Book Reviews
Wide, Wide World
In the Jean-Luc Godard film Contempt (1963), director Fritz Lang, portraying himself, acidly jokes that CinemaScope “wasn’t meant for human beings. Just for snakes and funerals.”
Month: July 2011
Getting Organized
You Never Call!
Keeping the Guild in the dark about whom they employ and otherwise thwarting communication amongst their employees are some of the more effective ways a non-union employer can prevent its employees from organizing.
Features
The Editor as Consigliore: Dan Lebental Partners with Director Jon Favreau for Sci-Fi Western
Through several TV projects and five feature films, the relationship between editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., and director Jon Favreau has evolved to the point where Lebental views himself as Favreau’s creative consultant when it comes to helping the director figure out exactly where his movies are going.
Features
Post-Post-Production: Sound Bites from Guild Retirees
Motion Picture Editors Guild retirees are goldmines of information; they are walking encyclopedias of the industry with priceless experience and wisdom to offer. While the technology may have changed, the necessity of navigating through the challenges of the craft and the politics still remains.
Features
Connecting the DOTS: Archiving in the Digital Age
Archiving of media assets has been, and always will be, the red-headed step- child of the movie and TV business.
Tail Pop
Mike Figgis’ ‘Leaving Las Vegas’
Over time, I realized I was married to an alcoholic. For me, Leaving Las Vegas was the film that most moved me in my adult life. Nicolas Cage plays Ben, an alcoholic Hollywood writer struggling greatly with the disease.
Union Made
UNION MADE: A Long and Winding Career Path
I arrived in Hollywood with no contacts––and as I observed the inner workings of the business, I felt that what I learned in college was horribly insufficient for me to succeed. So I opened myself up to any job I could get, observing everyone and everything.
Features
Mixing ‘Transformers’ in 7.1 A Q&A with Russell and Bay
“Sound is 50 percent of the movie; it is critical.” – Michael Bay
