For important COVID-safety and visitor information please see Visit Us
Trailer
JURASSIC PARK – 35MM
WILD AT HEART: The Films of Laura Dern
Sun
21
Sun Nov 21 1:00 PM
Selling Fast
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
127 Mins
1993 | 35mm |USA| D: Steven Spielberg
The phrase ‘needs no introduction’ is often overused but in the case of Jurassic Park (1993), it is irrevocably true. Based on Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel of the same name, it follows an eccentric billionaire (is there any other kind?) who builds a theme park with real-life dinosaurs genetically engineered from long lost DNA.
While having various experts out to visit the ground-breaking attractions, things go horribly wrong with the dangerous and deadly relics attacking the guests. Few people are better qualified when it comes to crafting a popcorn blockbuster than Spielberg and he utilises every skill he learnt in the decades since Jaws (1975) first swam into cinemas.
Breaking a billion dollars at the box office, to say the film was a ‘hit’ is to somewhat understate its pop cultural importance. It was a movie but also a movement, with sequels still being released and breaking ticket records to this day. Yet the franchise as a whole has never been able to reach the dizzying heights of the initial instalment, which captured the wonder of not just the characters on screen but us in the audience getting to see technically brilliant renderings of cinematic dinosaurs.
The special-effects and the spectacle were grounded by the casting of Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum as the trio of adult characters and character actors like Richard Attenborough, BD Wong, Samuel L Jackson, Bob Peck and Wayne Knight in supporting roles.
The sum of its parts in all the best possible ways – and featuring one of the great John Williams scores – Jurassic Park is as affecting on the big screen now as it was then.
-Maria Lewis, Assistant Film Curator (ACMI)
Presented on a 35mm film print from the NFSA collection.
The phrase ‘needs no introduction’ is often overused but in the case of Jurassic Park (1993), it is irrevocably true. Based on Michael Crichton’s bestselling novel of the same name, it follows an eccentric billionaire (is there any other kind?) who builds a theme park with real-life dinosaurs genetically engineered from long lost DNA.
While having various experts out to visit the ground-breaking attractions, things go horribly wrong with the dangerous and deadly relics attacking the guests. Few people are better qualified when it comes to crafting a popcorn blockbuster than Spielberg and he utilises every skill he learnt in the decades since Jaws (1975) first swam into cinemas.
Breaking a billion dollars at the box office, to say the film was a ‘hit’ is to somewhat understate its pop cultural importance. It was a movie but also a movement, with sequels still being released and breaking ticket records to this day. Yet the franchise as a whole has never been able to reach the dizzying heights of the initial instalment, which captured the wonder of not just the characters on screen but us in the audience getting to see technically brilliant renderings of cinematic dinosaurs.
The special-effects and the spectacle were grounded by the casting of Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum as the trio of adult characters and character actors like Richard Attenborough, BD Wong, Samuel L Jackson, Bob Peck and Wayne Knight in supporting roles.
The sum of its parts in all the best possible ways – and featuring one of the great John Williams scores – Jurassic Park is as affecting on the big screen now as it was then.
-Maria Lewis, Assistant Film Curator (ACMI)
Presented on a 35mm film print from the NFSA collection.