Columns
Job Negotiation Is a Contract Sport
Knowing these things before you start a job can save you a lot of headaches later on. […]
Year: 2009
Features
Making the Right Connections: Dana Glauberman Flies Solo as an Editor
Since she discovered her passion for post-production while studying film at the University of California Santa Barbara, there was nothing up in the air about the career choice of Dana Glauberman, A.C.E. […]
Tail Pop
John Landis’ ‘Animal House’
My father, the late actor/director Ray Danton, was a gifted man. He was handsome, had a baritone voice, stood over six feet and weighed a chiseled 190 pounds in his prime. […]
Features
Follow the Blu-ray Way: Restored, Hi-Rez ‘Oz’ Is a Horse of a Different Color
The Wizard of Oz re-released on home video? Again? That’s a question that’s going to be asked a lot as the studios finally dip into their libraries to release evergreen films, ingrained in our cultural consciousness, in the Blu-ray format. And nothing is quite as ingrained as The Wizard of Oz, one of the most watched and beloved films of all time. […]
Features
Still Loving ‘Lucy’
From the CineMontage archives, a 2009 interview with the award-winning editor, Dann Cahn, about the beginnings of the I Love Lucy show and the ground-breaking editorial requirements for the three-camera production. […]
Features
C5 Kicks Out the Jams At Its State-of-the-Art House of Sound
C5’s 20-year history as one of the top houses for feature film post in the city continues to grow. […]
Features
Score Keepers: Mixers Who Capture Composers’ Cues
They say brevity is the soul of wit, and scoring mixers seem to have a sense of humor about what their job entails. “We get coffee for the composer. End of inter- view,” Alan Meyerson jokes. Well, not so fast. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Frankly, Selznick Did Give a Damn
Why David O. Selznick feared a tombstone epitaph as the man who made Gone with the Wind (1939) is mysterious. This film was his Tara as much as it was Miss Scarlett’s. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: A Career Plan? Who, Me?
Some people have a plan. I did not, do not, and am still not sure what I would like to be when I grow up. Oh, I am mostly grown, middle-aged, halfway to somewhere. Opportunities and luck drew me. […]
Features
Disney’s Great Green Hope: Can ‘The Princess and the Frog’ Save Hand-Drawn Animation?
After the death of its founder, the Walt Disney Company struggled. It hadn’t had a big animated hit in years, until Ron Clements and John Musker directed The Little Mermaid in 1989, kicking off a series of hit films including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. […]