Union Made
With Fate as a Career Guide
To this day, I’m not sure how I get jobs. I try to have a plan. I even try to network and keep informed. But jobs come and go for the most quixotic reasons. […]
Picture Editors
Union Made
Following in Uncle Sam’s Footsteps
Getting to work with the editors makes the ups and downs of the last 51 years in this business, the greatest ride anyone could have. […]
Tail Pop
David Lean’s ‘LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’ (1962)
‘Lawrence of Arabia’ resonated far more deeply than anything I had seen to that point. […]
Tail Pop
Terry Gilliam’s ‘Brazil’ (1985)
I remembered how the same footage in Brazil was used to portray extreme opposites of emotion, and realized I too could manipulate the footage shot in Reality to better reflect the story we needed to tell. […]
Union Made
UNION MADE: Life, Luck and LA Led to a Career Launch
Growing up in Connecticut, I had no idea how movies were made. I thought that they just “happened.” […]
Book Reviews
Seeing Is Believing
‘The Eye is Quicker’ a book about editing that would best stand alongside Walter Murch’s In the ‘Blink of an Eye’ on an editor’s bookshelf. […]
Columns
Lab Assistance for New York Filmmakers
Where do you go to find an ‘edit clinic?’ […]
Union Made
Union Made: When an Artist Finds His Canvas
It was editing that seduced me. To me, it was choreography, and I knew I had the instinct for it. […]
Book Reviews
Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive
‘Film Editing: The Art of the Expressive’ by Valerie Orpen is a highly theoretical examination of editing as an essential but greatly misunderstood aspect of motion picture production. […]
This Quarter in Film History
A ‘Lion’ For All Seasons
‘The Lion in Winter’ is probably one of the few perennially popular films from 1968. […]
