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Lucian Johnston Talks Editing Joaquin Phoenix Character Study ‘Beau Is Afraid’
“I was first drawn to film editing because of how similar it felt to writing. It’s the part of the process where you give language to cinema.” […]
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How Conrad Buff Made History Come Alive in the Post-Slavery Drama ‘Emancipation’
“History is seductive for me.” […]
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Arielle Zakowski and Austin Keeling Talk Editing the Very Online Thriller ‘Missing’
“We both came to this with a lot of fear and anxiety about how to accomplish all of this technical wizardry.” […]
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Fancy Footwork: How Post-Production Helped Reinvent ‘Dancing With the Stars’
Last fall, in a sign of the times for streaming entertainment, “Dancing with the Stars” moved to Disney+. The show continued to stream live on Monday nights for the duration of its 31st season, in a first for Disney+. It was also first for a major broadcast show to move to a streamer for live worldwide streaming without ads. […]
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How the Director of ‘American Murderer’ Found His Perfect Editor, Matt Allen
“American Murderer” tells the true crime story of Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), a classic con man swindling his way through a life of debauched luxury. […]
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Lee Smith Talks About Re-teaming With Sam Mendes for ‘Empire of Light’
“Changing your mind or making adjustments is like rebuilding a house that you continuously knock over with a sledgehammer.” […]
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On the Road Again: Editor Paul Hirsch Remembers ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’
By Peter Tonguette Neal Page and Del Griffith are on the road again. The famous cinematic odd couple — amusingly […]
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William Caparella Talks About Editing ‘Luck’ and How to Have a Career in Animation
“I think the best thing is having a vision, because it is animation. We don’t have any guide or source track. We build everything from nothing, literally a blank piece of paper.” […]
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Mike Sale on Editing ‘Black Adam,’ Judd Apatow Movies, and Developing Survival Skills
“I had worked at a movie theater where I saw hundreds of movies in front of audiences, from the late ’70s to the mid-’80s. I watched them so many times—things like ‘E.T.’—that I could tell you what the audience was going to do.” […]
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WHAT OUR MEMBERS DO: Michelle Inzunza, Second Assistant Editor
“After I took my first editing class, I was hooked. It’s funny, because I remember thinking I would never be an editor because it seemed too hard — but once I tried it, I had a lot of fun and wanted to continue learning.” […]
