The Art Directors Guild has sworn in production designer Chuck Parker as National Executive Director for a third term after its latest election, which also saw the election and appointment of several different positions.
Additionally, the IATSE Local swore in Joel Cohen for his first three-year term as Associate National Executive Director.
Said the Guild’s National President Nelson Coates, “I am pleased to welcome back National Executive Director Chuck Parker, and look forward to continuing our work together on behalf of our 3,100 members to build an even stronger Guild. I also welcome and look forward to working with incoming Associate National Executive Director Joel Cohen, who has served the Guild with distinction for the past six years.”
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Additionally, the IATSE Local swore in Joel Cohen for his first three-year term as Associate National Executive Director.
Said the Guild’s National President Nelson Coates, “I am pleased to welcome back National Executive Director Chuck Parker, and look forward to continuing our work together on behalf of our 3,100 members to build an even stronger Guild. I also welcome and look forward to working with incoming Associate National Executive Director Joel Cohen, who has served the Guild with distinction for the past six years.”
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- 6/2/2022
- by Harper Lambert
- The Wrap
Chuck Parker has been re-elected national executive director of the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800. Three years ago, he ran unopposed, but this year four challengers were on the ballot.
With 391 votes, Parker handily defeated former guild president Thomas Walsh, who received 171 votes; former guild president Mimi Gramatky, who got 114 votes; Susan Largent, a member of the guild for more than 20 years, who received 91 votes, and Marcia Hinds, a former member of the guild’s executive board, who received 39 votes.
In a surprise upset, Joel Cohen, the guild’s field rep for the past five years, defeated Parker’s ally, who goes by the name dooner, in his bid to be re-elected associate national executive director. In that race, Cohen received 421 votes to dooner’s 388.
The Art Directors Guild is unusual in that it’s the only Hollywood guild with national jurisdiction that elects its top executive officer – the result...
With 391 votes, Parker handily defeated former guild president Thomas Walsh, who received 171 votes; former guild president Mimi Gramatky, who got 114 votes; Susan Largent, a member of the guild for more than 20 years, who received 91 votes, and Marcia Hinds, a former member of the guild’s executive board, who received 39 votes.
In a surprise upset, Joel Cohen, the guild’s field rep for the past five years, defeated Parker’s ally, who goes by the name dooner, in his bid to be re-elected associate national executive director. In that race, Cohen received 421 votes to dooner’s 388.
The Art Directors Guild is unusual in that it’s the only Hollywood guild with national jurisdiction that elects its top executive officer – the result...
- 4/20/2022
- by David Robb
- Deadline Film + TV
Academy invitee Eddie Redmayne in 'The Theory of Everything.' Academy invites 322 new members: 'More diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before' The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has offered membership to 322 individuals "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures." According to the Academy's press release, "those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy's membership in 2015." In case all 322 potential new members say an enthusiastic Yes, that means an injection of new blood representing about 5 percent of the Academy's current membership. In the words of Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs (as quoted in the press release), in 2015 "our branches have recognized a more diverse and inclusive list of filmmakers and artists than ever before, and we look forward to adding their creativity, ideas and experience to our organization." In recent years, the Academy membership has...
- 7/1/2015
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that the Los Angeles City Council, in a unanimous vote, approved plans for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Construction will begin this summer, and ceremonial groundbreaking festivities will occur this fall.
“I am thrilled that Los Angeles is gaining another architectural and cultural icon,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “My office of economic development has worked directly with the museum’s development team to ensure that the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will create jobs, support tourism, and pay homage to the industry that helped define our identity as the creative capital of the world.”
“We are grateful to our incredible community of supporters who have helped make this museum a reality,” said Dawn Hudson, the Academy’s CEO. “Building this museum has been an Academy...
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced this week that the Los Angeles City Council, in a unanimous vote, approved plans for the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Construction will begin this summer, and ceremonial groundbreaking festivities will occur this fall.
“I am thrilled that Los Angeles is gaining another architectural and cultural icon,” said Mayor Eric Garcetti. “My office of economic development has worked directly with the museum’s development team to ensure that the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures will create jobs, support tourism, and pay homage to the industry that helped define our identity as the creative capital of the world.”
“We are grateful to our incredible community of supporters who have helped make this museum a reality,” said Dawn Hudson, the Academy’s CEO. “Building this museum has been an Academy...
- 6/27/2015
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Strangely dropping a press release on a historic day where the nation's attention is elsewhere, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their annual list of new member invitees this morning. For those who criticize the makeup of the Academy there was some good news and the stark realization the organization still has a long way to go. The Academy has spent the last eight to 10 years attempting to diversify its membership and this year's class mostly reflects that. There are significantly more invitees of Asian and African-American descent, but the male to female disparity is still depressing. Out of the 25 potential new members of the Actor's Branch only seven are women. And, no, there isn't really an acceptable way for the Academy to spin that sad fact. Additionally, It's important to realize the 322 people noted in the release have only been invited to join Hollywood's most exclusive club.
- 6/26/2015
- by Gregory Ellwood
- Hitfix
Zhang Yimou, director of Sony Pictures Classics' House of Flying Daggers, will receive the Art Directors Guild's outstanding contribution to Cinematic Imagery Award. Zhang is the first foreign director to receive the award, an honor determined this year by the ADG executive board, overseen by ADG council president Thomas A. Walsh and awards chairs Dina Lipton and Robert Strohmaier. The director of such visually arresting films as 2004's Hero and 1991's Raise the Red Lantern, Zhang is a former cinematographer and graduate of the Beijing Film Academy.
Situated in a parallel nocturnal universe where trigger-happy gangsters cavort in cocktail lounges while scheming to off each other, writer-director-actor Larry Bishop's "Mad Dog Time" is quite the hybrid.
It's part Rat Pack paean to "Robin and the Seven Hoods" (Bishop's father is Rat Packer Joey), part "Wild in the Streets" commemorative cast party ("Mad Dog"'s Christopher Jones, Bishop and Richard Pryor also appeared in that late '60s seminal satire) and part Beverly Hills High reunion (Bishop, Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner were schoolmates).
Unfortunately, the parts don't add up to very much. Despite some amusing quirky moments and performances, the self-consciously eccentric film quickly wears out its welcome, looking and mainly sounding like another inferior product of the spawn of Tarantino.
Expect the picture to get buried in the pre-Thanksgiving shuffle, although its cast of thousands could attract some mild curiosity when it shows up on video.
The normally somber Gabriel Byrne gets to kick up his heels as "Brass Balls" Ben London, a motor-mouthed Mob enforcer who has been minding the shop until the Big Boss, Vic (Dreyfuss), gets out of the loony bin. With word of Vic's imminent release, Ben attempts to tidy things up by eliminating some riffraff and leaning on the cool Mickey Holliday (Jeff Goldblum), who has been keeping company with the boss' girlfriend (Diane Lane) while two-timing her sister (Ellen Barkin).
When Vic finally emerges, he has a few scores of his own to settle, and when all the smoke clears only a handful of Bishop's sprawling cast remains standing.
Aside from Byrne, who gets to do a bit of a flip on his "Miller's Crossing" role, Goldblum also stands out as suave, smooth operator; while Dreyfuss has some fun as the crazy-like-a-fox boss man.
Bishop's script is fine on character but never goes beyond its and-then-there-were-none premise. He does score some big style points, however. Assisted by production designer Dina Lipton ("Mr. Holland's Opus") and cinematographer Frank Byers ("Twin Peaks"), he's concocted a permanently smoke-filled, cocktail-soaked time warp where sharp-dressed inhabitants lounge to the swinging sounds of -- who else -- Frank, Dean and Sammy.
MAD DOG TIME
MGM/UA
United Artists
A Dreyfuss/James production
in association with Skylight Films
Director-screenwriter Larry Bishop
Producer Judith Rutherford James
Executive producers Stephan Manpearl,
Len Shapiro
Director of photography Frank Byers
Production designer Dina Lipton
Editor Norman Hollyn
Music Earl Rose
Costume designer Ileane Meltzer
Casting Amy Lieberman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rita Ellen Barkin
Ben London Gabriel Byrne
Vic Richard Dreyfuss
Mickey Holliday Jeff Goldblum
Grace Diane Lane
Jules Flamingo Gregory Hines
Jake Parker Kyle MacLachlan
Jackson Burt Reynolds
Gabriella Angie Everhart
Lee Turner Billy Idol
Albert the Chauffeur Rob Reiner
Jimmy the Gravedigger Richard Pryor
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
It's part Rat Pack paean to "Robin and the Seven Hoods" (Bishop's father is Rat Packer Joey), part "Wild in the Streets" commemorative cast party ("Mad Dog"'s Christopher Jones, Bishop and Richard Pryor also appeared in that late '60s seminal satire) and part Beverly Hills High reunion (Bishop, Richard Dreyfuss and Rob Reiner were schoolmates).
Unfortunately, the parts don't add up to very much. Despite some amusing quirky moments and performances, the self-consciously eccentric film quickly wears out its welcome, looking and mainly sounding like another inferior product of the spawn of Tarantino.
Expect the picture to get buried in the pre-Thanksgiving shuffle, although its cast of thousands could attract some mild curiosity when it shows up on video.
The normally somber Gabriel Byrne gets to kick up his heels as "Brass Balls" Ben London, a motor-mouthed Mob enforcer who has been minding the shop until the Big Boss, Vic (Dreyfuss), gets out of the loony bin. With word of Vic's imminent release, Ben attempts to tidy things up by eliminating some riffraff and leaning on the cool Mickey Holliday (Jeff Goldblum), who has been keeping company with the boss' girlfriend (Diane Lane) while two-timing her sister (Ellen Barkin).
When Vic finally emerges, he has a few scores of his own to settle, and when all the smoke clears only a handful of Bishop's sprawling cast remains standing.
Aside from Byrne, who gets to do a bit of a flip on his "Miller's Crossing" role, Goldblum also stands out as suave, smooth operator; while Dreyfuss has some fun as the crazy-like-a-fox boss man.
Bishop's script is fine on character but never goes beyond its and-then-there-were-none premise. He does score some big style points, however. Assisted by production designer Dina Lipton ("Mr. Holland's Opus") and cinematographer Frank Byers ("Twin Peaks"), he's concocted a permanently smoke-filled, cocktail-soaked time warp where sharp-dressed inhabitants lounge to the swinging sounds of -- who else -- Frank, Dean and Sammy.
MAD DOG TIME
MGM/UA
United Artists
A Dreyfuss/James production
in association with Skylight Films
Director-screenwriter Larry Bishop
Producer Judith Rutherford James
Executive producers Stephan Manpearl,
Len Shapiro
Director of photography Frank Byers
Production designer Dina Lipton
Editor Norman Hollyn
Music Earl Rose
Costume designer Ileane Meltzer
Casting Amy Lieberman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Rita Ellen Barkin
Ben London Gabriel Byrne
Vic Richard Dreyfuss
Mickey Holliday Jeff Goldblum
Grace Diane Lane
Jules Flamingo Gregory Hines
Jake Parker Kyle MacLachlan
Jackson Burt Reynolds
Gabriella Angie Everhart
Lee Turner Billy Idol
Albert the Chauffeur Rob Reiner
Jimmy the Gravedigger Richard Pryor
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: R...
- 11/8/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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