Apart from the occasional studio interference,
most film editors are good at what they do, hence the Academy Award in that category.
Not exact matches
Editor's Note: Expedition Blue Planet, led by Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter Alexandra Cousteau, is traveling 14,500 miles of road over 138 days to investigate and
film some of North America's
most pressing water - use and management stories.
It just hums as Affleck and
editor William Goldenberg («Heat,» «The Insider») have paced their storytelling with such finesse that even the
most disparate elements of the
film seem of a whole.
Yann Gonzalez's second feature stars Vanessa Paradis as Anne, a gay porn producer who tries to win back her lover (and
editor) by shooting her
most amazing
film yet.
Below, our
editors have picked out the
most notable
films debuting at the festival, and sampled the critical consensus for each one.
Behind the scenes, the creative team includes frequent collaborators Tom Stern, who served as cinematographer on 13 of Eastwood's previous
films, and Deborah Hopper, who has served as Eastwood's costume designer on 17 prior
films,
editor Blu Murray, who
most recently cut «Sully,» and the
film's composer, Christian Jacob.
The week before Thanksgiving we screened Creed with writer - director Ryan Coogler, a loyal USC alumni, and his colleagues,
most of whom attended school with him and worked on his first feature, Fruitvale Station: co-writer Aaron Covington, composer Ludwig Göransson, and
film editors Michael Shawver and Claudia Castello.
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Editor Aoife Kelly and Irish Independent
film guru Paul Whitington discuss this week's three new releases - Alex Garland's Ex Machina, JC Chandor's A
Most Violent Year, and Mark Wahlberg's...
Here's the full list of 142
films that featured on our contributors» ballots: (Disclaimer: Luc Besson's Lucy didn't get a single vote - I just like this image of Scarlett sorting through stuff) 71 1001 Grams 12 Years a Slave 20,000 Days on Earth 22 Jump Street 52 Tuesdays A Girl at my Door A
Most Violent Year A
Most Wanted Man A Touch of Sin Aberdeen Alleluia American Sniper Birdman Black Coal, Thin Ice Blind Blue Ruin Boyhood Calvary Captain America: The Winter Soldier Casa Grande Chef Citizenfour Climbing to Spring Cold in July Danger 5 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Der Samurai Duke of Burgundy Edge of Tomorrow Electric Boogaloo Enemy Fandry Force Majeure Frank Free Fall From What is Before Giovanni's Island Gone Girl Goodbye to Language Guardians of the Galaxy Haemoo Han Gong - ju Hard to be a God Horse Money Housebound Ida Inherent Vice Interstellar It Follows Jauja Jigarthanda Jodorowsky's Dune John Wick Killers Lady Maiko Les Combattants Leviathan Li'l Quinquin Life Itself Like Father Like Son Locke Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere Magical Girl Maidan Man From Reno Melbourne Memphis Mommy National Gallery New World Nightcrawler Norte, The End of History Nymphomaniac Of Good Report Only Lovers Left Alive Over Your Dead Body Pale Moon Peaky Blinders Pride R100 Red Army Seven Weeks Sils Maria Snowpiercer Song of the Sea Sorrow and Joy Spring Stand By Me Doraemon Starred Up Starry Eyes Stray Dogs Texas Chain Saw Massacre The Act of Killing The Babadook The Dam Keeper The Double The
Editor The Grand Budapest Hotel The Great Beauty The Great Passage The Guest The Hobbit The Internet's Own Boy The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness The Lego Movie The Missing Picture The One I Love The Overnighters The Penguins of Madagascar The Raid 2 The Sacrament The Second Game The Secret Life of Walter Mitty The Snow White Murder Case The Tale of the Princess Kaguya The Terror Live The Tribe The Wind Rises The Wolf of Wall Street The Wonders The World of Kanako These Final Hours They Came Together Tokyo Tribe Tusk Two Days, One Night Under the Skin Wadjda We Are The Best!
The
film reunites Eastwood with several of his longtime collaborators, who
most recently worked with the director on the worldwide hit «American Sniper»: director of photography Tom Stern and production designer James J. Murakami, who were both Oscar - nominated for their work on «The Changeling»; costume designer Deborah Hopper; and
editor Blu Murray.
Returning to the A.V. Club office after almost two weeks in the trenches of Cannes,
film editor A.A. Dowd sits down with staff writer Ignatiy Vishnevetsky to talk about the best (and, as luck would have it, last)
film he saw at the world's
most important
film festival: You Were Never Really Here, a nightmarish noir...
At his site, Free Cinema Now, master
editor Nelson Carvajal offers a
most inspired mash - up of Tim Burton's comedy classic «Beetlejuice» with a
film sure to make many a ton ten list this year, David Lowery's «A Ghost Story.»
What You Need To Know: A notoriously slow and deliberate filmmaker and
editor, who tends to write his
films as he is shooting them (must be nice), Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar - wai is one of the
most world - renowned international directors, but this will be his first
film since his poorly received 2007 English - language debut, «My Blueberry Nights.»
What You Need To Know: A notoriously slow and deliberate filmmaker and
editor, who tends to write his
film as as he is shooting (what a luxury), Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar - Wai is one of the
most world - renowned international directors, but this will be his first
film since his 2007 poorly received English - language debut, «My Blueberry Nights.»
Wise, who also directed the noirs «The Set - Up» and «Odds Against Tomorrow» along with many other
films (
most notably Oscar winners «West Side Story» and «The Sound of Music») started as an
editor («Citizen Kane»).
Like so many modern movies, the credits follow the
film instead of precede it but one doesn't need to see the names of the cinematographer,
editors, and composer to know that this is one of the
most technically accomplished major sci - fi
films in YEARS.
In
filming the epic indictment of slavery which is adapted from Northrup's book by John Ridley, Sean Bobbitt respects audience patience by his many long takes, enjoining
editor Joe Walker from making the cuts that are so common in TV sitcoms and
most serious movies alike.
Behind the scenes, the creative team includes frequent collaborators Tom Stern, who served as cinematographer on 13 of Eastwood's previous
films, and Deborah Hopper, who has served as Eastwood's costume designer on 17 prior
films;
editor Blu Murray, who
most recently cut «Sully,» and that
film's composer, Christian Jacob.
All the while, James Herbert —
editor on
most of Guy Ritchie's
films — and Laura Jennings — VFX
editor on Skyfall and Children of Men — cut the footage together with pinpoint precision.
What makes Three Billboards... McDonagh's
most well - rounded, likeable piece of work, is that the framework holding all those solid, well - written characters together feels delicately honed and precise; there is no fat on the bones of this
film, and
editor Jon Gregory deserves plaudits for keeping the whole thing moving while still allowing time for the script to indulge, in a good way, in its characters.
As if that weren't enough, there's Wayne Knight as an extra with a cause, and Frances McDormand as a
film editor whose few minutes on screen are madness of a
most divine variety.
This week, A.V. Club
film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss Call Me By Your Name, the latest from Italian director Luca Guadagnino, and one of the
most acclaimed
films to come out of 2017's Sundance
Film Festival.
Starting things off, there's an audio commentary from director Mark Hartley, joined by «Ozploitation Auteurs» Brian Trenchard - Smith, Antony I. Ginnane, John D. Lamond, David Hannay, Richard Brennan, Alan Finney, Vincent Monton, Grant Page, and Roger Ward; a set of 26 deleted and extended scenes, now with optional audio commentary from Hartley and
editors Sara Edwards and Jamie Blanks; The Lost NQH Interview: Chris Lofven, the director of the
film Oz; A Word with Bob Ellis (which was formerly an Easter Egg on DVD); a Quentin Tarantino and Brian Trenchard - Smith interview outtake; a Melbourne International
Film Festival Ozploitation Panel discussion; Melbourne International
Film Festival Red Carpet footage; 34 minutes of low tech behind the scenes moments which were shot mostly by Hartley; a UK interview with Hartley; The Bazura Project interview with Hartley; The Monthly Conversation interview with Hartley; The Business audio interview with Hartley; an extended Ozploitation trailer reel (3 hours worth), with an opening title card telling us that Brian Trenchard - Smith cut together
most of the trailers (Outback, Walkabout, The Naked Bunyip, Stork, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, three for Barry McKenzie Holds His Own, Libido, Alvin Purple, Alvin Rides Again, Petersen, The Box, The True Story of Eskimo Nell, Plugg, The Love Epidemic, The Great MacArthy, Don's Party, Oz, Eliza Fraser, Fantasm, Fantasm Comes Again, The FJ Holden, High Rolling, The ABC of Love and Sex: Australia Style, Felicity, Dimboola, The Last of the Knucklemen, Pacific Banana, Centrespread, Breakfast in Paris, Melvin, Son of Alvin, Night of Fear, The Cars That Ate Paris, Inn of the Damned, End Play, The Last Wave, Summerfield, Long Weekend, Patrick, The Night, The Prowler, Snapshot, Thirst, Harlequin, Nightmares (aka Stage Fright), The Survivor, Road Games, Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior), Strange Behavior, A Dangerous Summer, Next of Kin, Heatwave, Razorback, Frog Dreaming, Dark Age, Howling III: The Marsupials, Bloodmoon, Stone, The Man from Hong Kong, Mad Dog Morgan, Raw Deal, Journey Among Women, Money Movers, Stunt Rock, Mad Max, The Chain Reaction, Race for the Yankee Zephyr, Attack Force Z, Freedom, Turkey Shoot, Midnite Spares, The Return of Captain Invincible, Fair Game, Sky Pirates, Dead End Drive - In, The Time Guardian, Danger Freaks); Confession of an R - Rated Movie Maker, an interview with director John D. Lamond; an interview with director Richard Franklin on the set of Patrick; Terry Bourke's Noon Sunday Reel; the Barry McKenzie: Ogre or Ocker vintage documentary; the Inside Alvin Purple vintage documentary; the To Shoot a Mad Dog vintage documentary; an Ozploitation stills and poster gallery; a production gallery; funding pitches; and the documentary's original theatrical trailer.
He was a literature teacher, a novelist, a magazine
editor, and a
film critic, but Eric Rohmer, who has died at the age of eighty - nine, will be
most remembered, of course, as a filmmaker.
This week, A.V. Club
film editor A.A. Dowd and staff critic Ignatiy Vishnevetsky sit down to discuss The Disaster Artist, the James Franco - directed tribute to Tommy Wiseau and the
most famous bad movie of all time, The Room.
Entertainment
Editor Aoife Kelly and Irish Independent
film guru Paul Whitington discuss this week's three new releases - Alex Garland's Ex Machina, JC Chandor's A
Most Violent Year, and Mark Wahlberg's latest offering, The Gambler.
The issue — arguably the only issue — of exploitation is raised, and well, in the
film's
most honest scene: at an awards banquet feting Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) for his profile of Nathaniel (Jaime Foxx), the former's
editor / ex-wife Mary (Catherine Keener) excoriates Lopez for his reluctance to fully engage what had at that point become his near - total responsibility.
Along with movie doc usual suspects John Carpenter, William Friedkin, and Martin Scorsese (who brilliantly homaged Hitch in a 2007 mockumentary commercial), relative newcomers Guillermo Del Toro and Eli Roth, as well as assorted lesser known
editors,
film composers, and others are on hand to explain just why Hitchcock is the
most copied
film director of all time.
Academy Award winning sound
editor Richard King has worked on such
films as The Dark Knight, War of the Worlds, and Master & Commander, to date, King has captured three Best Sound Editing Oscars, the
most recent in 2010 for his work on Inception.
Most film critics have a pretty good handle on what it is a director does, what a cinematographer does, what an
editor does.
Of course there are a few things typical to
most every day in the life of a literary agent, such as reading query letters, meeting / calls / lunches / drinks with
editors and publishers as well as clients, pitching manuscripts to publishers, meeting with
film / TV companies to adapt books for the screen, attending conferences / workshops, looking for new talent, etc..
JR:
Most of what I've learned has come from working alongside my peers in television and
film (many are Emmy award - winning producers, directors, designers and
editors).
In the comics industry, there are a couple of very good
editors, but
most of them could not define the word «edit», however, that's different in
film.
The
most creative I've seen is using the photo
editor to create surprisingly moving short
films.
Das and Sharma have included painting, sculpture and
film works by 16 artists, including Krishna and Judy Blum Reddy, Nirode Mazumdar (from whose memoir the show gets its title), Zarina Hashmi, Akbar Padamsee, and even
film editor Lila Lakshmanan, who worked with Jean - Luc Godard for over nearly a decade on some of his
most famous
films, such as À bout de soufflé (Breathless, 1960) and, Une femme est une femme (A Woman is a Woman, 1961).
Most editor and camera operator positions require a bachelor's degree in a field related to
film or broadcasting, such as communications.