Articles by Peter Tonguette

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.

“Dean called me and said, ‘Don, you’ve got to do this.'”

“When the shutdown happened, we called all of our clients and talked to them and said: ‘We’re in uncharted territory.'”

“Your brain is trying to keep up and fill in the blanks, and you realize this thing is going faster than you can keep control of in your head.”