Fascinating documentary takes us through the progression of the art form:
Hollywood: invisible editing
The Russians
The Nouvelle Vague
Fracturing space and time
Shaping the actor's performance
Great clips from the likes of Anne Coates, Dede Allen, Sally Menke and Quentin Tarantino, and Michael Kahn (who claims he lies around all day chatting and eating chocolate!), though I would have reduced the focus on films like XXX and The Matrix to give more time to Anthony Gibbs (who's in it too briefly) and not to mention Powell & Pressburger's incredible way-ahead-of its-time editing (John Seabourne and Reginald Mills). And Orson Welles. And Ralph Rosenblum. And that chap who edited 49th Parallel...you know, what's his name... someone Lean.
Thelma Schoonmaker I guess was too busy!
Highlights for me:
The brilliant Walter Murch talking about the opening of Apocalypse Now
Anne Coates and Steven Soderburgh making that famous bedroom scene in Out of Sight
Overlaying the audio tracks to hasten an argument
The opening of A Bout de Souffle
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