Features
Aural History: Soundmen Celebrated in Long-Forgotten Short
The Soundman is a unique document of how sound departments worked in the later days of studio system dominance. […]
Film History
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. […]
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
Follow the Blu-ray Way: Restored, Hi-Rez ‘Oz’ Is a Horse of a Different Color
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. […]
Features
King Kong is Coming Back
‘King Kong’ (1933) was a pioneering film in many ways, including post production. […]
Book Reviews
Editing with an English Accent
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. […]
Book Reviews
Recalling the Esteemed O’Steen
‘Cut To The Chase’ is one of the very best anecdotal histories of filmmaking in print. […]
Tail Pop
Stanley Donen’s Two For the Road (1967)
It’s a journey of marriage, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens. […]
Book Reviews
Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures […]
This Quarter in Film History
The Original Road
Forty years ago, Steven Spielberg transformed television narrative with his made-for-TV movie Duel, which aired on ABC in November 1971. […]
