Event Summary:

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.