Sundance: Wisest Walks

How to get from Point A to Theater B.

POSTED // Jan 20,2010 - The shuttle bus map on the festival catalog´s last page includes approximate walking times between each venue, and that’s about as close to a sure thing as you’re going to get.

Miscellaneous

Clean Peeks

You’ve heard about edited DVDs'but what do they look (and sound) like?

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Sep 6,2007 - In the late ’90s, an ambitious group of companies started popping up to rent and sell modified videos and DVDs that make PG-and-higher Hollywood titles family friendly. And in so doing, they have definitively proved that dirty language and sexual...

Arts & Entertainment

Flight Prep

Getting ready for Scorsese’s The Aviator with a tour of his career

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Tim Burton was set to direct After Hours when, in early discussions, producer/star Griffin Dunne and producer Amy Robinson told him that Martin Scorsese, who had earlier turned the script down, wanted to do the film. According to a documentary on the...

Arts & Entertainment

TVD

DVD releases give shows a second life—or a chance at staying alive.

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The rise of multi-DVD releases of TV shows doesn’t merely allow you to relive the suspenseful conclusion of your favorite reality show, or watch that one Three’s Company episode—where Jack talks about one thing and Mr. Roper thinks he’s...

Arts & Entertainment

Moving History

A new box set offers a rare glimpse into the American past through film.

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - Degradation of film stock has resulted in around 80 percent of American films from the 1910s and ’20s being lost forever, but thanks to the work of several organizations, a great variety of early cinematic art and entertainment survives. For the...

Arts & Entertainment

Bulging Discs

DVD “special editions” can mean too many redundant purchases for film fans.

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - On my DVD shelf are two copies each of Singin’ in the Rain, Pulp Fiction, A Christmas Story, Boogie Nights, GoodFellas, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Fargo, among others. I’m not an obsessive-compulsive collector who needs backup copies;...

Arts & Entertainment

And the Winner Isn’t …

Tracking down Oscar’s greatest oversights on DVD.

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - On Feb. 27, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will break some film lovers’ hearts for the 77th time. As impossible as it is for an awards ceremony to please everyone, the Oscar statuettes have eluded some of the most accomplished films...

Arts & Entertainment

Creepy Inspir-Asian

Hollywood looks east for its latest horror hits.

By Jeremy Mathews

POSTED // Jun 11,2007 - The notoriously dismal January-February movie season this year found better-than-expected financial success in horror films and thrillers, showing the genres aren’t just for fringe audiences—or at least if they are, it’s a pretty large...