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Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in “The Way We Were.” PHOTOS: PHOTOFEST

BOOK REVIEW: Misty Watercolor Memories: How ‘The Way We Were’ Made Movie Magic.

June 12, 2023

By Peter Tonguette How appealing — and how naïve — it would be to imagine that when a talented group […]

PHOTO: PHOTOFEST. LONG LENS: Jimmy Stewart in “Rear Window.”

BOOK REVIEW: A New View of Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rear Window’

September 4, 2025

By Peter Tonguette In what may have represented a television first (and last) in June of 1972, Alfred Hitchcock […]

John Rosenberg, center, during production of “The Blue Light.” PHOTO: IMDB

Screen Gems: A New Book Looks at Editing Careers From Multiple Angles

August 28, 2025

By Betsy A. McLane For everyone who hopes to become a successful motion picture editor and has questions how […]

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 […]

SOPHISTICATED LADY: “I can’t talk about Hollywood,” Parker said. “It was a horror to me.” PHOTO: PHOTOFEST

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.

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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.

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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.”

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