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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 …

Imagine if the excruciatingly long time it took to render photo-realistic 3D images were reduced to practically no time at all. No, it’s not a pipe dream, it’s graphic processing …

My interests in film and theatre started at Roy Elementary School in Northlake, Illinois, when I got to do lighting for school plays.

The number of books dedicated specifically to motion picture editing is not large. There is a steady supply of how-to guides, often geared to specific technologies

Most directors strive to set a tone on their movie sets. Director Alan Rudolph, however, establishes the mood before the cameras roll.

Director Miloš Forman’s The People vs. Larry Flynt premiered 20 years ago, on October 13, 1996, the closing night of the New York Film Festival.

From a black screen, a circle of children fades in and the little girl at its center sings a counting out song: Just you wait it won’t be long, The …

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 …

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,

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 …