Fine Cuts

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. Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of many of the greatest living European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews which offer a unique insight into the art of editing - direct from masters of the craft. In their interviews, the editors relate their experience to the directors they have worked with, including: Agnes Guillemot- (Godard, Truffaut, Catherine Breillat), Roberto Perpignani- (Welles, Bertolucci, Tavianni Brothers) Sylvia Ingemarsson- (Ingmar Bergman,) Michal Leszczylowski- (Andrei Tarkovsky, Lukas Moodysson), Tony Lawson (Nic Roeg, Stanley Kubrick, Neil Jordan) and many more. This title includes a foreword by Walter Murch - three-time Oscar-winning editor of "Apocalypse Now", "The English Patient", "American Graffiti", "The Conversation" and "The Godfather", Part II and III. 'The cutting room is where you learn how to make films, where you face up to your limitations and realise what you should have done. So you'd better have a good relationship with your editor. The people talking here are amongst the best. Treat them well", remarks Stephen Frears, director of "Prick up Your Ears", "My Beautiful Launderette", "Dangerous Liaisons", "The Grifters" and "The Snapper". "The editors I know are full of insights and revealing stories about their work - this looks a good read, full of great anecdotes", observes Ken Loach - director of "The Navigators", "Land and Freedom", "Kes and Sweet Sixteen".