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Jaws

May 2024

  • Richard Dreyfuss in 2023.

    ‘We deeply regret the distress’: cinema apologises for Richard Dreyfuss comments at Jaws screening

    The actor took to the stage in a dress backed by Taylor Swift’s Love Story, then reportedly made a number of sexist and transphobic comments

July 2023

  • Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman in Midnight Cowboy.

    From the Guardian archive
    ‘You laugh as you’re choking’: a selection of Derek Malcolm’s seminal film reviews

    The Guardian’s longstanding film critic, who has died aged 91, was known for his insight into blockbusters and art pictures alike. Here are excerpts from his takes on Solaris, Star Wars, Taxi Driver, Malcolm X and more

December 2022

  • A scene from Jaws

    Spielberg tells of guilt over harm hit film Jaws may have done to sharks

    Director tells BBC’s Desert Island Discs he regrets the ‘frenzy of sport fishing’ that followed 1975 thriller’s release

March 2022

  • Woman freediver glides over sandy seabed with fins

    Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield – deep emotions

    A woman returns to her wife transformed after a deep-sea voyage in this powerful debut novel

February 2022

  • John Williams, who has received 52 Oscar nominations, in 1980.

    John Williams at 90: ‘He is so much smarter than his critics’

    He has created some of the most memorable film scores of all time, including Jaws, Star Wars and ET. Is it time he was regarded as a great composer?

October 2021

  • (from left) Ian Shaw (Robert Shaw), Demetri Goritsas (Roy Scheider) and Liam Murray Scott (Richard Dreyfuss) in The Shark Is Broken.

    The Shark Is Broken review – biting drama about the making of Jaws

    Ian Shaw plays his film star father Robert in this behind-the-scenes tale of Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster

September 2021

  • An image from the poster for Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws. The Shark is Broken play tells the story of how it was made.

    Back for another bite: why classic 70s and 80s screen classics are new stars of the stage

    The boat in Jaws, the flashy car in Back to the Future, and the kitchen in The Good Life: it seems we all want to recapture those moments – but in the theatre

June 2021

  • People practice social distancing in white circles in Domino Park in Williamsburg, New York City last spring.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about public spaces

    From Toni Morrison and Zadie Smith to Peter Benchley, novelist Jonathan Lee chooses books that celebrate areas where strangers can mingle and be less alone

July 2020

  • An assortment of hand puppets, toys and costumed-humans stand in for the film’s main attraction.

    The truth about sharks
    Bathtubs and Barbies: how an army of ‘finatics’ recreated Jaws at home

  • David Doubilet with tiger shark Bahamas

    The truth about sharks
    'People want blood and gore': what we got wrong about filming sharks

June 2020

  • ‘I’ve surfed my manic depression and made it work for me’ … Richard Dreyfuss.

    Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years'

  • A Jurassic Park and The Flinstones double bill at the McHenry Outdoor Theater in Illinois.

    Jurassic Park and Jaws fight to top US box offices decades after their first releases

May 2020

  • Death is imminent, and all we can do is wait … Jaws.

    The classic film I've never seen
    I've never seen … Jaws

    The dunes are alive with the sound of screaming as a monstrous, ravenous fish terrorises a seaside community – but this is not a film about a shark

March 2020

  • Oh no you don’t! Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter.

    Film blog
    From Fight Club to Brief Encounter: how self-isolation would change classic films

    It’s now difficult to watch movies without worrying about the two-metre rule – here are the retrospective plot changes required to mean old movies pass muster
  • Hadley Freeman

    Hadley Freeman's Weekend column
    I grew up watching disaster movies. Here’s what I’ve learned

    Hadley Freeman
    From Armageddon to Outbreak, there’s something reassuring about their predictability, now more than ever
  • Murray Hamilton as Larry Vaughn with Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss in Jaws.

    Boris Johnson's hero is the mayor who kept the beaches open in Jaws. That's fine by me

    The PM thinks Amity mayor Larry Vaughn is ‘the real hero of Jaws’. Maybe that’s why he’s emulating his ‘the beaches are open’ politics as coronavirus spreads around the world

February 2020

  • Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss on the set of Jaws

    Robert Shaw's son revisits Jaws' stormy shoot in The Shark Is Broken

    Ian Shaw plays his actor father in West End play about the troubled production of Spielberg’s first blockbuster

July 2019

  • Clockwise from top left: Flamenco Festival; ; Grace Jones; Paolo Scheggi; The Dead Don’t Die; Midsommar

    Culture highlights of the week
    What to see this week in the UK

    From Jaws to Garbage, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

October 2018

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    'I was terrified!': you share stories of watching classic films on first release

    After audio resurfaced of a terrified audience watching the original Halloween on release, we asked you to recall your experiences of seeing major movies at the time

August 2018

  • Rachel Cooke

    The Oscars are pandering to the populist mood sweeping the globe

    Rachel Cooke
    I love shark movies as much as the next cinema-goer. But we should also reward high-quality film
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