The Balsmeyer & Everett Archive
Balsmeyer & Everett (B&E) – the precursor company to Big Film Design – was a pioneering film title design and VFX company co-founded by Randy Balsmeyer and Mimi Everett in 1986. They collaborated with filmmakers such as Spike Lee (see Do The Right Thing above), David Cronenberg, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, Paul Thomas Anderson, and Joel and Ethan Coen. They were also renowned for innovations in the world of visual effects, particularly in the development of the portable motion control camera system used for films such as Dead Ringers and Ghost. Below is a sample of titles from the B&E archive.
Lions and librarians Theo and Cleo, along with their young cubs Lionel and Leona, run a very unique library.
On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will each become part of a dazzling multiplicity of plots, but one story.
A sex columnist, Carrie Bradshaw, and her three friends explore Manhattan's dating scene, chronicling the mating habits of single New Yorkers.
Jeff ‘The Dude’ Leboswki is mistaken for Jeffrey Lebowski, who is The Big Lebowski.
The daughter of wealthy Manhattanites Joe and Steffi, D.J. has to contend with her extended family after her parents' divorce.
Despondent over the marriage of her ex-husband to a younger woman, a middle-aged divorcée plunges to her death from her penthouse.
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
The work of two great American artists merges in Short Cuts, a kaleidoscopic adaptation of the stories of renowned author Raymond Carver by maverick director Robert Altman.
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation.
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals.
This film presents five stories, each involving a cab ride and set in a different city around the world.
A well-to-do Manhattan housewife, Alice Tate, finds her affections shifting from her stockbroker husband of 16 years to saxophone player Joe Ruffalo, a veritable stranger.
Salvatore "Sal" Fragione (Danny Aiello) is the Italian owner of a pizzeria in Brooklyn.
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly.
At historically black Mission College, the activist-minded Dap (Larry Fishburne) immerses himself in a world of political rhetoric and social movements -- one day he hopes to rally the students as a united front.