В книге Роджера Криттендена «Fine Cuts. Интервью о практике европейского киномонтажа» собраны интервью известных европейских режиссеров монтажа из Австрии, Бельгии, Финляндии, Португалии и России. Настоящее издание освещает все аспекты постпродакшена: например, о звукомонтаже расскажет Ларри Сайдер, основатель легендарной Школы звука, а о специфике создания саундтрека – обладатель «Оскара» Дарио Марианелли («Искупление»).
This book consists of about thirty interviews with a number of editors who have cut films for British and continental European directors, for example Agnès Guillemot (who worked for Godard and Truffaut), Michal Leszczylowski (who cut Tarkovsky’s Offret), Takis Yannopoulos (Theodoros Angelopoulos), Tony Lawson (Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon).
The interviews vary greatly in how in-depth they get on the process by which famous films were made. Some of these editors were interviewed many years after they worked on the great films, and they are unable to offer more than just a personal credo of the editor’s role. Other editors are able to recount specific moments in the films on which they worked and to describe in detail the agonizing choices that had to be made. This book did however leave me with an appreciation of the editor’s role in the final film, though these figures are relatively unsung compared to the directors.