Behind the Scenes
Affonso Gonçalves Talks Editing Todd Haynes’ Drama ‘May December’
“I can’t pick sides. That’s the great thing about being an editor.” […]
Articles by Peter Tonguette
Behind the Scenes
Past Production: How the ‘Maestro’ Team Recreated the Music – and Marriage – of Leonard Bernstein
“The whole goal was: ‘How do we keep Lenny’s heartbeat and human nature alive through the whole thing?’” […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: How ‘The Exorcist’ Became THE Monster Horror Hit of the Early 1970s
The late filmmaker William Friedkin was fond of describing his 1973 horror masterpiece “The Exorcist” as being a meditation on “the mystery of faith.” […]
Features
IN MEMORIAM: Arthur Schmidt, Editor of ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ 1937-2023
For director Robert Zemeckis, Schmidt was the editor of, among other classic films, the “Back to the Future” trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), “Forrest Gump” (1994), and “Contact” (1997). He won two Oscars during his multi-decade partnership with Zemeckis: for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” (1988) and for “Forrest Gump.” […]
Web Exclusives
Franklin Peterson and Chloe Domont Talk Editing on Netflix Thriller ‘Fair Play’
“This is one of those things where you read it and it just works in a number of ways.” […]
Web Exclusives
Picture Editors of ‘Fatal Attraction’ on Updating a Classic Thriller for Modern Times
“Here was this grand opportunity to work with a majority female crew in terms of the top positions: majority female directors, a female showrunner, and majority women in post.” […]
Web Exclusives
‘Extremely Demanding’: William Friedkin’s Editors Remember the Oscar-Winning Director
“He didn’t like cuts being in predictable places. In other words, one of the things that you often strive for in editing is to make the editing disappear: somebody finishes the line and the next person speaks, and you cut to it right away. Billy was always most interested in making unpredictable cuts that, in his mind, were better.” […]
Features
Road Warriors: How the Editing Team of ‘Beef’ Delved Into Identity, Conflict — and Karaoke
“I started to recognize that this was a portrait of Korean Americans and Asian Americans in general that we hadn’t seen before.” […]
Features
How Conrad Buff Made History Come Alive in the Post-Slavery Drama ‘Emancipation’
“History is seductive for me.” […]
Web Exclusives
Arielle Zakowski and Austin Keeling Talk Editing the Very Online Thriller ‘Missing’
“We both came to this with a lot of fear and anxiety about how to accomplish all of this technical wizardry.” […]
