Union Made
UNION MADE: Following in Father’s Footsteps
I started editing quarter-inch reels of recorded audio sessions, then got bumped up to an assistant working with film on a Moviola. I was surprised by how much I liked it.
Assistant Editors
Features
Finding Moments of Humanity: The Instinctual Editing Style of John F. Burnett
Midway through George Cukor’s Rich and Famous (1981), there is a scene that, all by itself, encapsulates the witty banter that was the director’s signature. The heroine of the film, a celebrated writer played by Jacqueline Bisset, is in her room at the Algonquin Hotel, ostensibly to be interviewed by a young Rolling Stone journalist (Hart Bochner). […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: History + Photography = Documentary Editing Career
I was fortunate to fall into picture editing. […]
Features
Richard Halsey: 2014 ACE Career Achievement Award Honoree
Richard Halsey, A.C.E., lives by three rules: Be organized, listen to your intuition and always tell the truth. These are rules that the editor applies to his work, as well as to his life. Of course, Halsey says, it’s not always easy. […]
Features
Robert C. Jones: 2014 ACE Career Achievement Award Honoree
Robert C. Jones grew up in the film industry; his father, Harmon Jones, was a feature film editor (Gentleman’s Agreement, Panic in the Streets, among others) and later TV director (Rawhide, Perry Mason and Death Valley Days). […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: From the Art House to the Cutting Room
I was on the path of the confused college looking primarily for an interesting career and secondarily for a way to earn a living. My two goals never seemed to want to co-exist. […]
Features
Guided by Creative References: Plummy Tucker
Plummy Tucker found the time to talk to CineMontage about her varied career, including her upcoming projects. […]
Columns
AE: Acrimony Over an Acronym
The first time I heard my assistant editor referred to as an “AE,” the hairs on my back went up! I felt it was disrespectful and unbecoming — but why? After all, we call production assistants PAs without offense, so why not call assistant editors AEs? Well, for starters, PAs fetch coffee and deliver scripts, whereas assistant editors perform highly skilled creative and technical work in an artistic craft. […]
This Quarter in Film History
The Awakening of ‘Anger’ 25 Years Later
This year, as part of its annual selection of fully restored classics, the 72nd International Venice Film Festival presented, along with Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard (1965) and Sergei Eisenstein’ Alexander Nevsky (1938), among others, Charles Burnett’s To Sleep with Anger (1990) — the most recently made of all the dramatic features chosen. […]
Union Made
I Cut My Teeth on Kinescopes
My interests in film and theatre started at Roy Elementary School in Northlake, Illinois, when I got to do lighting for school plays. […]
