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Canada · 2004
1h 15m
Director Alex Shuper
Starring George Lucas, Cameron Bailey, Mathilde Bonnefoy, Norman Jewison
Genre Documentary
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Editing is more than simply assembling shots in order, it is an art form. This documentary celebrates the craft that is often overlooked by moviegoers and its evolution through cinematic history--from pioneering silent auteurs, to masters of the French New Wave, to modern day technical and creative innovations.
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
"For my vision of the cinema," Orson Welles once said, "editing is not simply one aspect. It is the aspect." According to Edge Codes.com, a wonderfully informative new documentary, what was true for Welles's cinema is true for the medium as a whole.
The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck
Highly informative and likely to increase enrollment at film schools.
Lively, intelligent look at the art of film editing.
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Alex Shuper's solid, if hyperactive, documentary uses every trick in the film editor's book to celebrate this too-often underappreciated aspect of moviemaking.
Could do with a tad of editing itself. Other than that, there's nothing bad to say about this cool homage to the film world's unsung heroes: editors.
A Masterpiece of Imagination...
See the music. Hear the dance.