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The Importance of a Helping Hand
A story of a personal experience I recently had with the Motion Picture Television Fund. […]
Columns
This Quarter in Film History
A ‘Lion’ For All Seasons
‘The Lion in Winter’ is probably one of the few perennially popular films from 1968. […]
Tail Pop
Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime’
Comedy, as they say, is all in the timing. Therefore, a comic’s best friend has got to be the film editor. But how does one become a good comedy editor? First, I believe, a person must have a natural instinct for what’s funny. […]
Book Reviews
Hidden Magic Revealed
‘The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic’ will stand as a deft introduction to the “invisible art” of editing and would prove highly useful as a textbook. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Fruitless ‘Aran’
Documentarian Robert J. Flaherty was regarded by the poet e.e. cummings as “a god among men,” an opinion echoed by Orson Welles, who compared Flaherty to the poets Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. […]
Tail Pop
Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’
I was quite late to the game in discovering my love of cinema. I grew up on a steady diet of Tom and Jerry, old sci-fi shows and MTV videos. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Persistence Has Its Rewards
I will forever remember Donn Cambern’s advice over 30 years ago in that grocery store: “Persistence, determination and optimism.” […]
Tail Pop
Mervyn LeRoy’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Fantasy has had a rather schizophrenic time in Hollywood––one year being the worst possible genre to pour money into unless it’s going straight to video, the next year sweeping the Academy Awards with 11 Oscars. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Vive le Francois!
In 1959, the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, revolutionized the concept of film editing and scene construction in international film. […]
Book Reviews
Crafting Cinema in the Third Dimension
Bernard Mendiburu’s book contains the requisite technical information about stereoscopic perception and its relation to cinema. […]
