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American Cinema Editors (ACE) has a special event planned for Halloween season! We're pleased to welcome editors Rick Shaine, ACE, and Patrick McMahon, ACE, following a screening of Wes Craven’s horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street! Nick Taylor, host of the horror film podcast The Nick Taylor Horror Show, will be moderating.
The first installment in a long-running franchise, the film stars Robert Englund as the iconic Freddy Krueger along with John Saxon, Ronee Blakley and Johnny Depp in his film debut. Krueger, a monstrous figure returned from the dead, murders teenagers through their dreams, as retribution against their parents who burned him alive. The film received great critical acclaim upon its release, and has since been considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made, In 2021, A Nightmare on Elm Street was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
You're invited to ACE's First Short Film Showcase!
Please join us for a special screening of award-winning short films
written, directed, and/or edited by fellow ACE members!
Short films are a labor of love and ACE Film Editors have been winning the hearts of audiences at film festivals around the world. Come watch some of the most talked about films from the last few years, together on the big screen.
October 25, 2025
Doors Open at 1:30pm | Screening Starts Promptly at 2pm
Editor Q&A and Pizza Reception to follow the screening
American Film Institute
AFI Mark Goodson Screening Room
2021 North Western Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90027
Our November "American Cinema Editors Presents at Metrograph" is Garrett Bradley's award-winning documentary from 2020, Time. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with editor Gabriel Rhodes, moderated by Alex Keipper, ACE.
Time follows Sibil Fox Richardson (also known as Fox Rich), an entrepreneur, self-described abolitionist, author, and mother of six, as she fights for the release of her husband, Rob, serving a 60-year prison sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary for his participation in an armed bank robbery. Rich served three and a half years for her role in the robbery while Rob was granted clemency by then-Louisiana governor John Bel Edwards in 2018 after he served 21 years in prison. The film combines original footage with home videos.
Gabriel Rhodes is an acclaimed editor with editing credits on films such as Matthew Heinemann's The First Wave (for which he won an Emmy Award for best editing), Brett Morgen's Moonage Daydream, 1971, Newtown, and The Tillman Story. Several of his films have been shortlisted for the best documentary Academy Award.
SAVE THE DATE!
The Connect Committee invites 4 Active members to join ACE Life members,Colleen and Richard Halsey for lunch on Monday, November 17. Please check your email for invitation details.
The New York ACE Holiday Party will be on Wednesday, December 3! ACE members, please check your email for ticketing and event information.
The ACE LA Holiday Party will take place on Saturday, December 6. ACE members, please check your emails for ticket information and details.
American Cinema Editors Presents ... Screenings of Two Films Edited by Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, Each Followed by a Q&A
Next Month, Metrograph will honor Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, as part of their ongoing FilmCraft series. The series will include two ACE Presents screenings followed by Q&As with Christopher.
December 12 | 6:50 pm | Metrograph, NYC
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990)
Q&A moderated by film historian Bobbie O’Steen
December 14 | 4:30 pm | Metrograph, NYC
Mark Mylod’s The Menu (2022)
Q&A moderated by educator Molly O’Steen
Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, moved from assistant editing on films such as Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money to editing defining films of the '90s like Metropolitan, Kids, Smoke, Flirting with Disaster, Gummo and Man on the Moon. This century has brought Capote, Moneyball (for which he was nominated for Best Editing at the Academy Awards), A Quiet Place, Nyad and The Menu.
Metropolitan is a 1990 romantic comedy-drama produced, written and directed by Whit Stillman in his feature directorial debut. The film follows the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan. In addition to some of their debutante parties, it covers their after-hours gatherings at a friend's Upper East Side apartment, where they discuss life, philosophy and their fate; form attachments, romances and intrigues; and react to an interesting but less well-to-do newcomer. The film was nominated for best original screenplay at the Academy Awards and won Best First Feature at the 1990 Independent Spirit Awards.
The Menu is a 2022 black comedy horror film directed by Mark Mylod. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau and John Leguizamo. The film follows a foodie and his date who travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish but surprising menu. The film received a nomination for Best Editing, Comedy or Musical at the ACE Eddie Awards as well as Golden Globe nominations for Fiennes and Taylor-Joy.
American Cinema Editors Presents ... Screenings of Two Films Edited by Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, Each Followed by a Q&A
Next Month, Metrograph will honor Oscar-nominated editor Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, as part of their ongoing FilmCraft series. The series will include two ACE Presents screenings followed by Q&As with Christopher.
December 12 | 6:50 pm | Metrograph, NYC
Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan (1990)
Q&A moderated by film historian Bobbie O’Steen
December 14 | 5:00 pm | Metrograph, NYC
Mark Mylod’s The Menu (2022)
Q&A moderated by educator Molly O’Steen
Christopher Tellefsen, ACE, moved from assistant editing on films such as Martin Scorsese’s The Color of Money to editing defining films of the '90s like Metropolitan, Kids, Smoke, Flirting with Disaster, Gummo and Man on the Moon. This century has brought Capote, Moneyball (for which he was nominated for Best Editing at the Academy Awards), A Quiet Place, Nyad and The Menu.
Metropolitan is a 1990 romantic comedy-drama produced, written and directed by Whit Stillman in his feature directorial debut. The film follows the lives of a group of wealthy young socialites during debutante season in Manhattan. In addition to some of their debutante parties, it covers their after-hours gatherings at a friend's Upper East Side apartment, where they discuss life, philosophy and their fate; form attachments, romances and intrigues; and react to an interesting but less well-to-do newcomer. The film was nominated for best original screenplay at the Academy Awards and won Best First Feature at the 1990 Independent Spirit Awards.
The Menu is a 2022 black comedy horror film directed by Mark Mylod. It stars Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau and John Leguizamo. The film follows a foodie and his date who travel to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish but surprising menu. The film received a nomination for Best Editing, Comedy or Musical at the ACE Eddie Awards as well as Golden Globe nominations for Fiennes and Taylor-Joy.
SAVE THE DATE!
Get ready for a surprise! The mighty Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of a Philip K. Dick story is the kind of endlessly entertaining and subversive content that only gets more prescient as the years go by. Construction worker Douglas Quaid (The Governator) has a beautiful wife, a lovely house, but at night he dreams of Mars and an enigmatic brunette. While undergoing a virtual vacation, something goes wrong and throws him into a high-stakes adventure with an entire planet at stake. But is it just the implanted memories, or is it all too real? A thrilling, violent, and mind-bending science-fiction classic with the incomparable talents of Arnold Schwarzenegger and a smorgasbord of brilliantly crafted practical effects, Total Recall is still one of the most entertaining films ever.
General Admission Tickets are $13
(Vidiots Members Receive Discount)
Proceeds benefit the Vidiots Foundation
Physical TV Company & Cinema's First Nasty Women present the Los Angeles premiere of Breaking Plates and 9 silent film comedies that inspired it plus a discussion with director/editor Karen Pearlman, ASE. Free screening on Friday, January 23, 7:30pm, Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum. The evening also includes a screening and discussion of the three films of An Editor's Anthology with special guest Lilya Kaganovsky.
Our January "American Cinema Editors Presents at Metrograph" is The Squid and the Whale followed by a Q&A with the film’s editor, Tim Streeto, ACE, moderated by Emmy and ACE Eddie Award-winning editor Joanna Naugle, ACE.
The Squid and the Whale is a 2005 American independent comedy-drama written and directed by Noah Baumbach. It tells the semi-autobiographical story of two boys in Brooklyn dealing with their parents' divorce in 1986. The film was shot on super 16mm, mostly using a handheld camera, and is named after the giant squid and sperm whale diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
The film, which stars Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline, won awards for best dramatic direction and screenwriting, and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Baumbach later was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. The film received six Independent Spirit Award nominations and three Golden Globe nominations. Baumbach became one of the few screenwriters to ever sweep the major year end critics’ awards.