THE MAGAZINE FOR FILM & TELEVISION EDITORS, ASSISTANTS & POST- PRODUCTION PROFESSIONALS THE SUMMER MOVIE ISSUE IN THIS ISSUE Once Upon a Time in Hollywood PLUS John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum Rocketman Toy Story 4 AND MUCH MORE! US $8.95 / Canada $8.95 QTR 2 / 2019 / VOL 69 FOR YOUR EMMY ® CONSIDERATION OUTSTANDING SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES - STEVE SINGLETON FYC.NETFLIX.COM CINEMA EDITOR MAGAZINE COVER 2 ISSUE: SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS EMMY NOMINATION ISSUE NETFLIX: BODYGUARD PUB DATE: 06/03/19 TRIM: 8.5” X 11” BLEED: 8.75” X 11.25” PETITION FOR EDITORS RECOGNITION he American Cinema Editors Board of Directors • Sundance Film Festival T has been actively pursuing film festivals and • Shanghai International Film Festival, China awards presentations, domestic and international, • San Sebastian Film Festival, Spain that do not currently recognize the category of Film • Byron Bay International Film Festival, Australia Editing. The Motion Picture Editors Guild has joined • New York Film Critics Circle with ACE in an unprecedented alliance to reach out • New York Film Critics Online to editors and industry people around the world. • National Society of Film Critics The organizations listed on the petition already We would like to thank the organizations that have recognize cinematography and/or production design recently added the Film Editing category to their Annual Awards: in their annual awards presentations. Given the essential role film editors play in the creative process • Durban International Film Festival, South Africa of making a film, acknowledging them is long • New Orleans Film Festival overdue. We would like to send that message in • Tribeca Film Festival solidarity. Please join us as we continue the effort to • Washington DC Area Film Critics Association elevate the perception of editors everywhere. • Film Independent – Spirit Awards • Los Angeles Film Critics Association You can help by signing the petition to help get • Chicago Film Critics Association recognition for film editors by asking these • Boston Film Festival organizations to add the Film Editing category to • The International Animated Film Society – their annual awards: Annie Awards • Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror – Saturn Awards Please sign our petition at: www.EditorsPetition.com Now endorsed by the Motion Picture Sound Editors, Art Directors Guild, Cinema Audio Society, American Society of Cinematographers, Canadian Cinema Editors, and Guild of British Film and Television Editors Committee for Creative Recognition QTR 2 / 2019 / VOL 69 stock footage 30 32 editor’s cut 04 36 CinemaEditor's Invisible Art/ Interview with Departing Visible Artists Editor in Chief BY NANCY JUNDI Edgar Burcksen, ACE BY BONNIE KOEHLER, ACE 40 Meet 2019 Karen 08 Schmeer Film Editing What’s New! Fellow: Victoria Chalk News & Announcements BY NANCY JUNDI Short Cut Comic BY JOHN VAN VLIET 42 34 NAB 2019 18 Aspects of Editing 46 Navigating the Remembering “Family Business” Norman Hollyn, ACE BY ANITA BRANDT BURGOYNE, ACE BY BOBBIE O'STEEN 24 48 Tech Corner Paper Cuts Security The Making of a BY HARRY B. MILLER III, ACE Motion Picture Editor REVIEWED BY 26 EDGAR BURCKSEN, ACE Global Editing Perspectives 50 BY EDGAR BURCKSEN, ACE Paper Cuts Twilight for the Gods: The Art 52 and History of Film Editing Cuts We Love (Second Edition) 28 REVIEWED BY Before Sunrise EDGAR BURCKSEN, ACE BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON features 28 30 32 34 Toy Story 4 John Wick: Rocketman Once Upon a Time Editor Axel Geddes Chapter 3 – Parabellum Chris Dickens, ACE, in Hollywood brings the toys back to Evan Schiff reteams balances music with drama Fred Raskin, ACE, town with Pixar with Chad Stahelski and in the Elton John biopic gets back in character for BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON Keanu Reeves BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON Quentin Tarantino BY SCOTT LEHANE BY ADRIAN PENNINGTON 02 CINEMAEDITOR QTR 2 / 2019 / VOL 69 Cover image: Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Photo by Andrew Cooper. ©2018 CTMG, Inc. All rights reserved. FOR YOUR EMMY ® CONSIDERATION OUTSTANDING SINGLE-CAMERA PICTURE EDITING FOR A DRAMA SERIES VIKASH PATEL CINDY MOLLO, ACE HEATHER GOODWIN FLOYD “EPIC. THE PACE IS ADDICTIVE.” – THE GLOBE AND MAIL “BEAUTIFULLY M AD E.” – WHAT SHE SAID FYC.NETFLIX.COM CINEMA EDITOR MAGAZINE REVISION 1 ISSUE: SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS EMMY NOMINATION ISSUE NETFLIX: OZARK PUB DATE: 06/03/19 TRIM: 8.5” X 11” BLEED: 8.75” X 11.25” CinemaEditor’s world is all about post-production and it’s enthusiasms.” Edgar’s still working full- a supportive, knowable community. A good time cutting feature documentaries so, as Interview with Departing transition from Europe. Then on to L.A. all film editors know, the hours have to be Editor in Chief It was by then the early 1990s.” budgeted carefully. Edgar Burcksen, ACE “What brought you to American Cinema “Growing up in Holland I speak four Editors and our magazine?” languages and love to travel, so the inter- “In Holland, I was part of a group of national outreach is a natural fit for me.” experimental filmmakers who had an avant- Edgar plans to continue to contribute to garde magazine, SKRIEN. We learned that the magazine and encourage film editors we make different kinds of aesthetic con- from around the world to do so as well. nections in the cutting room and in print. “Our magazine’s in great hands. The I value exploring aesthetics and storytelling team includes the Zakharys – Luci as our through the written word as well as with art director and inspired graphics designer images on the screen in the camara- and her husband, Peter, as our magazine derie of a like-minded group of artists. and events photographer are amazing. That’s ACE for me. I was invited to join And Peter has raised the bar involving ACE in 1998 and became Editor in Chief advertisers, allowing the magazine to keep of CinemaEditor in 2001 after an article I growing. Adrian Pennington in London wrote on the psychology of working in the is our international editor, a beat that’s cutting room garnered some attention.” also blossoming. Carolyn Giardina is a Edgar took over from Chris Cooke, top-notch journalist in the media industry ACE, who had worked with the magazine in and we’re lucky to have her expertise as transition after Jack Tucker, ACE, had spent our editorial consultant.” years nurturing it from a small mimeo- Harry B. Miller III, ACE, and Andrew graphed member newsletter, getting it on its Seklir, ACE, continue to provide support on feet as a full-color glossy periodical. our Advisory Board and our membership “Our magazine gives film editors a voice. and Board of Directors are very engaged. It advances every aspect of our mission Currently, CinemaEditor publishes statement at ACE. And now CinemaEditor four issues a year – our annual Eddie has a global reach. It’s on newsstands around Awards issue, the Television issue focused the world – the only periodical where post on the Emmys®, our Oscar® issue and our advertisers can connect directly with an Summer Movie issue. international audience,” emphasizes Edgar. “There’s an appetite for more. With It’s the global reach of film editing the inspired guidance of our ACE Exec- that has brought us together this morning. utive Director, Jenni McCormick, and After almost 20 years with CinemaEditor the excitement of EditFest, Invisible Art/ magazine, Edgar is stepping down from Visible Artists, the Eddie Awards – the con- BY BONNIE KOEHLER, ACE his role at the helm to focus more fully versation around film editing is booming. as an ACE ambassador to film editors and The industry and the viewing public are here’s a cool, early-morning breeze their organizations around the globe. In seeing filmmaking from the point of view off the ocean carrying with it the 2003, with permission from the Board of of the cutting room, where it all comes T aroma of woodsmoke and orange Directors, he co-founded the ACE Interna- together. Film editing is the only art form blossoms. I’m with CinemaEditor magazine tional Relations Committee with Michael unique to motion pictures. Without it, Editor in Chief Edgar Burcksen, ACE, Ornstein, ACE. They are now in conversa- there is no movie. The young innovators who has just finished a 25-mile ride down tion with editors in over 15 countries in- want to ‘disrupt’ but they can only do the coast on his Cannondale Supersix bike cluding: the U.K., Argentina, Ireland, The it effectively after they have mastered with Velo Club LaGrange. We’re sitting Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Norway, all the building blocks, all the beats. outside Peet’s Coffee on 14th and Montana Sweden, Belgium, France, Austria, Israel, As more and more people get their hands in Santa Monica. South Africa, Canada and Australia. on tools and learn to communicate with “I love California. When I left Am- “It’s taking more and more time, pictures in motion, there’s an insatiable sterdam, I came first to Marin County and but I’m delighted at the network we’re hunger to learn how we, the professionals, worked with George Lucas on the EditDroid building. Editors in every time zone do it. We are the tastemakers. Storytelling. for a couple of years. The Bay Area film share the same obstacles, aspirations and It’s the master craft.” 04 CINEMAEDITOR QTR 2 / 2019 / VOL 69 Photo by Peter Zakhary. Shown with the DaVinci Resolve Mini Panel Create cinematic feature film looks faster than ever with DaVinci Resolve and DaVinci Resolve control panels! The new DaVinci Resolve gives you editing, color correction, Software audio post and visual effects, all in a single application. You can DaVinci Resolve .................... Free Download use DaVinci Resolve as a stand alone software tool, or for faster DaVinci Resolve Studio ..........................$299 and more creative color correction options you can add DaVinci Resolve color correction control panels.