Book Reviews
Hal Ashby, Bound for Glory
‘Being Hal Ashby’ examines the director’s tormented personal life and childhood, and traces the troubled personal skein into an exemplary body of work in motion pictures […]
Film History
This Quarter in Film History
The Original Road
Forty years ago, Steven Spielberg transformed television narrative with his made-for-TV movie Duel, which aired on ABC in November 1971. […]
Book Reviews
Revisiting Some Classic Texts of Film Editing
The re-publication of this invaluable tome by Karel Reisz and Gavin Millar is a cause for celebration among editors and filmmakers. […]
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
The Savagely Quiet One: Remembering Sidney Meyers
In 1960, after college, the army, UCLA film school, paying my dues as a can-carrying apprentice and assisting (mostly on commercials, but also some documentaries and industrials), I received a call from the editor Peggy Lawson, who said, “Sidney needs an assistant; I’m recommending you.” […]
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. […]
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. […]
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
An Editor’s Director—Nonpareil
Robert Wise’s quiet leadership was rooted in a seemingly easy going inner security, a palpable respect for others. […]
