“Fran likes to talk. You just ask her a question and she can go on for 15 minutes. And part of the answer will not appear related to the question in any way.” […]
By Peter Tonguette Last year, picture editor Tariq Anwar, ACE, had a most unusual experience: His editing room came to […]
Picture editor Richard Pearson, A CE, did not set out to become a comedy specialist, an action guru, or a comic book connoisseur—but somehow, he has evolved into all three. […]
Mondshein was a longtime collaborator of legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who, as the New York-based, Academy Award-nominated editor tells it, was persuaded that few things in cinema were as fascinating as a well-timed close-up. […]
“Aaron wrote the film as a dramatization of the events from the 1960s, but he didn’t want to tilt it into the world of the ’60s exclusively. His intention was always to make it more contemporary and relatable.” […]
It’s an after-hours conversation between actor Dennis Hopper and director Orson Welles in November 1970. […]
Ken Burns did it. So did Michael Moore. But a lot of documentary filmmakers don’t go union. Is that about to change? […]
“Dean called me and said, ‘Don, you’ve got to do this.'” […]
The heroine of Amazon’s stylish comedy “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” has a talented support team in post-production. […]
You don’t have to be a rabid consumer of 1980s-era popular culture to work on the Netflix science-fiction series “Stranger Things.” But it doesn’t hurt. […]
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