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Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here – today – we talk about movie Editors! Not the movies they edited that were legendary but the less legendary ones in between.

Today we speak with the great editor Darrin Navarro about the lauded editor Sam O’Steen, who worked on such masterpieces as The Graduate, Rosemary’s Baby, and Chinatown. The O’Steen-edited films we cover today are: The Day of the Dolphin, Straight Time, Nadine, and A Dry White Season.

Navarro talks about the editing process with William Friedkin (and how it changed a bit with The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial), how knowing when not to cut is as important as knowing when to cut when editing a film, O’Steen’s essential book Cut to the Chase: Forty-Five Years of Editing America’s Favourite Movies (written with his wife Bobbie O’Steen), and what a gem of a film Nadine is.

Highlights include...

William Friedkin is gone, and he leaves us with one final film, the stirring, effective courtroom drama "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial." Adapted by Friedkin from Herman Wouk's play, "The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial" runs the risk of being too stagey; too much like a play merely transported to the screen without anything cinematic to add. Thankfully, Friedkin knows exactly how to make the film bullet along, aided by snappy, quick-paced editing from Darrin Navarro.

Friedkin and cinematographer Michael Grady keep things seemingly simple — the bulk of the film is set in one courtroom. But the camera and its placement help set the stage, conveying so much by simply showcasing — or not showcasing — the actors and their surroundings. When Friedkin wants to convey the isolation of certain characters, he places them alone in the frame, cutting against wide shots that help situate us in a specific spot. As a result, the...

William Friedkin’s last film The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial will make its U.S. premiere on October 6 on Paramount+ with Showtime.

This will be followed by a linear release on the Showtime network on October 8.

The U.S. launch follows the movie’s Out of Competition world premiere at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend, less than a month after Friedkin died at the age of who died at age 87 on August 7.

The courtroom drama revolves around the trial of a young first Officer for orchestrating a mutiny on a U.S Navy minesweeper operating in the Persian Gulf in 2022, he becomes convinced that its veteran, disciplinarian captain is mentally ill.

The high-profile ensemble cast features Kiefer Sutherland, Lance Reddick, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund Lewis Pullman, Jay Duplass and Tom Riley.

The film was accompanied in Venice by producer Annabelle Dunne, editor Darrin Navarro and Dan Cohen, president of Republic Pictures,...

The late William Friedkin’s last project, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, will have its world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival this evening. This afternoon, collaborators on the Showtime/Paramount Global film including producer Annabelle Dunne and editor Darrin Navarro, offered insight into Friedkin’s style of working and what it was like during the shoot. Dunne also spilled more details about Guillermo del Toro’s involvement in the project.

Friedkin, who died at age 87 on August 7, adapted the film from Herman Wouk’s play which revolves around the trial of a U.S. Naval First Officer for orchestrating a mutiny after his captain starts to show signs of becoming unhinged, jeopardizing the lives of his crew.

The ensemble cast features Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund Lewis Pullman, Jay Duplass, Tom Riley and the late Lance Reddick.

Friedkin, Dunne told the Venice press corps today,...

Film Independent, which produces the Indie Spirits, the L.A. Film Festival and Film Independent at Lacma, has chosen eight fellows for its 2016 Directing Lab, an eight-week intensive that allows emerging filmmakers to rehearse and shoot scenes from their in-progress feature films, under the guidance of industry veterans — including, this year, creative advisors Daniel Barnz ("Cake," "Phoebe in Wonderland"), Catherine Hardwicke ("Twilight," "Thirteen") and James Ponsoldt ("The End of the Tour," "Smashed"). Other 2016 mentors include casting consultants Meg Morman and Sunday Boling; producer Joan Scheckel ("Beginners," "Transparent"); and editing advisor Darrin Navarro ("Talullah," "The End of the Tour"). After selecting, workshopping, and shooting scenes from their feature-film projects, with digital camera, lighting...

"From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." —Immanuel Kant.

Even before I knew what a cinephilic sensibility was, mine was being shaped by the evolving filmic projects of William Friedkin and their focus on humanity's crooked timber. As a participatory member of the Gay Movement of the early 70s, I resisted the scriptural representation in Friedkin's The Boys In the Band (1970) and—a decade later—Cruising (1980), but was undeniably swept up in the Catholicized hysteria surrounding The Exorcist (1973), which I managed to catch at its Bible Belt premiere in Little Rock, Arkansas. The French Connection (1971) challenged Peter Yate's earlier Bullitt (1968) with its iconic car chase and Sorcerer (1977) dazzled me with its suspenseful virtuosity and has continued to intrigue me with its court battle over copyright. To Live And Die in L.A. (1985) introduced me to the talent of such actors as William Petersen and Willem DeFoe; but,...

Chicago – In our latest comedy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 30 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “Terri” starring John C. Reilly from the producers of “Blue Valentine” and “Half Nelson”!

“Terri” also stars Jacob Wysocki, Bridger Zadina, Creed Bratton, Olivia Crocicchia, Tim Heidecker, Justin Prentice, Mary Anne McGarry, Curtiss Frisle, Tara Karsian, Diane Salinger and Jenna Gavigan from co-writer and director Azazel Jacobs and co-writer Patrick Dewitt. The film opens in Chicago on July 22, 2011.

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The movie poster for “Terri” starring John C. Reilly.

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