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30 C I N E M O N T A G E C O V E R JUST SCIENCE HOW JENNIFER LAME AND THE POST TEAM HELPED TURN 'OPPENHEIMER' INTO AN EPIC SMASH By Jennifer Walden I t wasn't quite as daunting as building the first atomic bomb, but putting together "Oppenheimer" was still no easy feat. To assemble what became one of the biggest features of the year — an epic about the con- troversial physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, leader of the fabled Manhattan Project during World War II — the director Christopher Nolan chose award-winning editor Jennifer Lame, ACE, who also edited his previous film, "Tenet." "It's always helpful to get one under your belt with a director, to learn their approach to filmmaking," Lame said, "Chris [Nolan] does it a little bit differently with regard to the film workflow, the dailies workflow, and the finishing film workflow. So getting to know him and his process was helpful. This second time around, we already had that familiarity, that shorthand, which made it easier." Easier, perhaps — but the process still presented plenty of challenges. "We're introducing a lot in Jennifer Lame - Photo by Martin Cohen