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. […]
‘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. […]
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. […]
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. […]
Bernard Mendiburu’s book contains the requisite technical information about stereoscopic perception and its relation to cinema. […]
Miloš Forman has focused on one theme: How society grinds down the individual and is basically corrupt and hypocritical. […]
The central issue in ‘The Lean Forward Moment’ is emotional engagement in the narrative. […]
Why David O. Selznick feared a tombstone epitaph as the man who made Gone with the Wind (1939) is mysterious. This film was his Tara as much as it was Miss Scarlett’s. […]
My father, the late actor/director Ray Danton, was a gifted man. He was handsome, had a baritone voice, stood over six feet and weighed a chiseled 190 pounds in his prime. […]
La Dolce Vita. For 50 years, since the Federico Fellini movie was released in January 1960, those three words have been synonymous with delicious deca- dence among a jet-set mix of expatriate movie stars, high-society types and jaded Italian aristocrats based around Rome. […]
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