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FXF0104 SIDNEY LUMET's THE VERDICT : Maurice Schell, Lee Dichter, Peter Frank

Sound Editor, Maurice Schell (Gimme Shelter, Serpico, The Missouri Breaks,Apocalypse Now, All That Jazz, Melvin and Howard, Reds, Scarface) , Re-recording Mixer,Lee Dichter, (Grey Gardens, Sophie’s Choice, Hannah and Her Sisters, Miller’s Crossing, The Civil War) and Picture Editor Peter Frank, (The Verdict, Cadillac Records, Dirty Dancing) share stories about coming up in the 1960's 70's and 80's in the New York film industry and their collaboration on Sidney Lumet’sThe Verdict.

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FXF0103 ANG LEE: TIM SQUYRES AND PHIL STOCKTON

Picture Editor Tim Squyres and Sound Editor, Phil Stockton share stories from collaborating together for over 20 years working with film directors such as Martin Scorsese, Ang Lee, Robert Altman, the Coen Brothers, Jonathan Demme and Spike Lee and recognize the advances in technology have encouraged a merging of their roles.

Frame By Frame is a podcast series hosted by editor Isabel Sadurni, that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

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FXF0102 SCORSESE ON TV : VINYL and BOARDWALK EMPIRE: KATE SANFORD AND TIM STREETO

Television and feature film picture editors Kate Sanford (The Wire, The Deuce) and Tim Streeto (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) describe their process in developing the hit series Boardwalk Empire with Martin Scorsese, Tim Van Patten and Terry Winter as well as how they worked together  with Martin Scorsese, Terry Winter and Mick Jagger to create Season 1 of Vinyl.

FXF0101 JONATHAN DEMME and WARREN BEATTY: CRAIG MCKAY, TOM FLEISCHMAN, PHIL STOCKTON, RON BOCHAR, DEBORAH WALLACH, CHRIS NEWMAN

Picture editor, Craig McKay, Re-recording Mixer Tom Fleischman, Production Sound Recordist, Chris Newman, Sound Editors, Ron Bochar and Phil Stockton and ADR Supervisor, Deborah Wallach talk about early influences getting started in the New York film industry of the 1960’s and 70’s as well as their work with Warren Beatty, on Reds and Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia.

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FXF0206 SOUND EDITOR, DAN SABLE: WORKING WITH WOODY ALLEN AND BRIAN DEPALMA

In Brian DePalma’s 1981 film Blow Out, the main character is a sound effects specialist who accidentally records a murder while collecting night sounds for his effects library. The inspiration for this character was Dan Sable, a New York-based sound editor and a collaborator of DePalma’s on nine of his films including, Carrie, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out. Dan Sable built a career as a sound editor working on films such as Annie Hall and Manhattan and multiple films with Woody Allen. Other directors with whom he collaborated include Bob Fosse, Volker Schlorndorff, Ron Howard and Jonathan Demme.

This interview was recorded in Dan Sable’s home by Ira Spiegel and Shari Johanson for Frame By Frame and may be included in a forthcoming documentary on the new York Post Facility Sound One. Here, Dan talks about how he got his start in the film business, specifically in working with filmmaker Brian DePalma, how he successfully transitioned from working in analog and adapted to the tools of the digital era. He begins by discussing the difference between taking on the position of sound editor versus sound supervisor

FXF0205 JIM JARMUSCH PT2 : JAY RABINOWITZ, BOB HEIN, TONY VOLANTE

Coming together in the early 1980’s filmmaking scene of New York, picture editor Jay Rabinowitz and sound editor Bob Hein first met in collaborating on Jim Jarmusch’s film Mystery Train which led to multiple collaborations over 25 years of working with Jim Jarmusch on such films as Broken Flowers, Dead Man, and Limits of Control. Re-recording mixer, Tony Volante joined in mixing the feature film, Coffee and Cigarettes and has since also mixed on Paterson with Bob Hein as sound editor. Jay, Bob and Tony start out by describing the filmmaking scene of 1980’s New York and how that set the tone for future collaborations. Jay Rabinowitz also talks about his process as a picture editor working with Jim Jarmusch and how the film Dead Man came together.

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FXF0204 THE RISE OF NY DOCUMENTARY : SAM POLLARD AND LILLIAN BENSON

For Sam Pollard, Emmy and Peabody award-winning a director, producer, picture editor and frequent collaborator with Spike Lee (Style Wars, Mo' Better Blues, Girl 6, Bamboozled, Clockers, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Four Little Girls  and August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand), and for Lillian Benson, recipient of the 2017 Motion Picture Editor's Guild Fellowship and Service Award and Emmy and Peabody award-winning picture editor (Get In The Way: The Journey of John Lewis and Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise) documentary filmmaking has proven to be the most powerful form of expression artistically, personally and professionally. 

Coming up during the civil rights movement of the late 1960’s and 70’s New York they recognized the documentary film form as a medium that amplified their own voices and talents in telling the story of African Americans.  Though their paths crossed on several New York-based projects, it was the Peabody and multi-Emmy award-winning, Eyes on the Prize Parts 1 and 2, the landmark 14-part documentary series, telling the story of the American civil rights movement from 1952 to 1985 that was the most pivotal experience.

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In this episode, Pollard and Benson tell their story of rising up through the New York documentary film scene to become two of the most important and influential documentarians of their generation. 

FXF0202 SIDNEY LUMET'S NETWORK : ALAN HEIM, MARK LAUB, MICHAEL JACOBI AND JEFFREY WOLF

In 1976, an American satirical film written by Paddy Chayefsky and directed by Sidney Lumet, called Network, about a fictional television network, UBS, and its struggle with poor ratings, starring Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch,  Robert Duvall and Beatrice Straight was nominated for 12 Academy Awards including best film, best director and best editor. Network, won four Academy Awards, including Oscars for Chayefsky’s script, Beatrice  Straights’ performance as an outraged wife, Faye Dunaway’s performance as a cynical programming executive and Peter Finch’s frenetic portrayal of Howard Beale, the troubled “mad prophet of the airwaves.”

Thirty-five years later, Network remains an incendiary if an influential film, and its screenplay is still admired as much for its predictive accuracy as for its vehemence and a relentless sense of purpose. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, cited Chayefsky when he accepted his Oscar for the screenplay of “The Social Network,” and wrote later that “no predictor of the future — not even Orwell — has ever been as right as Chayefsky was when he wrote ‘Network.’ ”

Alan Heim, the picture editor of the film, Mark Laub, one from a team of sound editors, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf, the first assistant editor and the apprentice editor on the film at the time, tell their stories of how the film came together and what it was like in various stages working with director Sidney Lumet, writer Paddy Chayefsky and Producer Howard Gottfried.

FXF0201 JIM JARMUSCH PT1: JAY RABINOWITZ, CHIC CICCOLINI, DOMINICK TAVELLA

In the first episode of Frame By Frame Season 2, picture editor, Jay Rabinowitz, sound editor, Chic Ciccolini  and re-recording mixer, Dominick Tavella talk about their craft and process in collaborating with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch on his films from the 1980’s and 90’s Coffee and Cigarettes, Night On Earth, and Ghost Dog.  

Frame By Frame is a podcast series hosted by editor Isabel Sadurni, that introduces you to the most influential, respected and accomplished cinema post-production professionals working in New York today. Through intimate, informal discussions between collaborators about post-production craft, aesthetics, process and technique, we’ll recognize and celebrate the iconic films and people that have made New York film history as well as those contemporaries who continue to make important contributions to the art of filmmaking. In conversations anchored by the film editor, we’ll share the stories that define New York as an essential ongoing capital of the global film industry.

 

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FXF0306 MIKE NICHOLS: SUZANA PERIC, NANCY ALLEN, DEBORAH WALLACH, ANN GRAY, LEE DICHTER, RON BOCHAR, PAUL LEVIN

Filmmaker Mike Nichols who died in 2014, first became famous performing as part of an improvisational comedy duo with writer-director Elaine May-- What began as an improvised skit with Chicago’s Compass Players, expanded to a radio show which then moved to television and ended as a Broadway hit and Grammy winning album.  

Nichols the comedian, Nichols the director of movies and television, Nichols the director of plays, Nichols the producer, the writer, whose work earned him four Emmys, a Grammy, an Oscar, and nine Tonys was also an urbane man about town whose wit and humanity preceded him in reputation and attracted the admiration and loyalty of the best actors and artists in television film and theater.

From his first film Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, nominated for 13 Oscars and winner of 5 to The Graduate, Catch 22 Carnal Knowledge Silkwood, Wit, Angels in America and Charlie Wilson’s War he established himself as an important cultural leader in multiple disciplines.

In this episode of Frame By Frame, you’ll meet the collaborators who helped craft films such as Angels in America, Primary Colors and Charlie Wilsons War, including music editors Suzana Peric and Nancy Allen, ADR Supervisor Deborah Wallach, re-recording mixer, Lee Dichter, Sound Supervisor, Ron Bochar, Post Production Manager, Ann Gray and Producer and Post Production Supervisor, Paul Levin.

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