Close Encounters: Spielberg Makes Contact
/In which Hollywood's Boy Wonder follows up the biggest movie of all time with a more intimate kind of blockbuster, and takes his first step towards more personal filmmaking.
Read MoreIn which Hollywood's Boy Wonder follows up the biggest movie of all time with a more intimate kind of blockbuster, and takes his first step towards more personal filmmaking.
Read MoreChristina Humphrey revisits the making of Jaws, a film production so troubled that the story became more about what you don't see than what you do.
Read MoreBecause you demanded it: How to Survive A Shark Attack Part 2!
Read MoreHannah Fidell's debut feature A TEACHER is now available on Cable VOD, iTunes, and digital platforms.
Read MoreBecause we're showing Jaws at the Plaza on Thursday (and again on Sunday), it's officially Shark Week here at the Atlanta Film Festival. In honor of that, we've collected some of the best (and worst) video advice we could find on the internet about surviving an attack by a shark.
Read MoreLast night I stayed for our first screening of Duel and there’s quite a few things that popped out at me that I hadn't noticed when I first saw this movie years ago. The more I thought about the film, the more connections I made. With those ideas swirling in my head, I had to get them out. Hence this post is born. Read this before, or after, our screening this Sunday, September 8 to see if you agree with my conclusions.
Read MoreAmerican filmmakers have been equally as infatuated with the car as the rest of the country. It’s been a key player in hundreds of films, no more so than Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950)...Two decades after Sunset Boulevard, 25-year-old Steven Spielberg and writer Richard Matheson would similarly use the nation’s love affair with the open road in constructing Duel, an ABC TV movie of the week into a taut thriller.
Read MorePinky and the Brain are coming to Atlanta for a live show! Get a taste of the fun we'll have by watching an episode of voice actor Rob Paulsen's podcast.
Read MoreBen Stein, former Nixon speechwriter and actor--best known for his role in Ferris Beuller's Day Off--has seen Our Nixon and wasn't pleased. Our Nixon co-producers Penny Lane and Brian Frye responded with a point by point rebuttal.
Read MoreHDCAM tapes – once the standard projection formats of festivals worldwide – makes way for newer (and sometimes less reliable) formats. Which one should you choose?
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