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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.” […]

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. […]

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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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Kill the Documentary’ Takes Aim at an Old Art Form

July 7, 2022

A new book takes aim at the art of documentary from a critical, leftist viewpoint. […]

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Art and Craft of Motion Picture Editing’

May 3, 2022

A new book looks at the craft of picture editing from a fresh perspective […]

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BOOK REVIEW: ‘Editing for Directors’ Has Advice for Aspiring Helmers

March 31, 2022

What Directors need to know about editing […]

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