Features
Improv Ability: For Tass Filipos, It’s as Vital for Music Editors as It Is for Musicians
Tass Filipos tells CineMontage about his experience as a music editor.
Film
Features
Tales from the Vault: Guild Librarians’ Stock is Rising
Hollywood’s oldest studio’s stock footage library came into existence in the mid-1920s. For the majors, whether or not to develop a stock footage library has always been a business decision. […]
Features
Foley: They Make the Noises for the Talkies
Foley was a name that stuck to the process, the location and the very special group of craftspeople who became, next to the physical actors, perhaps the most important performers in a motion picture. […]
Features
The Doc Workers of New York: Pushing for Union Jobs Editing Non-Fiction
The documentary form has been around since the beginning of cinema, and over the past 15 years, pundits have bruited this past decade and a half as “The Golden Age of Documentaries.” No matter the platform — theatrical, television or online — documentary has transformed itself from the margins to the mainstream as a galvanizing and provocative art form. […]
Columns
New York in a Tax Break State of Mind
New York State now offers a Film Production Tax Credit program. […]
OP / EDIT
Giving Credits Where They’re Due
For those who think credit placement in the crawl doesn’t matter, we’re here to say––it matters! […]
Book Reviews
Cutting in Cinematic Time
With Mary Ann Doane’s highly theoretical meditation, the reader is challenged to reflect on the representation of time in film. […]
Book Reviews
Mysteries of Editing Room Magic Revealed
In ‘Cut By Cut’, Chandler has set forth a supremely organized workflow chart for perfection of the craft on both the film and video platforms. […]
Union Made
Cinema Paradiso in San Diego
You’d think my path to joining the Editors Guild would be a predictable journey: attend film school, pursue an internship in post-production, get in the union, win awards. But I didn’t go that route. […]
Book Reviews
Making the Scene: A Backward Look at Filmmaking
Richard Pepperman examines the “great choices” that produce a great scene. […]
