Atlanta Film Festival presents a diverse slate of year-round offerings for film-lovers, filmmakers, and established & emerging industry professionals.
After the inexcusable commercial failure of the deliriously stylized (and quite expensive) The Hudsucker Proxy, the Coen Brothers went back home to make a low-budget, "true life" crime film - and ended up with one of the greatest films of all time.
Some directors stumble out of the gate and work their way to later greatness. The Coen Brothers came out of the box a near-complete package.
Read MoreWe continue our Fall Focus on Directors with a selection of films from Joel and Ethan Coen, screening all this month at Plaza Theatre.
Read MoreE.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.
Read MoreSteven Spielberg gives a master class in a series of clips from a seminar for film students held shortly after the release of Close Encounters.
Creative Loafing celebrates the best things in Atlanta on Thursday, September 19 at 7 p.m. in the heart of Downtown Atlanta at Centennial Olympic Park. This sensory overload of a party will celebrate the 2013 Best of Atlanta issue by combining pieces of Atlanta’s past, present, and future.
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 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 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.
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