Features
Spike Lee’s ‘Inside Man’ Barry Alexander Brown
Editor, Barry Alexander Brown was invaluable to Spike Lee and Mira Nair because he thought like a filmmaker and anticipated their decisions.
Film
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Elliot Silverstein’s ‘Cat Ballou’ (1965)
Yep, it’s a comedy/sex/Western spoof with one-of-a-kind performances from Fonda and Lee Marvin. […]
Features
When Movies Learned to Talk: A Brief History of Sound in Early Motion Pictures
The Kinetophone was the ancestor of a steady line of emerging technologies-film, recording, reproduction and amplification-that through trial and error would converge to create the technology of optical, monaural sound. […]
Features
Robert Wise: “As the Editor, You’re the Audience.”
An interview with Robert Wise. Courtesy of Film Comment. […]
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Michael Curtiz’s ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ (1938)
Beyond pure entertainment value, those looking for substance will find it. For audiences in 1938 theaters, ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ played as a warning to resist oppressors who were currently taking hold in Europe. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Topic of Capra-Cohn: The Battle Over ‘Lost Horizon’
Like in the Shangri-la it depicts, ‘Lost Horizon’ has proven ageless––and that is its legacy. […]
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Howard Hawks’ ‘Rio Bravo'(1959)
By consuming the wine and wafer, we vicariously channel the divinity of Christ, and, by watching ‘Rio Bravo’, I was vicariously channeling the courage of John Wayne. […]
Features
‘Munich’, Mentoring & Moviolas The Michael Kahn Interview
CineMontage spoke with Michael Kahn, in his editing bay in the Howard Hawks building at 20th Century Fox, about ‘Munich’, and his 30-year working relationship with Spielberg. […]
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A Thousand Clowns (1966)
Clowns is a hilarious, startling mix of stage-bound dialogue scenes and wildly inventive montages scored by marches, Dixieland jazz and, occasionally, Jason Robards strumming a ukulele. […]
Features
Original Vitagraph Studio Enters Its Second Century
The Vitagraph Studio was the veritable cradle of the film industry. […]
