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. […]
Scattered throughout the films of Cameron Crowe are moments in which the director’s adolescent rock wordsmith background shine through. […]
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. […]
Unlike most guilds in the film industry (the Screen Actors Guild excepted), the Motion Picture Editors Guild looks forward to its membership garnering multiple Academy Awards every year. […]
When Tatiana S. Riegel, A.C.E., set her mind to become a film editor, she went about it with the methodical planning to be expected from the daughter of an astronomy professor. […]
When I saw the ending montage of my character walking into the sunset to the Doors’ “Not to Touch the Earth,” I was floored at the raw emotion it invoked in me. It was a defining moment and my first encounter with the power of image and music. […]
I have been a re-recording mixer for 33 years, and the idea of turning a production track into a full, complete and seamless sound track — that hopefully enhances and advances the project — still fascinates and excites me. […]
We have duties to one another. We are strongest when we are one another’s keepers. […]
I am a graduate teaching assistant in Professor Alan Downer’s Twentieth-Century Theatre class at Princeton University in 1968. Along with several hundred students and a handful of other TAs, I am sitting in a lecture hall, eagerly awaiting Downer’s capsule reviews of the movies currently playing in town. […]
It’s not at uncommon, for transitions to be the editor’s focus, Jeffrey Michael Bays tries to remedy that. […]
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