Lots going on this week. Enjoy! Monday (1/30) @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist–Through 2/2 Tuesday (1/31) @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist–Through 2/2 @The Plaza–The Room–9:30p, $9 Wednesday (2/1) Emory Cinematheque–Shanghai Express–7:30p, FREE @The Plaza–Full Metal [Read More]
Sundance season has kicked off 2012 for the independent film world but CinemATL is looking ahead with a local production that will be making noise in the near future. Encuentrate is a film about a young woman, Anais, who alienates herself from her family, her culture and her grandfather’s spiritual teachings because of issues she has with her [Read More]
Enjoy! Monday (1/23) @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist–Through 1/26 Tuesday (1/24) @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist–Through 1/26 Wednesday (1/25) Emory Cinematheque–The Crowd–7:30p, FREE @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist–Through 1/26 Thursday (1/26) @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist [Read More]
This weekend you have a chance to boogie with Dirk Diggler. Enjoy! Thursday (1/19) Feminist Film Forum–Hedwig and the Angry Inch–6:30p, FREE Friday (1/20) @The Plaza–Full Metal Alchemist–Through 1/26 Movie Mania–The King’s Speech–7:30p, FREE Saturday (1/21) TabooLaLa @The Plaza–Boogie [Read More]
Scare yourself silly this week at Atlanta’s non-profit theater The Plaza! Enjoy! Tuesday (1/10) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–Friday The 13th–9:30p, $9 Friday (1/13) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–Friday The 13th–9:30p, $9 Saturday (1/14) @The Plaza–White Reindeer–7:30p, $9 [Read More]
I’m very much a proponent of three act structure. Not so much in one has to strictly adhere to it, as much I strongly believe when the writer and the director understand the strengths of it, the more powerful I believe a story can become. [Read More]
This week may be the last time you can see The Shining on 35mm film. Enjoy! Tuesday (12/13) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–The Shining–9:30p, $9 Thursday (12/15) @The Contemporary–Outrage–6:30p, FREE Friday (12/16) @The Plaza–The Dead–Through to 12/22 Saturday (12/17) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–The [Read More]
Of all the advice festivals and festival programmers will give, sound is likely the one that will appear in everyone’s list. Sound is the one element almost no film can overcome when it’s noticeable for all the wrong reasons. “Getting good sound is one of the most affordable things that you can do to up your production [Read More]
Sixty seconds or less. There are so many good films capturing my attention in that amount of time this year. As a filmmaker, this is what you are up against. There is no “wait till you get to the good part.” There is no waiting for Act II to kick in. As a filmmaker who [Read More]
Enjoy! Tuesday (12/6) Art Papers Screening–The Forgotten Space–7p, FREE Wednesday (12/7) @Emory–Walk on Water–7p, FREE Friday (12/9) Film Love–Andy Warhol#8: Kiss–8p, $5 Saturday (12/10) @The High–ASIFA presents Best Animated Shorts of 2011–2p, 8p, FREE [Read More]
Movie Posters and Trailers. Two marketing tools that are nearly as old as cinema itself, with posters going back hundreds of years when you link its lineage to the theater. Of the two, Poster has become a (lost) art form unto herself. Unlike her marketing sibling, Trailer, Poster can’t use clips from a film, or [Read More]
There’s lots to do this week, assuming you have recovered from your tryptophan coma. Enjoy! Monday (11/28) @The Porter Sanford Center–Alley Pat:The Music is Recorded–7:30p– RSVP Here Tuesday (11/29) Peripheral Visions Presents–Films for One to Eight Projectors (shorts by Roger Beebe)–7p, FREE [Read More]
Ugly dogs, zombies in Africa, and burlesque–all coming to an Atlanta screen near you. Enjoy! Wednesday (11/16) @Auburn Avenue Research Library–Ghetto Physics:Speak Truth to Power–6p, FREE @Georgia Tech/Nollywood Film Screening–Memories of the Heart–7p, FREE @Landmark Midtown Art Cinema–Steve Jobs: The [Read More]
There’s a chance of being buried alive this week. Enjoy! Tuesday (11/8) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–Pumpkinhead–9:30p, FREE Wednesday (11/9) Emory Cinematheque–Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film Noir–Bound–7:30p, FREE @Charis Books–Aspie Girls–7:30p, $5 Thursday (11/10) @Poem [Read More]
After you get your Halloween candy fix, take yourself to see a flick. Enjoy! Wednesday (11/2) @Emory–Crossfire–7:30p, FREE @The Plaza–Superheroes and Hello Caller–9:30p, $9 Thursday (11/3) @Emory Law–The Response–7p, FREE @The Woodruff Arts Center–Claire–8p, $17.50 Friday (11/4) @The [Read More]
For your trick and treatin’ pleasure. Enjoy! Monday (10/24) @The Plaza–Dear God No!–9:45p, $9 Tuesday (10/25) @Emory–Dance on Reel: An Evening of Dance on Camera–7:30p, FREE @The Plaza–The Room–9:45p, $9 Wednesday (10/26) Emory Cinematheque/Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film [Read More]
It’s festival submission time around the country. Which means we’re getting closer and closer to the last week of November. Which as many of you know is when Sundance contacts the filmmakers who were accepted, and at that point, the “did we or did we not” waiting comes to an end for thousands of filmmakers. [Read More]
Zombies, crazy birds, and Eisenberg as Zuckerberg? Oh My! Enjoy this week’s film events! Tuesday (10/18) @Hammonds House–If God’s Willing and the Creek Don’t Rise Pt. 1–6p, $5 Atlanta Philosophy Film Festival @The Plaza–9:30p, FREE Wednesday (10/19) @Hammonds [Read More]
There have been a lot of remakes and when it was originally announced that Zac Effron was going to be filling the shoes of Kevin Bacon in the remake of Footloose it seemed liked they were going to Disney-fy one of MTV Generation’s first movies. Then director Craig Brewer was brought on board and Effron’s name quietly disappeared from the [Read More]
Take time to enjoy the Evil Dead and such! Tuesday (10/11) Splatter Cinema @The Plaza–Evil Dead II–9:30p, $9 Wednesday (10/12) Emory Cinematheque/Dark Streets and Dangerous Dames: Film Noir–Detour–7:30p, FREE Saturday (10/15) Silver Scream Spook Show @The Plaza–Haunted [Read More]