Charlie Higgins: 2 books

It was early in the morning when Sergeant Stephenson and the investigating team left the crime scene. The police had a tow truck take away the car that Larry and his friends came in. All the mannequins were wrapped in plastic and taken away as evidence. All the blankets and any other articles that...

Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle and almost invisible, whereas special effects frequently call attention to themselves. Yet, film editors...