Features
Gurus of the Guild
Mentoring has always been key to the art and craft of editing. In the days before film schools, it was the only way to learn the techniques and practices of the so-called “invisible art,”
Year: 2016
Book Reviews
Forget It, Jake
At a preview screening of the film Chinatown in summer 1974, an official from the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is reported to have remarked,
Departments
Powering the New Era of Storytelling
It seems that no matter how fast workstation computers get, there are always new developments on the horizon that push the limits of what machines can do. That’s good,
Columns
Joanie Diener on ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn’
The wordsmith and the war correspondent were an item for not even a decade. Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn made each other’s acquaintance in 1936, married in 1940 and divorced in 1945.
Features
Not Your Grandfather’s ‘Roots’
“Behold Kunta Kinte.” If those words ring a bell, you were around for Roots, one of the most forward-thinking and groundbreaking events in the history of television.
Departments
A Bullet Dodged, but Labor Remains a Target for Attacks
What makes you a Guild member? Is it principally about a transaction, the remittance of quarterly payments for membership? Or is it about your relationship to your colleagues,
Features
Sabine’s Plan
Veteran New York indie film editor Sabine Hoffman, ACE, discovered film editing and began her career as a student in Berlin.
Departments
An Appreciation of Jim Clark
Jim Clark, Picture Editor, May 24, 1931 – February 25, 2016, by Arthur Schmidt, ACE. Jim was obviously the best thing that happened to me in my editing career and, most importantly, he was my best friend. I’ll miss him greatly.
Departments
Fog of War Moviemaking, Getting Testy
The Fog of War Moviemaking Peter Tonguette’s My Most Memorable Film column, “Walter Murch on Apocalypse Now” (CineMontage Q1 2016), […]
Guild
Repola to Succeed Kutak as National Executive Director of MPEG
Catherine A. Repola, longtime Western Executive Director of the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, has been promoted to the top position of National Executive Director of the Guild
