Before the site was up-and-running, I retweeted links to a number of interesting articles on the work of film and TV editors. Here’s a selection I thought worth revisiting.
These are a series of interviews and breakdowns on the work of the editors of PIXAR’s Soul, Raging Bull, 1917, Marriage Story, Succession, and The Queen’s Gambit.
#1 – ART OF THE CUT on editing PIXAR’s “Soul” with Kevin Nolting, ACE
Long-time PIXAR Editor Kevin Nolting discusses his transition from live-action to animation, the physical and creative processes of editing animation, his creative collaboration with Story Artists, and how his working methods have evolved over time.
#2 – IndieWire Influencers – Sofia Coppola & Editor Sarah Flack
Director-Editor collaborations lasting for decades are so frequent as to be common. IndieWire explores the near twodecade collaboration between Director Sofia Coppola and Editor Sarah Flack.
#3 – Cut Me: The Surgical Editing of ‘Raging Bull’
Arguably the most famous of all Director-Editor collaborations, the work of Thelma Schoonmaker and Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull is still being disected and discussed more than 40 years on from its release. Jop Leuven’s video essay examines the editing of the boxing sequences.
#4 – Editors on ‘1917,’ ‘Bombshell’ and ‘Marriage Story’ Reveal How They Created Conflict
An article from back in 2019 discussing the editing process for 1917 (the edit was completed very shortly after production wrapped), experiments with structure and different endings in Bombshell, and finding the balance between the comic and the tragic, and between the two main characters, in Marriage Story.
#5 – How ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ Editor Heightened the Tension of Competitive Chess
Michelle Tesoro explains how she made sure that the chess scenes worked for both pro’s and the uninitiated, and how she treated moves during the chess games as lines of dialogue.
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