A first hand account of the art and craft of film editing based on interviews with many of the leading exponents of the craft at work in Europe today. Covering the most significant film-makers
and styles from the French New Wave of the nineteen-sixties to the Danish Dogme movement of recent years.
Each editor relates their work to the most important directors they have worked with.
For example:
Agnes Guillemot (Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut and Catherine Breillat)
Sylvia Ingemarsson (Ingmar Bergman)
Roberto Perpignani (Bernardo Bertolucci and the Tavianni Brothers)
Yann Dedet (Francois Truffaut, Maurice Pialat and Cedric Kahn)
Peter Przygodda (Wim Wenders)
Francois Gedigier (Patrice Chereau and Lars von Trier)
Michal Leszczylowski (Andrey Tarkovsky)
Takis Yannopoulos (Michal Cacoyannis and Theo Angelopoulos)
Tony Lawson (Nic Roeg and Neil Jordan)
Michael Ellis (Bertrand Tavernier, Lindsay Anderson and Bill Forsyth)
Alois Fisarek (Vera Chytilova and Jan Sverak)
Pablo G. Del Amo (Carlos Saura and Victor Erice)
Mick Audsley (Stephen Frears)
Barrie Vince (Michael Apted and Jerzy Skolimowski)
Pia di Ciaula (Gilles Mackinnon)
...and many others.
繚Learn, first hand from the experience of some of Europe's greatest film Editors. 繚Foreword by acclaimed American editor, Walter Murch. 繚Follow the process of a feature edit through the eyes of
a leading editor.
