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Passages – Pasquale Buba, ACE
Pasquale Buba, ACE Picture Editor April 16, 1946 – September 12, 2018 Pasquale (Pat) Buba, ACE, 72, formerly of Braddock, […]
Year: 2018
Columns
Maya Deren’s ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’
One afternoon, they showed Maya Deren’s ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’ (1943), and it amazed me! It’s a short film directed by wife-and-husband team Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. […]
Departments
‘Tis the Season
Greetings from the middle of Awards Season 2018-2019. […]
Columns
More Than Just Another Fine Mess
Kurt Vonnegut dedicated his 1976 novel ‘Slapstick’ “to the memory of Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Norvell Hardy” — better known as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. In the novel’s prologue, the author explains, “I have called it Slapstick because it is grotesque, situational poetry, like the slapstick film comedies, especially those of Laurel and Hardy… […]
Special Section
On Riding Equalization
The following is excerpted from an interview with Lee Dichter, CAS, 20 years ago in the September 1998 issue of […]
Columns
Nancy Parker on ‘Kickboxer’
As a Foley artist, Nancy Parker, MPSE, is tasked with creating the sounds of major life events for characters on-screen. “I go to work and I may perform open-heart surgery, or I may saddle, bridle and ride a horse,” she says. […]
Columns
A ‘Stagecoach’ Ride to a Film Career
In 1966, there were worse places to grow up than Iowa. My hometown, Marion, was a ten-minute bus ride from Cedar Rapids with its department stores, book and record shops, and three movie houses. […]
Departments
Adobe Puts the Art in Artificial Intelligence
Recently, Adobe unveiled important updates and enhancements to its suite of video applications in the Creative Cloud. Let’s take a look at some of the new features aimed at filmmakers and video professionals. […]
Departments
Passages – Bruce Barris
Bruce Barris, my profes-sional colleague and good friend for the last 16 years, died quite unexpectedly this past August. He was one of the most talented people I have ever known. […]
Departments
A Year of Engagement and Activism
Two thousand eighteen has been a year of great awakening for our Guild — an awakening as to who and what we really are as a labor union. We stood with our principles, refusing to abandon them in order to be socially accepted. […]
