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Written by Stephen Hart
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Saturday, 16 June 2007 |
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 A gentle melody from a solitary guitar... EXPLODES into a cacophony of drums, tambourines, agogo bells and other percussion instruments beating out the infectious sound and rhythm of the samba, causing hearts to race in elation and limbs to move in dance. The beginning moments of Orfeu Negro, known as Black Orpheus in the U.S, transports the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice from ancient Greece to the samba stirred frenzy of the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
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Written by Stephen Hart
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Sunday, 17 December 2006 |
 Twenty-five years
after its premiere, a look back at one of Atlanta’s
best known films... It’s spring of 1981. You’re walking down Peachtree Street, looking up at the
Peachtree Plaza Hotel, the grand dame of the Atlanta skyline. Suddenly, a man bursts through a window, about thirty stories
up, and falls helplessly to the ground.
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Written by Lisa Ward & Eric Bomba-Ire
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Friday, 20 October 2006 |
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One of the most influential Science Fiction films of all
time, Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1926)
is seen as a historical landmark in its construction of a futuristic fantasy
that mirrors both our fears and our fascinations with technology. How deeply Metropolis
has made an imprint on film history is evident in the superficial veneer of
visual mimicry in subsequent films.
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Written by Charles Judson
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Monday, 14 August 2006 |
 Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle) is near the top of a not-so-short list of films that cinephiles and filmmakers are required to see. Released in 1960, its story conceived by François Truffaut, the film left an indelible mark on cinema and has had a great influence over the way films have looked ever since.
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Written by Martin Kelley
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
 The year was 2001 and the Atlanta Festival was all the buzz in the local film community. Of course, this was pre-9/11 perhaps before everyone's political obsessions kicked up a notch, so the time seems pretty innocent upon reflection. The thing that I recall most about the festival that year was that it seemed like everyone I knew in the film community had a screening that year.
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