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. […]
You might say that Tommy Vicari, CAS, is the beneficiary of good timing. A few years after director Sam Mendes and composer Thomas Newman were the toast of the film world for the Academy Award-winning American Beauty (1999), Vicari was asked to serve as scoring mixer on their follow-up film, Road to Perdition (2002). […]
by Rob Callahan Last June, my column in these pages invoked the cinematic trope of the cliffhanger to describe a […]
Last year was a challenging one for our Guild, but also one of great promise. In our struggle to get a fair deal for our members, we discovered how strongly you were behind the position of our Board of Directors (pictured here) to fight for better protection of our pension and welfare plan, as well as better and safer turnaround times and other issues. […]
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. […]
In a year that’s featured contentious debates over the #MeToo movement, ‘On the Basis of Sex,’ which opens on Christmas Day, is the most timely holiday present imaginable. […]
When Lee Dichter, CAS, was informed that he would receive the Motion Picture Editors Guild’s 2018 Fellowship and Service Award, it did not take long for the veteran sound re-recording mixer to accept. […]
The Motion Picture Editors Guild will honor veteran sound re-recording mixer Lee Dichter, CAS, with its prestigious Fellowship and Service Award at The Sheraton New York at Times Square on October 20, 2018. […]
2017 Wonder Wheel 2016 Café Society 2015 Everything Is Copy (Documentary) Irrational Man 2014 A Walk Among the Tombstones Rosewater […]
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. […]
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