To the editor: The Aug. 30 Eagle article "'Jaws' at 50: The blockbuster that changed movies — and still echoes in the Berkshires" jogged my own memories from after I first saw the film. A few years ...
Fifty years ago, I went to see the movie "Jaws." It was terrifying. That summer, I went with my family to Destin, Florida, for our vacation. To my parents’ dismay, I wouldn’t go anywhere near the ...
"Jaws," released June 20, 1975, is often cited as the film that launched modern Hollywood: the pioneer "summer blockbuster." 'Jaws' was one of the last big films of the pre-CGI era: The special ...
Half a century later, Steven Spielberg's formative summer blockbuster looks more than ever like a New Hollywood fusion of Hitchcock and Altman. But what of “Jaws”? When it opened on June 20, 1975, ...