Features
Zach Staenberg on The ‘Matrix’ Trilogy
Zach Staenberg discusses the pressure of editing such eagerly awaited films, how he handled the huge numbers of visual effects shots, and the challenges he faced. […]
Assistant Editors
Features
Status of Women in Post-Production
How has societal change affected women in post production? […]
Guild
Harrison and Gaines Join Guild’s LA Staff
The Editors Guild has added two new hires to its Los Angeles office. Joining the staff are Travis Harrison as Field Representative, and Harolena Gaines as Administrative Assistant to the Field Representatives (which also include Jacky Olitsky, Ann Hadsell, Jessica Pratt and Olie Amarillas). […]
Features
Editors Have the Write Stuff: Guild Members Transition into Authors
Editors Guild members sometimes need to exercise their storytelling talents and share their insights on their craft in the print medium in addition to the audio- visual. This year to date, four books have been published by members of the Guild about their work. […]
Features
Terry Rawlings: The ‘Phantom’ Hand Behind Great Movies
Rawlings discussed his career in a telephone conversation with CineMontage. […]
Features
The Box That Shook Hollywood: Television’s Emergence
Legendary movie producer Sam Goldwyn wrote the quote, opposite, in an article for The New York Times Magazine in 1949, just as television was emerging as a major mass medium. […]
My Most Memorable Film
Paul Hirsch on ‘Blow Out’
His most memorable film? Don’t ask that of Paul Hirsch, ACE. The Academy Award-winning editor does not believe in the concept, and a quick perusal of the more than 40 films to his credit suggests the futility of that exercise: Is it Carrie (1976) or Star Wars (1977)? The Empire Strikes Back (1980) or Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986) — or something else? […]
This Quarter in Film History
Altman’s Grand Ole Soap Opry
After 40 years, Robert Altman’s satiric tapestry of American society looks more accurate than ever. […]
Features
Sound Support
Many of the people who work in the production and post-production communities are, by their very nature, unsung heroes. […]
Book Reviews
An Interpretive Anthropology
John Thornton Caldwell, a Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at UCLA, has published an up-to-date field study of contemporary production. […]
