My Most Memorable Film
Carol Littleton on ‘Places in the Heart’
The film touched Carol’s heart because its characters and events were recognizable to her family. […]
Year: 2015
Features
Oscar’s Favorite Re-Recording Mixers: 2015
This year’s Oscar nominees in the Sound Mixing category include an offering that profiles a conflicted long-gun wielder, one that focuses on a sadistic music teacher, a zany theatrical comedy, a journey across space and time, and a character overcoming adversity. […]
Book Reviews
Post Moderne: A Resource and Reference Tool
When nonlinear editing systems first appeared nearly 25 years ago, a lot of people scratched their heads. Who could edit with a picture you could barely see and a hard drive that couldn’t hold even a reel of images, on a new-fangled personal computer that was likely to crash? […]
Features
Oscar’s Favorite Film Editors: 2015
The Academy Award nominees for Film Editing this year exemplify the importance of the collaborative role of the editor in shaping a director’s vision. […]
Tail Pop
Jonathan Demme’s ‘Melvin and Howard’
As an inquisitive kid growing up in rural northwest Georgia, I was always looking for ways to keep from being bored — reading, watching TV or going to the movies. […]
Features
Oscar’s Favorite Sound Editors: 2015
This year’s Oscar nominees for Best Sound Editing transport us to three very distinct war zones (American Sniper, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Unbroken), take us for a roller-coaster ride inside a wormhole and a black hole (Interstellar), and put us in the mindset of a has-been movie star going out of his mind (Birdman). […]
Features
Courting Controversy: An Interview with the Dudes Who Cut ‘The Interview’
Film editing may be known as “the invisible art,” but picture editors Zene Baker and Evan Henke never expected that all their work cutting The Interview was in danger of becoming invisible itself. […]
Getting Organized
Will Labor Remain Relevant?
Let’s cut from our usual close-ups of Local 700 organizing to a wide shot of the state of the American labor movement. […]
This Quarter in Film History
When the South Rose Again
One century ago, on February 8, 1915, David Wark Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ premiered under its original title, The Clansman, at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles. […]
