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.
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A 3-hour interactive workshop to develop creative ideas. Participate in a series of embodied exercises designed to catalyze concepts, images, sounds, movement motifs, structures, and rhythms for new screen dance works. Excerpts and examples of key cinematic moments from films directed and edited by Shirley Clarke will be jumping off points for exploring ideas in motion and editing as a generative art. Workshop leader Karen Pearlman will bring core principles from her recent books – 'Cutting Rhythms: Creative Film Editing' and 'Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement’ – to life in a workshop designed to enhance and empower kineasthetic creativity. (space is limited)
On the occasion of the publication of Shirley Clarke: Thinking Through Movement, Dance Camera West and Clare Schweitzer welcome writer/director Karen Pearlman, ASE, (in person) to present a screening of 8 rarely seen films directed & edited by Shirley Clarke. Sunday, January 25, 7:00pm at The Philosophical Research Society.
Our February American Cinema Editors (ACE) Presents at Metrograph is My Architect: A Son’s Journey, Nathaniel Kahn’s Oscar-nominated 2003 documentary about his father, the acclaimed American architect Louis Kahn. The film was edited by Sabine Krayenbühl, who will join us for a post-screening Q&A.
Louis Kahn is considered by many historians to be the most important architect of the second half of the twentieth century. While his artistic legacy was a search for truth and clarity, his personal life was secretive and chaotic. His mysterious death in Penn Station in 1974 left behind three families—one with his wife, and two with women with whom he had long-term affairs. As the child of one of those extramarital relationships, filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn sets out on a journey to reconcile the life and work of this mysterious man he called his father. Along the way, Kahn visits many of his father’s buildings, including the Yale Center for British Art, the Salk Institute, and the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and speaks with renowned architects including Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, I. M. Pei, and Anne Tyng.
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The Q&Agency (FKA Picturehouse 441) and ACE are proud to be partnering on a series of live virtual Q&As as part of our mutual efforts to promote media literacy.
Join us for a Q&A with senior visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri, Lightstorm visual effects supervisor/virtual second unit director/executive producer Richard Baneham, Wētā FX senior visual effects supervisor Eric Saindon, Wētā FX senior animation supervisor Daniel Barrett, as they discuss their work on Avatar: Fire and Ash.
Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in the phenomenally successful Avatar franchise, opens exclusively in theaters worldwide December 19, 2025. James Cameron takes audiences back to Pandora in an immersive new adventure with Marine turned Na’vi leader Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Na’vi warrior Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña), and the Sully family. The film, which has a screenplay by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver, and a story by James Cameron & Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver & Josh Friedman & Shane Salerno, also stars Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, David Thewlis, Jemaine Clement, Giovanni Ribisi, Britain Dalton, Jamie Flatters, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Brendan Cowell, Bailey Bass, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans, Jr., and Kate Winslet. (Synopsis by 20th Century Studios)
This event will be a Live Zoom Webinar on Wednesday, February 11 at 2PM ET/11AM PT with two encore livestreams to follow on Vimeo.
Encore 1: Wednesday, February 11 at 8PM ET/5PM PT
Encore 2: Thursday, February 12 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
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The Q&Agency is proud to announce a free virtual screening and Q&A on THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025, 109 mins). Q&A with writer/director Emilie Blichfeldt, hair & makeup designer Anne Catherine Sauerberg, prosthetic makeup effects designer Thomas Foldberg. Screening Links Will Be Sent After RSVP. Live: Tuesday, February 17 at 3PM ET/12PM PT
Encore 1: Tuesday, February 17 at 8PM ET/5PM PT
Encore 2: Tuesday, February 17 at 11PM ET/8PM PT
JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH
Live virtual Q&A with with visual effects supervisor David Vickery; visual effects supervisor (ILM) Charmaine Chan; animation supervisor Stephen Aplin; special effects supervisor Neil Corbould
Live: Wednesday, February 18 at 12:30PM ET/9:30AM PT
Encore 1: Wednesday, February 18 at 8PM ET/5PM PT
Encore 2: Wednesday, February 18 at 11PM ET/8PM PT