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E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial was so massively popular that it spawned an incredibly diverse line of merchandise. Included in that merchandise was what some regard as the worst video game of all time. So bad, in fact that thousands of copies were crushed and buried in an Arizona landfill.
Read MoreMembership has its privileges, right? Well in this case they're some pretty darn good privileges. Not only do ATLFF members get to watch all the movies they want at the Festival in the Spring, we're also opening all of our remaining Fall Focus on Directors screenings to members as well.
Read MoreChristina Humphrey revisits the making of Jaws, a film production so troubled that the story became more about what you don't see than what you do.
Read MoreBecause we're showing Jaws at the Plaza on Thursday (and again on Sunday), it's officially Shark Week here at the Atlanta Film Festival. In honor of that, we've collected some of the best (and worst) video advice we could find on the internet about surviving an attack by a shark.
Read MoreAmerican filmmakers have been equally as infatuated with the car as the rest of the country. It’s been a key player in hundreds of films, no more so than Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard (1950)...Two decades after Sunset Boulevard, 25-year-old Steven Spielberg and writer Richard Matheson would similarly use the nation’s love affair with the open road in constructing Duel, an ABC TV movie of the week into a taut thriller.
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