Fine Cuts: The Art of European Film Editing

Roger Crittenden reveals the experiences of many of the greatest living European film editors through his warm and perceptive interviews which offer a unique insight into the art of editing - direct from masters of the craft.

In their interviews the editors relate their experience to the directors they have worked with, including: Agnes Guillemot - (Godard, Truffaut, Catherine Breillat), Roberto Perpignani - (Welles, Bertolucci, Tavianni Brothers), Sylvia Ingemarsson - (Ingmar Bergman), Michal Leszczylowski - (Andrei Tarkovsky, Lukas Moodysson), Tony Lawson (Nic Roeg, Stanley Kubrick, Neil Jordan) and many more.

Foreword by Walter Murch, three-time Oscar-winning Editor of "Apocalypse Now", "The English Patient", "American Graffiti", "The Conversation and The Godfather Part II and III".

Foreword by the incomparable film editor, Walter Murch.

Living exponents reach back to reveal the radical shift in approach created by the French New Wave and trace the patterns of editing practice into this new century.