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Bruce Green
Bruce Green is an American film editor known for his work with directors such as Garry Marshall, Mark Waters, and Jon Turteltaub. Trained by editor Michael Kahn, he was the first assistant editor on ''Raiders of the Lost Ark'' and ''Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom''. He was in the visual effects department of '' Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope''. Green began his career editing ''Friday the 13th'' films, including '' Friday the 13th: A New Beginning'' and '' Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives''. Later, he edited films such as ''Cool Runnings'', ''The Princess Diaries'' and ''Freaky Friday''. He has also worked in television, editing ''Jane the Virgin''. Bruce was on the board of directors of the Motion Picture Editors Guild The Motion Picture Editors Guild (MPEG; IATSE Local 700) is the guild that represents freelance and staff motion picture film and television editors and other post-production professionals and story analysts throughout the United States. The Moti ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Editing
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filming), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is often referred to as the "invisible art" because when it is well-practiced, the viewer can become so engaged that they are not aware of the editor's work. On its most fundamental level, film editing is the art, technique and practice of assembling shots into a coherent sequence. The job ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Risk
''Prime Risk'' is a 1985 thriller film directed by Michael Farkas and starring Lee Montgomery and Toni Hudson. Plot summary A female engineer, with the assistance of her pilot-wannabe male friend, discovers a way to rip off automated teller machine An automated teller machine (ATM) or cash machine (in British English) is an electronic telecommunications device that enables customers of financial institutions to perform financial transactions, such as cash withdrawals, deposits, fun ...s, but in doing so stumbles upon a plot to destroy the U.S. monetary system. Cast External links * 1985 films American television films 1980s English-language films 1980s crime thriller films Political thriller films Films shot in Virginia Films shot in Washington, D.C. Films about financial crises {{crime-thriller-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael
''Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael'' is a 1990 American comedy-drama film directed by Jim Abrahams and starring Winona Ryder and Jeff Daniels. Plot Dinky Bossetti is a 15-year-old girl who was adopted as a baby. Dinky is an unkempt goth kid who is constantly picked on at school, although it is not obvious which came first – her antisocial attitude or her being rejected by her adoptive parents and peers. Dinky finds solace in her "Ark", a small cabin-boat beached on a lake shore. In and around the boat, Dinky has collected a menagerie of abandoned animals. Dinky's adoptive mother Rochelle is disappointed that the daughter she chose has no interest in "feminine" things, such as makeup and nice clothing. Her adoptive father, Les, passively allows his wife to scold Dinky and send her to various "counselors" who are little more than temporary jailers. Her teachers give her no support when classmates ostracize, taunt, and throw things at her. Dinky enjoys thumbing her nose at her peers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Murphy
Geoffrey Peter Murphy (12 October 1938 – 3 December 2018) was a New Zealand filmmaker, producer, director, and screenwriter best known for his work during the renaissance of New Zealand cinema that began in the second half of the 1970s. His second feature ''Goodbye Pork Pie'' (1981) was the first New Zealand film to win major commercial success on its own soil. Murphy directed several Hollywood features during the 1990s, before returning to New Zealand as second-unit director on ''The Lord of the Rings'' film trilogy. Murphy was also at different times a scriptwriter, special effects technician, schoolteacher and trumpet player. He was married to Merata Mita, also a film director, actor, writer. Early life Murphy grew up in the Wellington suburb of Highbury, and attended St. Vincent de Paul School in Kelburn and St. Patrick's College, Wellington, before training and working as a schoolteacher. Blerta Murphy was a founding member of the hippy musical and theatrical co-opera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Guns II
''Young Guns II'' is a 1990 American Western film and a sequel to '' Young Guns'' (1988). It stars Emilio Estevez, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips, and Christian Slater, and features William Petersen as Pat Garrett. It was written by John Fusco and directed by Geoff Murphy. It follows the life of Billy the Kid (played by Emilio Estevez), in the years following the Lincoln County War in which Billy was part of "The Regulators" – a group of around six highly skilled gunmen avenging the death of John Tunstall – and the years leading up to Billy's documented death. The film, however, is told by Brushy Bill Roberts, a man who in 1950 appeared claiming to be the real Billy the Kid. While the film takes some creative license, it does show some of the main events leading up to Billy's documented death, including his talks with Governor Lew Wallace, his capture by friend-turned-foe Pat Garrett, his trial, and his subsequent escape in which he killed two deputies. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Veber
Francis Paul Veber (born 28 July 1937) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Nine French-language films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as English-language Hollywood films: '' Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire'' (as ''The Man with One Red Shoe''), '' L'emmerdeur'' (as '' Buddy Buddy''), '' La Cage aux Folles'' (as ''The Birdcage''), ''Le Jouet'' (as '' The Toy''), '' Les Compères'' (as '' Fathers' Day''), '' La chèvre'' (as '' Pure Luck''), '' Les Fugitifs'' (as ''Three Fugitives''), ''Le dîner de cons'' (as ''Dinner for Schmucks'') and '' La Doublure'' (as ''The Valet''). He also wrote the screenplay for '' My Father the Hero'', the 1994 American remake of the French-language film '' Mon père, ce héros''. Some of his screenplays started as theater plays (for instance, ''Le dîner de cons''). This theatrical experience ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Fugitives
''Three Fugitives'' is a 1989 American buddy crime-comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, starring Nick Nolte and Martin Short, with supporting roles by Sarah Doroff, James Earl Jones, Alan Ruck, and Kenneth McMillan in his final film appearance. It is a remake of '' Les Fugitifs'', a 1986 French comedy starring Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard also directed by Veber. The movie was popular at the box office, grossing more than $40.6 million against a budget of $15 million, despite receiving a general negative reception from critics. Plot Daniel Lucas has been in prison for armed robbery. On the day he is released, he gets taken hostage by Ned Perry, an incompetent, novice criminal who robs a bank (to get money for treatment for his ill daughter, Meg) at the moment Lucas just happens to be there. Detective Marvin Dugan assumes they must be in it together and sets about tracking them down. Several chases, an accidental shooting, treatment from a senile vet who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Seltzer
David Seltzer (born February 12, 1940) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, perhaps best known for writing the screenplays for ''The Omen'' (1976) and '' Bird on a Wire'' (1990). As writer-director, Seltzer's credits include the 1986 teen tragi-comedy '' Lucas'' starring Corey Haim, Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder, the 1988 comedy ''Punchline'' starring Sally Field and Tom Hanks, and 1992's ''Shining Through'' starring Melanie Griffith and Michael Douglas. Biography Born to a Jewish family, Seltzer was uncredited for his contributions to the 1971 musical film ''Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory'', the author of the original book, Roald Dahl, is credited as sole screenwriter; however it has been revealed that Seltzer rewrote 30% of Dahl's script, adding such elements as the "Slugworth subplot", music other than the original Oompa Loompa compositions (including ''Pure Imagination'' and ''The Candy Man''), and the ending dialogue for the movie. Seltzer's writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punchline (film)
''Punchline'' is a 1988 American comedy-drama film written and directed by David Seltzer and distributed by Columbia Pictures. Its story follows a talented young comic as he helps a housewife who wants to break into stand-up comedy. It stars Sally Field, Tom Hanks, John Goodman, and Mark Rydell. The film was produced by Daniel Melnick and Michael I. Rachmil and was released on October 7, 1988. It grossed $21.0 million in the United States and Canada, against a budget of $15 million. It received generally mixed reviews and has a 60% approval rating based on 20 votes on Rotten Tomatoes. Plot Steven Gold is a struggling medical student who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. It quickly becomes evident that he is lousy at the former and excels at the latter. And yet, when he is given a chance at the big time, he cracks under the pressure. Lilah is a dedicated housewife who yearns to be a comic. She has the raw talent but does not have the command of craft that Steven possesses. At fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Petrie
Daniel Mannix Petrie (November 26, 1920 – August 22, 2004) was a Canadian film director, film, television director, television, and stage director who worked in Canada, Hollywood, and the United Kingdom; known for directing grounded human drama film, dramas often dealing with taboo subject matter. He was one of several Canadian-born expatriate filmmakers, including Norman Jewison and Sidney J. Furie, to find critical and commercial success overseas in the 1960s due to the limited opportunities in the Canadian film industry at the time. He was the patriarch of the Petrie filmmaking family, with four of his children all working in the film industry. Beginning his career in television, he made his critical and popular breakthrough directing the A Raisin in the Sun (1961 film), 1961 film version of the Lorraine Hansberry play ''A Raisin in the Sun'', which won the Gary Cooper Award at the Cannes Film Festival. He directed over 90 films and television programs until his retirement i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Square Dance (film)
''Square Dance'' (television broadcast title: ''Home Is Where the Heart Is'') is a 1987 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Daniel Petrie from a screenplay by Alan Hines, based on his novel of the same name. The film stars Jason Robards, Jane Alexander, Winona Ryder, and Rob Lowe, and was released on February 20, 1987, by Island Pictures. It earned Lowe his only Golden Globe Award nomination for a film role. Plot Gemma Dillard is a 13-year-old country girl who lives with her Grandpa Dillard on a farm in the Texas Panhandle. Gemma is visited by her mother, who lives in Fort Worth, with an offer to come stay with her in the city. Her mother (who had Gemma when she was still only a teenager) is now married with a job as a hair stylist and can provide for her. Gemma at first experiences slight culture shock in regards to big city life, but soon comes to accept her new surroundings. She becomes acquainted with a man with an intellectual disability, 21-year-old Rory Torra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom McLoughlin
Thomas Maurice "Tom" McLoughlin (born July 19, 1950) is an American screenwriter, film/television director and former mime who is most notable for directing '' Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives'' and ''One Dark Night''. His other credits include numerous television films such as '' Murder in Greenwich'', ''At Risk'', '' Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life'', ''Date with an Angel'' and the 2010 Lifetime Movie Network film ''The Wronged Man''. In 1977, McLoughlin was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program for his contributions to ''Van Dyke and Company'', a special starring Dick Van Dyke. Two years later, he portrayed the robot S.T.A.R. (Special Troops/Arms Regiment) in the Disney film ''The Black Hole.'' He also played (along with Kevin Peter Hall) Katahdin, the mutated bear in the 1979 horror film ''Prophecy In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a ''prophet'') by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
