Features
Hollywood’s Renaissance Man
Robert Wise was truly a renaissance man of filmmaking. […]
Film History
Features
When Hollywood Rocked: Pop Music and Movies Weren’t a Perfect Match at First
The initial rock ‘n’ roll films produced in the mid-1950s are more interesting today as artifacts than as art. […]
Features
Features
Prime Cut: The Work of the Film Editor
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 […]
Features
Some Sound (if Not So Clear) Facts About Oscar
A very brief history of the Oscar Award for Sound Editing. […]
Book Reviews
The History of Docs
Perhaps more than any other genre, editing plays a crucial role in documentary storytelling and shaping of the narrative. […]
Tail Pop
Orson Welles’ ‘Citizen Kane’ (1941)
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. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Museum of ‘Intolerance’
By juxtaposing the four ancient and modern eras, Griffith replicated the synapses of the brain that can connect nonlinear information. […]
Tail Pop
David Lean’s ‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ (1962)
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ resonated far more deeply than anything I had seen to that point. […]
Tail Pop
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. […]
