Featured in Content: Set in a mixed-race Brooklyn neighborhood on a day of ratcheting tension, Do the Right Thing remains as incendiary today as it did on release in 1989. The rising temperature of the hottest day of summer escalates into a senseless death and...
The Power of the Dog Jane Campion’s Western psychological drama The Power of the Dog, based on the 1967 novel of the same name by Thomas Savage, stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Phil Burbank – a domineering cattle rancher who is jealous of his brother, George (played...
Don’t Look Up Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up delivers a scathing social commentary about a society that has become so engrossed in trivial matters like celebrity relationships, that people are simply incapable of comprehending, or even accepting, the fact that a...
Flee Danish director Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s well-received animated documentary Flee tells the powerful and complex life story of Amin Nawabi (a pseudonym), who escaped from Afghanistan as a child refugee. After the Russian-backed communist regime fell to the...
Summer of Soul Editor Joshua L. Pearson had been working exclusively with New York-based RadicalMedia for many years when executive producers at the facility brought him into Summer of Soul, (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), a wholly unique...
Belfast Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast is a loosely autobiographical love letter to his hometown in Northern Ireland, steeped in his memories of growing up on a small street in a working-class Belfast neighborhood in the late 1960s where Catholics and Protestants lived...
Paper Cuts- “Order In Chaos” Many books have been written about editing and many of them have been written by editors. Maybe this is because editing is the essence of filmmaking and paradoxically also the least-understood creative force in motion...
ACE Holiday Party 2021 The ACE Holiday Party returned to the Skirball Cultural Center on Dec. 11, following a 2020 virtual event. As ACE’s first in-person event since the shutdown, the vaccination-only (or negative COVID test) event attracted roughly 450 members...
Meet Sarah Broshar When Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story debuted in December, his longtime editor Michael Kahn, ACE,was once again joined by Sarah Broshar, who grew up in a small town in Michigan where her experience of movies was much like anyone else. “We had...
