Features
Action’s Angels: The Superheroines of The Cutting Room
The real superheroes of these films can be found not only behind the scenes, but below the line. In the editing suites, for instance. […]
Year: 2006
Features
Cut and Run: Where MTV Editing Got Its Chops
A zippier editing style has achieved institutional status, through MTV […]
Book Reviews
The Zen of the Dance
Every few years, a motion picture editor should read this book to clear the field of view and refresh the vision about what the craft is all about. […]
Features
Video Spawned the Editing Star: What Hath MTV Wrought?
Has MTV reinvented or hobbled the art and craft of editing? […]
Features
The Self-Composed Music Editor
Scott Stambler is normally a music editor––but on this version of Payback, he’s composing for the first time. […]
Features
Altman’s Sound Theory
“Sound has been a very important element in my work. Consequently, it’s something I’ve always paid a lot of attention to.” – Robert Altman […]
Getting Organized
Go Figure: Contrary to the Belief of Some, Unionizing Doesn’t Just Happen
Organizing cannot be done without a very high level of discussion and interaction between the people who will be affected by it. […]
Features
Original Vitagraph Studio Enters Its Second Century
The Vitagraph Studio was the veritable cradle of the film industry. […]
Book Reviews
Recalling the Esteemed O’Steen
‘Cut To The Chase’ is one of the very best anecdotal histories of filmmaking in print. […]
This Quarter in Film History
This Quarter in Film History: An Affair to Remember?
‘Last Year at Marienbad’ remains one of the most famous films made, perhaps because it is so elegant––and yet so infuriating. […]
