Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s film legacy is its musicals. Perhaps because it was the most politically conservative of the major studios, MGM was more comfortable with melodramas and musicals than with social issues. […]
A compilation of early Oscar winning editors. […]
The Soundman is a unique document of how sound departments worked in the later days of studio system dominance. […]
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. […]
After 40 years, Robert Altman’s satiric tapestry of American society looks more accurate than ever. […]
The Wizard of Oz re-released on home video? Again? That’s a question that’s going to be asked a lot as the studios finally dip into their libraries to release evergreen films, ingrained in our cultural consciousness, in the Blu-ray format. And nothing is quite as ingrained as The Wizard of Oz, one of the most watched and beloved films of all time. […]
‘King Kong’ (1933) was a pioneering film in many ways, including post production. […]
Over 30 different editors were interviewed during the preparation for this book. The authors state that a wider appreciation of the critical role of editing in film production is long overdue. […]
‘Cut To The Chase’ is one of the very best anecdotal histories of filmmaking in print. […]
It’s a journey of marriage, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens. […]
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