Jaws at MoMA

As part of MoMA's "Celebrating Summer" film series, we recently saw Jaws, surely the most frightening of all summer movies, and not just because of Richard Dreyfuss's chest hair. It's both surprising and relieving to see that in 2008 an entire theater of jaded moviegoers--most of whom had no doubt seen Jaws before--can still jump and scream, as this crowd did in abundance. One guy tried to relieve the pre-screening tension by calling out, "You're going to need a bigger movie theater" when he walked in, but no one laughed. We knew what was coming.