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HomeAuthorsPeter Tonguette

Articles by Peter Tonguette

About 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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IN MEMORIAM: Arthur Schmidt, Editor of ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ 1937-2023

January 9, 2024
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.”

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Franklin Peterson and Chloe Domont Talk Editing on Netflix Thriller ‘Fair Play’

October 6, 2023
“This is one of those things where you read it and it just works in a number of ways.”

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Picture Editors of ‘Fatal Attraction’ on Updating a Classic Thriller for Modern Times

September 15, 2023
“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.”

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‘Extremely Demanding’: William Friedkin’s Editors Remember the Oscar-Winning Director

September 7, 2023
“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.”

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Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand in “The Way We Were.” PHOTOS: PHOTOFEST
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BOOK REVIEW: Misty Watercolor Memories: How ‘The Way We Were’ Made Movie Magic.

June 12, 2023
By Peter Tonguette How appealing — and how naïve —  it would be to imagine that when a talented group […]
PHOTOS BY MARTIN COHEN
Features

Road Warriors: How the Editing Team of ‘Beef’ Delved Into Identity, Conflict — and Karaoke

June 11, 2023
“I started to recognize that this was a portrait of Korean Americans and Asian Americans in general that we hadn’t seen before.”

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Conrad Buff.
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How Conrad Buff Made History Come Alive in the Post-Slavery Drama ‘Emancipation’

April 19, 2023
“History is seductive for me.”

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Arielle Zakowski and Austin Keeling Talk Editing the Very Online Thriller ‘Missing’

April 13, 2023
“We both came to this with a lot of fear and anxiety about how to accomplish all of this technical wizardry.”

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Scott Morris.
Features

How Scott Morris Reunited with Director James Gray for Period Drama ‘Armageddon Time’

April 11, 2023
From Francois Truffaut to George Lucas to Paul Thomas Anderson, moviemakers have always plumbed their own lives for source material.

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The post team behind “Babylon”: Mildred Iatrou, left, Andy Nelson, and Ai-Ling Lee. Photo by Mark Edwards.
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Hollywood ‘Babylon’: How the Post-Production Team Brought the 1920s Back to Life

March 15, 2023
“It may be the hardest movie I’ve ever worked on.”

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