Columns
When Tax Incentives Become Incendiary
The Editors Guild, along with Local 52 and other New York production unions, will continue to lobby the politicians in the future and promote our industry.
Columns
Columns
The Fine Line of Freelancing
Freelancing is certainly not for everyone.
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Lost in Translation
Roberto Rossellini’s Open City (Roma, Cittá Aperta), which premiered in Italy 65 years ago in September 1945, revolutionized the perception and marketing of foreign films in America when it opened in New York just five months later.
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Eisenstein on the Breach
The Battleship Potemkin, or Potemkin as it is generally known, galvanized filmmakers around the world because of the audacity of its film editing––especially in the iconic Odessa Steps massacre. Its impact on editors and directors since its premiere in Moscow on Christmas Eve, 1925 is immeasurable.
Columns
They’re Assistant Editors, Not Gofers
It is not your job to do the editor’s laundry or walk the director’s dog or baby-sit the lead actor’s children.
Book Reviews
This Year, Book ‘Em!
Here are our recommendations of actual books on paper for the film fan on your list.
Tail Pop
David Lean’s ‘The Bridge on The River Kwai’
Unlike many of my colleagues, I did not grow up a film nut. I was a sports nut, particularly baseball, and following my parents’ lead, a Gershwin, Sinatra and Broadway musical nut. For me, movies were fun, but nothing like watching the Yankees lose (a rare occurrence) or pretend- ing I was Frank, or Oscar Levant playing “Rhapsody in Blue” before a rapt audience at Carnegie Hall.
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Hitchcock Railway
The signature Alfred Hitchcock thriller frequently involves an innocent person accused of a politically motivated murder committed by twisted villains who are terrorists, Nazis, fascists or Communists.
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Fred M. Wilcox’s ‘Forbidden Planet’
Things are not always what they originally appear to be. Throughout life, our experiences shape our personal growth.
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