Tail Pop
Why Fox Nearly Pulled the Plug On the Original ‘Star Wars,’ the Biggest Space Epic of All Time
The lights came on… Shock. Silence. “Oh man, we’re just working on a schlock low-budget Roger Corman sci-fi,” we thought. […]
Film
Behind the Scenes
Affonso Gonçalves Talks Editing Todd Haynes’ Drama ‘May December’
“I can’t pick sides. That’s the great thing about being an editor.” […]
Behind the Scenes
Thelma Schoonmaker Talks Editing Martin Scorsese’s ‘Killers of The Flower Moon’
“Marty never wants to repeat himself,” said Schoonmaker, the three-time Oscar-winning editor best known for her work with director Martin Scorsese on film classics such as “Raging Bull” and “Goodfellas.” “He gets a great new idea he wants to challenge himself with, and I’m being challenged with him,” she added. “There’s never any boredom.” Their latest challenge is the Apple-financed $200 million production, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” adapted by the writer Eric Roth and Scorsese from the 2016 non-fiction book by David Grann. […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: How Siskel & Ebert Became the Most Famous Movie Critics In America
Nostalgic fans of Siskel and Ebert may be the only readers to welcome all this detail. […]
Behind the Scenes
How Jennifer Lame and the Post Team Helped Turn ‘Oppenheimer’ Into an Epic Smash
Working with film took Lame back to the dawn of her career. Lame noted that most editors her age and younger have worked only in the digital world, so the film workflow may not be familiar to them. “My first job was working on a film movie, ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead.’ That was shot on film, the dailies were screened on film – everything. I feel lucky to have had that early opportunity to work with film.” […]
Features
Hollywood Ending: Alisa Lepselter Cut What May – or May Not – Be Woody Allen’s Last Film, ‘Coup de Chance’
“In making a film, it is key to have a first-rate cinematographer and a first-rate editor,” Allen said. […]
Features
IN MEMORIAM: Arthur Schmidt, Editor of ‘Back to the Future’ and ‘Forrest Gump,’ 1937-2023
For director Robert Zemeckis, Schmidt was the editor of, among other classic films, the “Back to the Future” trilogy (1985, 1989, 1990), “Forrest Gump” (1994), and “Contact” (1997). He won two Oscars during his multi-decade partnership with Zemeckis: for “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” (1988) and for “Forrest Gump.” […]
Web Exclusives
Saira Haider Talks Editing on Netflix’s Conspiracy Mystery ‘They Cloned Tyrone’
“I didn’t go to film school with a background in filmmaking at all. I’d never cut anything together. When I got into the editing room, I realized that this was where I was going to learn the most.” […]
Web Exclusives
Franklin Peterson and Chloe Domont Talk Editing on Netflix Thriller ‘Fair Play’
“This is one of those things where you read it and it just works in a number of ways.” […]
Web Exclusives
‘Extremely Demanding’: William Friedkin’s Editors Remember the Oscar-Winning Director
“He didn’t like cuts being in predictable places. In other words, one of the things that you often strive for in editing is to make the editing disappear: somebody finishes the line and the next person speaks, and you cut to it right away. Billy was always most interested in making unpredictable cuts that, in his mind, were better.” […]
