Columns
Maurice Schell on ‘All That Jazz’
by Peter Tonguette As personal projects go, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz is hard to top. The 1979 musical drama […]
Articles by Peter Tonguette
Columns
Suzy Elmiger on ‘Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle’
Most directors strive to set a tone on their movie sets. Director Alan Rudolph, however, establishes the mood before the cameras roll.
Columns
Joanie Diener on ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’
The wordsmith and the war correspondent were an item for not even a decade. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn made each other’s acquaintance in 1936, married in 1940 and divorced in 1945.
My Most Memorable Film
Walter Murch on ‘Apocalypse Now’
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) opens with a bang that befits its subject: the Vietnam War.
My Most Memorable Film
Chic Ciccolini on ‘Sophie’s Choice’
In a career spanning nearly 45 years, supervising sound editor Anthony J. “Chic” Ciccolini III has worn many hats.
My Most Memorable Film
Larry Blake on ‘Traffic’
Steven Soderbergh and Larry Blake have been making movies together since the start of their professional lives.
My Most Memorable Film
Curt Sobel on ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’
For the first 10 days of their collaboration, composer Jack Nitzsche did not say more than two words to music editor Curt Sobel.
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.
Features
‘Interstellar’ Exploration (of Space as Well as Filmmaking)
Few people are privy to the secrets of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s new science-fiction adventure Interstellar — and those who are aren’t talking. One person who knows Interstellar more intimately than most is editor Lee Smith, ACE,
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Paul Hirsch on ‘Blow Out’
His most memorable film? Don’t ask that of Paul Hirsch, ACE. The Academy Award-winning editor does not believe in the concept, and a quick perusal of the more than 40 films to his credit suggests the futility of that exercise: Is it Carrie (1976) or Star Wars (1977)? The Empire Strikes Back (1980) or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) — or something else?
