‘JAWS’

THURSDAY 8/28. Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. 7 p.m. $12-$14.

When a film’s been in the lexicon for half a century, its impact tends to get muted in collective memory, whatever clutch it once held on the public imagination loosened over decades of familiarity. Such is the case with “Jaws,” which, in 1975, gripped the public with white-knuckled shark panic. Not only was Steven Spielberg’s name newly minted to moviegoers at the time, bereft of any heft besides that conferred to him in 1971 by the success of “Duel,” but new, too, were the movie’s signature aesthetics: the substitution of underdog Richard Dreyfuss’ bespectacled conscience for the chiseled machismo movie heroes of the era, the visual terror of a massive mechanical shark (that, in fact, barely worked well enough to get the fi

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