Union Made
UNION MADE: History + Photography = Documentary Editing Career
I was fortunate to fall into picture editing. […]
Film History
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. […]
This Quarter in Film History
Down Went ‘McGinty’
Seventy-five years ago, on August 14, 1940 — back when studios still owned theatres — The Great McGinty, written and directed by Preston Sturges, premiered at the Paramount Theatre in New York’s Times Square. […]
Features
Editors Finally Get Their Close-Up: Alan Heim on ‘The Cutting Edge’
CineMontage recently caught up with Alan Heim to ask him about ‘The Cutting Edge’. […]
Features
Hollywood’s Renaissance Man
Robert Wise was truly a renaissance man of filmmaking. […]
Features
When Hollywood Rocked: Pop Music and Movies Weren’t a Perfect Match at First
The initial rock ‘n’ roll films produced in the mid-1950s are more interesting today as artifacts than as art. […]
