Magic moments… our favourite Spielberg scenes
As Disclosure Day arrives on our screens, the DCA team pick their favourite Steven Spielberg movie moments…
Steven Spielberg's new extraterrestrial thriller Disclosure Day lands at DCA Cinema this week, so we thought it was the perfect opportunity to ask the DCA team to tell us their favourite moments from Spielberg's iconic filmography…
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I think fondly of The Fabelmans as it released a couple of months after I started here at DCA. Perhaps his most personal film, and featuring an amazing cameo from David Lynch!
– David, Head of Cinema
Going to see ET at the cinema aged 5 and my brother, who was 3, having to be taken out crying when ET was dying. He forgave Spielberg though and became a huge Indiana Jones fan, and had a hat that he wore for most of his 5th year.
– Beth, DCA Director
Being too scared to brush my teeth before bed after seeing Jaws for the first time. Lovely family film night memory from the 1980s…
– Jennifer, Deputy Director
Jurassic Park absolutely blew my mind when I first saw it. The jelly wobbling on the spoon as the silhouette of a velociraptor appeared – it was so thrilling and scary! I still love that film.
– Meg, Comms Team
The Omaha Beach landing in Saving Private Ryan (1998). Why? Yes, it's a gruesome, horror filled sensory nightmare laid out before your eyes – but even more so the sound is truly terrifying. The senses were never supposed to be tested this way, and the poignance of the sequence is that while it is visceral, in my imagination it still only scratches the surface of the terror those young men felt when they were catapulted into in the real events.
– Simon, Cinema Manager
I have a huge soft spot for the original Jurassic Park. The moment where Sam Neill and Laura Dern see the dinos for the first time is Spielberg at his most Spielberg-y; true imagination on a massive scale. But as a horror fan I also love the way Spielberg uses the language of horror cinema to reinforce just how dangerous the T-Rex and velociraptors are. The cutting between Sam Neill and the kids climbing the electric fence while Laura Dern tries to turn the power back on is genuinely thrilling, and learning the fate of Samuel L Jackson's character is a killer moment.
– Michael, Cinema Programmer
And another more bloodthirsty moment from our Director Beth…
I could also mention watching the face melting scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark on repeat, in slow motion, with my cousins, for HOURS. I still woop at it.
Thanks to everyone for sharing their favourite Spielberg movie memories! Which moments would you choose?
Be sure to catch Disclosure Day, showing now at DCA!
