March 2008

Though Leni Riefenstahl always denied she was a Nazi propagandist. Two recent biographies have unearthed damning evidence that she was a narcissist Nazi diva who legitimized the Nazi ideals of …

Hollywood’s oldest studio’s stock footage library came into existence in the mid-1920s. For the majors, whether or not to develop a stock footage library has always been a business decision.

Tass Filipos tells CineMontage about his experience as a music editor.

CineMontage asked Alex Kopit about his background and his approach to assistant editing.

In ‘Don’t Look Back’, the action unfolds at the rhythm of life.

‘The Eye is Quicker’ a book about editing that would best stand alongside Walter Murch’s In the ‘Blink of an Eye’ on an editor’s bookshelf.

Jeff Buchanan’s path to editing his first feature film, director Michel Gondry’s ‘Be Kind Rewind’ has been an unconventional one, skipping some of the usual stops along the way.

Production felt like endless problem solving––whereas editing was about storytelling using a vocabulary of images and sounds, and that excited me.