My Most Memorable Film
Tom Fleischman on ‘GoodFellas’
Almost 25 years after its premiere, GoodFellas (1990) is still a shocking movie about organized crime. […]
Film
This Quarter in Film History
Les Beatles Nouvelle Vague: A Hard Day For Night
It is hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, the young, long-haired Liverpudlian lads John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (known collectively as the Beatles) were considered to be an insidious force, challenging British as well as American stereotypes of youthful masculinity, just as their distinctive, infectious “beat music” threatened to take over the pop charts of both countries. […]
Book Reviews
Learn the Craft, But Don’t Overlook the Art
It’s not that ‘Grammar of the Edit’ is wrong. It is just incomplete. […]
Tail Pop
Ronald Neame’s ‘The Poseidon Adventure’
The emergency lights flickered on and off. I found myself 30 feet in the air hanging onto the edge of a railing. […]
Tail Pop
Jon Turteltaub’s ‘National Treasure’
Movies — or films, as I would call them when I was growing up in the United Kingdom — have always been a huge part of my life. […]
This Quarter in Film History
A Star is Reborn, Remade, Remodeled
Hollywood’s business is the merchandising and recycling of myth — especially the myth of the tragic Hollywood star (Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, etc.) in biopic or documentary form. […]
My Most Memorable Film
Dane A. Davis on ‘The Matrix’
When sound designer/supervising sound editor Dane A. Davis, MPSE, attended the audience preview for The Matrix (1999), he — as well as directors Andy and Lana Wachowski (then known as the Wachowski Brothers) — had no idea what to expect. […]
Book Reviews
To Protect and Preserve
Almost everyone in the business has heard the statistics: Only 10 percent of films made between 1910 and 1920 still exist; 20 percent of the films made in the 1920s survive […]
Tail Pop
Mark Rydell’s ‘The Cowboys’
In our family, movies were special events because most of our entertainment came from television. So I don’t remember seeing a lot of films, but there is one that holds a very special place in my heart. […]
Tail Pop
Fernando Meirelles’ ‘City of God’
Shortly after graduating film school, I saw the motion picture City of God (Cidade de Deus) in a small art house theatre. I remember thinking to myself, “This is one of the best movies I have ever seen.” […]
