“Step into my office,” says Joanna Fang. OK, but to the untrained eye it's a kleptomaniac's hoard: rolls of Astroturf, mud and moss, wooden planks, violin bows, smashed keyboards, plastic boxes ...

In cinema, they say, the craft is at its best when it cannot be noticed. Weird, but makes sense. Essentially, filmmaking is the medium of replicating life, from real to reel. The less you can spot the ...

If you never stop to think where any given sound comes from in a movie, then the crew member known as the Foley artist has done a good job. You probably don't even realize just how many sound effects ...

Following is a transcript of the video: [footsteps clicking] Narrator: Those high-heel clicks you hear in the TV series "Fargo"? Those are actually men's dress shoes. Stefan Fraticelli: These are ...

For those of us who can recite “It’s a Wonderful Life” line by line, there can be no replacement for the 1946 Frank Capra film. A chief virtue of Joe Landry’s stage adaptation is that it doesn’t ...