ACE presents: Slaughterhouse-Five

Director: George Roy Hill

1972 / 104min / 35mm

Get unstuck in time with this daring adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.’s seemingly unadaptable, epoch-hopping classic of counterculture literature, starring Michael Sacks as Billy Pilgrim, existing at one and the same time as a POW surviving the firebombing of Dresden; a prosperous suburbanite in Ilium, New York; and as an attraction in an extraterrestrial zoo on the planet of Tralfamadore, doted over by Valerie Perrine’s hot-to-trot starlet, Montana Wildhack. Dede Allen seemingly effortlessly negotiates the complex chronological leaps of Vonnegut’s novel, rendering what its narrator describes as a mere “collection of moments, strung together in random harmony” into a coherent—and disarmingly moving—whole.

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 and legendary sound mixer Tom Fleischman, editors and former assistants to Dede Allen Jim Stewart, ACE, and Cindy Kaplan Rooney, as well as former assistant David Rogow, and George Roy Hill’s son and apprentice to Dede Allen, John Hill, moderated by Jeffrey Wolf, ACE. Presented by American Cinema Editors.