just kind of legitimized everything," he says. Lievsay
has also supervised most of Spike Lee's movies, and worked repeatedly with
such directors as John Sayles, Jonathan Demme, and Sonnenfeld, who started
out as cinematographer on the Coen Brothers' films. Other recent credits
have included Al Pacino's Looking for Richard and Danny De Vito's Matilda.

Lievsay's
partners have their own consistent clients. Bochar has worked regularly
on Alan J. Pakula films, including this spring's The Devil's Own, Sidney
Lumet films, such as the upcoming Night Falls on Manhattan, and Barbet
Schroeder projects, like the upcoming Desperate Measures. Stockton has
basically taken over the John Sayles account, supervising sound editing
on The Secret of Roan Inish and Lone Star, upcoming projects include Ang
Lee's The Ice Storm. As for Pross, he acts as Foley supervisor and mixer
on all of C5's assignments.

"On
a lotheightened
the actors, so that when it gets to their close-ups, they're just roaring.

"At
the end of the scene, it cuts to a pullback on the typewriter back at Barton's
hotel," Lievsay continues. "I took a European steam train whistle, which
is very high-pitched, and at the last blast of this shriek, everything
sort of dies away to the typewriter and the music." When Barton later blacks
out, the combination of the train whistle and chainsaw become an audio
motif.

Where
do these sounds come from? Commercial CD libraries are a major source,
along with C5's ever-growing library of sounds and material that is passed
around through a network of sound editors and recordists. "I'm working
on a scene now for Men in Black in which a huge spaceship crashes into
the Unisphere in Flushing Park, crashes to earth, and skids