Book Reviews
A Fantasy of Editing Reality
The very title of this book makes its basic premise dubious.
Columns
Tail Pop
Sydney Pollack’s ‘The Way We Were’
The 1970s were years of change for me. I was pregnant with my first child and struggling with the decision to either give up a career that I had worked long and hard to achieve or subject my unborn child to a mother who could be gone more than not.
My Most Memorable Film
Richard Chew on ‘Risky Business’
In the summer of 1983, Risky Business opened to healthy box office returns and launched Tom Cruise’s rise to superstar status.
This Quarter in Film History
The Colbert Report: It Almost Didn’t Happen One Night
Eighty years after its February 22 premiere, ‘It Happened One Night’ remains one of the best films Hollywood has ever made.
Book Reviews
Lost in Transition
It’s not at uncommon, for transitions to be the editor’s focus, Jeffrey Michael Bays tries to remedy that.
Tail Pop
Robert Ellis Miller’s ‘The Heart is a Lonely Hunter’
I am a graduate teaching assistant in Professor Alan Downer’s Twentieth-Century Theatre class at Princeton University in 1968. Along with several hundred students and a handful of other TAs, I am sitting in a lecture hall, eagerly awaiting Downer’s capsule reviews of the movies currently playing in town.
Union Made
UNION MADE: The Importance of Keeping the Union in the Mix
I have been a re-recording mixer for 33 years, and the idea of turning a production track into a full, complete and seamless sound track — that hopefully enhances and advances the project — still fascinates and excites me.
My Most Memorable Film
Carlton Kaller on ‘Almost Famous’
Scattered throughout the films of Cameron Crowe are moments in which the director’s adolescent rock wordsmith background shine through.
Book Reviews
Blurring the Line Between VFX and Animation
What’s fascinating about ‘The CG Story’, therefore, is the realization that live action has become more like animation and vice-versa.
Tail Pop
Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’
When I was a child, I had childish dreams to be a superhero or a pro athlete. Alas, my only super power was secondary perception, the ability to say, after something had happened, “I knew that would happen.” It did not take me long to learn that the Justice League was not looking for a hero with such an annoying super trait.
