An instant classic, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial’s depiction of a friendship between an alien stranded on earth and a young boy named Elliot continues to enchant audiences. “We knew there was one big problem when making the movie and that was the...
Dear Members of ACE, I hope this issue of our magazine finds you, your families and loved ones safe and sound. And hope you’ve had a healthy, peaceful holiday. I am thrilled to have been elected President of our great organization. Thank you for your...
ACE Holiday Party 2020 “We can still do what we love to do more than anything at the annual party – mingle with other ACE members,” said outgoing ACE president Stephen Rivkin, ACE, as he kicked off the annual ACE Holiday Party, which this year was...
Nomadland Nomadland rediscovers a community of transient Americans who have been airbrushed off the map and almost off the grid. What attracted filmmaker Chloé Zhao to the story this group of mainly pensioners have found peace and humanity in going...
Wonder Woman – 1984 Twenty-two months. That’s how long editor Richard Pearson, ACE, worked on Wonder Woman 1984 – the longest, by many months, he’d ever spent on a single project. “I had seven cutting rooms in locations as varied as Washington,...
Mank David Fincher’s Netflix drama about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he writes and takes a controversial credit as co-writer of Orson Welles’ 1941 classic Citizen Kane is certainly a ‘filmmaker’s film’ with a stellar cast and...
Minari Named for a peppery Korean herb, Minari is a tender, funny, evocative ode to how one generation of a family risks everything to plant the dreams of the next. It’s a tale of immigrants making a go at their own vision of the American Dream but...
Tech Corner – A Complete Solution Boris FX has released Boris Continuum Complete (BCC) 2021, a package of VFX plugins for Avid, Adobe, Apple, Blackmagic Design and other software NLE and VFX platforms. As in the past, Boris FX has added a...
Aspects of Editing – Reality Check Unscripted television has existed as a genre for nearly as long as the medium itself. It began with Allen Funt’s hidden camera show Candid Camera in 1948, which paved the way for seminal documentaries like...
