Basecamp Productions

03/06/2020

The launch of a new open access platform ushers in a new era of accessibility for the Institution

01/08/2020

Public Domain Day was January 1st. Here are some films, books, and music that became public domain.

Starting today anyone can legally remix and republish classics that include Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Gift of Black Folk, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr.

01/02/2020

After 95 years of exclusivity, this is an expiration date worth celebrating

11/12/2019

Several area locations from Three Lakes Park in Henrico to Berkeley Plantation in Charles City, to the cobblestone streets of Petersburg, serve as the backdrop for a film chronicling the life of abolitionist Harriet Tubman.

11/01/2019

And the source of Tubman’s “Spidey sense.”

10/27/2019

Hawke was this year’s biggest guest, drawing a sold-out crowd to the Paramount Theater on the Downtown Mall.

10/14/2019

Star’s complaint to Vue has provoked an outpouring of disgruntled filmgoers

10/03/2019

His title sequences for “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Footloose” and countless others, as well as for TV, helped elevate the art form.

10/02/2019

A new box set includes four of the features that made her work a cornerstone of American cinema—and established her as a pioneer for women behind the camera.

09/27/2019

It will be interesting to see what the Local 705 union does. Possible far-reaching implications for the film business.

The LAPD has opened a hate crime investigation, and longtime Ryan Murphy costumer Sarah de Sa Rego wants IATSE Local 705 members to demand her expulsion.