Michael Kunkes

To hear Stuart Bass, ACE, talk about television editing, one might think he has an insouciant attitude towards his craft. “Editing comedy is a specific talent…it’s just difficult to say …

‘Taking Woodstock’ is a movie of source music—and not just the kind that comes from a radio playing on a tabletop.  Designed to blend seamlessly with the needle-drop tunes, a lot …

The expansion of digital filmmaking into HD and beyond has seen film become an anachronism, rather than a competitor or adjunct to digital.  Many of the traditional assistant’s duties are …

CineMontage has turned to the Guild’s erudite, critical and scholarly branch––the story analysts––and asked them to venture deep inside their inner film geeks, to forget that their professional reputations could …

What truly makes Untold Stories a memorable event, however, are appearances from five artists––Paul Butterfield, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, Mountain and Johnny Winter––whose performances have never appeared in …

The universe of the USS Enterprise was alive with sound, Much of that was due to the singular vision of writer/producer Gene Roddenberry, along with the inventiveness of Douglas H. …

The crack of Indiana Jones’ whip, the roar of an Imperial TIE fighter, the hum and crackle of clashing lightsabers, the voice of Wall-E speaking through his circuitry… all can …

Michael Pedraza is a man with a plan. While attending film school in Arizona, he decided that he would work with one of his two favorite editors—Michael Kahn, A.C.E., or …

CineMontage sat down with the two collaborators at Cox’s cutting room at Malpaso on the Warner lot as they were finishing post-production on Gran Torino.

“A movie is like a clay statue and editorial is the final part of that molding.” – Clint Eastwood