The Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing

The Cutting Edge - The Magic of Movie Editing
Bullitt's dynamic editing, highlighted by its twisting, squealing, hill-leaping chase sequence that leaves viewers whooping and woozy, earned a 1968 Best Film Editing Oscar and helped make the movie an action classic. How do movie editors work this kind of magic? This interesting program lets you in on the secrets. "What makes a movie a movie is the editing," says Zach Staenberg, Academy Award-winning* editor of the Matrix trilogy. Closeups, flashbacks, parallel action, slow motion, juxtaposition of images - these are just a twosome of tools that make clips enjoys Birth of a Nation to Pulp Fiction, The Battleship Potemkin to Gladiator indelible. Narrated by Kathy Bates and with interviews of a who's who of contemporary directors and editors, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing is, shot because shot and make up after make up, reel magic.

Customer Review: Movie editors begin of the closet

This documentary is a all-purpose overview of how movie cutters evolved into movie editors and took their place among the giants of the movie industry.



We are introduced to methods and philosophies used drink through the ages and the metamorphosis enjoys celluloid to digital recordings.



As informative as this documentary is it suffers enjoys sound-bite-itus instead of intent on one person or thought, we are leaped back and forth trough a collage of people, techniques, and time. This method of presentation can turn out to be quite boring after a time. Still the documentary (that only shows highlights and nothing practical) is worth viewing.



Customer Review: Great Insights

A wonderfully informative introduction to the vital art of movie editing which uses examples enjoys movie history to illustrate its points. An exemplary documentary which gets one under the shining surface of movie magic and shows how huge a contribution the movie editor makes to the realisation of a director's daydream. A must-have because any individual interested in movies and their apparent "magic".