Columns
Take a Ride to the Jersey Side
While New York offers a 15 percent tax credit to qualifying productions, New Jersey tops it with a 20 percent tax credit. […]
Year: 2007
Features
Minding Their Beats and Cues: Despite Some Discord, Music Editors Play On
Stephanie Lowry provides a roadmap to some of the issues being dealt with by the rank and file music editors. […]
Features
The Sounds of ‘War’
Though many documentary producers cut corners on sound editing, relegating it to the bottom of the production budget, filmmaker Ken Burns is the opposite. […]
This Quarter in Film History
This Quarter in Film History: A ‘Charge’ Account
Though Jack Sullivan won an Oscar for Best Assistant Director for ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, it is the breathtaking editing by George Amy of the charge that makes the film a classic. […]
Tail Pop
Fred Zinnemann’s ‘Member of the Wedding’ (1952)
Watching ‘Member of the Wedding’ made me aware for the first time of the art of editing. […]
Book Reviews
Against Condemnation: New York and the Post-Censor Movie Culture
Raymond J. Haberski Jr.’s fascinating history of the film culture wars covers a series of controversies from the 1950s and ‘60s up to the early ‘70s. […]
Features
Cutting Up in the Workplace: ‘The Office’ Editors Have Too Much Fun on the Job
You don’t find too many editors who work office jobs. David Rogers and Dean Holland do, however. Only their office is ‘The Office’. […]
This Quarter in Film History
This Quarter in Film History: Warning Shot
‘The Manchurian Candidate’ reveals how the two sides of extremism can destroy centrist politics. […]
Tail Pop
Carol Reed’s ‘The Third Man’ (1949)
‘The Third Man’ cleverly uses its Viennese locations to deepen the intrigue; the city itself becomes a character in the film. […]
Getting Organized
Labor Movement Down But Not Out
The EFCA isn’t going to cure all that ails us, but such a law would give unions better tools to fight for fair wages and better working conditions. […]
