Features
The Moviegoer: New Orleans Built the Foundation for an Editing Career
By Christine Yoon Members of the Editors Guild like me — raised in New Orleans, the only child of […]
Columns
Tail Pop
A Hairy Situation: Falling in Love Again with ‘King Kong’
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
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
‘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
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
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
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
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
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
The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought.
