What’s your favorite DC movie theater? Here are a few places to see movies in DC that you might not have heard of! AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center AFI, which is on the Red Line in Silver Spring, often shows award winners, has international film festivals (sometimes in partnership with the Smithsonian Institution), and […]
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day with one of AFI’s 100 Passions
Did you know that in addition to their 100 Greatest Films list, AFI also has a list of the top 100 romantic movies of all time? Here are AFI’s top 10 romantic movies in our collection: # MOVIE YEAR 1 CASABLANCA (HU DVD 150) 1942 2 GONE WITH THE WIND (HU DVD 9) 1939 3 […]
Continue readingA lament for DVD commentary
When Fox decided to stop publishing The Simpsons on DVD, one thing we lamented (apart forcing you to get a cable subscription to watch the show) was the fate of the show’s audio commentary. The creators of The Simpsons recorded in-depth, insightful discussions for every episode of the show, and although you can still access […]
Continue readingHere, have an R2-D2 bird
We’ve been posting here a bit less frequently while we handle start-of-the-semester business, but with the understandably rising national stress levels, we wanted to send out the week with something positive. So, please enjoy this bird that sounds like R2-D2. Happy Friday!
Continue readingStar Trek: Axanar
Star Trek has one of the most vibrant fan communities in Federation space and beyond. (If you have any doubts, check out Trekkies: HU DVD 744.) But like so many fan communities, Trekkies occasionally find themselves on the expensive side of copyright infringement lawsuits. While there’s no profit in learning Klingon, there is certainly the […]
Continue readingSilent Movie GIFs shows the sausage-making behind old special effects
Special effects aren’t usually exciting anymore. Filmmakers can create worlds and human beings from whole cloth now, so digital trickery doesn’t wow like it used to. 100 years ago, though, every difficult shot took a herculean effort. The Twitter account Silent Movie GIFs recently shared a few explanations for how silent films pulled off their […]
Continue readingHorror films had another strong year
For all the jokes about 2016 being terrible, last year was in fact a year of horror – for film at least. As Slashfilm points out, 2016 had an unusually strong showing of horror movies of all stripes, and the site’s Jacob Hall attempted to break down what led to the genre’s success. Hall mentions […]
Continue reading14,000 copies of Jerry Maguire to be built into a desert pyramid, because why not
For several years, the online group Everything is Terrible has searched through ephemeral videotapes to find some truly weird art, much like the Found Footage Festival. But they’ve also had an even stranger side project to collect every known VHS copy of the 1996 movie Jerry Maguire. We still don’t really understand why they’ve undertaken […]
Continue readingThe best movies of the year – spliced into one video
Every year, film critic David Ehrlich puts together a montage of what he considered the 25 best films of the year. Ehrlich’s tastes tend to lean towards interesting visuals, but we’re not complaining. His montages are visual feasts, so he gets to pick whatever he wants. Moonlight tops the list, understandably given the praise we’ve […]
Continue readingIn College Park? Learn about the Coen brothers from an AU professor
Most people reading this blog are probably based in and around Tenleytown, but if you’re out in the ‘burbs, you have to a chance to hear an AU literature professor share their knowledge. Professor Erik Dussere (friend of Media Services) will be at the University of Maryland on Friday, November 18th for “Weird American Odysseys: […]
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