Chlotrudis
Several couples chat casually, surrounded mostly by empty red velvet seats inside Brookline, Massachusetts’s Coolidge Corner Theatre in early November….
Author: john_rodzvilla
The State of Short Films
Cinema was born as a short form. Most early films were mere seconds long. Throughout the history of celluloid, countless…
Q&A with David Russell of Big Film Shorts
David Russell is the go-to man for all things short film. In 1996, he started Big Film Shorts, a distributor…
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…
Sound Unseen
The line to see The Last Word at the Minneapolis Oak Street Cinema snakes down the block, splitting in two…
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…