Features
A Passion for Editing: A Fireside Chat with Anne Coates
Anne Coates told stories of cutting rooms and editorial decisions, but more than that, she showed that she still has a tremendous passion for the work she does. […]
Film History
Features
Digital Dreamcatcher: ‘Droidmaker’ Chronicles the Early Years of Lucasfilm
Droidmaker takes the reader inside the early years of Lucasfilm’s computer division. George Lucas foresaw a time when film would be replaced by a digital, high-resolution alternative that was neither film nor video. […]
Features
The Moviola Mavens: Three Pioneering Women Editors
During the Golden Age of Hollywood, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck and Cecil B. De Mille were powerful enough to determine who would work in the American film industry. […]
Features
Video Spawned the Editing Star: What Hath MTV Wrought?
Has MTV reinvented or hobbled the art and craft of editing? […]
Features
Cut and Run: Where MTV Editing Got Its Chops
A zippier editing style has achieved institutional status, through MTV […]
Features
THIS MONTH IN FILM HISTORY: Are You ‘Experience’d?
The American Experience had a unique style and zeitgeist. The stories were never pat interpretations of historical figures and events, nor did they shy away from the chronicles of lost causes, defeats, rough compromises and violence. […]
Features
Rebooting ‘Roots’
The idea to reboot the legendary, award-winning miniseries Roots nearly 40 years later was executive producer Mark Wolper’s, and it did not come easily. […]
Tail Pop
The Coen Brothers’ ‘Miller’s Crossing’
I have always been envious of those who came to the business because of their love and passion for films. I was born into the film industry and didn’t appreciate my proximity. […]
Features
The CinemaScope Rebound
With the inauguration of television after World War II, motion picture attendance suffered a precipitous decline. From 1946 to 1952, attendance at movie theatres had dropped by almost half, from 83 million to 46 million per week. […]
Features
My Father, the Soundman: Coming Full Circle on the Fox Lot
My anticipation was always a mixture of excitement and fear — excitement that I was going to the studio where my father made movies, but fear because the actual reason for the visit was to see the dentist, which, given my age, could mean the extraction of baby teeth. The fear usually won out. […]
