Seventy-five years ago, on August 14, 1940 — back when studios still owned theatres — The Great McGinty, written and directed by Preston Sturges, premiered at the Paramount Theatre in New York’s Times Square. […]
CineMontage recently caught up with Alan Heim to ask him about ‘The Cutting Edge’. […]
Robert Wise was truly a renaissance man of filmmaking. […]
The initial rock ‘n’ roll films produced in the mid-1950s are more interesting today as artifacts than as art. […]
To help us celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, our colleagues at the prestigious film journal Film Comment in New York have allowed us to reprint copy from their special 24-page section celebrating film editors […]
A very brief history of the Oscar Award for Sound Editing. […]
Perhaps more than any other genre, editing plays a crucial role in documentary storytelling and shaping of the narrative. […]
I was thunderstruck. From the opening sequence, with Kane breathing, ‘Rosebud’ on his deathbed, to the final revelation of what that word meant, I was in its thrall. […]
By juxtaposing the four ancient and modern eras, Griffith replicated the synapses of the brain that can connect nonlinear information. […]
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