Tuesday, 30 December 2025

Invisible Women: Anne V Coates (2025 Us)

Another huge project, a feature length portrait of the work and life of probably this country's most famous film editor, with contributions from her daughter Emma Hickox and Oscar winner Paul 'Tindsley' Rogers, who was clearly a big fan.

She's perhaps best known for That Cut in Lawrence of Arabia, but her work in Soderbergh's Out of Sight - the hotel room sequence for example - is phenomenal, the breakdown of sequences from Murder on the Orient Express is fascinating, her description of Burton and Taylor in Becket hilarious, and it's fun to see clips from odd films you wouldn't really associate with her like To Paris With Love, Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines and Man Friday, pictured above.

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