Picture editor Michelle Tesoro, ACE, wasn’t a chess expert when she began working on “The Queen’s Gambit.” And she still isn’t.
Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette
Peter Tonguette is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sight & Sound, Film Comment and Cineaste. He can be reached at [email protected].
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In MemoriamWeb Exclusives
In Memoriam: Milton Ginsberg, Documentary Editor and ‘Coming Apart’ Filmmaker, Dies at 85
By Peter Tonguette Milton Moses Ginsberg, a pioneering independent film director who maintained a career-long sideline as a picture editor, died May 23 at the age of 85. …
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Dody Dorn Edits Zack Snyder’s ‘Army of the Dead’ to Help Kick Off Summer Movie Season
Zack Snyder’s “Army of the Dead,” which Netflix will release in theaters and via streaming on Friday, merges two seemingly irreconcilable genres: the zombie movie and the heist movie.
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WME HELPS POST-PRODUCTION CLIENTS ADAPT TO A WORLD WRACKED BY PANDEMIC AND ECONOMIC SHIFTS.
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AwardsWeb Exclusives
Oscars 2021: Best Film Editing Nominees Frederic Thoraval and Alan Baumgarten Speak Out
“I’ve never worked for awards and wouldn’t ever imagine that it would be possible.”
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Appreciation: Bob Jones, Editing and Writing Wizard, Left a Lasting Mark on ’70s Cinema
“Bobby is the kind of guy who could do just about anything,” one colleague says.
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How the Editing Team Made the Most of Fran Lebowitz for Martin Scorsese’s ‘Pretend It’s a City’
“Fran likes to talk. You just ask her a question and she can go on for 15 minutes. And part of the answer will not appear related to the question …
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By Peter Tonguette Last year, picture editor Tariq Anwar, ACE, had a most unusual experience: His editing room came to be inhabited by civil rights leader Malcolm X, boxing great …
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Picture editor Richard Pearson, A CE, did not set out to become a comedy specialist, an action guru, or a comic book connoisseur—but somehow, he has evolved into all three.
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Andrew Mondshein on Editing Chadwick Boseman’s Farewell in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Mondshein was a longtime collaborator of legendary filmmaker Sidney Lumet, who, as the New York-based, Academy Award-nominated editor tells it, was persuaded that few things in cinema were as fascinating …