Every now and then you get some real gems pop up on youtube. Yesterday was one of those days. Amongst the usual recommendations Google scarily know I am likely to click on was, The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing.
From 2004, it’s a feature documentary about movie editing and has accounts from editors such as Walter Murch, Thelma Schoonmaker, Sally Menke and filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Sean Penn, James Cameron and more.
It’s not a ‘how to’ video or film - an hour and a half of that would be pretty exhausting but it has great accounts of some of the industry’s absolute best talking (and showing) you their process, their belief, their theory and their practice.
There aren’t that many films out there about the art of editing so this one is well worth a watch. In thinking about it, I can only really recall ever watching another film about editing which was the one that was made about Final Cut Pro, itself on youtube.
If any people out there happen to stumble on this admittedly short blog, please feel free to comment down below and recommend some others on the subject. I’d love to check them out.