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Is the Leonard Maltin Movie Guide app ready for its closeup?

by David Winograd (Dec 9th, 2009)

Long before people went to the Internet for film information, movie buffs annually bought the latest revisions of huge paperback books like The Leonard Maltin Movie Guide and Videohound's Golden Movie Retriever. These were, and are, massive reference books; the current version of Maltin comes in at ...

Insomnia Film Festival postponed due to server problems

by Cory Bohon (Nov 14th, 2008)

A few weeks ago, we told you about this year's Insomnia Film Festival -- a contest for high school and college students to create a 3-minute film in only 24 hours. However, eager contestants were greeted with some unfortunate news yesterday when they loaded the Apple Insomnia website. Apple notes ...

TUAW On Scene: from the premiere of Welcome to Macintosh

by Michael Rose (Apr 17th, 2008)

Here's to the crazy ones. TUAW reader Tony Walla got to attend the Wisconsin premiere of the new Mac-doc film that's sure to be a crowd pleaser (depending on the crowd), and he sent us this report. On April 6th, the documentary "Welcome to Macintosh" premiered at the Wisconsin Film Festival in ...

Welcome to Macintosh documentary to premiere on 4/6

by Mat Lu (Mar 24th, 2008)

The new documentary Welcome to Macintosh has just been been accepted to the Wisconsin Film Festival, and is scheduled to make its debut on April 6. The film features interviews with a variety of Mac-notables like Andy Hertzfeld, Guy Kawasaki and others, and traces the history of the development of ...

IFC films now available in iTunes Store

by Brian Liloia (Feb 21st, 2007)

IFC Entertainment has just announced the immediate availability of select independent films in the iTunes Store, including IFC's 2007 Independent Spirit Award (think Oscars for indies) nominees. All thirteen films, six of which are nominees for the award ceremony this weekend, are available for ...

Support doc: MacBook may run warm because rear vent is blocked

by David Chartier (Jun 5th, 2006)

First Engadget reported it, and now there's an official Apple Support document explaining the issue: some MacBooks (and Pros) are apparently making it out of the factory with a thin piece of clear plastic blocking covering the rear vent. The article states the obvious: that this plastic is used to ...

How to Create Your Own ILM for Almost Nothing

by C.K. Sample, III (Aug 16th, 2005)

Victor, over at DownloadSquad, has posted one of the most amazing How Tos. If you are at all interested in DIY film-making, you're going to want to go check it out. There's a lot of good gems in the tutorial, including a link to Director's Boards, which I didn't know about and Blender, ...