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Fred M. Wilcox’s ‘Forbidden Planet’
Things are not always what they originally appear to be. Throughout life, our experiences shape our personal growth. […]
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960)
Viewing the shower scene for the first time, I don’t think I was aware of its status as one of the most famous sequences in cinematic history. Little did I know that my fascination (and later my career) in editing would be traced back to this moment in time. […]
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Gus Van Sant’s ‘Good Will Hunting’ (1997)
Will Hunting made a choice to leave his comfort zone and follow his heart to California. He ‘had to go see about a girl.’ At the end of 1997, I too made a choice. I had to go see about Hollywood. […]
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Mike Figgis’ ‘Leaving Las Vegas’
Over time, I realized I was married to an alcoholic. For me, Leaving Las Vegas was the film that most moved me in my adult life. Nicolas Cage plays Ben, an alcoholic Hollywood writer struggling greatly with the disease. […]
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Wes Anderson’s ‘Rushmore’
There are those wonderful, albeit rare occasions when you are sent a script and immediately a sense of excitement overtakes you. Such was the case in 1997 when Wes Anderson sent me Rushmore. I felt so…lucky! […]
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Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly’s ‘Singin’ in the Rain’
Growing up a twin and one of nine children meant that there wasn’t very much alone time. […]
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Leo McCarey’s ‘Duck Soup’
In Syracuse New York in 1967, my dad’s RCA console TV received three broadcast channels. One of them was the local PBS station. That’s where I first saw Duck Soup, the classic Marx Brothers comedy. […]
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Michael Powell’s ’49th Parallel’
No matter how hardcore a cinephile you might be, there are always discoveries to be made in an old film never seen or even heard of. […]
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Norman Z. MacLeod’s ‘Topper’
Ghosts. I guess we’re never very far from them. You can’t really see them, but they’re always there. They’re quiet. Every now and then, one pops up, moves the furniture and leaves. You turn around to see the drapes swish and your life has changed. What was that!? […]
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Peter Bogdanovich’s ‘Paper Moon’
When I was growing up in the 1970s, there were at least two cinemas in my town that used to play double features in the old tradition. […]
