Double Bill: Annihilation and Arrival
This is a double bill that happened by accident. I was keen to watch Alex Garland’s Annihilation purely because it was new: I don’t get to the cinema much lately,…
Rogue One review, with spoilers
Having not thought much of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens, and feeling like I was adrift in a sea of praise for it, I was sceptical about Rogue…
Other People’s Eyes, and why Kubrick’s last film is, I think, unfinished
An editor will prepare a cut in near-isolation. It would be total isolation if it wasn’t for the director (or Edit Producer, who does the director’s job in the cutting…
I’ve been FCPX Grilled
You know that scene from The Jerk, where Navin R. Johnson leaps ecstatically into the air when the phone book arrives because it’s the first one to feature his name?…
Bow to the Audience
My favourite living musician and recording artist is Prince. I’ll allow that if you don’t like him, you probably really don’t like him. That’s because he’s really good. Not a…
Dying formats, emergent workflow
The only problem I’ve encountered with Final Cut Pro X during my first edit for broadcast TV involves anamorphic QuickTimes, but in solving it I found a new friend in…
Chuck Tells Us How
Never read any Chuck Palahniuk, but the sheer volume of writing advice he’s shared via his website is enough to endear him. I’m going to wade through these essays (which…
Final Cut Pro X
So… Final Cut Pro X, eh? Lot of chatter about it. Lot of controversy. I bought it the day it came out expecting to jump in and find an editing…
Happy St. Sandy’s Day
I was alerted to the fact that this is St. Andrew’s day by the fact that people kept commenting on a video I posted years ago of some Scottish celebrities…
Italy via Gothic Literature of the Nineteenth Century
Nina Burleigh has a great article in the New York Times in which she tours Italy, seeking out the locations of gothic English and American novels. The original gothic writers…