Frame By Frame

FXF3002 Alan J Pakula : Ron Bochar, Chic Ciccolini, Lee Dichter, Todd Kasow, Deborah Wallach PLAY PODCAST Raised in the Bronx New York, the son of a printer, Alan J. Pakula would become on of the most important film makers of the 1960’s and 70’s. In 1962, as the producer of To Kill A Mockingbird he earned his first Oscar nomination for best Picture. In the years to come, Oscar nominations and wins...

FXF_S03EP01_ARTHUR PENN: Suzana Peric, Steve Rotter, Ron Roose, Marc Laub, Jeffrey Wolf, Bob Reitano PLAY PODCAST   In the  Alice’s Restaurant   cutting room, from left, Richard Marks, Dede Allen, Frank Mazzola, Jerry Greenberg, Joanne McGarrity Burke, Stephen Rotter, Kathie Amatniek Sarachild and Dick Goldberg (seated) in 1969.   Perhaps best known for his 1968 film,&nbsp...

FXF_S02EP06_SOUND EDITOR, DAN SABLE: Working with Woody Allen and Brian DePalma  PLAY PODCAST In Brian DePalma’s 1981 film Blow Out , the main character is a sound effects specialist who accidentally records a murder while collecting night sounds for his effects library. The inspiration for this character was Dan Sable, a New York-based sound editor and a collaborator of DePalma’s on nin...

FXF_SO02EP05: JIM JARMUSCH PT2: Jay Rabinowitz, Bob Hein, Tony Volante PLAY PODCAST Coming together in the early 1980’s filmmaking scene of New York, picture editor Jay Rabinowitz and sound editor Bob Hein first met in collaborating on Jim Jarmusch’s film Mystery Train which led to multiple collaborations over 25 years of working with Jim Jarmusch on such films as Broken Flowers, Dead Man, and Lim...

FXFS2EP3_RISE OF NY DOCUMENTARY_Sam Pollard_Lilllian Benson PLAY PODCAST For  Sam Pollard,  E mmy and Peabody award-winning a director, producer, picture editor and frequent collaborator with Spike Lee ( Style Wars, Mo' Better Blues, Girl 6, Bamboozled, Clockers,  When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, Four Little Girls   and  August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand) ,  and for Lillian...

PLAY PODCAST In 2012, Sound One, possibly the most successful post-production facility in New York City’s history, closed its doors after 44 years of business. What caused the demise of Sound One is a point of contention between the clients, former owners, founders and staff, who hold multiple theories about why it failed financially. Some blame a distant holding company in Denver who some say wer...

PLAY PODCAST The dawn of the digital era marked a major pivot point in post production technology that left some behind in analog while others charged fearlessly into a brave new world. Sound One led the post-production digital revolution, testing software, and equipment for the film industry before Hollywood, to ensure a smooth transition into the Digital Age. In this episode, former Sound One st...

PLAY PODCAST From 1968 to 2012, Sound One grew from a solo operation run by Elisha Birnbaum a foley artist and sound editor recent emigrated from Israel to becoming the most successful post-production sound and editing facility on the East Coast. Inhabiting seven floors of the famed Brill Building and commanding at least 85% of post-production business in New York, Sound One housed 150 edit suites...

FXFS02EP02_SIDNEY LUMET's NETWORK : Alan Heim, Mark Laub, Michael Jacobi and Jeffrey Wolf PLAY PODCAST In 1976, an American  satirical  film written by  Paddy Chayefsky  and directed by  Sidney Lumet , called Network, about a fictional  television network , UBS, and its struggle with poor  ratings , starring  Faye Dunaway ,  William Holden ,  Peter...

FXF_S01EP05:Angelo Corrao, Alex Halpern PLAY PODCAST Post Factory Founder, Alex Halpern and picture editor Angelo Corrao talk about their collaboration on  Nine Good Teeth   as well as Angelo’s work on Bruce Weber’s  Let’s Get Lost  and their experiences coming up in the 1980's New York film scene and developing early relationships with filmmakers like The Coen Brothers. F...