Forget It, Jake
At a preview screening of the film Chinatown in summer 1974, an official from the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is reported to have remarked, […]
At a preview screening of the film Chinatown in summer 1974, an official from the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is reported to have remarked, […]
A bright, white light was shrouding my vision. The thundering applause from several thousand hands was engulfing my hearing. All I could feel was the thumping of my heart as the adrenalin was coursing through my veins like a tidal wave. […]
From a black screen, a circle of children fades in and the little girl at its center sings a counting out song: Just you wait it won’t be long, The man in black will soon be here, […]
Director Miloš Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt premiered 20 years ago, on October 13, 1996, the closing night of the New York Film Festival. […]
Most directors strive to set a tone on their movie sets. Director Alan Rudolph, however, establishes the mood before the cameras roll. […]
The number of books dedicated specifically to motion picture editing is not large. There is a steady supply of how-to guides, often geared to specific technologies […]
Right, how do we want to do this? I know, let’s start gently with, ‘Welcome back to the show’ before the break…then we’ll go with the classic segue, ‘Someone else with high hopes is…’ Make sure you inflect at the end there. And we’ll finish with an epic, ‘Twenty nervous contestants…but only one…will change…his life…forever!!!’” […]
Imagine if the excruciatingly long time it took to render photo-realistic 3D images were reduced to practically no time at all. No, it’s not a pipe dream, it’s graphic processing unit (GPU) […]
by Kurt Kassulke, CAS Growing up in Minnesota, I was the son of a doctor mom and stepdad, and a […]
by Edward Landler Audiences first heard the nascent Rock ‘n’ Roll music in the movies in March 1955, when Bill […]
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