Features
Boning Up on Editing: A Tale of Three Assistants Who Got the Bump
Although these occurrences are far from commonplace, they are testament to the talent of these assistants-turned-editors.
Year: 2008
Features
Speed Racer’s Post Pit Crew: Zach Staenberg and Roger Barton
Childhood fans of Speed Racer, the 1960s Japanese anime series, the brothers have translated it to the big screen with loving care.
Features
The Fixers: The Buck Stops with Engineers
Guild engineers are self-admitted gearheads who just plain love to fix things.
This Quarter in Film History
This Quarter in Film History: Triumph of the Shill
Though Leni Riefenstahl always denied she was a Nazi propagandist. Two recent biographies have unearthed damning evidence that she was a narcissist Nazi diva who legitimized the Nazi ideals of force and physical beauty through the power of her images.
Features
Tales from the Vault: Guild Librarians’ Stock is Rising
Hollywood’s oldest studio’s stock footage library came into existence in the mid-1920s. For the majors, whether or not to develop a stock footage library has always been a business decision.
Features
Improv Ability: For Tass Filipos, It’s as Vital for Music Editors as It Is for Musicians
Tass Filipos tells CineMontage about his experience as a music editor.
Features
In Love with the Artist’s Process: Assistant Editor Alex Kopit
CineMontage asked Alex Kopit about his background and his approach to assistant editing.
Tail Pop
DA Pennebaker’s ‘Dont Look Back’ (1967)
In ‘Don’t Look Back’, the action unfolds at the rhythm of life.
Book Reviews
Seeing Is Believing
‘The Eye is Quicker’ a book about editing that would best stand alongside Walter Murch’s In the ‘Blink of an Eye’ on an editor’s bookshelf.
Features
Video Savant: Jeff Buchanan’s Fast-Forward to Features
Jeff Buchanan’s path to editing his first feature film, director Michel Gondry’s ‘Be Kind Rewind’ has been an unconventional one, skipping some of the usual stops along the way.
