September 2011 -

Game-Changer: Moneyball’s Christopher Tellfesen

September 1, 2011

It’s more about a man’s journey and struggle against conventional wisdom than it is about Baseball,” says editor Christopher Tellefsen, A.C.E. The film he’s discussing is Moneyball, which opens September 23 through Columbia Pictures, and the man is Billy Beane, por- trayed by Brad Pitt. Based on Michael Lewis’ non-fiction book of the same name, it tells the story of Beane, a star high school athlete with a keen mind who played big league Baseball for five years, not particularly distinguishing himself. […]

Don Hall: A Hands-On Collaborator

September 1, 2011

During a busy and productive career that spans 60 years in film and television, sound editor Don Hall––the 2011 recipient of the Editors Guild’s prestigious Fellowship and Service Award, to be presented to him at a ceremony scheduled for October 15––has collaborated with a number of prominent directors. […]

A Foothold in Reality

September 1, 2011

Fremantle is a large enough player that its going union will help to raise the bar for other employers. […]

Teaching Sound Consciousness: The USC Years

September 1, 2011

Having retired after 45 years in the business, Don Hall, was asked to join the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema. “After I retired in January 1996, my wife Teddy and I started to do all the things retired people do,” Hall remembers. […]

Wes Anderson’s ‘Rushmore’

September 1, 2011

There are those wonderful, albeit rare occasions when you are sent a script and immediately a sense of excitement overtakes you. Such was the case in 1997 when Wes Anderson sent me Rushmore. I felt so…lucky! […]

Spectacle from Dross: Art-Making as a Political Act

September 1, 2011

The act of filmmaking, for Ken Jacobs, is an interrogation of both space and time.

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Baseball: A Selected Feature Filmography

September 1, 2011

You Can’t Tell the Movies Without a Scorecard! […]

Don Hall’s Devotees: Some Words from His Admirers…

September 1, 2011

A collection of praise an admiration for award winning sound editor, Don Hall. […]

Let Reality Play: How the ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Editors Manage to Keep in Step

September 1, 2011

The editors who put together ABC’s Dancing with the Stars each week readily concede that they have a massive job on their hands. Indeed, the seven offline editors who cut reams of story packages together that get rolled into two different types of live DWTS broadcasts each week. […]

Diamonds Are Forever: The Movies’ Century-Long Love Affair with Baseball

September 1, 2011

As the upcoming film Moneyball makes expressly clear, Baseball is a game of statistics––something rarely, if ever, touched on in any of the movies about the sport since the first Baseball movie arrived in 1898. […]