The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
2004 · 98 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 3,268 VOTES · DIR. Wendy Apple
Overview
Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.
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00:01:02 Move.
00:06:16 Because in the end, wouldn't we like to edit our own lives?
00:10:04 We took out one frame in every 24, and it was a mess.
00:14:02 It was obviously the story of Irving Thalberg.
00:17:49 It's not good enough that she reads it 80% of the time, all right.
00:22:30 The theoretician Lev Kuleshov also experimented with film editing.
00:26:44 I found a good combination in the two Terminator films...
00:30:57 He's just on the other side of the door.
00:35:54 Just over that hill!
00:39:58 They were really moved.
00:44:19 is also constructed...
00:47:58 Jodie Foster, of course, attracted the most wonderful bunch of actors...
00:51:41 and begin to find a way to shape it.
00:55:32 the editing room. It wasn't in the script and it wasn't on the floor the day I shot it.
01:00:08 The methodology of the whole thing is, of course, to show...
01:03:29 till you'd done the whole dance, coming from far to close.
01:07:35 cut in this fashion.
01:11:22 Walter's theories?
01:16:19 that it's really good and very good storytelling.
01:20:43 pounding away at you like a metronome on high speed for two and a half hours...
01:25:00 which is, growing up as an editor, what I've always wanted to do.
01:28:28 There were some collisions of images that occurred to Francis...
01:32:25 I find my work absolutely fascinating and absorbing.
04:00:05 would expect a character to drive up...
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Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,499
Dialogue density15.3 lines / min
First line00:01:02
Final line04:00:05
Production Record
DirectorWendy Apple
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes3,268