Author Archives: Benjamin Wright

An appreciation of the multiple ways we can define Jewish humor.

The Shape — otherwise known as Michael Myers — avoids death to fulfill the key function of the horror genre, which is its lack of closure.

A closer look a the documentary Side By Side, and an examination of how filmmakers are dealing with the transition to digital shooting, editing, and exhibition systems.

In 1991, Spielberg was asked to provide an image from one of his films that typified his visual style. Spielberg chose the shot in Close Encounters where little Barry stands in the doorway between his home and that “beautiful but awful” outer light.

“It’s all a big experiment.”

This was Hans Zimmer’s summation of his work on Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster Inception, which is fast becoming one of the composer’s more commercially popular scores.

I had an opportunity to see Apocalypse Now Redux and hear Walter Murch speak about his sound and picture duties on the film.

A closer look at the sound of Avatar.