Features
Guided by Creative References: Plummy Tucker
Plummy Tucker found the time to talk to CineMontage about her varied career, including her upcoming projects. […]
Year: 2015
Features
The SFX Factor: Sound Editors and Re-recording Mixers Collaborate
Realizing a complex film or TV soundtrack takes a lot of care and attention, together with an advanced degree of collaboration between sound effects editors and re-recording mixers specializing in the same. […]
Tail Pop
David Lynch’s ‘Mulholland Drive’
As a child growing up in Minneapolis, I thought it’d be crazy to live in an arid, season-less place where earthquakes could strike at any moment, but at some point I realized that moving to California would be inevitable. […]
Features
The Wide, Wide West
When director Quentin Tarantino visualized his newest revenge Western, The Hateful Eight, as a 70mm widescreen production, sold it to distributor The Weinstein Company as such, and eventually upped the vintage widescreen aesthetic further by unearthing vintage lenses at Panavision and filming it in a format that Hollywood had not even attempted to use in almost 50 years — Ultra Panavision 70 — his intent was to make a piece of cinema that was a throwback to the rich, special- event theatrical spectacles of the analog era. […]
Features
‘Rizzoli & Isles’ Mystery Solved: Having Post and Production on the Same Lot Makes for a Better-Run Show
Since 2010, Rizzoli & Isles has been entertaining television audiences with the snappy banter between its two leads, Detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) and Medical Examiner Dr. Maura Isles (Sasha Alexander), and the complex murder mysteries they solve. […]
Book Reviews
Settling the Score
‘Music Editing for Film and Television’ gives ample attention to the artistry and personal character required to master this specialized profession. […]
Getting Organized
Choose Your Box
In early October of this year, a group of employees at Leftfield Entertainment, a large reality television production company in New York, faced such a choice, set more or less explicitly in just such terms. And, only a few weeks earlier, the employees of Deluxe Culver City, an LA-area post-production facility, made effectively the same choice themselves, albeit not as explicitly framed. […]
Departments
Robert A. “Dan” Dillon
Dan Dillon of Erie, Colorado passed away June 6, 2015 in Denver, Colorado after suffering a fall. He was 76. Born January 14, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois […]
Departments
Maciek Malish
Maciek Malish (Maciej Juliusz Malisz), 53, an acclaimed sound editor and winner of two Primetime Emmy Awards, passed away on September 12, 2015 after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle in Moorpark, California, near his home in Simi Valley. […]
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Danford B. Greene
Danford B. Greene, editor of such films as Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles and Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, among others, was an avid sportsman who had more nicknames than you could shake a golf club at […]
