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

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January 2025

Makeup Effects for The Hunger

“Doing the series of makeup progressions on Bowie was the main reason why I took the film, because that opportunity is so rare,” says makeup expert Dick Smith....more

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An Oceanic Odyssey: Waterworld

Director Kevin Reynolds and cinematographer Dean Semler, ACS discuss their work on the most complex and lengthy production ever attempted on the high seas....more


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