Features
Dede Allen to Receive Guild’s Fellowship and Service Award
The Motion Picture Editors Guild has selected veteran film editor Dede Allen, ACE, to be the 2008 recipient of the Guild’s prestigious Fellowship and Service Award. […]
Apprentice Editors
Union Made
UNION MADE: Joy, Luck and an Altman Connection
My career has been filled with luck and many serendipitous moments that brought me to this space in time. […]
Features
A Joint Venture: Cutting Stoned on Pineapple Express
To help navigate through all the improvised sequences, Alpert extensively used Avid’s Script Tool, an older but still useful utility on a movie such as ‘Pineapple Express’. […]
Union Made
An Ear for a Career
A very summer, my family got invited to the Paramount Studio picnic by my uncle, Al Zuniga. New movie and TV stars would appear; most notably for me were the Cartwrights from Bonanza. Al was Paramount’s trailer editor and his job really intrigued me. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: From Valley Girl to Emmy Winner
By the time I was 25, I was a store manager working long hours with little respect and a low level of creativity. I needed a change. […]
Tail Pop
Stanley Donen’s Two For the Road (1967)
It’s a journey of marriage, with all its highs and lows and in-betweens. […]
Features
The Silent Revolutionary: Carol Littleton
Carol Littleton, ACE, has never been one to sit back and wait for something to happen. Instead, she makes things happen. […]
Book Reviews
Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures […]
Features
The Zimmermen: A Hollywood Editing Dynasty
Such strong ties are borne at home. But for this family, they are also the result of years spent together in Hollywood’s cutting rooms. All three sons have learned the master craft of picture editing under the tutelage of the paterfamilias, otherwise known as “Big D.” […]
Features
Film School Confidential: Does It Really Matter?
In the age of YouTube, making movies no longer seems complicated. With an expanding range of visual media and easy access to affordable camcorders and editing software, many can shoot and arrange scenes without a big crew. […]
