The NoMa-hosted summer film series “2012: The End of the World?” ends continues tonight with a screening of Deep Impact, one of several disaster movies from 1998 about a giant meteor on a collision course with Earth. The NoMa Business Improvement District has been screening apocalypse-themed movies all summer long, along with live music and barbecue. […]
Continue readingComposer Marvin Hamlisch dies
Prolific composer Marvin Hamlisch died this Monday. Hamlisch was a media legend who won every conceivable award for his music – including an Oscar, Grammy, Tony, Emmy, Golden Globe, and the Pulitzer Prize for Music. His accomplishments are staggering; even if you don’t know his name, you may have heard pieces from one of his […]
Continue readingWhoops! YouTube accidentally pulls NASA videos
Sunday’s impressive Mars landing somehow continues to be relevant for Media Services – this time in a less fun and exciting way. NASA broadcasted live footage of Mission Control as the Curiosity rover landed, and to commemorate the occasion, they uploaded the clip to YouTube. But because of a snafu in YouTube’s copyright enforcement software, […]
Continue readingTake to the stars with Cosmos
Tonight, NASA will attempt to land the Curiosity rover on Mars to investigate whether the red planet once housed life. It’s a risky and hilariously expensive ($2.5 billion!), but the rover is part of an important mission to discover whether or not we are alone in the universe. Nobody has explored that goal in popular […]
Continue readingIf you like Total Recall… Philip K. Dick on screen
The remake of the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger hit Total Recall opens in theaters tomorrow, but it’s not just a redux of a schlocky movie – it’s also a readaptation of the original short story, “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” by science fiction visionary Philip K. Dick. Even though he saw rousing success in […]
Continue reading2012 Sight & Sound poll: Citizen Kane toppled!
Sight & Sound, the esteemed film magazine that polls critics and other professionals every ten years about the greatest films of all time, has released the results of their 2012 survey. For the first time in 60 years, Citizen Kane is no longer the number one film on the list! Vertigo now takes the top […]
Continue readingAlternative programming: The Olympics on film and television
The thirtieth Olympiad is well underway. If you don’t feel like watching gymnastics this evening, take the night off and check out one of these gold-quality videos from our collection. One Day in September — DVD 450Monty Python’s Flying Circus: Olympic Hide-and-Seek Final — HU DVD 771Olympia — DVD 1663Munich — HU DVD 2172Tokyo Olympiad […]
Continue readingNew Acquisitions – July 2012
The first silent film to win Best Picture since 1927! A rough-and-tumble action-thriller starring Kurt Russell! The American remake of the Swedish film adaptation of a popular novel series! A cheesy Japanese monster movie! Stand-up routines from a legendary comedy troupe! An epic 15-hour documentary on the history of film! A biography of the most […]
Continue readingFilmmaker Chris Marker dies at 91
Chris Marker, the groundbreaking French filmmaker and critic, died yesterday at age 91 — on his birthday, nonetheless. Marker’s multimedia art pushed the boundaries of its formats, from his unconventional documentary Sans Soleil to his critical essay writing and experiments with interactive media. Celebrate Marker’s work by visiting his films in our collection: A.K. (supplemental) […]
Continue readingThis Friday: The American President at National Harbor
National Harbor continues its summer film series this Thursday with a screening of The American President, a 1995 film directed by Aaron Sorkin that eventually inspired the writer to produce The West Wing. Michael Douglas plays President Andrew Shepherd, a chief executive who faces many of the same problems that Josiah Bartlet would later encounter […]
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