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The Guilty Pleasures of Story Analysts: Movies They Hate to Love…

July 1, 2009

CineMontage has turned to the Guild’s erudite, critical and scholarly branch––the story analysts––and asked them to venture deep inside their inner film geeks, to forget that their professional reputations could be at stake and to admit to the world––or at least to their fellow Guild members––what their favorite guilty pleasure movies are.

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Robert Altman: The Sound Crew’s Best Companion

May 1, 2007

From the beginning of his film career in the early 1950s, filmmaker Robert Altman has utilized sound in unorthodox and spontaneous ways.

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May the Sound Be with You: AMPAS Looks Back at Action-Adventure Sound Effects

July 1, 2007

Some excerpts from a panel of sound effects professionals.

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Left Brain Power: Assistant Editors
Run Efficient Cutting Rooms

July 1, 2009

The expansion of digital filmmaking into HD and beyond has seen film become an anachronism, rather than a competitor or adjunct to digital. Many of the traditional assistant’s duties are being re-shaped or re-tasked.

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The Ones That Got Away: Editing and Sound Oscars That Should Have Been

January 1, 2012

With the clarity of hindsight,perhaps the Academy can find a way to single out those films of past years that may have been unjustly overlooked.

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Score Keepers: Mixers Who Capture Composers’ Cues

November 1, 2009

They say brevity is the soul of wit, and scoring mixers seem to have a sense of humor about what their job entails. “We get coffee for the composer. End of inter- view,” Alan Meyerson jokes. Well, not so fast.

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Don’s Devotees: Some Words from His Admirers …

September 1, 2013

A compilations of praise and memorable stories for award winning re-recording mixer Donald O. Mitchell.

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Audio Dexterity: ‘Dexter’s’ Sonic Dark Passengers

September 1, 2013

The producers see the character of Dexter as having different, sonically distinct modes of operation; that drives their creative decisions.

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Wylie Stateman, Andy Koyama and Beau Borders Lay the Soundtrack to ‘Lone Survivor’

January 1, 2014

“There were several gun battles and a serious rocky fall that contained no traditionally scored music. The absence of music allowed our sound effects and Foley to take the soundtrack’s exclusive and full dynamic range.” – Wylie Stateman

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Randy Thom: 2014 MPSE Career Achievement Award Honoree

March 1, 2014

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.

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