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Daniel Sackheim’s intriguing landscapes of Los Angeles evoke a time of classic film of the Film Noir period. His landscapes of Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood Blvd, the distant pier of Santa Monica create a moody scene iridescent of classics like Double Indemnity; Mildred Pierce, The Third Man, and Shadow of a Doubt. The seductive tones of a bygone era are visually stimulating creating a mood of mystery that captured the eyes of audiences when The Maltese Falcon was first released.

Sackheim’s directing credits include Lovecraft Country, Game of Thrones, True Detective, Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, and Ozark to name a few. Having been a director for many years before delving into photography, he says his eye tends to land on a cinematic sensibility naturally. This perspective then informs his approach to photographic storytelling.

“There is not so much one specific film, though there are iconic images from...

Carol Littleton, one of four people who will receive awards from the Motion Picture Academy at Tuesday night’s Governors Awards, is part of an unusual statistic. She’s a film editor, a job that over the course of movie history has been done largely by men, who have been nominated for and won about 86% of all the editing Oscars.

And yet only three people have been named recipients of Honorary Academy Awards for film editing, and all three have been women. Margaret Booth, who began her career with D.W. Griffith and edited well into her 80s, received the first-ever Honorary Oscar for editing in 1977, while Anne V. Coates, who won an Oscar for “Lawrence of Arabia” in 1962, was given an honorary award in 2016.

Littleton will be the third, in recognition of a career that has included “E.T. The Extra Terrestrial,” “The Big Chill,” “The Accidental Tourist,” “Benny & Joon” and “Margot at the Wedding.

Since the days of Mary Cherry and The WB’s “Popular,” Leslie Grossman and Ryan Murphy have been teaming up to make people laugh, scream, and/or do whatever you call the involuntary horse-like sound that sometimes happens when you combine the two. And yet, “American Horror Story: NYC” sees the vivacious actress, typically known for her pitch-perfect zingers and larger-than-life reactions to terror, taking on a more somber tone in a petrifying, barebones shift for the scary anthology that’s still unfolding.

“Barbara is definitely a departure for me,” Grossman said in a spoiler-free interview with IndieWire, held by phone prior to the “American Horror Story” Season 11 premiere. “She is unlike anyone I have played on the show.”

“NYC” is perhaps best short-handed as a fictionally elevated, club scene-set, ’80s period drama akin to “Dahmer”: another of Murphy’s splashy recent projects, albeit non-fiction. Even after conquering four...

The cast of “American Horror Story” Season 11 was officially announced on September 29, several weeks ahead of the October 19 premiere date. This year’s New York City-themed installment features many returning “AHS” actors and also welcomes some first-timers to the FX franchise.

This is the first edition to film entirely in the Big Apple, and the official tagline teases that “mysterious deaths and disappearances ramp up in the city.” Meanwhile, “a doctor makes a frightening discovery, and a local reporter becomes tomorrow’s headline.” Co-creators Ryan Murphy & Brad Falchuk wrote the season premiere, which was directed by John J. Gray. Scroll through our gallery above (or click here for direct access) to see the “American Horror Story: New York City” cast photos for “AHS: NYC.”

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Film editors Lillian E. Benson and Richard Chew will receive Career Achievement Awards for their outstanding contributions to film editing at the 72nd Annual Ace Eddie Awards, taking place on March 5 at the Ace Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles.

“Lillian and Richard are rock star editors and represent the very best of our craft and profession,” said Ace president Kevin Tent. “Just look at those credits! Not only have they had incredibly prolific careers, but they’ve given back to our community in many ways, not the least of which by mentoring the next generation of editors. We are thrilled to honor these two special editors and look back at their amazing careers.”

Past recipients of the Ace Career Achievement Award include Alan Heim, Thelma Schoonmaker, Dede Allen, Janet Ashikaga, Craig Mckay, Margaret Booth, Carol Littleton, John Soh, Mark Goldblatt and Leon Ortiz-Gil, among many others.

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Ryan Murphy tends to write the most fabulously biting characters for Leslie Grossman. In season eight of American Horror Story, Grossman played the gluten-sensitive witch Coco St. Pierre Vanderbilt, who always had something quippy to say. And then, in season nine, we saw her emerge as the secretly lethal camp director Margaret Booth. Now Murphy seems to have outdone himself with Grossman's latest role for season 10. Grossman is now playing Ursula, a sociopathic agent who encourages her clients to transform into blood-sucking fiends in order to get best-selling work. And, in an exclusive chat with E! News, Grossman made it clear that she had the best time playing this wild...

Margaret Booth is nominated for an Emmy … sort of.

When the 2020 nominations were announced on July 28, “American Horror Story: 1984” found itself with four bids, including two for makeup. The Emmy ballot goes into detail about all the hard work that went into the show’s makeup, including for the character of Margaret (Leslie Grossman), who memorably slices off her own ear. Alas, the actress herself was snubbed, but at least the makeup teams were recognized for crafting the grotesque scene.

This ninth season of FX’s horror anthology series aired last September-November and told the story of traumatized campers at the hauntingly tubular Camp Redwood. Besides its pair of makeup bids, “Ahs: 1984” also earned nominations for sound editing and sound mixing. The winners of these four Emmy categories will be announced at the Creative Arts ceremony in September. (See details on “American Horror Story” Season 10.)

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The 2020 Emmy ballots have been released by the Television Academy, so we now know which shows, actors, etc. are in contention for this year’s golden statues. FX’s “American Horror Story: 1984” accounts for a whopping 29 entries across all competitive ballots, including 10 actors for their roles as counselors/workers at the hauntingly tubular Camp Redwood. This ninth season of the popular anthology series welcomed back fan favorites like John Carroll Lynch (as Mr. Jingles) and Emma Roberts (as Brooke Thompson) while also introducing some new blood in the form of Angelica Ross (as Nurse Rita) and Gus Kenworthy (as Chet Clancy).

This installment, which aired last September-November, is also notable for producing the show’s landmark 100th episode, which flash-forwarded a year after the massacre at Camp Redwood. Will “Ahs: 1984” continue the franchise’s winning streak at the 2020 Emmys? The first eight cycles took home 16 trophies, including acting wins...

Attention, campers: We’re about to spoil the events of Wednesday’s American Horror Story finale. You’ve been warned!

Margaret Booth may not have lived to be Ahs: 1984‘s final girl, but she still played an unforgettable role in Wednesday’s finale, one that cost her an arm and a leg. And another arm. And another leg.

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The story of Camp Redwood comes to a close in the stunning finale of American Horror Story 1984. Our review of "Final Girl"...

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Forgiveness is a beautiful thing, and while it's taken decades, it seems that the ghosts trapped in Camp Redwood have come to a sort-of understanding, putting aside past differences over petty things like who killed who with what object. The gang trapped at a crumbling summer camp for eternity have unified behind one simple premise: killing Richard Ramirez over and over and over again to keep him from killing Bobby Richter. Surely there are other things, like sex, to bring them all together, but mostly it seems like the ghosts are united by making sure one good thing comes out of the whole debacle. Everyone, no matter how long they've been dead, needs something to live for.

Want to know the most surprising thing about the American Horror Story: 1984 finale? It has a happy ending. I know how ridiculous that is to write since, yes, in this finale the Ghosts band together and shove Margaret Booth (Leslie Grossman) through a woodchipper and her ground-up human body meat is

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Spoiler Alert: This recap contains major reveals from tonight’s American Horror Story season 9 finale “Ahs 1984: Final Girl”

Tonight’s season 9 finale of Ahs 1984 didn’t end like your run-of-the-mill ’80s slasher movie. There was no protag looking over their shoulder, worried the killer was still out there. There wasn’t a bad dream that the slayer was still alive. Instead, we end on syrupy note, literally Mike + the Mechanics’ Living Years, as we see the son of the father, completely cleaned of papa’s sins. And Billy Idol is a no-show, at least on the show which has served up singers playing themselves in the past, i.e. Stevie Nicks in Ahs: Coven.

In Final Girl, written by Crystal Liu and directed by John Gray, we meet Bobby Richter, played by Ahs troupe member Finn Wittrock. But instead of Wittrock playing a loose cannon, clown-obsessed rich brat like...

To hear “American Horror Story” star Leslie Grossman tell it, she a bit like “The Comeback’s” Aunt Sassy in the “1984” season — at least in the first few episodes when “it’s all a bunch of kids and here I am, the old lady” in high-waisted shorts, hiking boots and knee socks. But as episodes of the ninth season of the “American Horror Story” anthology franchise went on, her character, Margaret Booth, was revealed to be so much more than just a conservative and religious woman who purchased the campgrounds on which she had survived a massacre in her teenage years.

“Margaret is the extreme ultimate example of religion and money and how it’s ultimately so corrupting and allows people to behave in the most disgusting of ways,” Grossman tells Variety.

Margaret was, in fact, the one actually responsible for that massacre. And years later, when the show jumped to 1989 in its time period,...

Ok, but seriously: How many mass murderers are we going to meet on American Horror Story? Actually, maybe don't answer that. In "The Lady in White," as Margaret Booth's (Leslie Grossman) Camp Redwood Music and Food Festival draws near, we meet two more psycho killers (played by very familiar faces!)

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Leslie Grossman is, without a doubt, really enjoying murdering people on American Horror Story: 1984. Grossman, who is in her third season of American Horror Story, plays Margaret Booth, the owner of Camp Redwood...and she just so happens to be a murderer. This woman is, well, unhinged—and that is what's so fun to play, Grossman said, especially because she doesn't know how everything shakes out for her character. "Look, here's the deal: I trust [Ryan Murphy] implicitly. And to me, getting to play Margaret this year was him giving me a gift wrapped up in a bow. What could I do that's more fun, more bananas, more insane than this? And I've had the time of my life. I'm a mom. Like,...

American Horror Story's "goriest season yet" has us all spinning our wheels on some theories about where the season will take us. 1984 is modeled after the slasher flicks that reigned supreme in the '80s, and the big mystery of Camp Redwood's 1970 massacre certainly lives up to the inspiration.

We've long suspected that there's more to the story than Benjamin "Mr. Jingles" Richter, the ear-obsessed Army veteran, being the culprit, but episode four finally revealed the truth: religious camp owner Margaret Booth (Leslie Grossman) killed the nine counselors on that fateful night in 1970 and framed Mr. Jingles for her crime.

Related: Here's Why You Totally Recognize Mr. Jingles on American Horror Story: 1984

Anyone worth their salt in the Ahs fandom knows better than to trust a blonde with a mysterious past and a temper, and Margaret is no different. Since the beginning of the season, despite the obvious dangers of Mr.

Some movies just don’t get the respect they deserve, which cues pushy reviewers to sing their praises. Forget everything you’ve read and give this Roman Polanski picture a chance — it’s the classiest Halloween treat ever, a lavish blend of Hammer horror, slapstick comedy and wistful romance — plus a vampire horde more balefully scary than a carload of zombies. It’s the beloved Sharon Tate’s best picture, and its vampire king is an original apart from Bela Lugosi and Chris Lee’s Draculas — an aristocratic one-percenter on a satanic mission to put all of humanity in a graveyard of the undead. Warners’ Panavision-Metrocolor restoration is drop-dead beautiful. And they’ve even revived Frank Frazetta’s original ‘jolly chase’ poster art.

The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck

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American Horror Story: 1984 is officially in full swing, and so are the theories.  Two episodes in, there's a lot to theorize about when it comes to Camp Redwood, especially since it feels fairly likely that somebody (or everybody) isn't telling the whole truth about their past.  In the first episode, we met the new counselors at Camp Redwood, Brooke (Emma Roberts), Montana (Billie Lourd), Xavier (Cody Fern), Chet (Gus Kenworthy), and Ray (DeRon Horton), who join activities director Trevor (Matthew Morrison) and nurse Rita (Angelia Ross).  The very religious Margaret Booth (Leslie Grossman) owns the camp and is reopening it, 14 years after she survived a massacre committed by...

Just when we thought American Horror Story: 1984 was becoming merely a gorefest with a lot of camp and witty callbacks to classic films, we meet Jonas. Before we knew his name, Jonas (Lou Taylor Pucci) was simply known as the mysterious hiker that the La crew hit as he was wandering out the woods surrounding Camp Redwood. Sadly, we don't get much out of him, because Mr. Jingles kills him and leaves him hanging on the back of a door for Brooke to discover. That is, until we see him pop up again in episode two, just in time to get murked by Richard, the Night Stalker . . . twice!

Richard is just as shocked as viewers were when he has to kill his victim a second time - usually people don't just shake off being gutted. The hiker looks confused at Richard's presence and tells him, "You're not supposed to be here.

The second episode of “American Horror Story: 1984” showed the backstory of real-life serial killer Richard Ramirez, also known as the Night Stalker — and the FX show got his childhood down to a T.

Ramirez, dubbed the Night Stalker, terrorized Los Angeles in the ’80s and was convicted of 13 counts of murder in 1989. Zach Villa portrays him in the FX show.

In the second episode, Ramirez meets Leslie Grossman’s Margaret Booth, who is the owner of Camp Redwood, where Ramirez has followed Emma Roberts’ Brooke Thompson. He’s injured, so Booth tends to his wounds while listening to his backstory.

“The worst thing that ever happened to me? Everything,” Ramirez tells Booth. “Pain is all I’ve ever known. Pain is how the world has talked to me, so why shouldn’t pain be the way I talked back?”

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American Horror Story has plenty of blood to sate the drive-in movie audience. Our review of "Mr Jingles"...

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This is one of the most common problems in a slasher movie: there aren't enough people to kill to fill the film's running time. Kills tend to be front-loaded or back-loaded, with a bit of a flabby portion in the middle where nobody's getting killed, or the kills are coming too slowly to justify the existence of the crazed slasher. 1984 bucks that trend almost immediately. Without much preamble, the killing begins in earnest, as does the muddying of the waters regarding just who the real killer is.

Brooke (Emma Roberts) has been deployed in a very skillful way to imply that a lot of the things she's seeing and hearing are simply manifestations of her overwrought imagination. No...

While you processed the simultaneously poppy and freaky '80s vibe of American Horror Story: 1984, you might have scratched your head over why the terrifying Benjamin "Mr. Jingles" Richter, the ear-obsessed creep who killed nine campers, looks familiar. For those who know American Horror Story in and out, it's because the actor behind the murderer, John Carroll Lynch, has played a - let's say twisted - character before: Twisty the Clown from Ahs: Freak Show. Plus, Lynch is a pretty prolific character actor who's been featured on the big and small screens over the years.

First, let's talk shop about his new character. Ahs: 1984 immediately introduces us to Mr. Jingles in the first episode when they flash back to the killer murdering nine people at Camp Redwood in 1970. There is one survivor from his attacks: Margaret Booth (Leslie Grossman), who is the evangelized owner of the camp in the...

On the premiere of American Horror Story: 1984, the show incorporated a real-life serial killer into the action, which is something the show has done in the past. Before we dive into this creepy character, be warned: Spoilers for the premiere episode and for the actual details of the man known as "The Night Stalker" are ahead.

In "Camp Redwood," one of the big reasons the main characters leave Los Angeles for the Summer to go work at a camp is because "The Night Stalker" just killed someone in the Glassell Park neighborhood. Xavier (Cody Fern) talks about how 79-year-old Jennie Vincow was found with her throat slashed so deeply that she was almost decapitated. Then later that night, Brooke (Emma Roberts) is attacked in her home by Richard Ramirez, who would go on to be known as "The Night Stalker" in the press.

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There were mullets and midriffs aplenty in Wednesday’s American Horror Story premiere, which took us back to one of the horniest (and stabbiest) eras in pop culture history.

Ahs: 1984‘s opening hour introduced us to doe-eyed ingenue Brooke Thompson (Emma Roberts), whose plans to study veterinary medicine over the summer were suddenly derailed after a deranged serial killer broke into her apartment, stole her jewelry, and vowed to murder her. (And when a guy who calls himself “The Night Stalker” promises to kill you, you take that seriously.)

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Throughout its history, the motion picture academy has selected well over 100 people to receive honorary Oscars. Many of them had never won competitive Academy Awards in their careers, so the trophy was a way of making that up to them. Let’s look back at all previous non-acting recipients, including Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis B. Mayer, Howard Hawks, Jean Renoir, Margaret Booth, Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini, Elia Kazan, Sidney Lumet, Robert Altman, Spike Lee, and Agnes Varda in our full new photo gallery (tour it above). Visit our other honorary Oscars photo gallery for all performer recipients.

The selection process is fairly straightforward. The 54 branch governors and three at-large members put forth suggestions, with each of the top choices then voted on individually. Honorees must receive support from at least half of those on the board. The usual limit is three honorees. For a fourth to be named,...

Before he became the flag bearer for cinema violence, Sam Peckinpah made his reputation with this unique western, a marvelous rumination on ethics, morality and personal responsibility. MGM all but threw it away in the summer of 1962 but it immediately became a critical favorite.

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Starring Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, Mariette Hartley, Ron Starr, Edgar Buchanan, R.G. Armstrong, Jenie Jackson, James Drury, L.Q. Jones, John Anderson, John Davis Chandler, Warren Oates.

Cinematography Lucien Ballard

Art Direction Leroy Coleman, George W. Davis

Film Editor Frank Santillo

Original Music George Bassman

Written by N.B. Stone Jr.

Produced by Richard E. Lyons

Directed by Sam Peckinpah

MGM’s western Ride the High Country put Sam Peckinpah on the map with critics and the foreign cinema literati — although it didn’t do big box office when new,...

Carey Mulligan wants to make the world a better place for those who suffer from dementia. The Suffragette star, whose grandmother Margaret Booth, 90, has suffered from dementia for 16 years, has been appointed as the U.K.'s first global Dementia Friends Ambassador. In close collaboration with the Alzheimer's Society, Mulligan, 31, will work to publicize the Dementia Friends initiative, which aims to transform the way people perceive, act and talk about the condition in everyday life. "It empowers you to take away that fear that you feel when you're in the street and you see someone who is maybe struggling a little bit,...

Carey Mulligan wants to make the world a better place for those who suffer from dementia. The Suffragette star, whose grandmother Margaret Booth, 90, has suffered from dementia for 16 years, has been appointed as the U.K.'s first global Dementia Friends Ambassador. In close collaboration with the Alzheimer's Society, Mulligan, 31, will work to publicize the Dementia Friends initiative, which aims to transform the way people perceive, act and talk about the condition in everyday life. "It empowers you to take away that fear that you feel when you're in the street and you see someone who is maybe struggling a little bit,...

John Huston sets the bar for director-driven quality filmmaking of the early 1970s. Stacy Keach is a punchy boxing bum who teams up with the ambitious newcomer Jeff Bridges; the glowing discovery is the amazing Susan Tyrell, film history's most convincingly caustic floozy-alcoholic, bar none. Her voice can peel paint, but we love her dearly. Fat City Blu-ray Twilight Time Limited Edition 1972 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / Street Date September 8, 2015 / available through the Twilight Time Movies / 20.95 Starring Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto, Art Aragon, Curtis Cokes, Sixto Rodriguez Cinematography Conrad L. Hall Production Designer Richard Sylbert Film Editor Walter Thompson Original Music Kris Kristofferson, Marvin Hamlisch (supervisor) Written by Leonard Gardner from his novel <Produced by John Huston, Ray Stark Directed by John Huston

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

This rewarding show is a fine opportunity to catch up on two great talents, John Huston and Stacy Keach.

Now this is a list that could result in a lot of fascinating dissection and thanks to HitFix it comes to our attention almost three years after it was originally released back in 2012, celebrating the Motion Picture Editors Guild's 75th anniversary. Over at HitFix, Kris Tapley asks, "Is this news to anyone elsec" Um, yes, I find it immensely interesting and a perfect starting point for anyone looking to further explore the art of film editing. In an accompanying article we get the particulars concerning what films were eligible and how films were to be considered: In our Jan-feb 12 issue, we asked Guild members to vote on what they consider to be the Best Edited Films of all time. Any feature-length film from any country in the world was eligible. And by "Best Edited," we explained, we didn't just mean picture; sound, music and mixing were to be considered as well.

A random bit of researching on a Tuesday night led me to something I didn't know existed: The Motion Picture Editors Guild's list of the 75 best-edited films of all time. It was a feature in part celebrating the Guild's 75th anniversary in 2012. Is this news to anyone else? I confess to having missed it entirely. Naturally, I had to dig in. What was immediately striking to me about the list — which was decided upon by the Guild membership and, per instruction, was considered in terms of picture and sound editorial as opposed to just the former — was the most popular decade ranking. Naturally, the 1970s led with 17 mentions, but right on its heels was the 1990s. I wouldn't have expected that but I happen to agree with the assessment. Thelma Schoonmaker's work on "Raging Bull" came out on top, an objectively difficult choice to dispute, really. It was so transformative,...

Honorary Oscars have bypassed women: Angela Lansbury, Lauren Bacall among rare exceptions (photo: 2013 Honorary Oscar winner Angela Lansbury and Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award winner Angelina Jolie) September 4, 2014, Introduction: This four-part article on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Honorary Awards and the dearth of female Honorary Oscar winners was originally posted in February 2007. The article was updated in February 2012 and fully revised before its republication today. All outdated figures regarding the Honorary Oscars and the Academy's other Special Awards have been "scratched out," with the updated numbers and related information inserted below each affected paragraph or text section. See also "Honorary Oscars 2014 addendum" at the bottom of this post. At the 1936 Academy Awards ceremony, groundbreaking film pioneer D.W. Griffith, by then a veteran with more than 500 shorts and features to his credit — among them the epoch-making The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance — became the first individual to...