Columns
Small-Town Boy Makes It in the Big Time
I grew up in a small town on the East Coast, maybe 1,000 people, tops. Not too much to do at night, but great for a kid; we pretty much had the run of the town. […]
Film
Features
Leaving a Sonic Fingerprint
Music Editor Mikael Sandgren Makes His Mark in the Indie World
Mikael Sandgren likes to keep busy. He straddles the worlds of indie film, studio film and television, major commercial campaigns and even video games. […]
Web Exclusives
Recreating the Boston Marathon Bombing in ‘Patriots Day’
CineMontage recently attended a screening of Patriots Day, followed by a panel of major below-the-line craftspeople, including picture editor Colby Parker, Jr, ACE; re-recording mixer, sound designer and supervising sound editor Dror Mohar; and sound designer and supervising sound editor Piero Mura. […]
Departments
Danford B. Greene
Danford B. Greene, editor of such films as Mel Brooks’ Blazing Saddles and Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H, among others, was an avid sportsman who had more nicknames than you could shake a golf club at […]
Departments
Claude A. “C.A.” Shumaker, Jr.
Claude A. “C.A.” Shumaker, Jr. passed away suddenly on June 15, 2015, at the age of 79. Born in Missouri, C.A.’s family relocated to Southern California, where, in addition to his profession as a film technician, he pursued a lifelong love of travel and adventure. […]
Departments
Frank Warner
Sound editor and sound designer Frank Edward Warner died peacefully at home in Sedona, Arizona, on August 31. He was 85. […]
Web Exclusives
Imagining a Philip Roth Novel for the Big Screen
Philip Roth’s American Pastoral was published in 1997 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction the following year. The film adaptation, from a screenplay by John Romano, directed by and starring Ewan McGregor, with editing by Melissa Kent and sound editing supervision by Christopher S. Aud, premiered September 9 at the Toronto International Film Festival and opened in limited release October 21. […]
Industry
Awakening the Force in the Cutting Room
Maryann Brandon, ACE, and Mary Jo Markey, ACE, spoke about their collaboration with director J.J. Abrams, and how he has incredible trust in his editors, giving them the time and space to shape the film in the cutting room. […]
Columns
Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘The Devil’s Backbone’
I went to the movies that night in order to take my mind off the second anniversary of my mother’s death. I was in a lot of pain over her passing and, contrary to all the platitudes I had heard, time was not healing this wound. […]
