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David Lean’s ‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ (1962)
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ resonated far more deeply than anything I had seen to that point. […]
Film History
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Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ (1985)
I remembered how the same footage in Brazil was used to portray extreme opposites of emotion, and realized I too could manipulate the footage shot in Reality to better reflect the story we needed to tell. […]
Columns
Take a Ride to the Jersey Side
While New York offers a 15 percent tax credit to qualifying productions, New Jersey tops it with a 20 percent tax credit. […]
Book Reviews
Attack of the Killer Bs
Da Capo has given us ‘The B List’ with film critics’ picks and observations about “low-budget beauties, genre-bending mavericks and cult classics.” […]
Book Reviews
Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive
‘Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive’ by Valerie Orpen is a highly theoretical examination of editing as an essential but greatly misunderstood aspect of motion picture production. […]
This Quarter in Film History
A ‘Lion’ For All Seasons
‘The Lion in Winter’ is probably one of the few perennially popular films from 1968. […]
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Jacques Tati’s ‘Playtime’
Comedy, as they say, is all in the timing. Therefore, a comic’s best friend has got to be the film editor. But how does one become a good comedy editor? First, I believe, a person must have a natural instinct for what’s funny. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Fruitless ‘Aran’
Documentarian Robert J. Flaherty was regarded by the poet e.e. cummings as “a god among men,” an opinion echoed by Orson Welles, who compared Flaherty to the poets Walt Whitman and Henry David Thoreau. […]
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Ridley Scott’s ‘Blade Runner’
I was quite late to the game in discovering my love of cinema. I grew up on a steady diet of Tom and Jerry, old sci-fi shows and MTV videos. […]
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Mervyn LeRoy’s ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Fantasy has had a rather schizophrenic time in Hollywood––one year being the worst possible genre to pour money into unless it’s going straight to video, the next year sweeping the Academy Awards with 11 Oscars. […]
