulate tension in ‘Jaws’ serves as a reminder that less can be more.
One iconic scene unfolds underwater. We see swimmers’ legs flailing, and not much else – but John Williams’ masterful audio signals the terror lurking below.
Too Many Men won acclaim for its depiction of a father and daughter and their different emotional responses to the crimes of the past. Tess Scholfield-Peters considers the book’s impact today.
Peter Benchley’s classic 1974 ‘man versus beast’ blockbuster novel doubled as a scathing critique of 1970s America. Spielberg’s film made its characters likeable – and its tone into a ‘grand adventure’.
Steven Spielberg was Hollywood’s wonder boy, best known for films about sharks, aliens and archeologists. Then he turned his attention to the Holocaust.
From Mean Streets to The Exorcist and Badlands, 1973 was a year that showcased the audacious talent in Hollywood that was experimenting with darker themes and new film techniques.
The final Indiana Jones movie is coming out June 30. The fifth in a series over 42 years, many of its ideas are taken from 19th-century orientalist and racist archaeology.
Rhyddhawyd Jurassic Park ar y sgrin fawr ym mis Mehefin 1993 a newidiodd sinema am byth.
Jurassic Park was released on the big screen in June 1993 and changed cinema for good.
E.T. is a movie with a heart. The special effects are minimal. What counts is the story, and the boy and his friend at its centre.
John Williams’ compositions have an unparalleled reach. He defined the sound of the 20th century.
Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out – they are deadlier, and their demographics are different – as are the means law enforcement use to control them.
Martin Scorsese believes superhero movies are ‘not cinema’. What do the experts think?
Stranger Things is re-writing the ‘reference’ book on homage and intertextuality.
The 1975 film Jaws launched the career of a young Steven Spielberg. In this scene, the town’s police chief Martin Brody witnesses the shark’s brutal attack for the first time - taking the viewer along for the ride.
VR cinema explodes the frame, placing the spectator inside the space of the film. Audiences effectively edit it themselves, by choosing what to look at and when.
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