March 2025

  Where are you currently employed? I’m finishing up on “Battleground,” a nationally syndicated show covering the “battleground states” of the 2024 election and its, uh, aftermath.  Current projects? I …

ALAN HEIM EDITORS GUILD PRESIDENT It has been a pleasure to be the president of MPEG for the whole period of Cathy’s leadership. It was amazing to watch her recover …

“I was very young, and I didn’t know anything. I’d been a shop steward, and I believed in the cause — power to the people, all that kind of stuff …

By Peter Tonguette   Daffy Duck and Porky Pig might not sound like the calmest, most congenial, or most coherent movie stars to work with, but for picture editor Nick …

“The world changed so much in 1964 and ‘65. We acknowledge that, with the music, and what’s happening on the street.”

By Kristin Marguerite Doidge    Two legendary picture editors will be honored with Career Achievement Awards Friday on Jan. 18 as part of the American Cinema Editors’ (ACE) 75th Annual …

By Kristin Marguerite Doidge When making “Wicked,” the filmmakers wanted to be sure audiences saw — and heard — the wonders of Oz.  “Delightful” was the word the acclaimed director …

By Kristin Marguerite Doidge   When nearly 20 million U.S. viewers — and more around the world — tuned in to the Oscars’ live broadcast on March 2, few were …

By Peter Tonguette Interview books with filmmakers constitute a full-fledged literary subgenre, but among all of the one-on-one conversations that have been commemorated in print — Francois Truffaut’s with Alfred …

“The most important advice that I would give and have gotten is [to] watch movies.”