Tail Pop
Bruce Robinson’s WITHNAIL AND I (1987)
No doubt about it, this is a very funny film. But it is more than just the string of lunatic comedic moments; it also examines themes of friendship and growing up.
Month: July 2009
Features
Left Brain Power: Assistant Editors
Run Efficient Cutting Rooms
The expansion of digital filmmaking into HD and beyond has seen film become an anachronism, rather than a competitor or adjunct to digital. Many of the traditional assistant’s duties are being re-shaped or re-tasked.
Getting Organized
‘Storm’ Watch: Weathering the Job Action Against LLP
While this fight has proven difficult and remains incomplete, there are encouraging lessons to take away from this job action as well.
Features
The Guilty Pleasures of Story Analysts: Movies They Hate to Love…
CineMontage has turned to the Guild’s erudite, critical and scholarly branch––the story analysts––and asked them to venture deep inside their inner film geeks, to forget that their professional reputations could be at stake and to admit to the world––or at least to their fellow Guild members––what their favorite guilty pleasure movies are.
Features
Mix Master: Kevin O’Connell’s Brilliant Sound Career
“I believe that movies are getting more and more complex visually, and the more visually complex they get, the more they have to rely on the sound to sell those visual effects.” – Kevin O’Connell
Union Made
UNION MADE: The Mixing Console as a Musical Instrument
As a conductor leads an orchestra, and a composer creates ideas and sounds, so does a mixer. All the elements of dialogue, sound effects, music, creativity and technical ability coalesced as a career choice. My goal of sound for picture evolved.
Book Reviews
Crafting Cinema in the Third Dimension
Bernard Mendiburu’s book contains the requisite technical information about stereoscopic perception and its relation to cinema.
This Quarter in Film History
THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY:
Renoir’s War ‘Rules’
Beneath its seemingly innocuous appearance, the story attacks the very structure of our society… The audience recognized this. The truth is that they recognized themselves.
Features
Goin’ Back Up the Country:
‘Woodstock’ Re-Revisited with Hours of Bonus Footage
What truly makes Untold Stories a memorable event, however, are appearances from five artists––Paul Butterfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, Mountain and Johnny Winter––whose performances have never appeared in any of the previous film versions.
Features
Sounds Like the 1930s: The Mixing of ‘Public Enemies’
Re-recording mixers Kevin O’Connell and partner Beau Borders have been working tirelessly since last October on mixing Michael Mann’s period gangster crime drama Public Enemies. Mann’s passion for detail and authenticity has been the hallmark of the film’s sonic nuances, according to O’Connell.
