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83 Q4 2017 / CINEMONTAGE brought it up at a subsequent lunch with the editing team (also including assistant editor Sonya Polonsky). Over lunch, Morse says, Allen asked to hear her perspective because he was reluctant to change the opening as planned. Morse responded with the same points she had outlined to Rosenblum. Still unsure, Allen agreed to return to the cutting room to try the idea — and they never turned back from the new opening. By the time of Allen's next project, Manhattan, there was no need for Morse to relay her ideas through an intermediary. After Rosenblum departed to focus on directing, the director hired her to edit the film. Morse's contributions included shaping one of the most instantly identifiable scenes in his filmography: the opening montage in which the lead character, a writer named Isaac (Allen), reads rejected passages from his novel- in-progress over gorgeous, Gordon Willis, ASC- photographed shots showing off the New York borough of the title. Yet the montage did not originally feature a voiceover, and the soundtrack choice — George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" — was far from final. "Woody had been vacillating between Cole Porter's and George Gershwin's music for the score, but when I saw the skylines that Gordy had shot, it just struck me that 'Rhapsody in Blue' had to be the opening cue," says Morse. She also pulled dialogue from a deleted scene, in which Isaac talked about his work-in-progress novel, to demonstrate how voiceover would work in the scene. "His synopsis of the novel ends roughly like this: 'You see, to me life is like a concentration camp — full of sorrow and misery and horrific pain. And there's no way of getting out except dying…and that's just Chapter 1,'" Morse recalls. "I laid the entire piece down as voiceover on the beginning part of the montage — the daylight portion — so that the 'Chapter 1' punchline ended immediately before the crescendo that hits on the cut to the night footage. It took the burden Ron Kalish Take the Money and Run (1969) (co-edited with Paul Jordan) Bananas (1971) (co-edited with Ralph Rosenblum) (also sound editor) Sleeper (1973) (co-edited with Ralph Rosenblum and O. Nicholas Brown) (also sound editor) Love and Death (1975) (co-edited with Ralph Rosenblum) Ralph Rosenblum, ACE Take the Money and Run (1969) (editorial consultant) Bananas (1971) (co-edited with Ron Kalish) Sleeper (1973) (co-edited with Ron Kalish and O. Nicholas Brown) Love and Death (1975) (co-edited with Ron Kalish) Annie Hall (1977) (co-edited with Wendy Greene Bricmont) Interiors (1978) Wendy Greene Bricmont, ACE Annie Hall (1977) (co-edited with Ralph Rosenblum) Susan E. Morse, ACE Annie Hall (1977) (assistant editor) Interiors (1978) (assistant editor) Manhattan (1979) Stardust Memories (1980) A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982) Zelig (1983) Broadway Danny Rose (1984) The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985) Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) Radio Days (1987) September (1987) Another Woman (1988) Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) Oedipus Wrecks (1989) (segment of anthology film New York Stories) Alice (1990) Shadows and Fog (1991) Husbands and Wives (1992) Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993) Bullets Over Broadway (1994) Don't Drink the Water (1994) (TV movie) Mighty Aphrodite (1995) Everyone Says I Love You (1996) Deconstructing Harry (1997) Celebrity (1998) Alisa Lepselter, ACE Sweet and Lowdown (1999) Small Time Crooks (2000) The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) Hollywood Ending (2002) Anything Else (2003) Melinda and Melinda (2004) Match Point (2005) Scoop (2006) Cassandra's Dream (2007) Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) Whatever Works (2009) You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010) Midnight in Paris (2011) To Rome with Love (2012) Blue Jasmine (2013) Magic in the Moonlight (2014) Irrational Man (2015) Café Society (2016) Crisis in Six Scenes (2016) (web series) Wonder Wheel (2017) A Rainy Day in New York (2018) Woody's Editors' Credits List