Reprinted from The Los Angeles Times by its staff on December 11, 2020.
Movie theaters closed. Broadway went dark. Concert venues fell silent. But 2020 still led to some special projects in entertainment and arts. Here are some of our picks for the best of the year.
“I had worked at a movie theater where I saw hundreds of movies in front of audiences, from the late ’70s to the mid-’80s. I watched them so many times—things like ‘E.T.’—that I could tell you what the audience was going to do.” […]
Jacob Bricca’s book on editing documentary film is a how-to that is firmly lodged in the digital technology of 2018. While new in many ways, it employs basic editing logic and draws on timeless, as well as current, examples to illustrate editing skills. […]