In his study of silent films, The Parade’s Gone By…, author Kevin Brownlow described editing as “the hidden power.” “Editors are passed over by film historians because their work, when …
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Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sight & Sound, Film Comment and Cineaste. He can be reached at tonguetteauthor2@aol.com.
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Finding Moments of Humanity: The Instinctual Editing Style of John F. Burnett
11 minutes readMidway through George Cukor’s Rich and Famous (1981), there is a scene that, all by itself, encapsulates the witty banter that was the director’s signature. The heroine of the film, …
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To those who knew him best, film editor Philip Cahn, who was born June 18, 1894, in New York City, was not a rabble-rousing sort.
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Robert Wise’s memories were remarkably precise and full of stories about editing ‘Citizen Kane’.