February 25, 2010

A master craftsman at the heart of movie-making, Walter Murch gives a unique insight into his career editing award winning films including The Godfather, The English Patient and Cold Mountain.
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February 04, 2010

The Movie Geeks discuss the art of film editing with editor and author Gael Chandler (Film Editing: Great Cuts Every Filmmaker and Movie Lover Must Know).
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January 15, 2010

Bobbie O'steen Does a follow up interview with Blogtalkradio.com and discusses her book The Invisible Cut.
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July 31 2009

Bobbie O'Steen discusses the art of editing and her new book'The Invisible Cut' it also has interviews about the best worst movies.
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January 07 2010

A couple years ago I interviewed Michel Arcand, one of Quebec's most accomplished film editors. At the time he was working on Maurice Richard (aka The Rocket), for which he would later win Genie and Jutra awards for best editing. Our phone call lasted over an hour, but of course being an editor, I cut it down to 12 minutes, focusing on the more inspiring and insightful moments to portray Arcand's magnificent vision into the intimate process of film editing. Enjoy.
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January 04 2010

Editor Scott Conrad marks a first for us here at Natsukashi, for he is our frist Oscar winner to speak with us, earning that golden guy for his work on the seminal Sylvester Stallone flick, Rocky. He’s amassed more than 50 films to his resume so far, including working twice with Cheech & Chong, directors such as Curtis Hanson (The Bedroom Window), horror-meister Tom Holland (The Stranger Within), and just wrapped working with Tim Allen on his directorial debut Crazy on the Outside, with Sigourney Weaver, Ray Liotta, and J.K. Simmons...
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December 4, 2009

Film editor and sound designer Walter Murch won an Academy Award for sound design for Apocalypse Now. Some of the films he's edited and/or mixed are The Conversation, American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather II, and III and Crumb. He wrote a book about his work, In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing. (Rebroadcast from 1996.)
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November 29 2009

He has re-edited Orson Well's 1958 film Touch of Evil. At the time of the film's initial release the studio remixed the film to Well's displeasure. He fired off a letter with suggested changes. With those notes as their guide, Murch and re-edit producer Rick Schmidlin have reconstructed the film to Well's intentions. Some of the other films he's edited and/or mixed are The Conversation, American Graffiti, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather (II, and III)and The English Patient. He's also written a book about his work, In the Blink of An Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing.
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November 27 2009

Academy Award-winning film editor Thelma Schoonmaker has edited every one of Martin Scorsese's movies, from Raging Bull to The Aviator. Schoonmaker has had a front-row seat to see how film editing has changed over the past 30 years.
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November 25 2009

An 8 Min interview with Walter Murch: In the world of filmmaking, actors and directors dominate the spotlight. The people who actually assemble the film frame by frame and beat by beat toil in relative obscurity. Walter Murch is one film editor whose profile is much higher than most.
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November 20 2009

Originally Aired: January 21, 2003 - NPR's Robert Siegel talks to University of Iowa film professor Rick Altman about filmmaker Edwin Porter. One hundred years ago today, Porter received the copyright on Life of an American Fireman, a film that's regarded, along with his other 1903 film The Great train Robbery, as the first to use the conceit of editing to compress time and space. Porter's pioneering work influenced all subsequent filmmakers. Altman says audiences quickly learned to follow the new way of telling stories. Editing saved the faltering movie industry, which up to Porter's work in 1903 mostly used single, uncut shots of real world events. Porter cut away from an action to show events happening at the same time elsewhere.
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August 11 2009

Steven Rosenblum, A.C.E., editor of Blood Diamond, was the keynote speaker at Post Production World, and answered questions about the making of Blood Diamond. Afterwords, contributor Megan Cunningham caught up with him to discuss the editing, the story process, and working with Director Edward Zwick.
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December 26, 2005

NPR has posted this interview with editor Thelma Schoonmaker. The interview is 46+ minutes of Thelma telling her story of her career and insights into her work.
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May 12, 2009

Millimeter Magazine has posted an audio interview with editor Keith Reamer about his work on the film Amreeka. The film is about a Palestinian Woman who wins immigration to the U.S. from Palestine.
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February 11, 2007

A short interview but very interesting insight into Anne V. Coates early career. After being nominated for her work at the BAFTA awards Anne talks to BBC radio about her life in film editing. Note: You'll need Real Player to hear this as it is streamed from their site.
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August 9, 2008

Seminar four: Learn what some of the greats do to edit comedy films. NOTE: We have removed the films audio due to copy right reasons.
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August 9, 2008

Seminar Three: A great introduction into animation editing and how the process is dealt with by some of the greatest animation editors in the world! NOTE: First minute over modulates a few times. But after that enjoy!
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August 9, 2008

Seminar Two: Moderated by Alan Heim A.C.E. with panelists, Mark Goldblatt A.C.E., Mark Helfrich A.C.E., Dan Lebental A.C.E., Paul Rubell A.C.E., and Rick Shaine A.C.E. This Panel discusses how to work on special effects heavy films such as Iron Man and Terminator each of the panelists gives their unique perspective.
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August 8, 2008

Seminar One: Moderated by Randy Roberts A.C.E. with panelists, Tina Hirsch A.C.E., Maysie Hoy A.C.E., Bonnie Koehler A.C.E., Carol Littleton A.C.E., Stephen Lovejoy A.C.E., and Michael Tronick. This Panel discusses how each of the panelists got their break in film editing.
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