Book Reviews
Cinema Europa: Is American Editing Lost in Translation?
The diversity of techniques and point of view in Roger Crittenden’s new book on European film editing is fairly astonishing.
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Book Reviews
Against Condemnation: New York and the Post-Censor Movie Culture
Raymond J. Haberski Jr.’s fascinating history of the film culture wars covers a series of controversies from the 1950s and ‘60s up to the early ‘70s.
Book Reviews
The Unheard Magic
Some essential words are offered about cutting room etiquette and potential traps for the dialogue editor.
Book Reviews
Kubrick Cubed
The films of Stanley Kubrick, rich in their aesthetic complexity, have generated a considerable bibliography.
Book Reviews
Open to Criticism: Chronicling Cinema’s Most Exclusive Club
‘The Complete History of American Film Criticism’ is an encyclopedic effort to chronicle the rise and flowering of film criticism in the 20th century
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Spectacle from Dross: Art-Making as a Political Act
The act of filmmaking, for Ken Jacobs, is an interrogation of both space and time.
Book Reviews
CineMemories: Flashing Back on Favorite Films
Richard Pepperman has written his most personal book yet and, once again, it is a work that only the most accomplished editor could produce.
Book Reviews
L’Arrivée du 3D
The book is a thorough, precise, comprehensive and deeply revealing analysis of its subject.
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Get Tested! In Defense of Pre-Release Screenings
We need to improve our movies, and the only people who can point us in the right direction are those who offer us their unrestrained opinions, painful as they may be.
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GET RETESTED! More Thoughts on Pre-Release Screenings
How does one run a
proper test screening?
