‘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
August 2023
American Graffiti at 50: a classic hangout comedy with a surprising melancholy
George Lucas’s 60s-set tale of California teens offers some freewheeling fun but also a lingering sadness
May 2023
Richard Dreyfuss says Oscar diversity rules ‘make me vomit’
Jaws star went on to defend Laurence Olivier’s performance in blackface in the 1965 adaptation of Othello
September 2021
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
August 2021
The Last Job review – Richard Dreyfuss is a retiree on a rampage in muddled melodrama
Dreyfuss is a former mobster resorting to violence in a film whose delightful score can’t save it from being a hot mess
November 2020
Tristram Kenton at the Guardian
Nicole! Gwyneth! Orlando! Hollywood stars on the West End stage – in pictures
Gillian Anderson, Jessica Lange, Jack Lemmon, James Earl Jones … Guardian photographer Tristram Kenton has captured the biggest names as they tread the boards in London
July 2020
The truth about sharks
Bathtubs and Barbies: how an army of ‘finatics’ recreated Jaws at home
A cast of 100 superfans worked together to pay the ultimate tribute to their favourite film on its 45th birthday
June 2020
Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years'
His life has been a rollercoaster ever since Jaws. Richard Dreyfuss talks about Hollywood hell-raising, cocaine burnout, his flirting heyday – and his problems with #MeToo
April 2020
Mark Kermode's film of the week
Astronaut review – a heartwarming trip to inner space
Richard Dreyfuss holds together an earthbound tale of an old widower who dreams of a voyage to the stars
Astronaut review – care-home resident shoots for the stars
Richard Dreyfuss plays a retired engineer who wins a place on the first commercial space flight in an amiable, late-life adventure
My favourite film aged 12
My favourite film aged 12: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Making contact with Steven Spielberg’s UFO spectacular once again, I find the movie’s earthly concerns resonate even more powerfully than its sense of cosmic wonder
February 2020
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
April 2018
My favourite film decade
'The 1960s changed Hollywood forever': readers on their favourite film decades
It’s got to be the 80s ... or maybe the 20s? Readers respond to our series looking for the defining movie decade
November 2017
Richard Dreyfuss denies exposing himself to writer in 1987
Kevin Spacey accused of sexual assault by son of actor Richard Dreyfuss
September 2017
My family values
Richard Dreyfuss: ‘The one topic on which my dad would open up was sex’
The actor talks about being the middle child with a funny, political mother and a distant, money-oriented father with a violent past
August 2017
Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead?
The 40th anniversary rerelease of the director’s optimistic tale of aliens landing in America is a sweetly naive imagining of how warm the reception might be, at odds with what the genre now offers audiences
December 2016
From the Guardian archive
Steven Spielberg's Jaws review - archive, 1975
The Guardian, 22 December 1975: The Guardian reviews Spielberg’s shark film, a ‘cracking good piece of entertainment’
July 2016
This much I know
Richard Dreyfuss: ‘When I die I want the chance to hit God in the face’
The actor, 68, on agnosticism, depression and having ‘the finest body of work of any American actor’
May 2016
Close Encounters of the Third Kind review – a must-watch director's cut
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece may be the nearest thing he created to an old-fashioned epic
