Columns
Words Like Bullets: How ‘Sweet Smell’ Met with Success
Why ‘Sweet Smell’ Succeeded […]
Film History
In Memoriam
Remembering Donn Cambern: 1929-2023
The Guild Says Goodbye to an Accomplished Editor, Dedicated Leader, and Passionate Mentor By Kristin Marguerite Doidge It was 1968 […]
Features
75 Best Edited Films: By the Numbers
The 75 Best Edited Films’ years of release range from the 1920s to the 2010s — with 3 titles each in both of those decades. Most of the films cited are from the 1970s (17), followed by the ‘90s (16), the ‘60s (13), the ‘50s (8), the ‘00s (7), the ‘80s (5) and the ‘40s (3). Curiously, there were no films chosen from the 1930s. […]
Web Exclusives
Donn Cambern, ‘Easy Rider’ Editor and Former MPEG President, Dies at 93
Born in Los Angeles in 1929, Cambern was a natural fit for his chosen profession. His father worked in the music publishing business and his mother was a professional harpist who played on movie soundtracks for the RKO Pictures orchestra. […]
Book Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: How a 1941 Disney Animators’ Strike Changed Hollywood
By Betsy McLane Jake Friedman deserves a rousing hurrah for writing “The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation’s […]
Tail Pop
Coming Out: Growing up with ‘Saving Face’
By Donna J. Choo I grew up in Hawai‘i, on the island of O‘ahu, where my moviegoing love began at […]
Union Made
Union Made: The ‘USC Mafia’ and How It Advanced One Editor’s Career
A long, long time ago, in 1976, I was a grad student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and learned the craft of film editing. I edited an award-winning short, “F.N.G.”, which led to a teaching assistant position working with an Oscar-winning professor. […]
Features
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 […]
Web Exclusives
Bob & Me: A 20-Year Friendship With ‘Five Easy Pieces’ Auteur Bob Rafelson, 1933-2022
By Peter Tonguette For 18 years, on and off, the director of “Five Easy Pieces” (1970) and “The King […]
Web Exclusives
Editor Jon Poll on Finding the Laughs and the Heart in the New ‘Father of the Bride’
“This is what is really satisfying about the film: Your guard is let down by the humor, and you don’t expect that you’re going to have as emotional an experience in the end as you do.” […]
