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8 CINEMONTAGE / Q4 2017 VOL 6 NO 4 / Q4 2017 Editor – Tomm Carroll Art Director – Wm. Stetz/Stetz Design Accountant – Meleney Humphrey Proofreaders – Bill Elias, Edward Landler, Larry J. Tazuma COLUMNISTS Post Script – Tomm Carroll Getting Organized – Rob Callahan Labor Matters – Jeff Burman CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Stephanie Brown Rob Feld Nancy Frazen Joseph Herman Steve Hullfish Mel Lambert Edward Landler Betsy A. McLane Mark Server Peter Tonguette John Vitale CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS Martin Cohen Christopher Fragapane Sarah Shatz Wm. Stetz ADVERTISING SALES IngleDodd Media Dan Dodd 310-207-4410, ext. 236 dan@ingledodd.com EDITORIAL OFFICES 7715 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 200 Hollywood, CA 90046 Phone – 323.876.4770 or 800.705.8700 Fax – 323.876.0861 E-mail – CineMontage@editorsguild.com Website – www.CineMontage.org PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE A.J. Catoline (co-chair) Jeff Burman (co-chair) Dorian Harris, ACE Glenn Morgan, MPSE Frank Morrone, CAS, MPSE Kevin D. Ross, ACE Richard Sanchez Molly Shock, ACE CINEMONTAGE (ISSN 2165-3526) is published quarterly by the Motion Picture Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, 7715 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90046. Periodicals Postage paid at Los Angeles, CA. SUBSCRIPTIONS: $10 of each Editors Guild member's annual dues is allocated for a subscription to CINEMONTAGE. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to CINEMONTAGE, 7715 Sunset Blvd., Suite 200, Hollywood, CA 90046. The opinions expressed in this publication do not necessarily represent the official policy of the Editors Guild. CINEMONTAGE will not accept advertising from nonsignatory companies that perform bargaining unit work. We welcome editorial submissions and press releases. Contact Tomm Carroll, Editor, at tcarroll@editorsguild.com or at 323-876-4770, ext. 222. Copyright © 2017 The Motion Picture Editors Guild Printed by California Offset Printing, Inc. CINEMONTAGE by Tomm Carroll "Editing a film is making the film as much as shooting it or writing it is." W oody Allen told me that when I interviewed him in 1996 for DGA Magazine, for which I served as editor. The occasion was the Directors Guild of America bestowing upon the filmmaker its prestigious D.W. Griffith Award for Lifetime Achievement. When asked if he is heavily involved in the editing process of his films, he responded, "Totally. I can't imagine it when a director tells me that he's finished a film and goes away to let an editor edit it, and then comes back to look at it. I could never not be there with the editor, working on every frame of the film." It's long been one of my priorities at CineMontage to publish an interview with Allen's picture editor. And given his longtime working relationships with his editors (having collaborated with only two for the last 40 years), that would be Alisa Lepselter, ACE, who is closing in on two decades as the filmmaker's sole editor. Writer Peter Tonguette and I have been trying to wrangle Alisa for an interview annually since early 2014 (as the director releases a film a year), and finally the stars aligned in 2017, and she agreed. Fortunately, it coincides with the December release of Wonder Wheel from Amazon Studios, Allen's strongest film in a long while. Accompanying that cover story, Tonguette also rounded up the surviving members of the exclusive "Woody's Editors Club" (Susan E. Morse, ACE; Wendy Greene Bricmont, ACE; and Ron Kalish, along with previously published comments from the late Ralph Rosenblum, ACE) to provide a perspective from the cutting rooms of Allen's films for the last half of a century. Disclaimer: The accomplishments of the editors of Woody Allen's films have nothing to do with — and should not be disqualified for appreciation in the pages of CineMontage by — the indiscretions and accusations in the filmmaker's personal life. Elsewhere in this issue, Kevin Tent, ACE, discusses Downsizing — his latest film for longtime collaborator Alexander Payne, which opens December 22 through Paramount Pictures — with writer Steve Hullfish, who also asks him about his career path as well as how he edits performances and offsets the varying tones of Payne's new movie. Balance was also the key concern of supervising sound editor/sound designer and re-recording mixer Leslie Shatz and picture editor Affonso Gonçalves, ACE, on Todd Haynes' dreamy and multi-layered Wonderstruck, which opened in October through Amazon Studios. Writer Rob Feld talks to the pair — both veterans of Haynes' films — about the challenges they faced, and the solutions they reached, to bring the adaptation of Brian Selznick's eponymous 2011 novel to the big screen. Meanwhile, writer Mel Lambert visited the machine shop at the Disney studios in Burbank to interview the company's team of cinetechnicians: Gary Broggie, George Rowland and Daniel Quiroz. They support the post-production departments by keeping their gear up to date, including ADR Stage B, where mixer Doc Kane, CAS, and his recordist/editor Jeannette Browning Hernandez rely on them for the design and implementation of their specialized equipment needs. f Totally Involved in the Cutting Room POST SCRIPT

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