Book Reviews
The Magic of Cinema Sound
The many people who create sound,are likewise invisible to the public — even as their contributions are central to making onscreen worlds. They too are part of the occult magic of cinema.
Sound Editor
My Most Memorable Film
Tom Fleischman on ‘GoodFellas’
Almost 25 years after its premiere, GoodFellas (1990) is still a shocking movie about organized crime.
My Most Memorable Film
Dane A. Davis on ‘The Matrix’
When sound designer/supervising sound editor Dane A. Davis, MPSE, attended the audience preview for The Matrix (1999), he — as well as directors Andy and Lana Wachowski (then known as the Wachowski Brothers) — had no idea what to expect.
My Most Memorable Film
Larry Blake on ‘Traffic’
Steven Soderbergh and Larry Blake have been making movies together since the start of their professional lives.
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
When Reality Loses Its Voice
Right, how do we want to do this? I know, let’s start gently with, ‘Welcome back to the show’ before the break…then we’ll go with the classic segue, ‘Someone else with high hopes is…’ Make sure you inflect at the end there. And we’ll finish with an epic, ‘Twenty nervous contestants…but only one…will change…his life…forever!!!’”
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.”
