Features
Amman, with a Movie Camera: an Editing Workshop for Jordanian Film Students
The lights went up. The audience of eager editing students didn’t seem to know whether to weep or applaud. So they did both.
Month: May 2010
Book Reviews
Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures
Columns
Tax Credit Where It’s Due
New York Governor David A. Patterson’s proposal would allow filmmakers to be eligible for a 30 percent tax credit on qualified expenditures.
Features
Seven Samurai: Oscar’s Choice Cuts
“Let me just start out by saying that I have everything before Avatar, and then Avatar––because there was nothing normal about how we did this film”- Stephen Rivkin
Union Made
UNION MADE: The Lady in the Library
People seem to have the impression that I sit in a big office with millions of films which I loan out to interested borrowers… My actual job involves locating stock shots or establishing shots to include in various television shows and feature productions.
This Quarter in Film History
THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY: O Brothel, Where Art Thou?
Of all his creations, ‘The Apartment’ is Billy Wilder’s most influential and greatest film.
Features
Pietro Scalia Maestro of Movie Editing Meets the Merrie Men of Sherwood Forest
Film combines all the art forms––drama, theatre, photography, dance, music, architecture––but editing is very special and specific to film. It was borne out of film; it didn’t exist before that. There’s no other art form like it.
Features
Trail of the Arrow The Legend of Robin Hood on Film
By the time movies arrived, all the elements of the legend were in place—except for a cohesive plot line.
Tail Pop
Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ (1969)
Warner Bros. released Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, firing a warning shot to the older generation that they better change with the times or risk irrelevance.
Features
Sounds Like Team Spirit: When Mixers Match
Mixing teams work best when the chemistry is good, the working style is compatible and the size of the job calls for a team approach.
