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Vanishing America: The Drive-In Theater
May 31st, 2012 at 9:00AM:
It's one of the icons of American civilization, combining Hollywood with car culture. The drive-in movie theater was once a mainstay of every American city, and plenty of small rural towns too. In the 1950s there were more than 4,000 of them. They were a place for families to enjoy a night out together, and for teenagers to be initiated into the games of adulthood.
Now the drive-in theater ...
Video Of The Day: Time Brushing Istanbul
May 3rd, 2012 at 7:00PM:
Recently a Turkish friend asked my daughter Vera's middle name. It's Alcazar, my grandmother's maiden name from Trinidad, and more commonly known as a Moorish Spanish word for fortified palace. I was surprised to hear the response, "Oh, like the cinema?" It turns out there is an Alkazar movie theater just a few miles away from us on Istanbul's busy Istiklal Caddesi. Opened in the 1920s with ...
Video of the Day: Brett Erlich's Unconventional Travel Tips
Feb 21st, 2011 at 6:00PM:
Movies are full of wild ideas about travel. From Airplane! to Castaway, there's no shortage of bizarre travel tales in cinema. Thankfully, Current packed many of those moments into this video from The Rotten Tomatoes Show starring Brett Ehrlich.
So, whether you want to ride a dragon, pilot a plane or just get from Point A to Point B as dramatically as possible, look to the movies for your ...
Nomading Film Fest seeks travel filmmakers
Dec 22nd, 2010 at 9:30AM: Ever wanted to make a movie about your travels? Perhaps you already have? The Nomading Film Festival wants to talk to you. From now through April 2011, this new travel-focused film festival, based in Brooklyn, NY, is accepting submissions from aspiring travel-focused filmmakers everywhere.
The idea behind the Nomading Film Festival is simple. The fest's creators "believe that stories caught on ...Easy Rider: greatest road movie of all time
Jun 2nd, 2010 at 1:00PM: Dennis Hopper died on Saturday. He had a long career as an actor, director, photographer, and painter.
I'll remember him as the director, co-writer, and co-star of Easy Rider, which shot to the top of my list of favorite movies when I first saw it at age fourteen and has stayed there ever since.
I had never seen a movie like it before. Every shot of László Kovács' ...See the Museum of Modern Art in two minutes
Apr 19th, 2010 at 4:30PM:
Ever visited New York City's Museum of Modern Art? It's quite possibly the world's greatest museum for art lovers - harboring numerous masterpieces from painters including Picasso, Pollack and Warhol, among others. But it's also quite overwhelming. If you've never been, prepare to be overwhelmed by thousands of different works across multiple floors, ranging from sculpture to photography to ...
Take a 1930's tour of Havana, Cuba
Mar 31st, 2010 at 4:30PM:
It's hard to imagine a Cuba different than the one we have now. You know, that country 90 miles from Florida that Americans can't visit? It's a travel embargo that's been in place over 50 years. But back in the 1930's, Cuba's capital city, Havana, was poised to take its place among the Caribbean's foremost tourist destinations.
At least that is, according to this vintage travel film, ...
Undiscovered New York: A movie lover's guide to New York
Feb 4th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Welcome to Gadling's weekly series on the Big Apple, Undiscovered New York. If there's one place outside of Hollywood or Bollywood that is inextricably connected to the movies, it is New York. From the city's important role in the beginnings of the American movie industry in early 1900's to its starring role in films like The French Connection and Ghost Busters, New York and the movies tend to go ...Bollywood Reaches the Ends of the Earth
Aug 11th, 2008 at 2:30PM: Is Indian musical cinema challenging Hollywood's world-wide pop culture dominance? Perhaps not in most places, but the 4-hour, song-and-dance-filled melodramas have fans in some pretty unexpected parts of the world. Shashank Bengali, the East Africa correspondent for McClatchy, has come across a growing number of young Ethiopians who have embraced Bollywood films and musical numbers even though ...Ohio's cinematic spots: An Intelligent Travel report
Jul 14th, 2008 at 2:30PM: Every time John Ur covers a state via its cinematic hot spots in his series "Cinematic Road Trip" for Intelligent Travel, I look to see which movies I've seen and what spots I know. It's always a pleasure.
This week Ur hit Ohio. Ohio, as he found, is diverse. He did skip over Columbus. I'll have to think about a movie that may have been filmed there. Columbus is not dull, but can slide under ...Cities on film - five travel writers share their favorites
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Jun 21st, 2008 at 11:00AM: My favorite movie of all time is City of God, a violent but highly-stylized drama about the slums of 1960's-era Rio de Janeiro. As much as I like the film's plot and characters, what stands out most is the way director Fernando Meirelles imbues the film with a distinctly Brazilian "feeling" in its style and narrative construction. I feel literally transported to Rio every time I watch it, swept up ...Human Rights Watch International Film Festival
Oct 12th, 2006 at 2:18PM: Last week or so I made a promise to start posting on more film festivals and I will live up to that promise as best as possible starting with today's find. The Human Rights Watch International Festival is a traveling film festival running from September 2006 to May 2007 which showcases feature films and documentary that stimulates heated and passionate conversation about human rights. In other ...Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - Montreal
Sep 30th, 2006 at 10:38PM: With so many film festivals to check out on the planet Earth, I don't know how I even go about picking one to mention here on Gadling. You'd think I'd just live the festival selection to our good friends at our sister-site Cinematical, but with the weather cooling down and snow flurries appearing somewhere in the U.S. or maybe even Canada at this time why not fly in to screen a flick or four? ...
