Skilled editing is as effective in the creation of a good film as a writer, director, or performer. Though often overlooked, editing brings shots together to make a whole greater than the sum of its parts. These ten movies are a fantastic illustration of just how important editing can be.
THE LIST
City of God
Director: Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
Editor: Daniel Rezende
Bonnie and Clyde
Director: Arthur Penn
Editor: Dede Allen
North By Northwest:
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Editor: George Tomasini
The Godfather
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Editor: William Reynolds, Peter Zinner
Battleship Potemkin
Director: S.M. Eisenstein
Editor: Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Psycho
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Editor: George Tomasini
Un Chien Andalou
Director: Louis Bunuel
Editor: Luis Buñuel
Apocalypse Now
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Editor: Lisa Fruchtman, Gerald B. Greenberg, Walter Murch
2001: A Space Odyssey
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Lawrence of Arabia
Director: David Lean
Editor: Anne V. Coates
