![]() (Courtesy The Brattle Theatre)Īllen abandoned conventional modes of “matching” the action, ignoring continuity errors and cutting by her gut. Robert Rossen’s 1961 "The Hustler" is one of Allen's finest. Some say the movies have never recovered. Allen will probably always be remembered first and foremost for the film’s final slow-motion massacre, which blew the doors open for depictions of violence in American cinema with a spasm of bloody, orgiastic beauty. Appallingly hilarious, “Bonnie and Clyde” is a film that still gets under your skin, angry and upsetting. It’s a funny, alarming picture interrupted by Allen’s increasingly disconcerting editing, which incorporates French New Wave jump-cuts into producer-star Warren Beatty’s cornpone Americana and occasionally overwrought metaphors about the media and his character’s gun-toting impotence. Like many of the female creatives who worked alongside male directors and executives in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, Dede Allen was a pivotal and often unsung component of the New Hollywood movement.”Īny Allen retrospective should probably begin and end with “ Bonnie and Clyde.” Jagged and electrifying, director Arthur Penn’s 1967 classic remains the demarcation line between stodgy Old Hollywood and something more dangerous and frighteningly new. The Brattle Film Foundation’s creative director Ned Hinkle told me, “We’re always looking to celebrate film professionals that fall outside the usual, particularly when a centennial rolls around - screenwriters, cinematographers, producers and editors are often overlooked as unique creative individuals in their own right. ![]() The Brattle Theatre’s “ Dede Allen Centennial” showcases 13 of her iconic classics, screening every Wednesday for the rest of the summer. ![]() Allen brilliantly changed the way contemporary movies look and feel. ![]() Hagiographies of that particular era tend to trend toward boringly masculine director types, but it was this prim and proper female cutter who redefined the shapes and sounds of the most fertile decade in American cinema. And yet, film fans in the know revere her like a goddess. She’s maybe the only primary creative force of the 1970s New Hollywood movement who never became a household name. She was the daughter of a prominent surgeon and his actress wife - which, if you stop and think about it, is pretty much the ideal genetic background for someone spending a career cutting and stitching together onscreen performances. Legendary film editor Dede Allen was born in 1923. ![]()
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