E.T.: the Extra-Toyriffic
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was so massively popular that it spawned an incredibly diverse line of merchandise. Included in that merchandise was what some regard as the worst video game of all time. So bad, in fact that thousands of copies were crushed and buried in an Arizona landfill.
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.
In "Jaws," the Nightmare Is What You Don't See
Christina 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.
How To Survive A Shark Attack
Because 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.
Duel on Sunset Boulevard
American 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.