Film History

“You never know what is going to happen when you put two pieces of film together.”

“It was extremely difficult to find more than the skimpiest info about editors, so I just kept digging and digging.”

For the last century, the Musso & Frank Grill has been the preferred dining and drinking destination for innumerable movie stars, literary legends and other notables. Even sports heroes have …

Since making his first independent film, “The Return of the Secaucus Seven,” Sayles has established a unique relationship with the industry.

The director fought censors on both sides of the Atlantic from the start of his career to the very last.

At my high school, admission to advanced placement (AP) classes was by invitation only. I tried four times to be admitted into AP English. The head of the department, a …

In 2003, after sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer Ron Bochar, CAS, completed work on Mike Nichols’ miniseries Angels in America, he felt good about what he and his …

“During production, Quentin does not enter the editing room. He doesn’t want to look at any edited footage because he just wants to focus on shooting the movie.”

“My first thought was, ‘Oh God, this is perfect material for Francis — he’s going to do a fantastic job with this,” remembers editor Anne Goursaud, ACE, regarding Bram Stoker’s …

George Larkin offers a startling premise in the book Post-Production and the Invisible Revolution of Filmmaking: From the Silent Era to Synchronized Sound, one that may delight some readers while …