Film
Dinosaur Drive-In: The Crater Lake Monster
Ah, The Crater Lake Monster, a film that repeatedly made me wonder, "why the heck am I still watching this movie?"Like the last Dinosaur Drive-In film featured here, Crater Lake Monster contains no actual dinosaurs (no matter how many times the scientists in the film call it one). Instead our mons...
August 25, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
Dinosaur Drive-In: Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
When you get right down to it, most dinosaur movies are missing something. "Good special effects" might be one answer, and "a plot" is an even better one, but if "a trippy jazz-disco musical score" was your reply, then 1977's Japanese monster flick Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds may be just ...
August 03, 2010 |
By Brian Switek
James Cameron on the Future of Cinema
The director of Avatar and Terminator talks about future sequels, 3-D television and Hollywood in 2050
August 2010 |
By Lorenza Muñoz
Orphan Films - Recapturing Lost Snippets of History
Buffs gather from around the world to watch newly uncovered films by the likes of Orson Welles, Henri Cartier-Bresson and others
July 15, 2010 |
By Daniel Eagan
Norman Rockwell’s Storytelling Lessons
George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg found inspiration for their films in the work of one of America’s most cherished illustrators
July 07, 2010 |
By Owen Edwards
What Movies Predict for the Next 40 Years
From Back to the Future to the Terminator franchise, Hollywood has many strange and scary ideas of what will happen by 2050
June 30, 2010 |
By Brian Wolly
The Rock Concert That Captured an Era
Featuring acts such as the Beach Boys, James Brown and the Rolling Stones, The T.A.M.I. Show defined popular music for a generation
March 19, 2010 |
By Daniel Eagan
A Forgotten Tennessee Williams Work Now a Motion Picture
Written in the 1950s, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond was forgotten until it was recently adapted into a major motion picture
January 04, 2010 |
By Chloë Schama
Homemade Clothes for Hollywood - Made Movies
Rabbit Goody has been the go-to weaver for historically accurate fabric for the movie industry’s biggest period dramas
December 07, 2009 |
By Rachel Dickinson
Recording the Ju/'hoansi for Posterity
For 50 years, John Marshall documented one of Africa's last remaining hunter- gatherer tribes in more than 700 hours of film footage
November 2009 |
By Amanda Bensen
Are Scientists or Moviemakers the Bigger Dodos?
Scientist-turned-filmmaker Randy Olson says that academics must be more like Hollywood in how they share their love for science
October 30, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Frank Baum, the Man Behind the Curtain
The author of The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum, traveled many paths before he found his Yellow Brick Road
June 26, 2009 |
By Chloë Schama
Bringing the Wright Flyer to Life
In a movie first, curators and filmmakers collaborated to animate artifacts for Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
June 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Days 7 to 12: A Cannes Farewell
As Michael Parfit bids goodbye to the Cannes Film Festival, there is good news for Luna from the Canary Islands
May 25, 2009 |
By Michael Parfit
Days 5 and 6: Dark Days at Cannes
The buzz surrounding a new film leaves Cannes-goers anxious, but Michael Parfit finds reasons for hope
May 19, 2009 |
By Michael Parfit
Five Movies That Memorably Feature Museums
The ‘Night at the Museum’ films aren’t the only films that take place largely in the confines of a museum
May 04, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Hollywood on Exhibit
Movie memories come to life inside the filmmaking collections of these seven museums
April 24, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Five Films that Redefined Hollywood
Author Mark Harris discusses his book about the five movies nominated for Best Picture at the 1967 Academy Awards
February 19, 2009 |
By Brian Wolly
Frost, Nixon and Me
Author James Reston Jr. discovers firsthand what is gained and lost when history is turned into entertainment
January 2009 |
By James Reston Jr.
For Those Ruby Red Slippers, There's No Place Like Home
The newly reopened Smithsonian National Museum of American History boasts a rare pair of Judy Garland's legendary ruby slippers
January 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
