Just a thought: another director perhaps worth noting/considering is
Quentin Tarantino and his longtime editor Sally Menke (she has edited
all of his films).
Marcelline Block
Princeton University
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On Mar 31, 2009, at 1:30 PM, Frank, Michael wrote:
> as in many "creative" fields there is a craft dimension and an art
> dimension, one involving technique or "skill" -- the other involving
> much more than that . . . put differently, one may imagine editing as
> a technology for carrying out a pre-existent conception effectively,
> or one may imagine it as a rhetorical, expressive, [or, pace screen,
> enounciative] tool
>
> hitchcock always cared who his editors were even though he reserved
> for himself all decisions about what the editing would or would not
> express
>
> mike
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> Subject: Editing, Style and Authorship
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> A friend of mine, Georg Janett, perhaps Swiss film's most senior and
> foremost film editor, once told me that editors cannot afford to have
> a personal style in the sense of authorship. This primarily because
> the editor's work a) primarily consists of what you DON'T see on the
> screen, and b) is so closely tied to the requirements of a particular
> film project and the wishes of the respective director that it would
> be counterproductive. And yet, I remember reading somewhere - maybe in
> one of William Goldman's books (don't quote me on this) - that Dede
> Allen was the preferred editor as far as working with a moviola was
> concerned, in the days prior to digital cutting.
>
> Any views and ideas on this?
>
> Henry
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