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David Bruskin on ‘Hero’
We all want to be the hero of our own story. Such a wish is at the center of director Stephen Frears’ 1992 film ‘Hero.’
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Book Reviews
A Cutting Room Colloquy
Steve Hullfish knows how to talk with editors. In addition to writing five previous books (all published by Focal Press), including The Art and Technology of Digital Color Correction and Avid Uncut, he has extensive post-production credits in both television and film.
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12 Anti-Authoritarian Men
MGM’s The Dirty Dozen, directed by Robert Aldrich, had its world premiere at Loew’s Capitol Theatre on Broadway in New York City 50 years ago, on June 15, 1967. Based on the novel by E.M. Nathanson, it depicts 12 court-martialed American soldiers sentenced to death or long-term prison sentences.
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From VHS to VFX, a Career Is Born
It all started when I was four years old. I was being forced against my will to eat the most vile of all beans, the dreaded lima. In protest, I made a film starring my cabbage patch dolls to illustrate the grossness of the bean. Okay, you might ask, how does a four-year-old make a movie? With her father as camera operator, of course! I lined up the dolls, instructed my dad to set up our trusty VHS camera, and told him to start rolling.
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Julie Anne Lau on ‘Another Froggy Evening’
For four years in the mid-1990s, Julie Anne Lau counted among her collaborators a frog prone to singing and dancing, a conspiratorial-minded duck and a wascally wabbit.
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Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’
I grew up in Deep River in Northern Ontario, Canada in the 1970s, an idyllic place to live as far as catching frogs and running through the woods, but I didn’t get to see movies in the cinema very often.
Book Reviews
Planet Waves – Walter Murch and the Sounds of the Solar System
The title of Lawrence Weschler’s book, “Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists,” is complex and slightly mysterious, fitting for an exploration into the mind of legendary picture editor, sound designer, sound editor, re-recording mixer, writer and director Walter Murch, ACE, CAS, MPSE.
Book Reviews
A Guide to Putting the ‘Pro’ in Pro Tools
If you’re a Pro Tools instructor, ‘Audio Production Basics With Pro Tools | First’ provides a guided, formal course of study that will turn beginners into Pro Tools engineers.
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Albert Lamorisse’s ‘The Red Balloon’
There was a time, in the 1980s in San Diego, when there weren’t any theatres that showed foreign, independent or avant-garde films except for one place: the Unicorn Theatre.
Book Reviews
Run of DeMille
Red Scare, Blacklist and a Directorial Feud
The blacklisting of Communists, former Communists, union supporters, socialists and people whose only agenda was to create films was a fact of life in the entertainment industry during the 1950s and 1960s.
