Sixty years after its premiere in June 1954 in Japan, of all places (New York and Los Angeles followed in July), ‘On the Waterfront’ is still regarded as a seminal film because of its immense influence on acting. […]
The many people who create sound,are likewise invisible to the public — even as their contributions are central to making onscreen worlds. They too are part of the occult magic of cinema. […]
When I was growing up in the 1960s, the entertainer Danny Kaye seemed to be everywhere — today traveling the world on behalf of UNICEF, tonight hosting his own CBS variety show. My classmates and I knew the songs from Hans Christian Andersen (1952), even if we boys didn’t always admit it. […]
Would you try to change your essential being? Well, in effect that’s precisely what’s being asked of us as editors, and the solution is to apply a rigorous course of treatment. […]
Almost 25 years after its premiere, GoodFellas (1990) is still a shocking movie about organized crime. […]
It is hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, the young, long-haired Liverpudlian lads John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (known collectively as the Beatles) were considered to be an insidious force, challenging British as well as American stereotypes of youthful masculinity, just as their distinctive, infectious “beat music” threatened to take over the pop charts of both countries. […]
It’s not that ‘Grammar of the Edit’ is wrong. It is just incomplete. […]
The emergency lights flickered on and off. I found myself 30 feet in the air hanging onto the edge of a railing. […]
Although it is often considered something of a specialist art form, an appreciation of the intricacies of Foley walking can be extremely useful for any post professional working in film and TV. […]
Movies — or films, as I would call them when I was growing up in the United Kingdom — have always been a huge part of my life. […]
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