Awards
How Marty Cohen, Recipient of MPEG’s 2019 Fellowship and Service Award, Became a Post-Production Giant
“I’m an editor at heart.” […]
Film History
Web Exclusives
Princeton’s Su Friedrich and Her Website Salute the Vital, Often Unsung Work of Women Editors Throughout History
“It was extremely difficult to find more than the skimpiest info about editors, so I just kept digging and digging.” […]
Features
How Famed Hollywood Eatery Musso & Frank Became a Post-Production Hangout
For the last century, the Musso & Frank Grill has been the preferred dining and drinking destination for innumerable movie stars, literary legends and other notables. Even sports heroes have been known to walk through its doors. […]
Web Exclusives
Alfred Hitchcock’s Secret Censorship Battles and How They Changed Film History
The director fought censors on both sides of the Atlantic from the start of his career to the very last. […]
Web Exclusives
Fred Raskin Talks About Editing Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’
“During production, Quentin does not enter the editing room. He doesn’t want to look at any edited footage because he just wants to focus on shooting the movie.” […]
Columns
Popcorn, Dailies and Guinness: John Sayles on the Making of ‘Secret of Roan Inish’
Since making his first independent film, “The Return of the Secaucus Seven,” Sayles has established a unique relationship with the industry. […]
Columns
Andrew Davis’ ‘The Fugitive’
At my high school, admission to advanced placement (AP) classes was by invitation only. I tried four times to be admitted into AP English. The head of the department, a sour and exhausted woman named Ms. Gallagher, eventually told me, “I wouldn’t feel good about myself if I encouraged you to pursue something at which you won’t succeed.” […]
Columns
Ron Bochar on ‘Angels in America’
In 2003, after sound editor, sound designer and re-recording mixer Ron Bochar, CAS, completed work on Mike Nichols’ miniseries Angels in America, he felt good about what he and his sound colleagues had accomplished. He felt so good, in fact, that part of him wished he could simply call it a career. […]
Columns
Anne Goursaud on ‘Bram Stoker’s Dracula’
“My first thought was, ‘Oh God, this is perfect material for Francis — he’s going to do a fantastic job with this,” remembers editor Anne Goursaud, ACE, regarding Bram Stoker’s 1897 horror novel Dracula. […]
Columns
When Editing Began: The Cut that Launched a Filmmaking Craft
By the time film pioneer Georges Méliès made this only slightly exaggerated claim, the making and exhibition of narrative film was establishing itself as a business separate from the variety stage and lecture circuit. As more people visited storefront theatres to see moving picture stories, they watched the art and craft of editing evolving on screens right before their eyes. […]
