February 2025
Chase, Crush and Devour in The Lost World: Jurassic Park
This article originally ran in AC, June 1997. Some images are additional or alternate. Unit photography by David James, courtesy of Universal Pictures. For film fans around the world, the credit line "A Steven Spielberg Film" heralds the promise of cinematic spectacle. As one of the most naturally gifted and successful directors of all time, Spielberg has continually upped the ante for himself by helming a seemingly ceaseless string of wildly popular and critically praised pictures: Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the Indiana Jones trilogy, E.T., The Color Purple, Jurassic Park, Schindler's List. But with each new project, the director must confront the pressure of satisfying the viewing public's ravenous appetite for new...more
