Tail Pop
Elia Kazan’s ‘On The Waterfront'(1954)
On the Waterfront represented a whole new style of picture-making to me. Filmed on the actual locations, it grabbed its audience and never let go.
Year: 2008
Features
MPTF Aids Industry Workers in Keeping Fiscally and Physically Fit
For 87 years, since its beginning, “Taking care of our own”––regardless of ability to pay––has been the primary mission of the Motion Picture & Television Fund, as it offers health care, child care, social and charitable services, and a first-rate retirement community.
Features
Smooth Operators: QC and Tape Ops Adjust for the Digital Age
Watching movies and TV shows all day––and getting paid for it–– sounds like a dream job, but it’s serious work for quality control and videotape operators. Both are technical jobs, but the digital age has morphed them into a way more creative and challenging endeavor.
Columns
New York’s United Front
The real strength of this process comes from the fact that the unions cooperate with each other, and work together to negotiate the deals collectively.
Book Reviews
Coloring Book
The tools for color correction will evolve fairly rapidly and there may be a necessity for a second edition of this book at a certain point in the future.
Tail Pop
Luis Buñuel’s ‘THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE’ (1972)
Looking back at ‘Discreet Charm’, the time manipulation feels precious.
Book Reviews
L’Arrivée du 3D
The book is a thorough, precise, comprehensive and deeply revealing analysis of its subject.
Getting Organized
Honor Thy Ancestors
Union staff can’t take the place of the membership. That means you have a role, too.
Union Made
UNION MADE: Joy, Luck and an Altman Connection
My career has been filled with luck and many serendipitous moments that brought me to this space in time.
This Quarter in Film History
This Quarter in Film History: Berkeley in the Thirties
A fluffy musical with an innocuous title, Gold Diggers of 1933, contains a mother lode of social comment from characters who are thinly disguised call girls.
