'Raiders of the Lost Ark" stars Karen Allen and Paul Freeman revisit the infamous face-melting scene for the Steven Spielberg film's 40th anniversary.

What makes Raiders of the Lost Ark the best action-adventure movie of all time, and one of the greatest American movies ever made, lies in its ability to pace itself perfectly, laying out each new ...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark, which seems wrong, ... It’s light-footed. It’s never pompous, never heavy. You can contact Mike Ryan directly on Twitter.

Raiders is a perfect film: if it had flaws (which it does not – see Note 1, below) they’d be like the scar on Harrison Ford’s chin: a flourish to set off the perfection of the rest.

“Jones,” Lucas conceded, “people can call him Jones.” That brainstorming session, of course, led to Raiders of the Lost Ark, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (and is ...

“Raiders of the Lost Ark” was one of the first new movies to come out in the wake of the rise of the VHS. In 1983, Paramount produced a then-record 500,000 VHS copies of the film for retail sale.

Some of those nominees are blockbusters: “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “E.T.” most prominently. Others are small canvas dramas: “Ordinary People,” “On Golden Pond,” “My Left Foot.” ...