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Les Beatles Nouvelle Vague: A Hard Day For Night

July 1, 2014

It is hard to believe now, but in the early 1960s, the young, long-haired Liverpudlian lads John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (known collectively as the Beatles) were considered to be an insidious force, challenging British as well as American stereotypes of youthful masculinity, just as their distinctive, infectious “beat music” threatened to take over the pop charts of both countries. […]

Learn the Craft, But Don’t Overlook the Art

July 1, 2014

It’s not that ‘Grammar of the Edit’ is wrong. It is just incomplete. […]

Ronald Neame’s ‘The Poseidon Adventure’

July 1, 2014

The emergency lights flickered on and off. I found myself 30 feet in the air hanging onto the edge of a railing. […]

Jon Turteltaub’s ‘National Treasure’

September 1, 2014

Movies — or films, as I would call them when I was growing up in the United Kingdom — have always been a huge part of my life. […]

A Star is Reborn, Remade, Remodeled

September 1, 2014

Hollywood’s business is the merchandising and recycling of myth — especially the myth of the tragic Hollywood star (Judy Garland, Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, etc.) in biopic or documentary form. […]

Dane A. Davis on ‘The Matrix’

November 1, 2014

When sound designer/supervising sound editor Dane A. Davis, MPSE, attended the audience preview for The Matrix (1999), he — as well as directors Andy and Lana Wachowski (then known as the Wachowski Brothers) — had no idea what to expect. […]

To Protect and Preserve

November 1, 2014

Almost everyone in the business has heard the statistics: Only 10 percent of films made between 1910 and 1920 still exist; 20 percent of the films made in the 1920s survive […]

Mark Rydell’s ‘The Cowboys’

November 1, 2014

In our family, movies were special events because most of our entertainment came from television. So I don’t remember seeing a lot of films, but there is one that holds a very special place in my heart. […]

Fernando Meirelles’ ‘City of God’

February 1, 2016

Shortly after graduating film school, I saw the motion picture City of God (Cidade de Deus) in a small art house theatre. I remember thinking to myself, “This is one of the best movies I have ever seen.” […]

Carol Littleton on ‘Places in the Heart’

February 1, 2015

The film touched Carol’s heart because its characters and events were recognizable to her family. […]