In 1988, I was an ill-adjusted Polish kid who moved with his mother and our two dogs to a rough Boston neighborhood — Dorchester. My English was OK. A year …
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In the countless comedies he has written, directed and starred in during his 50-year career, Woody Allen comes across as a chatterbox. His on-screen persona is forever opining, grousing or …
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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 …
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“When did ADR start?” It was a simple question, and our director was fond of asking simple questions.
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Seventy years ago, on April 11, 1947, Charles Chaplin — one of the central figures of world cinema and as influential to the art of moviemaking as to the establishment …
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by Edward Landler Audiences first heard the nascent Rock ‘n’ Roll music in the movies in March 1955, when Bill Haley and the Comets’ “Rock Around the Clock” played over …
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by Barbara Pokras, ACE I was lost. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. It was the early 1960s and I drifted in and out …
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Early on, a Woman’s Place Was in the Cutting Room
by Betsy McLaneby Betsy McLane“Great film editing begins with great pictures,” said Barbara “Bobbie” McLean in a 1977 interview in Film Comment magazine. She could make such a gracious statement with authority at that …
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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.
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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 …