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Watch Editor Michael Kahn’s Awe-Inspiring Reel

by Jason Barr    Posted: February 21st, 2011 at 5:25 pm

Anyone involved in the business of filmmaking would love to be able to cut together a professional reel like three-time Oscar winning editor Michael Kahn. Included in his more than 60 feature film editing credits is a ton of work on Steven Spielberg films such as Saving Private Ryan, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. With this small sample of his body of work in mind, Kahn was recently honored by the American Cinema Editors with a Lifetime Achievement Award. As part of the ceremony, the A.C.E. showed this seven-minute cut of the editor’s work during their awards ceremony on Saturday, February 19th. To be brief, it truly is amazing to see this type of influential work condensed into seven minutes.

Hit the jump to check out Kahn’s incredible reel [Warning: You may instantly feel like your own professional output is inferior both during and after viewing].

SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, K-19: THE WIDOWMAKER and ESCAPE FROM LA Blu-ray Reviews

by Andre Dellamorte    Posted: June 3rd, 2010 at 5:06 am

Paramount’s latest batch of Catalog titles includes Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan. As of today, the replacement copies should be on the streets as there were some audio sync issues. Unfortunately a lot of early reviews did not catch this issue, which is likely because most critics (self included) don’t have DTS-HD master audio. Briefly, there is a core DTS soundtrack, and then the HD audio track, and if you don’t have the right equipment, you are not going to hear that audio track. Perhaps that’s what happened here. Don’t know. But Spielberg’s war opus hit the streets along with catalog titles Escape from LA and K-19: The Widowmaker, and my reviews of those titles follow after the jump.

Producer Kevin De La Noy On Set Interview CLASH OF THE TITANS

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: February 17th, 2010 at 10:18 pm

If you look over producer Kevin De La Noy’s resume on IMDb, it’s kind of awesome.  The reason is he’s worked on movies such as The Princess Bride, The Dark Knight, Braveheart, The Fifth Element, even Saving Private Ryan.  While his job titles have ranged from location manager, production runner, producer, and assistant director, he’s still been involved in some of the biggest movies over the last two decades.

Anyway, when I got to visit the set of Clash of the Titans outside of London last August, I was able to participate in a roundtable interview with De La Noy.  During our extended interview he talked to us about why they wanted to remake Clash, the use of CGI versus practical effects, how they were filming around the world, and he explained the secrets of making a big movie come together.  If you’ve ever wanted to work on a big Hollywood movie, you should start by reading or listening to what Kevin De La Noy’s had to say about Clash of the Titans.  Hit the jump to check it out:

Steven Spielberg Interview HBO’s THE PACIFIC

by Sara Wayland    Posted: February 4th, 2010 at 3:33 pm

Executive producers Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are following up their highly successful 2001 mini-series Band of Brothers with the epic 10-part The Pacific, premiering on HBO on March 14^th.

The mini-series tracks the intertwined journeys of three U.S. Marines — Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello) and John Basilone (Jon Seda) — of the 1^st Marine Division, which is the oldest and largest active duty division of the U.S. Marine Corps.

While Band of Brothers followed the experiences of one company of Amy paratroopers in the European Theater of Operations, The Pacific depicts the war a world away in the Pacific Theater of Operations, which encompassed most of the Pacific Ocean and its islands, including the Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.  With the support of their fellow Marines and comrades in the Navy, Air Force and Army, the 1^st Marine Division was at the forefront of many of the hardest-fought campaigns of the Pacific War.  More after the jump:

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