CineMontage sat down with the two collaborators at Cox’s cutting room at Malpaso on the Warner lot as they were finishing post-production on Gran Torino.
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. […]
“There is an element of gravitas in Thor that one doesn’t necessarily associate with a movie based on a comic book,and this is juxtaposed with laugh-out-loud humor. The ability to juggle those two tones is one of Kenneth Branagh’s great strengths, and is somewhat unusual for this kind of movie.” – Paul Rubell, A.C.E. […]
Let’s hear it for the longtime assistant for enabling the editor to keep story as the primary focus. Assistant editors are the foundation of the editing room — organizing, interfacing and problem- solving. […]
For as long as he has been a director, Gus Van Sant has also been an editor. While most of his subsequent efforts have been cut by such distinguished editors as Curtiss Clayton, Pietro Scalia, ACE, and Elliot Graham, ACE, Van Sant continues to drift in and out of his cutting rooms. […]
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. […]
Many of the editors I met asked me why I didn’t want to become a director like my dad. To me, editing was far more interesting than directing — and you didn’t need a small army of people to do it.
[…]
Here are examples of some of the help that the union staff have provided to hundreds of members over just the last year. […]
Veteran New York indie film editor Sabine Hoffman, ACE, discovered film editing and began her career as a student in Berlin. […]
by Rob Feld • portraits by John Clifford Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea made big news at the 2016 […]
©2016-2021 Motion Picture Editors Guild
