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The Curious Case of Unions and Documentaries
Ken Burns did it. So did Michael Moore. But a lot of documentary filmmakers don’t go union. Is that about to change? […]
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How the Editing Team Made the Most of Fran Lebowitz for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Pretend It’s a City’
“Fran likes to talk. You just ask her a question and she can go on for 15 minutes. And part of the answer will not appear related to the question in any way.” […]
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Goya Awards: Pilar Palomero’s ‘The Girls’ Named Best Picture
Pilar Palomero’s coming-of-age story The Girls took home the top prizes, including best picture, at the 35th annual Goya Awards on Saturday. Spain’s annual awards show, hosted by Antonio Banderas, also saw Palomero’s drama win […]
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Harry Yoon Talks About Editing the Immigrant Experience in ‘Minari’
“So many of the scenes, especially seeing them come to life in the dailies, were these explosions of memory.” […]
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Andrew Mondshein on Editing Chadwick Boseman’s Farewell in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Mondshein was a longtime collaborator of legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who, as the New York-based, Academy Award-nominated editor tells it, was persuaded that few things in cinema were as fascinating as a well-timed close-up. […]
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How Post Helped Robert Zemeckis’ ‘The Witches’ Cast a Spell (and Survive a Pandemic)
It’s bittersweet seeing the movie released into the world, knowing that it might never see a wide release in theatres. But in the end, where you see it doesn’t matter as much as who you see it with. There’s nothing like getting lost in a movie with your loved ones and forgetting about the real world for 90 minutes, and I think “The Witches” fits the bill perfectly. […]
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Robert C. Jones, ‘Love Story’ Film Editor and Oscar-Winning Writer, Dies at 84
Robert Jones, the esteemed film editor who shaped such classics as Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Love Story, The Last Detail and Bound for Glory and shared a screenplay Oscar for Coming Home, has died. Jones died Monday at his home […]
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Robert Grigsby Wilson on Editing Radha Blank’s ‘The Forty-Year-Old Version’ on Netflix
By Patrick Z. McGavin A sensation at the Sundance Film festival in January, Radha Blank’s “The Forty-Year-Old Version” was […]
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Adam Gough Found the Right Moves in Spike Lee’s ‘American Utopia’ with David Byrne
“All I want from a director is trust. Without that, there isn’t the foundation for a mutual relationship that allows you to be creative.” […]
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Jamie Kirkpatrick on Editing John Leguizamo’s Chess Drama ‘Critical Thinking’
One critic has likened the film to director Ramón Menéndez’s “Stand and Deliver” (1988), in which a teacher successfully inspires his dropout-prone students to learn calculus. […]
