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. […]
Assistant Editors
Columns
Maurice Schell on ‘All That Jazz’
by Peter Tonguette As personal projects go, Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz is hard to top. The 1979 musical drama […]
Columns
Tom Foligno on ‘The Aviator’
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. […]
Features
DEDE’S DEVOTEES: Some Words from Her Admirers
A compilation of praise for award winning editor, Dede Allen […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: The Symmetry of an Editing Career
Production felt like endless problem solving––whereas editing was about storytelling using a vocabulary of images and sounds, and that excited me. […]
Tail Pop
Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’ (1969)
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. […]
Features
Longtime Assistants: The Heart and Soul of the Editing Room
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. […]
Features
Confessions of a ‘Preditor’: What Goes on Behind Reality TV’s Cutting Room Door?
Editing in the world of Reality Television is nothing like editing scripted drama, comedy or MOWs in television. It’s not the craft that’s dissimilar; it’s the approach, terminology and producer structure. […]
Features
The Editor as Consigliore: Dan Lebental Partners with Director Jon Favreau for Sci-Fi Western
Through several TV projects and five feature films, the relationship between editor Dan Lebental, A.C.E., and director Jon Favreau has evolved to the point where Lebental views himself as Favreau’s creative consultant when it comes to helping the director figure out exactly where his movies are going. […]
Features
Post ‘Hangover’: Debra Neil-Fisher and Jeff Groth’s Editorial Hair of the Dog
CineMontage interviewed the two editors as they were finishing work on ‘The Hangover Part III.’ […]
