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. […]
Film
Union Made
UNION MADE: Winding Up in Sound… by Design
I joined the Motion Picture Sound Editors’ Board of Directors, eventually becoming the first woman president in 1984, and also served on the Executive Committee of the Sound Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. […]
Book Reviews
Seeing Is Believing
‘The Eye is Quicker’ a book about editing that would best stand alongside Walter Murch’s In the ‘Blink of an Eye’ on an editor’s bookshelf. […]
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. […]
Tail Pop
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. […]
Book Reviews
Hidden Magic Revealed
‘The Invisible Cut: How Editors Make Movie Magic’ will stand as a deft introduction to the “invisible art” of editing and would prove highly useful as a textbook. […]
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. […]
Tail Pop
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. […]
