Like many picture editors from an earlier era, Chris Willingham, ACE, never went to film school — the official kind, anyway. Instead, it might be said that Willingham went to …
Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sight & Sound, Film Comment and Cineaste. He can be reached at tonguetteauthor2@aol.com.
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BOOK REVIEW: What the ‘New Hollywood’ Won — and Lost — as it Reinvented Movies
11 minutes readIf there is anything that has proven even more enduring than New Hollywood movies, surely it is the cottage industry of books about New Hollywood movies.
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Radical Thinking: How the Post Team Armed up for ‘One Battle After Another’
15 minutes readLeonardo DiCaprio stars as Bob Ferguson, a long-haired, amiable, long-retired radical whose past participation in the revolutionary group the French 75 has led him to adopt an underground lifestyle.
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Book Reviews
Another Look: ‘A Star is Born’ Has Proven to be Relevant Across Generations. A New Book Examines Why.
12 minutes read“A Star Is Born” is something of a best-in-class example of how a strong property can stand up to multiple remakes that span generations.
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Features
How Former Assistant Charlie Greene Moved up to the Big Chair with ‘Is This Thing On?’
12 minutes read“I wanted the movie to feel like New York in the late ‘90s.”
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Picture editor Don Zimmerman, ACE, had an abundant sense of humor. He had to. Over the course of a career that stretched back to the late 1960s and continued through …
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Book Reviews
Fun Junk: How Billy Wilder and Gloria Swanson Made a Showbiz Classic With ‘Sunset Boulevard’
11 minutes read“‘Sunset Boulevard’ is what my wife would call, and I would agree with her, fun junk,” Woody Allen once said. “You know, it’s great fun, but it’s a junky and …
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By Peter Tonguette In what may have represented a television first (and last) in June of 1972, Alfred Hitchcock appeared on “The Dick Cavett Show” to expound on the …
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‘Superman’: Editors William Hoy and Craig Alpert Talk About Helping Reinvent the Quintessential Man of Steel
12 minutes readBy Peter Tonguette Superman has been given many monikers in the course of seeking truth, justice, and the American Way: the Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, the Last …
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Features
The ‘Deli’: How the Editors Behind Hulu’s Cross-Cultural Series Broke Into the ‘Crimedy’ Genre
12 minutes readBy Peter Tonguette The premise of the hit Hulu series “Deli Boys” could be the stuff of a tough-minded crime drama or gritty thriller. The show revolves around the …