Columns
Job Negotiation Is a Contract Sport
Knowing these things before you start a job can save you a lot of headaches later on.
Month: November 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.
