Features The Moviegoer: New Orleans Built the Foundation for an Editing Career April 4, 2025 By Christine Yoon Members of the Editors Guild like me — raised in New Orleans, the only child of […]
Tail Pop A Hairy Situation: Falling in Love Again with ‘King Kong’ April 3, 2025 By Kevin McMahon I f you were a boy in the 1950s, growing up in the New Jersey suburbs, and […]
Book Reviews Notes on Editing: Steve Hullfish Talks to Top Picture Editors in His Latest Book March 5, 2025 By Peter Tonguette Interview books with filmmakers constitute a full-fledged literary subgenre, but among all of the one-on-one conversations that […]
Tail Pop TAIL POP: ‘Do the Right Thing’ was Raw, Funny — and Sometimes Scary February 5, 2025 ‘I couldn’t deal with what I was seeing. I felt betrayed.’ […]
Book Reviews Such a Nasty Woman: How Dorothy Parker Ruled – and Rued – Hollywood February 5, 2025 When “talking pictures” took over in the early 1930s, Dorothy Parker was one of the many writers recruited by film studios to meet the needs of sound. […]
Book Reviews BOOK REVIEW: A Trio of New Books Excavates Some Big Movies from the 1980s October 8, 2024 Happily, there’s gold to be found on nearly every page of this engaging book. […]
Features O Pioneers! These Picture Editors Led the Way for Women in Post-Production During the Golden Years of the Studio System July 26, 2024 There was a small group of women who had exceptionally successful editing careers that started almost at the birth of cinema and continued for much of the 20th century. […]
Features Just Kidding: A Generation Later, ‘Parenthood’ Still Brings It All Back Home July 22, 2024 Though we GenXers might look back on our favorite ’80s films with some chagrin, “Parenthood” (1989) holds up. […]
Book Reviews Book Review: How ‘The Exorcist’ Became THE Monster Horror Hit of the Early 1970s January 10, 2024 The late filmmaker William Friedkin was fond of describing his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” as being a meditation on “the mystery of faith.” […]
Tail Pop Why Fox Nearly Pulled the Plug On the Original ‘Star Wars,’ the Biggest Space Epic of All Time February 9, 2024 The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought. […]