"The Great Ninety Per Gent" If one can lay a charge against Hollywood it will be not that it does not know how to produce art, but that it knows almost as little about how to make good, satisfying bilge. ALEXANDER BAKSHY, 1929 What's the matter?" asks...

The Gutter's Room From the late 1920s, Hollywood's traditional ways of editing feature films had developed in harmony with the primacy accorded to dialogue and story line. In its fundamental approach to both the spatial displacement and the screen...

Film editing is the connecting of one or more shots to form a sequence, and the subsequent connecting of sequences to form an entire movie. Film editing, by definition, is the only art that is unique to cinema and which defines and separates filmmaking...

Sharon Waxman's article "Prize Fight Over a Prize Film" about the making of "When We Were Kings" {Style, Sept. 23} went a long way toward reclaiming the truth from the myth-making of Academy Award recipients David Sonenberg and Leon Gast. But as one of...

00-00-0000 Environmental film, sun-powered editing By COLLEEN VALLES, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 01-11-2003, Saturday Section: ENTERTAINMENT Edtion: All Editions.=.Late Edition. Early Edition In a yurt on the South Fork of the American River in California's Gold Country, Jack Bibbo huddled against the...

Peter Zinner, who worked as a film editor on the first two "Godfather" films and won an Oscar for his work on 1978's "The Deer Hunter," has died. He was 88.Zinner died Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica of complications from an...

Peter Zinner, who worked as a film editor on the first two "Godfather" films and won an Oscar for his work on 1978's "The Deer Hunter," has died. He was 88.Zinner died Tuesday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica of complications from an...