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IN MEMORIAM
James Boyle Story Analyst (June 27, 1938 – January 2, 2013) 44 years a member Robert T. Brown No Classification […]
Month: August 2017
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Passages – William R. Butler
Bill Butler, the British-born film editor who received an Oscar nomination for his work on Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 classic “A Clockwork Orange,” died June 4 at a hospital in Sherman Oaks. He was 83.
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Blackmagic Again Has Us in Its Spell
New Mini Panel Impresses to the Max, Plus a Peek at Resolve 14
Blackmagic Design continues to maintain its impressive track record of delivering well-designed products, including cameras, software, switchers, converters and a plethora of other useful tools for the production and post industry.
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Small-Town Boy Makes It in the Big Time
I grew up in a small town on the East Coast, maybe 1,000 people, tops. Not too much to do at night, but great for a kid; we pretty much had the run of the town.
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Contract High – Deluxe Digital Cinema Technicians Win Raises, Respect
In a nondescript Burbank falafel joint on a sweltering Sunday afternoon in July of last year, co-workers crowded around an impromptu conference table made up of several four-tops pushed together. A tacky film adhered to the furniture, as is typical of greasy spoons. Sweaty forearms clung stickily to gummy tabletops.
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Out of Boundaries
Amazon Studios’ “Transparent” is arguably much more than just a hit web series. It’s a phenomenon that pushes the envelope in terms of social, political and gender-role mores.
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Golden Age? Show Me the Coinage
My few forays into non-feature editing were no less challenging. But they paid less money.
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Stepping into Another New Role
In June of this year, the Editors Guild’s former National Executive Director Ron Kutak resigned from the Board of Directors of the Motion Picture Industry Pension and Health Plans (MPIPHP) after serving for over 30 years.
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The Ladies of the Footlights Club
Director Gregory La Cava introduced moviegoers to a host of energetic young women living together in a theatrical boarding house, struggling for survival and stardom on the New York stage, when his “Stage Door” premiered in San Francisco 80 years ago, on October 6, 1937.
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Tom Tykwer’s ‘Run Lola Run’
I grew up in Deep River in Northern Ontario, Canada in the 1970s, an idyllic place to live as far as catching frogs and running through the woods, but I didn’t get to see movies in the cinema very often.
