My Most Memorable Film
Carol Littleton on ‘Places in the Heart’
The film touched Carol’s heart because its characters and events were recognizable to her family. […]
Picture Editors
This Quarter in Film History
The Gutting of ‘Greed’
The editor described the first part of the picture as “quite humorous at times,” which would have helped audiences accept the tragedy of the second half. […]
This Quarter in Film History
When the South Rose Again
One century ago, on February 8, 1915, David Wark Griffith’s ‘The Birth of a Nation’ premiered under its original title, The Clansman, at Clune’s Auditorium in Los Angeles. […]
Book Reviews
Knockin’ on History’s Door
Sometimes a title can be misleading, but in the case of The Authentic Death & Contentious Afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: The Untold Story of Peckinpah’s Last Western — the title, including ampersand — is part and parcel of ACE member Paul Seydor’s exactingly told story. […]
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. […]
My Most Memorable Film
Walter Murch on ‘Apocalypse Now’
Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) opens with a bang that befits its subject: the Vietnam War. […]
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. […]
Book Reviews
Forget It, Jake
At a preview screening of the film Chinatown in summer 1974, an official from the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is reported to have remarked, […]
Columns
Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Moulin Rouge!’
A bright, white light was shrouding my vision. The thundering applause from several thousand hands was engulfing my hearing. All I could feel was the thumping of my heart as the adrenalin was coursing through my veins like a tidal wave. […]
Columns
Suzy Elmiger on ‘Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle’
Most directors strive to set a tone on their movie sets. Director Alan Rudolph, however, establishes the mood before the cameras roll. […]
