Larry Blake

Larry Blake

Known For: Sound

Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has mixed over 65 features since 1989, and was also the supervising sound editor on 50 of them. Included in this number are 29 features and three television seasons with Steven Soderbergh, plus multiple films from Victor Nunez, David Gordon Green, and the Duplass Brothers. In addition, he has mixed 15 feature-length documentaries. In 2013 won both Emmy and Cinema Audio Society awards for Best Sound for a Miniseries or a Movie for his work on Behind the Candelabra. In 2002 he won a Golden Satellite Award for Solaris. He has written extensively on film sound, beginning in 1981 for Recording Engineer/Producer and then in Mix; these writings total over 110 columns and 35 feature articles. He soon will be publishing separate anthologies of the columns and features, in addition to the autobiography of film sound great Murray Spivack. First up is a book he’s writing on the digital archiving of motion pictures, Solving the Digital Dilemma. Following from his work as a writer, he has curated many seminars on film sound for the Director’s Guild of America, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, SMPTE, and the Audio Engineering Society. He has been a guest speaker at the Camerimage Film Festival, USC, UCLA, and the Savannah College of Art and Design, among many others. From 2000-2016 he owned Swelltone Labs, a post-production sound facility in New Orleans, where he lives.

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No Sudden Move
No Sudden Move
No Sudden Move
Che: Part One
The Puffy Chair
Che: Part One
Che: Part Two
Che: Part Two
Syriana
Syriana
Undertow
Undertow
Traffic
Traffic
Ocean's Eleven
Solaris
The Limey
Contagion
Contagion
The Good German
The Informant!
The Informant!
The Underneath
Logan Lucky
Logan Lucky
Kimi
Kimi
Kimi
Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich
Ocean's Twelve
King of the Hill
King of the Hill
Magic Mike's Last Dance
Let Them All Talk
Shirkers
Cut Off
Cut Off
Camera Store
Camera Store
The Voices
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Candelabra
Yes - 90125 Live
Monkey Shines
sex, lies, and videotape
Kafka
Kafka
Lush Life
Fresh
The Underneath
The Pallbearer
Schizopolis
Gray's Anatomy
Deep in the Heart
Love Jones
Love Jones
How to Make the Cruelest Month
How to Make the Cruelest Month
Out of Sight
Out of Sight
Housebound
Housebound
Housebound
Waking Life
The Journeyman
The Journeyman
Ocean's Eleven
Coastlines
Welcome to Collinwood
Full Frontal
Solaris
Chicken Party
Straight Into Darkness
Scrapple
Ball and Chain
Ball and Chain
Eros
Ocean's Twelve
By Invitation Only
Snow Angels
Snow Angels
Ocean's Thirteen
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
The Girlfriend Experience
Cyrus
Cyrus
Race
Love, Wedding, Marriage
Love, Wedding, Marriage
Haywire
Haywire
Che: Part One
The Good German
A Player to Be Named Later
Side Effects
Side Effects
Keane
Keane
Access All Areas
sex, lies, and videotape
Tim's Vermeer
Logan Lucky
Before Sunset
The Girlfriend Experience
Criminal
Che: Part Two
The Last Slumber Party
The Limey
Ocean's Thirteen
The Laundromat
King of Herrings
King of Herrings
Magic Mike XXL
Magic Mike XXL
Magic Mike
Magic Mike
And Everything Is Going Fine