Features
When Hollywood Rocked: Pop Music and Movies Weren’t a Perfect Match at First
The initial rock ‘n’ roll films produced in the mid-1950s are more interesting today as artifacts than as art. […]
Music Editors
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.
Features
The Pursuit of Hippie-ness:
Editing the Music for ‘Taking Woodstock’
‘Taking Woodstock’ is a movie of source music—and not just the kind that comes from a radio playing on a tabletop. Designed to blend seamlessly with the needle-drop tunes, a lot of that was provided by the “live” hippies. […]
OP / EDIT
Don’t Get Played as a Music Editor
It’s never acceptable to let people take advantage of our time, skills and talent. […]
My Most Memorable Film
Carlton Kaller on ‘Almost Famous’
Scattered throughout the films of Cameron Crowe are moments in which the director’s adolescent rock wordsmith background shine through. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Dancing with Myself
Cover Girl (1944) is a famous movie for two reasons — one intentional and the other accidental. The film’s legacy is of a time when women were celebrated for their glamour and sexuality. […]
My Most Memorable Film
Curt Sobel on ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’
For the first 10 days of their collaboration, composer Jack Nitzsche did not say more than two words to music editor Curt Sobel. […]
My Most Memorable Film
Chic Ciccolini on ‘Sophie’s Choice’
In a career spanning nearly 45 years, supervising sound editor Anthony J. “Chic” Ciccolini III has worn many hats. […]
Columns
Joanie Diener on ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’
The wordsmith and the war correspondent were an item for not even a decade. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn made each other’s acquaintance in 1936, married in 1940 and divorced in 1945. […]
Columns
Sound Judgment
As the Motion Picture Editors Guild enters its 80th anniversary year, it’s important to recognize that 2017 also marks the 90th anniversary of the commercial ascendance of motion pictures with synchronized sound, which were called “talkies.” […]
