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Please join ACE for a special DOUBLE FEATURE screening of Blue Ruin and Green Room plus a Q&A with editor Julia Bloch.

The evening begins with a screening of the the 2013 Jeremy Saulnier thriller Blue Ruin about a mysterious outsider whose quiet life is turned upside down when he returns to his childhood home. The film premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and was the winner of the FIPRESCI Prize. The screening will feature a Q&A with editor Julia Bloch, moderated by Caryn Coleman, the founder of The Future of Film Is Female.

After the Q&A stay for a second screening featuring the 2015 Saulnier horror-thriller film Green Room. The film focuses on a punk band who find themselves attacked by neo-Nazi skinheads after witnessing a murder at a remote club in the Pacific Northwest.

The next "American Cinema Editors Presents" is a special one ... When Pigs Fly, the 1993 German-American-Dutch comedy directed by Sara Driver and starring Alfred Molina, Marianne Faithfull and Seymour Cassel with a score by Joe Strummer of The Clash. This screening intersects with another Metrograph series, "Remain in Light," that highlights films shot by late cinematographer Robby Müller. ACE is happy to welcome for the post screening Q&A editor Jay Rabinowitz, ACE, director Sara Driver and Andrea Müller-Schirmer (widow of Robby Müller). The discussion will be moderated by film writer Hillary Weston.

Join ACE for a "smashing" screening of Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk. Hulk i is a Marvel movie directed by Ang Lee, screenplay by James Schamus, Michael France and John Turman, based on characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. Before the formula for “superhero movie” was codified to produce a never-ending stream of lookalike, soundalike films there was Lee’s Hulk, an experiment in style employing eye-popping color, frag grenade split-screen effects, and dynamic framings — the work of legendary DP Frederick Elmes — in order to create a cinematic approximation of Jack Kirby’s original comic art. The spectacle here is built on a solid foundation of character-based oedipal struggle that recalls Nick Nolte’s earlier work in Addiction, with Eric Bana as Bruce Banner/Hulk and Nolte in fine fettle as his abusive and ultimately megalomaniacal mad scientist father. Note: this film is part of a series starring Nick Nolte. The screening will be followed by a discussion between editor Tim Squyres, ACE and VFX editor (and now editor) Gary Levy, ACE.

American Cinema Editors and The Metrograph shine a light on the legendary Hal Ashby’s first career in Hollywood – as an Oscar-winning film editor. We’ll be screening The Cincinnati Kid, one of Ashby’s many collaborations with director Norman Jewison. After the screening Wyatt Smith, ACE and Nick Dawson, author of Being Hal Ashby, will discuss the innovative art of Hal Ashby’s editing and how it prepared him to become the director he ultimately became.

A sharply drawn character study set against the backdrop of Depression Era New Orleans, The Cincinnati Kid stars Steve McQueen as an up-and-coming five-card stud specialist looking to prove his mettle by taking on established poker maestro “The Man” (Edward G. Robinson). Ashby’s deft editing helps to make the card table scenes masterpieces of tension, and the central dueling duo are surrounded by a superb supporting cast that boasts Tuesday Weld, Rip Torn, Joan Blondell, and Karl Malden in its number.