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Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in “The Way We Were.” PHOTOS: PHOTOFEST
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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.”
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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
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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 […]
Steve Hullfish.
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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
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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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TWO OF US: Siskel, left, and Ebert in 1981, with their mascot Spot.
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Book Review: How Siskel & Ebert Became the Most Famous Movie Critics In America

March 18, 2024
Nostalgic fans of Siskel and Ebert may be the only readers to welcome all this detail.

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SECRET CODE: Marlene Dietrich and Victor McLaglen in “Dishonored.”
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BOOK REVIEW: A Deep Dive Into the Secret History of Espionage and Entertainment

November 6, 2023
  By Betsy A. McLane Not all actors and writers are spies,  but every spy has a bit of actor […]
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BOOK REVIEW: How a 1941 Disney Animators’ Strike Changed Hollywood

January 5, 2023
By Betsy McLane Jake Friedman deserves a rousing hurrah for writing “The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s […]

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