Beginning her career in the film industry as a college sophomore on the Columbia Studios lot back in 1943, Dede Allen eventually learned the editor’s craft under the tutelage of Citizen Kane cutter-cum-director Robert Wise—whose 1959 Odds Against Tomorrow was her first major work—and in the decade to come she would emerge as one of the preeminent editors in Hollywood, a crucial force in introducing techniques like the jump cut and the audio overlap to American moviemaking, as well as moving past the strictures of studio era continuity cutting to a more limber, modern cutting style. An homage to an innovator in an often invisible art, featuring highlights from seven decades of Allen’s extraordinary career.

 

Screening of Slaughterhouse-Five followed by a panel discussing the lasting influence of Dede Allen in conversation with those who worked with and were mentored by her including her son Tom Fleischman and George Roy Hill’s son John Hill, moderated by Jeffrey Wolf, ACE. Presented by American Cinema Editors.
Saturday, March 16, 5:30pm