5 Movies That Changed Hollywood

Entertainment Weekly did a short piece highlighting their picks of “5 movies that changed Hollywood.” Here they are: 5 Movies that Changed Hollywood“Our picks for the flicks of the past 20 years that infused filmmaking with a new spirit.”By Owen Gleiberman and Lisa Schwarzbaum Ocean’s Eleven (2001) – HU DVD 1792 Steven Soderbergh wasn’t the […]

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Big surprise. Online video viewing up from last year

From MediaPost.com:“According to a recent release by Nielsen, online video usage in the U.S. is up considerably from the same time last year, as time spent viewing video on PC/Mac/laptops from home and work locations increased by 45%. Although the number of unique online video viewers only increased by 3.1% from last January, level of […]

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Albert Brooks is on twitter…

Follow his neurotic tweets. And check out some of his films: Broadcast News(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 3504) Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6737) Finding Nemo(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 836) Defending Your Life(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6519) Lost in America(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 4557) Real Life(HOME USE COLLECTION DVD 6108)

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Who wants to watch a 10 day movie?

“Modern Times Forever” will play only once, projected on the side of the Stora Enso Building in Helsinki, Finland on Wednesday and will continue for 240 hours. Best quote:“Yes, there is a chance that you might miss a very important point [if you nip away to use the toilet] but if you gotta go, you […]

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I AM Preview Screening and Q&A with Tom Shadyac – Thursday at 2:10pm in Wechsler Theatre!!

You are invited to a special preview screening of I AM and Q&A with director Tom Shadyac on Thursday, March 24th at 2:10pm in the Mark Wechsler Theatre (Mary Gradon Center #315) at American University. Tom Shadyac’s writing/directing career was launched in 1994 with the Jim Carrey smash hit Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. In the […]

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Remembering Elizabeth Taylor (1932 – 2011)

Elizabeth Taylor, a voluptuous violet-eyed actress who lived a life of luster and anguish and spent more than six decades as one of the world’s most visible women for her two Academy Awards, eight marriages, ravaging illnesses and work in AIDS philanthropy, died Wednesday at age 79. Read more from the Washington Post Check out […]

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