First edition of Erickson's phantasmagorical meditation on the power of cinema. Vikar becomes a film editor, the job he always wanted, but but the drugs, music, and sexuality, may be more than he can handle.

A move into an old folks' home marks a new stage of life for both grandmother and granddaughter. On one side of the Atlantic, Sophia Moore, an emotionally guarded film editor-troubled by her mother's long-ago suicide and her father's abandonment-overworks, incessantly contemplates her past, and continues an unfulfilling affair with the famous director of her latest movie. But when she travels to the other side of the Atlantic to help her octogenarian...

This book "provides a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most influential films of the last fifty years as seen through the eyes of Paul Hirsch, the Oscar-winning film editor... Hirsch breaks down his career movie by movie, offering a riveting look at the decisions that went into creating some of cinemas most iconic scenes. He also provides behind-the-scenes insight into casting, directing, and scoring and intimate portraits of directors, producers,...

"For film aficionados, Walter Murch is legendary--a three-time Academy Award winner, arguably the most admired sound and film editor in the world for his work on Apocalypse Now, the Godfather trilogy, The English Patient, and many others. Outside of the studio, his mind is wide-ranging; his passion, pursued for several decades, has been astrophysics, in particular the rehabilitatioin of Titius-Bode, a long-discredited eighteenth-century theory regarding...

Best friends Nick and Darryl are a New York film editing duo, hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships with their significant others and each other, reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancee Nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious star. Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing work in between fights with his tempestuous girlfriend.

Polskie tłumaczenie streszczeniem w języku angielskim: Opowiada historie Nico O'Neilly, Wendy Healy i Victory Ford, numery 8, 12 i 17 na liście New York Post, "50 najbardziej wpływowych kobiet w Nowym Jorku". Ale to jest 21st Century New York: aby wyprzedzić i utrzymać się na czele, te kobiety zrobią wszystko, w tym narażając na szwank swoje osobiste i zawodowe relacje. "Weaves the stories of Nico O'Neilly, Wendy Healy, and Victory Ford,...

From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960). Shadow on the window: "Three teenagers, led by psychopathic Jess Reber, break into an isolated farmhouse and murder its prosperous...

"In 1919, Florence Deshon-tall, radical, and charismatic-was well on her way to becoming one of Hollywood's brightest stars. Embroiled in a clandestine affair with Charlie Chaplin, she continued to remain romantically involved with the well-known writer and socialist Max Eastman. By 1922, she was found dead in a New York apartment, rumored to have committed suicide. Love and Loss in Hollywood: Florence Deshon, Max Eastman, and Charlie Chaplin uses...