I own an old sign that reads: "Brandeis Film Festival." It bears no date. At some point, long ago, there was a film festival at Brandeis.When I was a high-school junior, my school's administration brought in Kenny Schnur '00, then a Brandeis student, to lead an after-school film production club.
A year ago, Brandeis alumnus Marshall Herskovitz '73 came to speak at the SunDeis film festival. Herskovitz is a successful Hollywood producer with films such as The Last Samurai and I am Sam to his name.
I have explored quite a few DVD boxed sets in the past few months-from the obscure Ed Wood set to the long-anticipated Star Wars trilogy-but I have never seen one as attractively packaged as The Pink Panther Film Collection from MGM Home Entertainment.
Who is Martin Scorsese? The Martin Scorsese Collection, a DVD boxed set released last year by MGM, helps to answer this question.
In my column last week, I praised the innovation, prowess and use of special effects in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
It seems that every week, the major studios pump out big-screen special-effects film after big-screen special-effects film, each technologically more advanced than the last, in the hopes of snagging the remnants of dwindling audiences who would rather download movies to watch on their own computers.
I remember when Signs first arrived in theaters several summers ago. I went to see it with a few friends, eagerly anticipating M.
60 Turner St., an unassuming brick building on the other side of the commuter rail tracks that houses several offices and theater classrooms, was once the site chosen by famous writer-director David Mamet (The Spanish Prisoner) to serve as the production office for his film, State and Main, only five years ago.The film, a large-scale Hollywood production shot in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass., is a comedy about a large-scale Hollywood production shot in small-town Vermont.
Although he began his career much like most filmmakers with nothing at all, Robert Rodriguez took Hollywood by storm in the early '90s, creating a feature-length action thriller with $7,000, some friends, and a cheap camera.
Of the many new DVDs released in anticipation of this holiday season, few have garnered as much anticipation and discussion as the Warner Brothers' release of Gone with the Wind.
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