Country: GB
Technical: col/16:9 70m
Director: Howard Berry
Cast: Walter Murch, Dan Farrell, Mike Leigh
Synopsis:
Two veteran industry editors get together with an enthusiast/collector and re-cut two seasons from Mike Leigh's Mr Turner on an old Moviola, to demonstrate how films used to be edited.
Review:
As painstaking and absorbing as the filmed activity undoubtedly is, Berry's film captures the magic of what a good editor does, and leads us visually and with deliberation through the processes required. There can be few documentaries that have trodden the line between mystification and condescension as well as this.
Country: GB
Technical: col/16:9 70m
Director: Howard Berry
Cast: Walter Murch, Dan Farrell, Mike Leigh
Synopsis:
Two veteran industry editors get together with an enthusiast/collector and re-cut two seasons from Mike Leigh's Mr Turner on an old Moviola, to demonstrate how films used to be edited.
Review:
As painstaking and absorbing as the filmed activity undoubtedly is, Berry's film captures the magic of what a good editor does, and leads us visually and with deliberation through the processes required. There can be few documentaries that have trodden the line between mystification and condescension as well as this.
