James D. Wilcox and His Editing Journey on ‘Hillbilly Elegy’
by A.J. Catoline “I have to pinch myself at times,” said picture editor James D. Wilcox, ACE. Wilcox has good […]
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Kristan Sprague on Editing ‘Judas and the Black Messiah’: ‘I Got Into the Union Because of This’
The Warner Bros. release marks the editor’s latest collaboration with King. Sprague also edited King’s feature debut, “Newlyweeds” (2013). The film has already won widespread acclaim and has a score of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 86% on Metacritic, the review aggregation websites. […]
Appreciation: Bob Jones, Editing and Writing Wizard, Left a Lasting Mark on ’70s Cinema
“Bobby is the kind of guy who could do just about anything,” one colleague says. […]
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.” […]
Tariq Anwar Helped Bring History to Life in Civil Rights Drama ‘One Night in Miami’
By Peter Tonguette Last year, picture editor Tariq Anwar, ACE, had a most unusual experience: His editing room came to […]
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.” […]
L.A. Times’ Top Ten List for 2020: The Year’s Best Movies, TV, Music and More
Movie theaters closed. Broadway went dark. Concert venues fell silent. But 2020 still led to some special projects in entertainment and arts. Here are some of our picks for the best of the year. There are 12 stories. […]
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. […]
Ren Klyce and Jeremy Molod of ‘Mank’ Break Their Silence on the Sound Secrets of 1940s
Director David Fincher commanded his own army of Foley artists, dialog editors and sound specialists for his iconoclastic biographical portrait of the screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman). […]
New York Times: Hollywood’s Obituary, the Sequel. Now Streaming.
“Hollywood has repeatedly written its own obituary,” writes Brook Barnes in The New York Times. “It died when Star Wars (1977) and Superman (1978) turned movies into toy advertisements. The 1980s (VCRs), the 1990s (the rise of […]