How the FX team created Mars for Matt Damon
Visual effects companies Framestore and MPC were tasked with creating the red planet in “The Martian.” From realistic landscape shots …
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Mark the 40th Anniversary of Taxi at Baltimore’s Senator Theatre
It’s hard for me to make Wednesday night movie nights. I may have to try harder next week.This just in …
NASA publishes entire Apollo photo archive to Flickr.
More than 8,400 high-resolution photographs captured during NASA’s Apollo moon landings have been released on Flickr, featuring every single image taken …
Original movie posters at auction. From Birth of a Nation to Bunny Lake is Missing, and beyond.
Last April, Turner Classic Movies issued a press release that stated, in part, “After holding two successful movie memorabilia auctions …
What do I really know about Film Noir? I’m going to find out beginning June 1st.
Offered by Ball State University—with films and learning materials courtesy of Turner Classic Movies—The Case of Film Noir is an online learning …
Ramon Novarro: Remembering a silent film star, a song, and an architectural drive-by
From the song, Tango: He was a collector of beautiful strangersAnd life was a party right up to the endThe …
Here’s the first trailer for Albert Maysles’ IRIS. The documentary screens at The Charles in May.
UPDATE, MAY 11, 6:00 p.m.: Tickets just went on sale for the showings at The Charles. Here’s the link. IRIS …
Bible salesmen. 1968. The documentary.
This is one fine piece of film. I’ve watched it several times. Four persistent and ever-so-needy door-to-door salesmen deal with …
Hear Candice Bergen read a passage from her new book, A Fine Romance
I love to read and I read a lot. But, I enjoy hearing Candice Bergen’s voice more than I enjoy …
See a new restoration of the documentary study—Grey Gardens.
Big and Little Edie. You won’t want to miss this. Only the film has been cleaned up—their story and thinking remain …
VIDEO: The brilliant and talented Stockard Channing. Nothing else need be said.
I’m a proud supporter of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. 100% of every dollar donated to the SAG Foundation goes …
It’s that time of year again: OSCARS
Here’s your downloadable and printable OSCAR ballot: Oscars 2015 Printable Ballot And here’s a link to a great slideshow of …
Snickers’ Brady Bunch Super Bowl commercial – behind the scenes
Last week, Ian Failes posted an article on the fxguide website that provides some great insight into the making of …
If you like the show, “How It’s Made,” you’ll love this one.
They were called valves in Britain and tubes in the United States. They became transistors and then morphed into integrated circuits. Today …
Remembering the Supreme Court, Human Rights, a letter, and a novel. And, Armistead Maupin.
I discovered Armistead Maupin’s novel, Tales of the City, and its eight sequels by way of the first four volumes …
Again this year, I’m sharing Christmas with my good friends at 28 Barbary Lane.
Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and …
John Waters’ “Kiddie Flamingos” screening in NYC
From ArtNews: John Waters to show a 74-minute ‘Pink Flamingos’ sequel at Marianne Boesky Gallery Director John Waters, shown below in an over-Botoxed fake …
12 powerful minutes with Harry Belafonte
Harry Belafonte set a high bar at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards Saturday night, November 8th. In …
Renaissance Man with multiple dark sides
From David Lynch, the mastermind behind such productions as The Elephant Man, Dune, Blue Velvet, Twin Peaks, and Mulholland Drive: Paintings, …