This Quarter in Film History
Dancing with Myself
Cover Girl (1944) is a famous movie for two reasons — one intentional and the other accidental. The film’s legacy is of a time when women were celebrated for their glamour and sexuality.
Month: March 2014
Features
Andy Nelson: 2014 CAS Career Achievement Award
Re-recording mixer Andy Nelson, CAS, brings to his craft several decades of experience in the art of balancing dialogue, music and sound effects in an immersive soundtrack that supports the director’s storytelling vision
Features
Cartoon Connection: Animation Editors Collaborate With Writers
Picture editors’ storytelling skills are tested in animation to a degree rarely demanded in any other kind of film. In live action, they may come on to a project to consult and prepare before production begins, but their work usually begins when the cameras start rolling and footage comes into the cutting room.
Tail Pop
Woody Allen’s ‘Annie Hall’
When I was a child, I had childish dreams to be a superhero or a pro athlete. Alas, my only super power was secondary perception, the ability to say, after something had happened, “I knew that would happen.” It did not take me long to learn that the Justice League was not looking for a hero with such an annoying super trait.
Book Reviews
Blurring the Line Between VFX and Animation
What’s fascinating about ‘The CG Story’, therefore, is the realization that live action has become more like animation and vice-versa.
Features
Robert C. Jones: 2014 ACE Career Achievement Award Honoree
Robert C. Jones grew up in the film industry; his father, Harmon Jones, was a feature film editor (Gentleman’s Agreement, Panic in the Streets, among others) and later TV director (Rawhide, Perry Mason and Death Valley Days).
Features
Richard Halsey: 2014 ACE Career Achievement Award Honoree
Richard Halsey, A.C.E., lives by three rules: Be organized, listen to your intuition and always tell the truth. These are rules that the editor applies to his work, as well as to his life. Of course, Halsey says, it’s not always easy.
Features
Randy Roberts: 2014 ACE Heritage Award Honoree
Hollywood mythology has it that a determined person can start in the mailroom and end up at the top of the business. While very few people actually make that myth become a reality, Randy J. Roberts, A.C.E., is living proof that it can happen.
My Most Memorable Film
Carlton Kaller on ‘Almost Famous’
Scattered throughout the films of Cameron Crowe are moments in which the director’s adolescent rock wordsmith background shine through.
Features
Randy Thom: 2014 MPSE Career Achievement Award Honoree
During the past 35 years, Randy Thom, CAS, MPSE, has helped define the creative art of sound for feature films, and has been an inspiration to colleagues and assistants alike. Thom is this year’s recipient of the MPSE Career Achievement Award from the Motion Picture Sound Editors, which was presented at its 61st annual Golden Reel Awards, held at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles February 16.
