The Anatomy of a Short
Ten years ago two witty gents from Colorado, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, made a riotous animated short called The…
Author: john_rodzvilla
Mix Master
Marcelo Zarvos is scoring big in the independent film world these days. The thirty-five-year old Brazilian-born Zarvos, who has made…
Singing Pictures
Movie musicals are not dead. They didn’t die in the 1930s. Television didn’t kill them. And expensive 1970s flops didn’t…
Can I do without professional sound editing?
Dear Doc Doctor: Many people suggested that I add more narration and music to my documentary, which I did, but…
Soul Tracks
The image of the hip black detective played by Richard Roundtree in Gordon Parks’s unforgettable 1971 film, Shaft, precursor to…
The Sound of Gowns
I knew Mira Nair’s Vanity Fair was going to be an interesting and challenging project. It was filmed with lots…
Honolulu, Hawai’i
Although the cinematic possibilities of Hawai’i—those that lay beyond the tropical tropes of tourism and military patriotism— have always been…
Q/A: Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch is one of America’s most eloquent and original social critics. In the last three decades, Crouch has published…
The Talented Tenth
While so many of Hollywood’s high-paid actors spend their paychecks on the kind of luxury items the rest of the…