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Tim Squyres: The Editor as Eclecticist
The charmed career of Tim Squyres, A.C.E., has evidenced one of the most enduring editor-director partnerships. […]
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Baird. Stuart Baird: Action-Oriented Editor Bonds with 007 Franchise on ‘Skyfall’
Happy 50th anniversary, James Bond; it’s time for your existential crisis. That’s what the 23rd Bond film, Skyfall, which opens November 9 through Columbia Pictures, is all about: 007 taking a fall (he’s accidentally shot in the pre-credit sequence and presumed dead) and enduring his deadliest mission yet. […]
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Creating a More Immersive Experience
A project so reliant on the most updated, state-of-the-art filmmaking technology that it would have been inconceivable — let alone impossible to realize — even just few years ago, ‘Life of Pi’ presented director Ang Lee and his editor, Tim Squyres, A.C.E., with many challenges in post-production to get this film made. Squyres discussed them with CineMontage. […]
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LA Film Critics Bestow First Editing Award: Tichenor, Goldenberg Honored for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’
On Saturday evening, January 12, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) presented its 38th Annual Awards at a gala dinner at the Intercontinental Hotel in Century City. Post-production personnel attending the celebration had a special reason to celebrate this event as LAFCA premiered its award for the year’s Best Editing. […]
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Larry Silk: ACE 2013 Career Achievement Award Honoree
Lawrence Silk, A.C.E., links his interest in documentaries to an early social consciousness, derived in part from his parents. As a teenager, Silk’s father had guided Eugene Debs through factories near Pittsburgh and, when they moved from Detroit to New York’s Washington Heights, Silk was well aware of the plight of the German Jewish refugees from the war, who were his classmates. […]
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Correcting Oscar’s Six-Year Snub of Film Editing
Of the many crafts essential to making movies, only editing came into existence because of the medium itself. […]
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The Essence of Editing: Should We Be Shouldering the Weight of Post-Production?
In 1970, as an apprentice in the cutting room of Richard Marden, editor of Sunday Bloody Sunday, we were a happy bunch; Dick, two assistants and myself. Now, as a motion picture editor, I’m mostly by myself, only sharing occasional intense sessions with the director and/or producer. […]
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Holding the Cloud in the Palm of Your Hand: Cutting Mobile with ProSpotting and TouchEdit
The ever-accelerating pace of technological development is literally putting the tools of post- production into the palms of our hands. The dramatic spread of Apple’s iPad has stirred software designers to create new applications combining Internet cloud technology and post-production work procedures. […]
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Cartoon Connection: Animation Editors Collaborate With Writers
Picture editors’ storytelling skills are tested in animation to a degree rarely demanded in any other kind of film. In live action, they may come on to a project to consult and prepare before production begins, but their work usually begins when the cameras start rolling and footage comes into the cutting room. […]
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Once Upon a Laugh in the West: Jeff Freeman Knows ‘A Million Ways to Die’
The show-business career of Jeff Freeman, A.C.E., began on a terrifying note. At the age of four, he was plucked by his stepfather, director Arthur Napoleon, to appear in a movie co-written by his mother, Jo. Man on the Prowl (1957) may not have made any “best of all- time” lists, but the experience was memorable enough for young Jeff. […]
