Reprinted from The Los Angeles Times by its staff on December 11, 2020.
Movie theaters closed. Broadway went dark. Concert venues fell silent. But 2020 still led to some special projects in entertainment and arts. Here are some of our picks for the best of the year.
What is a Foley artist? 41 years after its namesake’s death, Foley is among the last bastions of organic filmmaking––a cinematic art that is still relatively untouched by the digital revolution, and whose true origin belongs more to the Golden Age of radio than to the visual medium it so greatly enhances. […]
“Allyson is an extraordinary film editor with the most marvelous sense of musical rhythm that permeates her entire process of cutting and shaping motion picture,” says Mira Nair. […]