Editing

Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ is one of the most impressive works of the period, an amazing experience from all angles

Produced by the great Robert Evans, Roman Polanski's 1974 neo-noir Chinatown is without any doubt one of the most finely…

9 years ago

Arthur Penn’s ‘Night Moves’ demands, and deserves, multiple viewings, and every single one of them is equally rewarding

  By Sven Mikulec Whenever Arthur Penn's name is mentioned, most people probably think of Bonnie and Clyde. The Beatty-Dunaway…

9 years ago

In the times before the idea of the Internet was conceived, film magazines proved an invaluable source of filmmaking knowledge

  In the education of aspiring filmmakers, when every single bit of available information builds upon the artist's craft and…

9 years ago

Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ is savage poetry; one of the great masterpieces of world cinema

Indulging a creative and, to a degree, noble and socially responsible desire to shatter the nurtured illusion of violence in…

9 years ago

David Fincher: A Life in Pictures

BAFTA’s (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Guru Program is an online educational resource for filmmakers that features new…

9 years ago

“In terms of special training to become a filmmaker, one should study classic films and learn from them. That is how Scorsese became the filmmaker he is”

Three-time Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker has been working with Martin Scorsese for almost half a century now. From Who's That…

9 years ago

‘Lawrence of Arabia’ is a glorious 4-hour piece of filmmaking history

  By Sven Mikulec   When David Lean lost interest in doing a film about Gandhi with Alec Guinness in…

9 years ago

In 1941 the young Robert Wise met the equally young Orson Welles

In 1941 the young Robert Wise met the equally young Orson Welles. And the rest, as they say, is film-history.…

9 years ago

“There is something of the confession booth to the editing room”

When legendary editor and sound designer Walter Murch talks, you better listen. Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since…

10 years ago

“The best education in film is to make one. I would advise any neophyte director to try to make a film by himself. A three-minute short will teach him a lot”

Stanley Kubrick actually made the transition from photography to film after reading Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Film Technique. Pudovkin was a Russian film director, screenwriter…

10 years ago