Dede Allen and the Art of the Edit

HOME remains committed to highlighting the contribution of women to film history.

This short season focuses on one of Hollywood’s greatest editors, Dede Allen.

As an editor, she worked on a range of landmark films directed by some of American cinema’s key filmmakers.

Renowned for her ability to combine sound and image to great effect, we bring together a number of the films Dede Allen played such a crucial part in making into classics.  

Season curated by Andy Willis, Professor of Film Studies at University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator: Film at HOME

In this season

Cult/The Breakfast Club

Five students with seemingly nothing in common are faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library.

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Slap Shot

Dede Allen collaborated with director George Roy Hill once again for this comedic tale of a smalltown ice hockey team who face extinction

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Previously in this season

Dog Day Afternoon

One of Al Pacino's most iconic roles. When on a sweltering summer day Sonny and his companion Sal attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank nothing…

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Slaughterhouse Five

Adapted from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel of the same name, Slaughterhouse Five presents the life of Billy Pilgrim, a man ‘unstuck in time’, including, crucially, a…

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Bonnie and Clyde

This tale of legendary 1930s criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is seen today as one of the films that ushered in the New Hollywood.

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The Hustler + Intro

One of Dede Allen’s first credits as an editor in her own right, The Hustler is today regarded as a Hollywood classic of the early…

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