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Expressionist Portrait of a Serial Killer
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, […]
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This Quarter in Film History
In Like Flynt
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. […]
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Suzy Elmiger on ‘Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle’
Most directors strive to set a tone on their movie sets. Director Alan Rudolph, however, establishes the mood before the cameras roll. […]
Book Reviews
Of Montage & VFX, A Pedagogical Analysis
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 […]
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When Reality Loses Its Voice
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!!!’” […]
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Fill ‘Er Up with High-Speed Octane For GPU Rendering
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) […]
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Still Telling a Sonic Story
by Kurt Kassulke, CAS Growing up in Minnesota, I was the son of a doctor mom and stepdad, and a […]
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Sex, Race and Rock ’n’ Roll
by Edward Landler Audiences first heard the nascent Rock ‘n’ Roll music in the movies in March 1955, when Bill […]
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Satyajit Ray’s The Apu Trilogy
by Barbara Pokras, ACE I was lost. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. It […]
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Murder Is His Business
Seventy years ago, on April 11, 1947, Charles Chaplin — one of the central figures of world cinema and as influential to the art of moviemaking as to the establishment of the Hollywood film industry — premiered his latest film, Monsieur Verdoux (subtitled A Comedy of Murders) at the Broadway Theatre in New York City and at the Academy Award Theatre in Los Angeles. […]
