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I Cut My Teeth on Kinescopes

August 1, 2016

My interests in film and theatre started at Roy Elementary School in Northlake, Illinois, when I got to do lighting for school plays. […]

Maurice Schell on ‘All That Jazz’

December 2, 2016

by Peter Tonguette As personal projects go, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz is hard to top. The 1979 musical drama […]

In 2004, after spending a decade working with Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, ACE, assistant editor Tom Foligno finally got his first chance to be an editor. It wasn’t in the cutting room, however, but on the big screen. […]

UNION MADE: The Symmetry of an Editing Career

March 1, 2008

Production felt like endless problem solving––whereas editing was about storytelling using a vocabulary of images and sounds, and that excited me. […]

Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ (1969)

May 1, 2010

Warner Bros. released Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, firing a warning shot to the older generation that they better change with the times or risk irrelevance. […]

UNION MADE: Growing Up with Moviemaking — And Never Leaving

March 1, 2014

When I saw the ending montage of my character walking into the sunset to the Doors’ “Not to Touch the Earth,” I was floored at the raw emotion it invoked in me. It was a defining moment and my first encounter with the power of image and music. […]

I Married an Editor’s Daughter…

March 1, 2006

I met Sandy, my future wife there and we soon married. She was a film editor’s daughter––but I had no idea how that would change my life… […]

How-To Advice from Award-Winning TV Editors

September 1, 2015

Cutting It in Hollywood: Top Film Editors Share Their Journeys by Mitchell Danton, ACE Introduction by Michael Kahn, ACE Hollywood […]

Joseph A. Aredas: The Honorable Arbiter

March 1, 2015

As uninteresting as he might describe his career, the issues that have occupied Joseph A. Aredas’ time and his guiding values turn out to be deep, compassionate and profoundly human. […]

Friends of Joe: Some Words from His Admirers…